Tue.May 29, 2018

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Start Managing Your Inbound Freight More Effectively Today

Talking Logistics

It’s time to make inbound freight a priority and begin reaping the benefits of a program that creates win-win rewards for all supply chain partners. Frequently overlooked and often pushed to the bottom of a shipper’s supply chain agenda, good inbound freight management can help companies improve shipment visibility, save money, and enhance customer service—all of which add to the bottom line and boost profitability.

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

Last weekend was one of the country's biggest BBQ blowouts, and you can bet that a lot of that food will go to waste. But it's not just national pig-outs that lead to large amounts of food eventually hitting the landfills. Food waste is a year-round problem. Just how much food goes to waste each year, and why? One-third of edible food worldwide is wasted, amounting to about 1.3 billion tons every year.

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Inventory Management and Omnichannel Fulfillment Challenges

Supply Chain 24/7

Customers are demanding a boundary-less retail environment, but building a supply chain that is synchronized across all sales channels remains elusive for many businesses today.

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Tailoring the Apparel Supply Chain

NFI

A successful supply chain strategy has become an essential key to success for apparel companies as they continue to build their brand. To provide the latest styles to their customers, supply chain partners should be an extension of the company’s business and service, with the ability to contribute to a good customer experience. Today’s consumers. Read More.

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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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The Key to Successfully Syncing Retail Price Planning and Execution

BlueYonder

We know that keeping up with customer needs and delivering on shoppers’ expectations are among the biggest concerns retailers have today. And as companies come under pressure not only from changing shopper demographics and the impacts of technology, the holy grail for retailers today is using technology to better understand customers and give them shoppers exactly what they’re seeking at a particular moment.

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Supply Chain News on Bosch Technology Event another Indication Autonomous Cars and Trucks Coming Soon

Supply Chain Digest

First Phase will be Hub to Hub Automated Freight Moves, Company Executive Predicts, as Company Notes System Redundancy is Key

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Reducing Parcel Transportation Costs Thru Parcel Audits

GlobalTranz

Shippers underestimate the potential of parcel audits. Parcel auditing is an excellent means of recapturing revenue by reducing parcel transportation costs for shippers around the globe. In fact, up to 10 percent of all freight invoices may contain inaccuracies, reports Chris Lewis of Inbound Logistics. To put this in perspective, a $10 million business may spend up to $1 million on parcel shipping.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting May 29, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Show us your supply chain wit

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Big Data’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Moment

Enterra Insights

Whether you choose to call the time period in which we live the Information Age, the Digital Age, or the Big Data Age, the principal feature of this era is data. By the end of 2019, analysts are predicting the world will annually generate two zettabytes of data. A zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot of data. Data by itself, however, is of limited value.

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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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Logistics Analytics – Beyond KPIs on Tender Acceptance and Carrier Performance

Supply Chain Collaborator

Talk to a transportation manager about data analytics and they might tell you they’re already harnessing data collected by their TMS and other logistics IT tools to measure key performance indicators such as tender acceptance by lane, carrier check call compliance and other commonly examined metrics. But how many are actually using Big Data analytics in ways that drive efficiency savings beyond those controlled by transportation into areas like sales and finance?

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Guide to international SME eCommerce expansion step 5: Sales and Distribution

TradeGecko

You’ve hashed out a business plan for international expansion. You’ve thought about your financing options. You’ve got the ball well and truly rolling. So, what’s left? It’s time to figure out your sales and distribution channels.

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Past Their Prime:  How to Get Around High Amazon Fulfillment Costs

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

It’s just a few weeks before Amazon Prime’s $20 price increase goes into full effect, and according to a recent study from Atherton Research, approximately 60% of Amazon Prime’s 90 million U.S. customers are so unhappy about this prospect they may not renew their memberships. Likely, some of these customers will probably wind up changing their minds.

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10 Tips for Successfully Selecting an ERP System- Tip #6

AIT SureShip

Ready to go! Whatever process you have taken, you have finally arrived at the point where your company is going to start the journey of selecting and implementing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. You have strong executive leadership and buy-in, now what? There’s a common phrase that states, “you only get out what you put into it”.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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The Key to Successfully Syncing Retail Price Planning and Execution

BlueYonder

We know that keeping up with customer needs and delivering on shoppers’ expectations are among the biggest concerns retailers have today. And as companies come under pressure not only from changing shopper demographics and the impacts of technology, the holy grail for retailers today is using technology to better understand customers and give them shoppers exactly what they’re seeking at a particular moment.

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What is Total Landed Cost?

3rdwave

What is Total Landed Cost? Why is it important to companies? And why is it imperative that companies develop the ability to calculate total landed cost in real time?

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Food & Drink Customer Centricity

Supply Chain 24/7

In recent years, product variety in the food & drink industry has exploded and competition has become intense.

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Vertical Turret Lathes

Exapro Hub

There are quite a few types of different molds, some have a large weight or diametrical size, others have linear dimensions. To obtain some of them, having a large diameter and a short length, installation is carried out on the lathe-carrousel machine for further processing. An important point is that the universal lathe-carrousel machine today is extremely rare due to the spread of front-end turning units.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Crucible of the Moment

Tailwind

There he was, caught on video by a phone in the middle of a mid-town Manhattan eatery. Spouting off because two employees working there were speaking Spanish with one another – “here in mid-town Manhattan” he said. There she was sitting in a booth behind four immigrant men who were minding their own business in a small restaurant in a mid-sized prairie city in Alberta, Canada – spouting off racist epithets because again they weren’t speaking English.

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Freightera showcased in 2018 G7 Summit edition of CLIMATE CHANGE – the New Economy (CCTNE)

Freightera

Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt’s article about how Canada can lead in greening global freight transportation was just published in the La Malbaie, Quebec G7 Summit edition of CLIMATE CHANGE – the New Economy (CCTNE). CLIMATE CHANGE – the New Economy is the leading climate change publication supporting the G7 2018 Summit. In the publisher’s words, it’s “brimming with bold leadership from some of the world´s top innovators and visionaries” In it you will find how leader