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5 Tips For Making Warehouse Management Easier Than Ever!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Keys to Success in Warehouse Management/Order Fulfillment! (Video). Article and permission to publish here provided by Eada Hudes. If you run a warehouse, you would know of the hassles and responsibilities that go into its efficient management. You may be doing your best, and some problem or the other still may crop up.

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5 Benefits of Wearable Technology

AB&R

We see it all too often, a user in the warehouse sets down their mobile device only for it to accidentally get hauled down the conveyor line. This is just one example of a situation that could easily be prevented if their company transitions to wearable technology. The most innovative distribution centers and warehouses across the country have found that these ergonomic devices are the perfect optimizing solution.

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How Business Managers Can Hack Decision-Making

Unleashed

Business Intelligence (BI) helps companies with rich data resources to make informed strategic decisions, improving operational efficiency and business productivity. While systems such as Business intelligence can help different aspects in a company, here we take a look at the main benefits of business intelligence that helps businesses grow by enhancing decision-making.

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Manufacturers, Technology, and the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

Manufacturers have historically found themselves at the cutting edge of technological advances. The term “industrial revolution” pays homage to this fact. It’s surprising, then, to read stories encouraging manufacturers to jump aboard the Digital Age technology bandwagon. You wouldn’t think encouragement would be required. During a fall meeting of the Manufacturers’ Council of the Inland Empire, Gregg Profozich, Director of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies at Californi

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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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What is Contract Warehousing and When is Your Operation Ready for it?

West Coast and California Logistics

When your business is growing, shared warehousing with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) enables you to scale your warehousing investment to match your order volumes. Need more or less space? You can add or remove it based on your needs. But, what happens with a mature business that is flying high and wants a more customized distribution solution?

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Assembling the Right People to Ensure Smooth Change Management

RFgen

Focus on assembling the right people to ensure successful change management for supply chain technology. For many of us, the approach of a new year means a brief period of reflection on the previous months’ activities and accomplishments followed quickly by a frantic rush to plan resolutions, goals and events for the next. However, if we give it the attention it deserves, this time has the potential to serve as an invaluable stopgap to really think about what’s been working well and what transfo

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Seven lessons from EuroFinance Copenhagen

Taulia

This year’s EuroFinance International Treasury Management event, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, attracted over 2,100 attendees from more than 50 countries worldwide. Taulia has been present at the event every year since the company was founded in 2009 – so what did this year’s conference tell us about customers’ evolving needs and the continuing development of working capital solutions?

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Assembling the Right People to Ensure Smooth Change Management

RFgen

Focus on assembling the right people to ensure successful change management for supply chain technology. For many of us, the approach of a new year means a brief period of reflection on the previous months’ activities and accomplishments followed quickly by a frantic rush to plan resolutions, goals and events for the next. However, if we give it the attention it deserves, this time has the potential to serve as an invaluable stopgap to really think about what’s been working well and what transfo

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Hidden ROI you need to know - Strategic Transportation Tech Stack

Freight Plus

Part five of a five-part series on the hidden benefits you can expect from working with a digital freight management company like Aborn & Co. There are a lot of emerging technologies in the transportation industry. Our industry is inventing new ways to share information, better tracking tools, easier ways to manage spot market transactions, and products that address numerous other important use cases.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Dec. 13, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

FedEx Drives a Long Way for Hub Workers. IMO Sulfur Mandate have Impact already on Container Carriers. eCommerce Losing Some Luster in CPG.

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How Much is it Worth to Steer Customers’ Delivery Appointment Choices?

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the last 10 years, I’ve had the chance to work with companies that have turned home delivery into a competitive advantage or reduced their costs by using counterintuitive strategies and tactics. On a recent trip to Europe, I had a chance to catch up with a customer who, for several years, has been using the concept called the “eco-friendly” delivery option to steer its customers’ delivery choices to improve productivity.

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No Supply Chain Blah, Blah, Blah 2019

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Annual List of the Best Supply Chain Presentations of the Year

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Last Mile Distribution News: December 13, 2019

Stord

Friday, December 13, 2019 Celadon Group Shuts Down Business Operations Truckload carrier Celadon Group, whose customers included Lowe’s, Walmart and Proctor & Gamble, filed for bankruptcy this week and shut down all its business operations. Shippers who carried loads with Celadon may experience “short-term dislocations,” but overall trucking capacity is not expected to be affected.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on The Six Key Factors in AI Success in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

Good Advice on AI from MAPI, the Manufacturing Alliance

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How to Personalize Marketing Materials

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Here’s a disturbing statistic. According to research done by Sirius Decisions, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of a typical company’s marketing collateral is never used by their sales people. Yikes! That’s a lot of wasted budget! There are several reasons this can happen, but one of the most common is that your sales team thinks your materials are irrelevant.

