Mon.Sep 13, 2021

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Want the best out of your ERP? Here’s what you need to know:

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A successful ERP solution is the foundation on which companies can launch new initiatives, streamline and improve existing operations, reduce costs, and grow the bottom line. But even the best ERP solutions count for nothing if they are not utilized properly. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) provides the platform to automate, integrate, and digitize business processes. […].

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The Freight RFP Process is Broken – Let’s Fix It with Maggie Petrovic

The Logistics of Logistics

The Freight RFP Process is Broken – Let’s Fix It with Maggie Petrovic. Maggie Petrovic and Joe Lynch discuss the freight RFP process is broken – let’s fix it. Maggie is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Emerge , a company that is Reinventing Freight Procurement. About Maggie Petrovic. Maggie Petrovic joined Emerge just over a year ago following 8 years with Coyote Logistics as Director of Enterprise Sales.

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CSR is Good for Business, an Independent Consulting Study Reports, but Official Targets & Policies are Lagging Behind

ivalua

35% of respondents are lacking systems to enable effective, scalable collaboration to empower supply-chain partners in support of their CSR strategies and policies. Redwood, CA – 14 th September 2021 – Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider , announced today the results of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of Ivalua which shows that companies have been prioritizing CSR initiatives as part of their core business strategies – and it has paid of

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

Nearly a quarter century ago, Professor Stanley D. Brunn described the Internet as “the new world” and wondered if it would offer a new geography to humankind. He wrote, “The earliest humans were interested in a variety of geographical questions, including where were food, water, and friends; how long did it take to move between place A and B, and how could they illustrate familiar surroundings?

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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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The World’s Shippers Are Earning the Most Money Since 2008

Supply Chain Brain

The global shipping industry is getting its biggest payday since 2008 as the combination of booming demand for goods and a global supply chain that’s collapsing under the weight of COVID-19 drives freight prices ever higher.

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Five Rules for the Next Supply Chain Crisis

Supply Chain Brain

Businesses everywhere are looking to build supply chain resilience. Here are five places to start.

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Happening Now: Record number of ships in port at L.A./Long Beach

West Coast and California Logistics

As we head into peak season, supply chain congestion at/near the ports of Southern California is only getting worse – especially when it comes to container ship congestion.

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Storms From Texas to China Set to Worsen Global Ship Snarls

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains already tangled by the pandemic, labor shortages and sustained consumer demand in the U.S. are getting walloped by Mother Nature.

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Compress PDF Online for Free – Reduce PDF File Sizes!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Unlock PDF Passwords in Seconds! Compress PDF online article and permission to publish here provided by Jasmine Summer. There are so many reasons to compress PDF documents. One of the major reasons for reducing the file size is its large size which takes up a great space on your computer.

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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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Thank a Trucker; It’s National Truck Drive Appreciation Week

BlueYonder

This blog is co-authored by Raj Patel, Senior Director Global Industry Strategy 3PL, and Terence Leung, Senior Product Marketing Director. This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Sept. 12-18). The annual event is dedicated to thanking the 3.5 million professional truck drivers for driving the economy forward. Each day, truck drivers move goods throughout the country; nearly every item consumed in the U.S. is put on a truck at some point in its route.

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5 Product Packaging Mistakes That Could Cost You Customers!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How Australia is Dealing with Packaging and Waste! Product packaging mistakes article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. If you spend a lot of time online, you may enjoy memes of embarrassing mistakes that people have made. While that’s mostly harmless, the joke will be far less funny when it’s your products or packaging that others start making fun of.

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Beyond Centralized Supply Chain Technology

Adexa

Beyond Centralized Supply Chain Technology- Edge Computing and Swarm Technology for Resiliency. With very few exceptions, existing S&OP solutions rely on a centralized application in order to provide visibility and plan operations of the supply chain. There are a couple of major flaws with this approach: they are too big and slow to handle data granularity and frequency.

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Shoring Up Supply Chain Security for the Holidays

Supply Chain Brain

This holiday season is shaping up to be a perfect storm of supply chain vulnerability.

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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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3 observations after 5 years leading a PE-backed company

BlueYonder

Prisest’ na dorozhku is a Russian custom of sitting on your luggage before embarking on a journey. To reflect on what you leave behind and to envision the path ahead. As Blue Yonder transitions to a new governance structure, we leave a stakeholder behind: our investor-partners Blackstone and New Mountain Capital. The playbook over the last five years, built in partnership with them, can fill a book.

