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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as a process has been around since the 1980’s. While the terminology evolved, the underlying thesis of S&OP has stayed the same, i.e., bridge the divide between sales forecasts and operational plans while respecting the budget. In general, S&OP consists of a New product review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Management Review and some level of reconciliation between these steps.

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The Shipping Container Impact on Inflation

Freightos

If you were building a house in 2021, things got rough. The cost of lumber skyrocketed from $354 / 1000 board feet in May 2020 up to $1,683 in May 2021 1. And even if you weren’t building a house, you likely felt the same problem echoed across patio furniture, gym gear, and more. Yes, unprecedented consumer demand, and ample money to spend, have continued to push prices and inflation indicators up.

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Classical Supply Chain Management Confronts its Quantum Revolution – the Path to Rapid Intelligent Response (RIR)

Arkieva

COVID-19 direct and ancillary events have made clear that uncertainty is an inherent part of the demand-supply network structure. Every firm, on a regular basis, faces “risk situations such as manufacturing excursion, unexpected new demand or loss of demand, component supplier interruption, etc. This has placed risk management and rapid intelligent response (RIR) front and center in SCM discussions.

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Reasons your supply chain can’t afford to wait: agility, resiliency & sustainability

IT Supply Chain

By Polly Mitchell-Guthrie (pictured). VP of Industry Outreach & Thought Leadership, Kinaxis. The post Reasons your supply chain can’t afford to wait: agility, resiliency & sustainability appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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5 Important Uses of Technology in Modern Teaching and Learning!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Screen Time! Is That Enough To Be Good In Supply Chain? Modern teaching and learning article and permission to publish here provided by Elaine Bennett. Technology is revolutionizing the modern classroom, but also the educational sector as a whole. The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up and popularized a trend that has been on the rise for years with the advancement of digital technologies and online learning, and nowadays it seems

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The Key to Strategic Workforce Planning for the Warehouse

BlueYonder

Manufacturing and warehouse shift work has been standard procedure since the dawn of the industrial revolution. And, shift work remains the standard in many cases today. It’s been about 120 years since this practice began. Does it really make sense today, considering what’s changed in manufacturing since then? In this time, we’ve seen the introduction of pallets, forklifts, barcodes, inventory management systems, the Toyota Production System, cross-docking, and omni-channel retailing, just to na

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The Logistics of the Olympic Games | How Small-Parcel Supply Chains Can Go for Gold

iDrive Logistics

In light of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics spanning July 23rd, 2021- August 8, 2021, we wanted to dive deeper into the logistics of the event itself as well as how themes in the Olympics mirror small-parcel supply chain trends. The 2020 Olympic Games Quick Facts Over 11,000 athletes have descended on Tokyo to compete in. The post The Logistics of the Olympic Games | How Small-Parcel Supply Chains Can Go for Gold appeared first on iDrive Logistics.

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Using Analytics to Manage Last Mile Delivery Costs

Intelligent Audit

Many innovative advancements have occurred in the past few years within the transportation network , including a focus on last mile delivery costs and shipping rate management through analytics. The ever-shifting nature of the transportation industry and the growing demand for e-commerce have forever changed how shipper providers will meet consumer needs.

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End-to-End Intermodal Shipment Tracking Solution | How it Works

Roambee

Intermodal shipments are advancing at a dizzying pace, and so is shipment monitoring technology. The industry has taken three distinct approaches to intermodal shipment tracking, namely carrier data aggregation approach, IoT sensor approach, and a blended ‘sensor + non-sensor’ platform approach. Let’s explore how these three approaches address intermodal shipment tracking.

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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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Medical Inventory Management & Consumable Inventory

My Office Apps

Consumable Inventory & the Medical Field. Despite the medical industry operating as a regular for-profit business, they rarely work as such. Medical professionals are bound by their oaths to help their patients no matter what. This focus on patient care pulls them away from managing their business like a businessperson. Unorganized medical inventory management can cause delays in providing patient care, and in the healthcare industry, each second matters.

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Supply Chain Strategy: How a TMS Keeps Leaders Strategic to Spin up Critical Initiatives

MercuryGate

Maintaining a functional supply chain network takes a lot of work, collaboration, and careful monitoring of market trends. Developing a sound supply chain strategy is one of the first things managers must do. This often takes the form of a transportation management system (TMS) of some sort. An enterprise-class TMS platform is critical for smooth […].