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Hidden ROI you need to know - Strategic Transportation Tech Stack

Freight Plus

Part five of a five-part series on the hidden benefits you can expect from working with a digital freight management company like Aborn & Co. There are a lot of emerging technologies in the transportation industry. Our industry is inventing new ways to share information, better tracking tools tools, easier ways to manage spot market transactions, and products that address numerous other important use cases.

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What do Product Rework Companies Do?

Kanban Logistics

When you’re looking for logistics services such as warehousing, one word that you might see pop up regularly is “rework.” In short, rework is a value-added service provided by many third-party logistics providers (3PLs). It’s also an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of distinct services. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of those services and examine what product rework companies can do for your business.

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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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Sourcing Success Story Increased Participation and Savings

EC Sourcing Group

Raw Material Sourcing Success Story: More Suppliers Participated plus Time and Hard Dollar Savings. If your colleague increased supplier participation, saved time and generated hard dollar savings, wouldn’t you want to know how they did it? Of course. Let me share some of the highlights of this success story at an international manufacturing and distribution company.

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Why Freight Shippers Should Strive for Driver-Friendly Facilities

Bulk Connection

A little kindness goes a long way. It’s a true statement no matter the situation, including the hustle and bustle of bulk transportation. “Driver-friendly” is a term that’s come to describe freight shippers – including their customers and facilities – that apply this truism to their treatment of truck drivers. In this article, we’ll examine why a little driver-friendliness can go a long way in creating a successful transportation operation.

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Rail Optimization: The Carriers' Perspective

Maine Pointe

In the third of a four-part series of blogs looking at the evolving relationship between carriers, shippers and investors in the rail transportation industry, Nick Little, Michigan State University, Center for Railway Research & Education, and Maine Pointe's Mike Notarangeli, consider the rail carriers' point of view.

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Arena Solutions Receives Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award

Arena Solutions

Foster City, Calif., December 12, 2019 – Arena Solutions , the leading provider of cloud-based product development solutions for high tech, consumer electronics, and medical device industries, is proud to announce it is a recipient of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive (SDCE) Green Supply Chain Award for 2019. This year’s 12th-annual award recognizes Arena’s product lifecycle management (PLM) solution as utilized by NEXTracker, one of the fastest-growing cleantech companies in solar equipm

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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 Event - From Demand Planning to S&OP to IBP: Lessons from the front line

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

This Supply Chain Event is a free educational morning dedicated to leading manufacturers who want to review best practices and lessons from the front line to implementing S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) and IBP (Integrated Business Planning).

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Video: 2020 Retail & Logistics Trends & Predictions

FLEXE

FLEXE executives weigh in on some of the biggest trends and predictions for the retail and supply chain industries in the coming year.

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What is the Value of Integrating Route Optimization Software with Your Telematics System?

Paragon

The post What is the Value of Integrating Route Optimization Software with Your Telematics System? appeared first on Paragon Routing.

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Improve Lead Times & Reduce Freight Spend With Real-Time Rates

MercuryGate

The post Improve Lead Times & Reduce Freight Spend With Real-Time Rates appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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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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U.S. Surface Transportation Market Update (Q4 2019)

Talking Logistics

The truckload market cycle The market historically sees periods of undersupplied capacity, a transition to oversupplied capacity, and a transition back to undersupplied capacity (see Figure 1). The duration and magnitude of these cycles varies based on freight demand and supply injection or contraction (from both the for-hire and private capacity pools).

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Supply Chain Newsmakers Video Series on Interesting Developments in Microfulfillment Technologies

Supply Chain Digest

Analyst Clint Reiser on eFulfillment Driven Systems, Largely from Stat Ups

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[WHITE PAPER] Using Various Freight Tactics to Reduce Costs & Streamline Management

GlobalTranz

Failure to devise an end-to-end strategy for keeping freight spend under control will lead to added costs, stressed workers, higher expenses, lower returns, increased inventory disruption, and other hurdles. In the worst case scenario, shippers lose and go bankrupt. Fortunately, the right application of various freight management tactics can force the onslaught of higher freight.read More.