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The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys a “Walmart Supplier of the Year”

Alloy

Headline: The supply chain tips that made Moose Toys Walmart’s Supplier of the Year. It’s no accident that Moose Toys was awarded Walmart Toy Supplier of the Year at the retailer’s annual supply chain conference earlier this year. Joe Botts, VP of Sales at Moose Toys, and his mighty four-person team have made building a trusted relationship and deeply understanding Walmart’s supply chain the cornerstone of how his team operates.

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Warehouse Management Systems – A Comprehensive Guide

Vinculum

Overview. Customer satisfaction has always been the holy grail for businesses irrespective of their size, scale, complexity, and industrial expertise. Today, meeting customer expectations and satisfaction is no longer cutting to the chase. Today’s Gen-Z customers are looking forward to being delighted with hyper-personalized, hassle-free, and seamless experiences.

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Multi-Carrier Shipping Software Solutions for 2021

ShipBob

As the world continues to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic , the upward-trending number of ecommerce sites will continue to grow, giving more opportunity for direct-to-consumer brands than ever before. . But, for merchants either looking to launch a brand or grow their existing online store, it’s no secret that shipping has become more complex and expensive.

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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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7 Ways to Increase Parcel Shipping Capacity during Peak Season

Intelligent Audit

With a new focus on parcel carriers and their unique advantage within the transportation industry, the dynamic between shippers and carriers will continue to experience shifts and fluctuations ahead of peak season traffic. Increasing parcel shipping capacity is more important than ever, thanks to increased pressure brought on by a rise in e-commerce delivery and transportation disruptions.

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Going Beyond OTIF – Redefining the Notion of the “Perfect Order”

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

While on a due-diligence trip through North China to evaluate a company my organization was thinking of acquiring, I was impressed by their management presentations on perfect order attainment and on-time in-full (OTIF) delivery, which they measured as part of their KPIs. That trip was 18 years ago. Topics like OTIF and “perfect orders” have been trending lately as if they’re new ideas – but these notions have been around for some time now.

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Logility Scores Highest for Digital Planning Use Case

Logility

ATLANTA – September 13, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, ranks highest in the Digital Planning Use Case in the 2021 Gartner “ Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions ” report. Logility’s Digital Supply Chain Platform offers support for a broad range of supply chain planning requirements, from sales and operations planning (S&OP) through manufacturing.

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Going Beyond OTIF – Redefining the Notion of the “Perfect Order”

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

While on a due-diligence trip through North China to evaluate a company my organization was thinking of acquiring, I was impressed by their management presentations on perfect order attainment and on-time in-full (OTIF) delivery, which they measured as part of their KPIs. That trip was 18 years ago. Topics like OTIF and “perfect orders” have been trending lately as if they’re new ideas – but these notions have been around for some time now.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

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.

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Supply Chain News on 8 Steps to Radical Quality Improvemen

Supply Chain Digest

It Seems So Simple, but not Many Use this Process

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Across the Pond: A Look at the Transportation Market in Europe

Talking Logistics

Author’s Note: Being based in the United States, most of my research and analysis is focused primarily on what is happening here. I was recently asked by Transporeon (a Talking Logistics sponsor) to take a look at what is happening in the European transportation market and they provided me with access to their Transporeon Insights. Read more Across the Pond: A Look at the Transportation Market in Europe.

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Why ‘Reborn in Digital’ Manufacturers Will Outpace the Competition

Supply Chain Brain

As Industry 4.0 has transformed manufacturing, a new kind of participant has emerged: the “reborn in digital” company.

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Product Update, August 2021

Precoro

Document Editing Improvements. To improve the document's pages for greater ease of use, we started implementing changes in the document editing process. During August, we changed the way of editing Purchase Requisitions and Warehouse Requests. Before, Precoro users had to edit the documents and save changes in a new tab. Now, the editing page is much more easily accessible and loads faster as a pop-up in the same tab.

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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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Consumers Are Out for ‘Revenge.’ How Should Retailers and Suppliers Respond?

Supply Chain Brain

And now, after a year and a half of lockdowns, countless business closures and severe shortages of both essential and non-essential goods, comes the revenge economy.

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Digital Transformation, Low-Code/No-Code and the Citizen Developer

TrackVia

Digital Transformation isn’t new. The term has been around for decades yet, we’ve been reaching for a digital age that seemed so far off into the distance. . Paper forms, emails, and spreadsheets are quickly becoming a thing of the past and project managers can turn to low/no-code solutions like TrackVia to simplify processes and workflows. Now wIth PMI’s Citizen Developer programs, IT can strategically endorse these platforms wholeheartedly.

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Antuit.ai Launches Omnichannel-Aware Solution Suite

Supply Chain Brain

Antuit.ai, a provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions, announced the general release of its Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment suite to the retail market.