ProcurePort
JULY 1, 2021
The strategies and tactics that procurement professionals develop and choose to implement often affect one another. This is because there are certain tactics that pair well together, and when done correctly, each is elevated by the presence of the other. Constructing a strategy out of complimentary tactics, then, is a good way to optimize value […].
GlobalTranz
JULY 1, 2021
As supply chains become more impacted by market disruptions and unpredictable events, they’re also becoming more critical to a company’s customer experience levels and bottom line. Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics.
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Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
There’s an opportunity to improve food supply chain logistics and planning with a future-proofing mindset. No element requires more consideration and investment in this regard than transparency.
NFI
JULY 1, 2021
After a year marred by congestion, skyrocketing cargo handling costs, increased demand as a result of the pandemic, and looming clean air mandates, West Coast marine terminal operators have had all the more reason to explore productivity improvements and cost-saving options like automation. Historically, concern about displacing and replacing employees with robotics had prompted the… Continue reading What the Approaching ILWU-PMA Contract Renewal Means for Shippers.
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
Kuebix
JULY 1, 2021
As crazy as it may sound, planning for peak shipping season has already begun! In the U.S., peak shipping season extends from August until January of the following year. Peak shipping season can be broken down into two spikes in demand. The first occurs from August until October. This significant increase can be largely attributed […]. The post Technology is Essential in Navigating Peak Shipping Season appeared first on Kuebix.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Movement
JULY 1, 2021
How will the supply chain director’s job profile change over the next 25 years? That’s what Omera Khan from the University of London asked me in a recent interview for a white paper. My reply: rather than just concentrating on specific skills like data analytics, the focus should be on the three broad topics of strategic thinking, commercial skills and digital innovation.
IT Supply Chain
JULY 1, 2021
By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research. The post Household spending tumbled 11% in the first quarter of 2021. Only e-commerce prevented an even greater collapse appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
Zebra Technologies, a supply chain solutions provider, has announced that it intends to acquire Fetch Robotics, a specialist in on-demand automation.
QAD
JULY 1, 2021
What are Total Manufacturing Costs? Your total manufacturing costs are essentially an expense analysis that calculates how each of your company’s departments contributed to producing a finalized product. This looks at all stages of the manufacturing process from raw materials to work-in-progress to final result. Total manufacturing costs showcase how much your company spent to produce its inventory in a given period of time.
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.
IT Supply Chain
JULY 1, 2021
By Tony Dobson (pictured). SnapFulfil CEO. The post Chink of light for redundant retail spaces appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Aioneers
JULY 1, 2021
The purpose of a supply chain is to provide customers with physical goods in the right quantity and quality at the right time and place. Multiple partners collaborate on the operational processes of a supply chain – material suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, distributors, retailers – to fulfill customer demand. Thus, a supply chain can be seen as a virtual entity, distributed over many locations and organizations, connected via material, information, and financial flows.
IT Supply Chain
JULY 1, 2021
By Jessica Sweet (pictured). Content Writer at makeLifeSweeter.com. The post 6 reasons why you must back up your files appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
MercuryGate
JULY 1, 2021
Implementing an efficient transportation management system is a great way to streamline all digital freight management and supply chain operations. But simply setting up a plan and letting it run will not provide the results supply chain managers want and need. It takes constant monitoring and routine evaluation to ensure everything is working as it […].
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Shipsta
JULY 1, 2021
The pandemic put a massive spotlight on supply chain resilience.
Claritum
JULY 1, 2021
Bath, UK (Jul 1, 2021)– Claritum, a provider of a cloud-based organisational process improvement suite of software, today announced its 20 th birthday. “I am proud to be part of this Claritum team on this 20 year anniversary.”, said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “Claritum has succeeded despite a global financial crisis and a pandemic.
ivalua
JULY 1, 2021
There is a storm coming in the accounts payable (AP) world. The tides of suppliers and payments are changing and in order to withstand the tidal waves of change and influx of AP transactions, organizations will need to find agility within their operations. Unfortunately, traditional payment approaches treat invoices to payments as a process silo, locked within the fragmented ERP which cannot support the change.
The Logistics of Logistics
JULY 1, 2021
The Voice of 3rd Party Logistics with Anne Reinke. Anne Reinke and Joe Lynch talk about the voice of 3 rd party logistics. Anne Reinke joined TIA which is the only organization dedicated to advancing the needs of third-party logistic professionals. About Anne Reinke. Anne Reinke joined TIA from the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT), where she served both as the Deputy Assistant Secretary-Congressional Affairs DAS-Intergovernmental Affairs from April 2019 to October 2020.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Enterra Insights
JULY 1, 2021
We’ve all heard the business mantra “innovate or die.” In this article, I’d like to discuss innovation’s symbiotic traveling companion: creativity. Innovation invariably begins with an idea. In the innovation formula (innovation = new x valuable x realized), “new” really means “new idea.” If any of the variables of the innovation formula equals zero, there is no innovation — no new idea, no innovation.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
Disruption is occurring faster than ever before in transportation and logistics, forcing companies to re-think how they do business to prepare them for the future.
Tecsys
JULY 1, 2021
Join us in conversation with Thom Campbell at Capacity LLC as he shares his wealth of insights and discusses the people-side of the warehouse business. The post Technology, Happiness and the “Lingua Franca” of Warehousing appeared first on Tecsys.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
More than 90% of restaurants say they’ll continue using third-party delivery services after the pandemic.
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
As distribution centers face a new level of operational complexity and increased labor scarcity, warehouse automation is likely to become essential to the survival of any e-commerce operation.
Freight Plus
JULY 1, 2021
The Longshoreman are the workers who provide the labor associated with loading & unloading of vessels for our imports and exports. There are two associations that represent each of the unions-the IWLU and the ILA. The ILWU is the International Longshore & Warehouse Union and they represent workers from Seattle/Tacoma to Southern California. The ILA is the International Longshoremen’s Association and they represent workers from Eastern Canada to the Great Lakes, the entire Atlantic Coast,
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
While Covid's shipping woes look to be reaching a plateau, businesses are still working hard to ensure they’re in the best position to recover and handle any unexpected logistics challenges.
This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.
Taulia
JULY 1, 2021
Taulia has partnered with tax compliance technology firm Sovos to ensure that VAT compliance is managed alongside your transactions and does not become a burden. Download this whitepaper which sets out: Four megatrends in VAT digitization that have the potential to drive major change in the way organizations will need to approach regulatory reporting and manage compliance How businesses can remain agile in order to remain compliant with increasingly strict requirements on the collection, formatt
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 1, 2021
CSX Corp., a transportation solutions provider, has announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Quality Carriers, Inc., a North American provider of bulk liquid chemicals truck transportation, from Quality Distribution, Inc.
OptiProERP
JULY 1, 2021
Once you select an ERP system best suited to your company, it will be time to implement the software. No matter which ERP system you chose, implementation consists of multiple steps to get the software up and running. Some concerns around implementation include installing and updating the software, migrating company data to the new system, configuring processes to your business needs, and training users on the software so they are self-sufficient.
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