Fri.May 11, 2018

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4 Ways Digitization Can Open Doors for New Revenue in the Supply Chain

ModusLink Corporation

As digitization expands across nearly every industry, organizations continuously seem to find themselves one step behind when it comes to maximizing the new opportunities that digital solutions make available to them and their customers. As internet connectivity and smart devices continue to produce more data than ever, many brands are struggling to translate the vast […].

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How is technology transforming global sourcing ?

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Does your business source products and services from global markets? If your company is sourcing goods and services internationally you could be reaping many benefits. These include access to cheap raw materials and products, tax breaks and reduced labour costs. However, you could also face many challenges when globally sourcing across geopolitical boundaries.

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WMS Selection: What Drives an Investment in a Warehouse Management System? 5 Considerations

GlobalTranz

The demand for seamlessness in omni-channel supply chains increases more as time progresses. Companies are looking for ways to stay competitive and meet the demands of their customers. In reality, this means keeping costs as low as possible and still offering more products across more devices and shopping options. Thus, the demand for warehouse management systems (WMS) has increased, but how do companies distinguish the best-of-breed WMS solutions?

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Kinexions ’18: A supply chain event that always delivers more

Kinaxis

by Teresa Chiykowski “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin. Well said, Mr. Darwin. As the world changes around us, so must the supply chain. That’s why we invite RapidResponse users to join us from October 14-17, 2018 for Kinexions ’18 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Welcome to the Supply Chain Singularity!

Supply Chain Network

Really enjoyed my time at this year’s RILA Supply Chain conference and as I highlighted in my pre-conference blogpost several transformative technologies are all now moving into their early implementation phases at the same time. Times like these, when surrounded by the sharing of many new ideas and forward looking professionals often helps to draw out and crystallize thoughts on topics such as the impending state of supply chain singularity now rapidly approaching.

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What Does a Purchasing Manager Do?

APICS

Although professionals often excel at their own job responsibilities, many only have a vague idea of what their colleagues’ jobs entail. As supply chains become more intricate and entwined, it’s helpful for supply chain professionals to understand the responsibilities and pressures their business counterparts face every day.

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What Does Supply Chain Innovation Look Like in Action?

RFgen

Supply chains can be fragile. Strategic innovation drives change without excessive disruption. Opportunities to innovate in the supply chain are rising quickly in light of digital technologies emerging across a variety of sectors. Businesses working to leverage advanced technologies – such as the internet of things to mixed reality solutions – must carefully balance the benefits against potential disruptions.

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4 Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics Project

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

The study from the ARC Advisory Group (2016) and the most recent one from The Hackett Group (2018) are remarkably similar in their basic observations: “supply […]. The post 4 Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics Project appeared first on Solvoyo.

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Women in Supply Chain, 2018: A Conversation With Suzanne Judy

Supply Chain Brain

Suzanne Judy is senior vice president of information technology with Freight Handlers, Inc. (FHI). She joins us on this episode to relate her story of success in two distinct areas normally reserved for men: logistics and I.T. She tells how she managed to combine the numbers-oriented mentality of I.T. with the people skills needed to engage both with customers and colleagues within her own company.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Machine Intelligence: Virtual, Augmented, and Artificial

Enterra Insights

Most people now realize artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a large role in their lives. Journalists at The Economist assert, “Artificial intelligence is spreading beyond the technology sector, with big consequences for companies, workers and consumers.”[1] The term “artificial intelligence” covers a range of technologies (both real and imagined) from narrow AI that can master the game of chess to sentient machines like the fictional HAL9000.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My wife often jokes that she is the VP of Supply Chain and Logistics in our family. But it’s no joke, it’s true. Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supply chain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too!

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What of our Brad?

Tailwind

There is a great commercial on radio these days. You remember radio don’t you? It’s that thing that came of age during the Great Depression with those fireside chats with FDR. It hit its nadir when Les Nessman of WKRP in Cincinnati did the remote Thanksgiving promotion, reporting that live turkeys were being dropped out of a plane, smashing to the ground ( “Oh, the humanity!”).

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Entrepreneur Magazine features Freightera in the article about purpose-driven business

Freightera

Good news for our friends and followers. Entrepreneur Magazine just featured Freightera and Eric Beckwitt in the article “Why All Businesses Can Benefit from a Guiding Social or Environmental Purpose” The conversation about how purpose-driven business is not just an idealistic venture, but a good business continues. “It is far too late, in terms of climate change, air and water pollution, and fundamental inequality, for business to be organized purely for profit,” CEO Eric Beckwitt s

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Freightera

Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, raising children and working, and doing it all, and, of course, the truck driving ones and the ones serving the customers, problem-solving and delivering happiness in our exciting and challenging industry of moving freight. ? ?. The post Happy Mother’s Day! appeared first on Freightera Blog.

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