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Why Do You Need to Bring Your Dormant Shipment Data to Life?

Shipsta

One of the biggest paradoxes in logistics is that data is an essential part of the freight procurement process, yet so much of it is left lying dormant and underutilised.

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Your Guide to Supply Chain Network Design: Key Factors for a Competitive Advantage

EnVista

Supply chain network design should be a key part of every organization’s supply chain optimization strategy. Managing an optimized supply chain network is a delicate balance between reducing transportation and supply chain operations costs while increasing customer service levels. Striking this balance is what will give your organization the competitive advantage it needs to thrive in the market.

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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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How to Optimize Your Profit and Loss with a Demand Driven Supply Network

The Network Effect

The post How to Optimize Your Profit and Loss with a Demand Driven Supply Network appeared first on The Network Effect.

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CSCMP and MIT on Supply Chain Sustainability

Supply Chain Digest

Review of State of Sustainability Report 2021

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Robotic Process Automation and the Need for Standards

Enterra Insights

Many businesses that struggled to maintain operations during the pandemic learned the importance of being a digital enterprise in the Digital Age. Aater Suleman, Vice President of Cloud Transformation at NTT DATA, explains, “Last year’s social and economic upheavals illustrated clear disparities between digital transformation progress among companies and industries.

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Why Did Your Last Product Fulfillment Services Provider Fail?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Not every provider of product fulfillment services offers the same capabilities or high levels of performance. Unfortunately, some eCommerce brands find this out only after entering into a relationship with an underachieving third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Once this happens, an eTailer can easily waste months or years trying to get its logistics partner to improve.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Startup Couriers Snatch Toehold in Shake-Up of the FedEx Era

Supply Chain Brain

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, but the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

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8 Best Inventory Demand Forecasting Techniques

EazyStock

Demand forecasting techniques. Demand forecasting techniques play a critical role in inventory management. If you can accurately forecast market demand, you can take action to ensure you hold the correct stock to maximize sales and profit. However, producing an accurate inventory demand forecast is no mean feat. In this post we uncover eight top demand forecasting techniques and best practice tips that you can’t be without.

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England Frees Key Workers From Isolation Amid Food Supply Fears

Supply Chain Brain

The British government is rolling out daily Covid testing to allow workers in critical services in England to avoid self-isolation, amid concerns that mass staff shortages are threatening crucial supplies.

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IMRIS Enhances Its Customer Experience with Adaptive UX

QAD

If you’ve ever had an MRI scan, you know that patients go to a specific room or building (I’ve even seen them in trailers in the parking lots of medical offices) and use the equipment in that room or building. IMRIS, a global leader in intraoperative imaging technologies, designed a ceiling-mounted intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) system that specifically allows for imaging during surgical procedures.

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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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U.S.-China Trade Booms as If Virus, Tariffs Never Happened

Supply Chain Brain

China and the U.S. are shipping goods to each other at the briskest pace in years, making the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship look as if the protracted tariff war and pandemic never happened.

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Trending Transportation Updates: July 2021 | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

There were many new transportation updates in the shipping industry last month. Check out some of the top stories and transportation updates of July 2021!

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LogiNext Launches MILE: An Integrated Last-Mile Delivery Platform

Supply Chain Brain

LogiNext, a global technology company, today launched MILE, an integrated last-mile delivery platform.

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Split Nutrition fuels national brand growth with Crisp

crisp

Part of our Customer Spotlight series, featuring brands on the Crisp platform and their growth stories.

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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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Panasonic Introduces the Customizable TOUGHBOOK G2, a Rugged, Modular 2-in-1 Tablet

Supply Chain Brain

Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, today announced availability of the new Panasonic TOUGHBOOK G2 product in the U.S. and Canada.

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Manhattan Associates: Gartner Quadrant Leader 14 Times in a Row

SCJunction

We are proud to announce that Manhattan Associates has been named a Leader in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. Once again, they are positioned furthest on the ability to execute and completeness of vision.

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What is White Glove Service in Logistics and Transportation Industry

Shipsy

The modern digital era has completely transformed the way customers shop and businesses run their operations. From apparel, accessories, furniture, grocery, jewelry to electronics, customers can purchase almost everything online. All it requires is to have a website or a mobile application to reach consumers and offer them various products. What needs undivided attention is the delivery part, as delivering large household appliances, jewelry, furniture, and more can be cumbersome and risky.