Wed.May 26, 2021

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Target Inventory and Central Planning Engines (Models) – Avoiding the Runaway Train

Arkieva

Often inventory is considered the simplest component of supply chain management that can successfully be managed separately. The purpose of this blog is to provide some observations to avoid the runaway train. We will first review the basics of CPE and then address the use of target inventory (specifically ending finished goods inventory EFGI) in CPEs.

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Positive News for Key Decision-Makers About Sustainable Business Transformation

DELMIA Quintiq

The Answer Lies in Virtual Twin Technology. With less than 10 years left to the 2030 deadline of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear that we are all not yet doing enough to achieve global sustainability targets. The current rate of production and consumption worldwide continues to deplete resources and damage our planet faster than it can recover.

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The Supply Chain is Broken – How to Fix it with Jeff Dangelo

The Logistics of Logistics

The Supply Chain is Broken – How to Fix it with Jeff Dangelo. Jeff Dangelo and Joe Lynch discuss how the supply chain is broken and how to fix it. Jeff is the managing partner of Lighthouse , a company that offers dedicated trucking, logistics, warehousing and co-packing coupled with the best supply chain software to give everyone an amazing experience.

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New Realities Demand Supply Chain Agility and Resilience

Enterra Insights

Most experts agree the COVID-19 pandemic marked a paradigm shift in the business environment. A paradigm shift means some of what has happened in the past becomes irrelevant to future activities; nevertheless, we are all tempted to look to the past. Most people are familiar with tragic stories about people who couldn’t resist looking back. In the Old Testament, we find the story of Lot’s family fleeing the wicked city of Sodom at the urging of angels so they could be saved from the i

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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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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Deliver Function

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Welcome to the Deliver edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan and Make overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a guide to your supply chain improvement journey.

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The Next Wave of Direct-to-Consumer Startups Is Coming

Supply Chain Brain

The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater demand for sophisticated supply chain technology that can accommodate increased demand for direct-to-consumer sales, bypassing physical storefronts.

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Prophet 21 User Group Webinar: Inventory Planning Processes

The Smart Software

Smart Software is pleased to introduce our new webinar, offered exclusively for Prophet21 users. Greg Hartunian, CEO at Smart Software, will lead a 45-minute webinar focusing on specific approaches to demand forecasting and inventory planning. The post Prophet 21 User Group Webinar: Inventory Planning Processes appeared first on Smart Software.

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Welcome to The Great Supply Chain Podcast

Tecsys

This is just the beginning. Tecsys is excited to launch our new podcast series next… The post Welcome to The Great Supply Chain Podcast appeared first on Tecsys.

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No One Was More Shocked by Lumber Mania Than Sawmill Operators

Supply Chain Brain

Over the past year, sawmills have become a key bottleneck in the booming lumber supply chain — a black box standing between timber forests and the retail shelf.

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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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Happening Now: pallet prices up 400% amid shortage

West Coast and California Logistics

As if supply chain professionals don’t have enough on their plate these days, we can now add the procurement of pallets to their list of concerns. A backbone of retail and grocery supply chains, pallets are now both hard to come by and much more expensive than they were prior to the pandemic.

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How Retailers and CPG companies are benefiting from next-gen Control Tower and S&OE

o9 Solutions

By Vikram Murthi and Dr. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions. Retailers and CPG manufacturers will have to continue to address the key dynamics of increased demand volatility and the step change in (omni-)channel purchases, which have created a number of challenges, including ensuring product availability for high customer service and executing on strategies to manage risks due to demand surges and supplier disruptions.

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Easily Manage Rising Shipping Costs on Your Next PO

Herlitz Inventory Management

Introducing a new and improved Freight Module in HIMPACT that will help you overcome new and rising shipping challenges. While life seems to be returning to normal for many, the shockwaves from COVID-19 are still presenting challenges for buyers. Whether from supply chain disruptions, truck driver shortages, higher fuel costs, or a continued high demand for eat-at-home, an increasing number of distributors are utilizing different shipping carriers than normal.

