Long-range Planning: A Complete Guide To Everything You Need To Know
River Logic
JANUARY 7, 2020
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The Ocean Plastics Environmental Crisis!
Supply Chain Game Changer
JANUARY 7, 2020
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). One commercial on TV states that by the year 2050 there will actually be more plastic in the ocean than fish! By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish! That’s alarming to say the very least.
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2020 Vision: Three Keys to Retail Success in the New Year
BlueYonder
JANUARY 7, 2020
As NRF approaches, retailers need to recognize three key facts about the retail environment that will determine their success or failure in 2020. It’s appropriate that NRF, Retail’s Big Show, is scheduled for early January. The dawn of a new year is the perfect time to take stock of the past year’s results — and create a plan for even better results in the next 12 months.
The More Supply Chains Change, the More they Stay the Same
Supply Chain Digest
JANUARY 7, 2020
Toy Giant Mattel Opportunities for Improvement in Supply Chan Basics
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
Latest Advances and Applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) Technology
DELMIA Quintiq
JANUARY 7, 2020
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the name that the IT folks have given to the now billions of physical devices throughout the world that are connected to the internet. These devices not only collect data, but they share it as well. Through the proliferation of wireless networks as well as cheap processors, it’s now possible to turn a multitude of physical objects into an IoT device.
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It’s easy for an RFx process to get mired in the weeds. You have to ask the right questions to get the right answers to the most relevant challenges inherent in selecting a technology (and more importantly a provider/partner). Seeking detailed answers to questions about TMS features, functionality, data security and costs is surely important. But, don’t lose sight of the following questions; the answers to which will have a much more critical impact on the overall success (and cost) of your
8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain
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JANUARY 7, 2020
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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report
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How Process Visibility from Cloud ERP Incentivizes Faster Payment
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JANUARY 7, 2020
Business owners, CEOs, and CFOs know that positive cash flow is the heart and soul of rapidly growing manufacturing and distribution businesses. They constantly look for ways to incentivize faster customer payments to maintain a healthy cash flow. Whether it’s positive or negative, cash flow impacts business growth, new ventures, capital expenditures and the acquisition of investors.
Your Supply Chain Strategy & Best KPIs
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JANUARY 7, 2020
The topic I discussed from the recent seminar, 33 Sins, is supply chain strategy and KPI and how these things should link together. In this video, you may want to take a closer look at the Strategy Model Diagram and the Supply Chain Management Venn Diagram I prepared and feel free to let me know your thoughts on this subject by leaving your comments below.
How Accounting Visibility from Cloud ERP Improves Cash Flow
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This blog is part of a three-part series on how cloud ERP enables manufacturers to achieve operational excellence. In the series, we also cover how cloud ERP helps manufacturers deliver a best-in-class customer experience and drive companywide value through adoption and digitization. These topics and more are covered in our Achieve Manufacturing Excellence with Cloud ERP: A Practical Guide for Small and Midsize Manufacturers.
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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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The Four Seasons of Freight Shipping: What You Need to Know
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The freight shipping industry changes throughout the year. Whether it is shifting economic market conditions like supply and demand or seasonal weather patterns impacting how shipping companies get moving, your supply chain will need to adapt to whatever comes its way as the year goes on. Luckily, we’re here to provide some insight on what to expect for each of the four seasons of freight shipping.
S&OP: Santa & Opening Presents
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The festive period is fast approaching and the biggest and best supply chain in the world is almost ready to be activated. There is no way Santa Claus could achieve his annual success without sticking rigidly to an S&OP /IBP process also referred to as Santa and Opening Presents. The process starts every year on the 26th December just as children start to play with the empty boxes rather than their much sought after gifts.
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Today’s post will cover the the most read supply chain management blogs published in 2019. The list of supply chain management blogs mostly centered on warehouse management, inventory best practices, evolving by using standard technology (we’ll have a technology top blog posts as well) in modern omnichannel supply chain environments, and naturally, keeping up with.read More.
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PINC Named to Food Logistics’ 2019 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers
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JANUARY 7, 2020
Leader in yard management automation and inventory robotics to the food industry recognized as a top technology provider. Union City, CA—January-7th, 2019 — Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has selected PINC, the number-one provider of yard management systems and inventory robotics solutions to the food and beverage sector, to its 2019 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list.
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Data is omnipresent — it’s everywhere we look and intertwined in everything we work with. The biggest obstacle that companies face is how to make sense of all this data! If you have mountains of data but aren’t able to decipher what it means, then what’s the point? Data can be an invaluable resource if you know how to harness it. The best way to get the most out of your data is through business intelligence tools.
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