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Building the Business to Consumer Superstar: Getting to the Promised Land with Supply Chain Control Towers and S&OE

o9 Solutions

By Vikram Murthi and Dr. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions. Retailers and CPG manufacturers will have to continue to address the key dynamics of increased demand volatility and the step change in (omni-)channel purchases, which have created a number of challenges, including ensuring product availability for high customer service and executing on strategies to manage risks due to demand surges and supplier disruptions.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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QAD Solutions Guide: Offering Overview

QAD

Founded in 1979, QAD began as a small startup solution working with local companies to address a large gap in complete, integrated business software for manufacturing companies. As manufacturing businesses took their brands globally, we adapted quickly to keep up and our software has adapted as well. The QAD solution offering has expanded beyond the original QAD MFG/PRO (1984-2007) software to now include a full-featured suite of integrated software solutions to manage manufacturing, financials,

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The Perfect Opportunity

BlueYonder

What if someone told you that you could have a role where you intermix all the things you’re passionate about in one? That’s exactly what Corwin Tobias found at Blue Yonder and a big reason he’s so glad he took the leap to move cross-country to take on the role of information security awareness ambassador. Corwin shares his thoughts on leading with empathy, the best advice he’s ever received and the most important trait in a leader: read before you lead.

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Welcome to the future

IT Supply Chain

By Neil Balligner (pictured). Head of EMEA, EU Automation. The post Welcome to the future appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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IT designed to suit garment manufacturing supply chains

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

These are exciting times for UK garment manufacturers – if they embrace digitalisation, writes Karl H. Lauri, managing team member at MRPeasy.com.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for May 27, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Surprisingly, US eCommerce Share of Retail is Flat, Grocery Delivery Start Up Gorillas to Enter US Market, Chinese Manganese Cartel Sending Prices Soaring, FedEx Struggling with OnTime Performance

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Wholesale fashion distributor integrates SAP Business One to improve supply chain management

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Codeless Platforms has revealed that Fashion Edge, a wholesale distributor of high-end fashion and footwear in the UK and Ireland, has vastly improved the visibility of shipping data from its supplier and improved its supply chain management efficiencies, having deployed BPA Platform to integrate SAP Business One with three external business systems and then automated the transfer of SKU data, reports and dispatch notices.

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What the Navy Taught Me About Managing Supply Chains and Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

My journey in supply chain began as an aviation storekeeper in the United States Navy in 1999.

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The Future of Air Freight: 5 Emerging Trends Reshaping the Industry

American Global Logistics

Global supply chains are transforming, and so is the air freight industry. As the post-pandemic industry reshapes, it will look much different from the pre-pandemic landscape. Compared to ground and ocean transport, air freight serves as an important piece of global supply chains, albeit a smaller one. In the future, air freight’s footprint promises to […].

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Manhattan Momentum Connect 2021: TMS In The Spotlight

Talking Logistics

It’s been almost twenty years since Manhattan Associates (a Talking Logistics sponsor) entered the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market via its acquisition of Logistics.com in 2002. Although the company has continued to innovate its TMS capabilities in the years since, TMS has remained mostly in the shadows of Manhattan’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Omni-Channel.

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Pet Supplies Plus Proves-the-Case for Modern Mobile Solution in the Warehouse

Logistics Viewpoints

Pet Supplies Plus Senior Director of Logistics, Jerry Troupe, discussed how his company’s adoption of a modern mobile solution including Android mobility devices and Manhattan Associates’ WM Mobile application have delivered substantial and measurable efficiency and productivity improvements at the company’s distribution center. This time last year I wrote about Manhattan Associates’ announcement of Pet Supplies Plus as the first Manhattan Active WM customer.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on What New Age Techologies are Companies Investing in for 2021

Supply Chain Digest

From Digital Twins to Robotics, in which Technoloogies are Company Placing their Bets

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Everything to Everyone with JD Redmon

The Logistics of Logistics

The post Everything to Everyone with JD Redmon appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Inside Board x Capgemini x Ivalua : Baromètre Digital Procurement Success 2021

ivalua

The post Inside Board x Capgemini x Ivalua : Baromètre Digital Procurement Success 2021 appeared first on Ivalua.

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What is Reverse Logistics and How Is It Different than Traditional Logistics?

GlobalTranz

Many people associate reverse logistics to simply cover returns, but it is much more broad than that. Beyond answering “what is reverse logistics,” it is important to understand the history of reverse logistics, the benefits of reverse logistics and why it’s a rising practice, especially in aftermarket industries. Meanwhile, reverse logistics is growing more complex.

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ANRA Technologies Launches Drone Delivery Solution

Supply Chain Brain

ANRA Technologies, a specialist in integrated airspace management, recently announced SmartSkies DELIVERY, an end-to-end mobile and web-based software solution providing drone delivery services for commercial, government and medical applications.