Wed.Feb 26, 2020

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What is zone picking?

6 River Systems

Zone picking is a method of order picking in warehouse management and supply chain logistics. One of several picking methods , it involves the division of stock-keeping units (SKUs) into a set of different zones where warehouse employees’ teams are assigned to pick and sort from inside each designated zone. In this article, we’ll take a look at how it works, its benefits, how it can be combined with other picking methods, and best practices for efficient picking processes.

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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

AIMMS

As the Coronavirus outbreak develops into a pandemic, people and businesses alike are feel ing its ripple effects. Manufacturers like Hyundai are experiencing a shortage of components that threaten s to halt production. L ogistics providers like Maersk are forced to announce blank sailings due to curtailed demand. Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong.

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Forecast Accuracy at the SKU Level is Achievable

Logility

Over my 25+ year supply chain career I have worked for several distribution-intensive companies and every single one of them had a focus on improving forecast accuracy. Achieving a high SKU level forecast accuracy is a top goal for supply chain planning teams regardless of industry, size, location, etc. It’s no secret that an improvement in forecast accuracy, especially at the SKU level, can have a significant impact in reducing downstream supply chain costs and improving customer service levels

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3D Printing and the Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has been around in one shape or form for a while. The process essentially entails building a three-dimensional object from computer-aided design (CAD) to add material layer by layer until a final product is complete. The use cases for 3D printing cover most anything you can imagine. In fact, recently, while on a weekend ski trip with friends, my buddy John was riding the chairlift with two women from France […].

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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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Carrier Management 2020 Trends: The Year of Tech-Driven Collaboration

GlobalTranz

Carrier management 2020 trends range from the need to leverage data through the ability to work together and save money. As reported by FreightWaves, collaboration allows businesses to remove excess costs from the enterprise. Robert Garner, vice president of supply chain for Republic Plastics, a privately held company that produces disposable tableware for private labels,read More.

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Bringing Digital Inside the Grocery Store

Enterra Insights

Recently, a few grocery chains have declared bankruptcy or sold off store locations. Like other economic sectors, the grocery sector is not immune to changes in the Digital Age. A few years ago, Chris Morley ( @ChrisMorley_ ), President of Nielsen’s largest market (i.e., packaged goods manufacturer and retail business), wrote, “Depending on what you read, we’re either at a tipping point, on the verge of a meltdown or facing the retail apocalypse.

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Optimization and Central Planning: Compass or Advanced Navigation

Arkieva

Two ongoing questions are: (1) when an organization migrates from an Excel-based central/supply/master plan is it best to go to a rule-based method or an optimization-based method and (2) is optimization a compass that identifies true north or is it an advanced navigation system. This blog outlines my view and alternative views on each question. Optimization and Central Planning: Compass or Advanced Navigation was first posted on February 26, 2020 at 8:07 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link B

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Eliminating Excess Inventory in India & China for Fortune 500 Food Manufacturer

CHAINalytics

Chainalytics helped a global food manufacturer optimise its inventory levels for a number of SKUs in India and China resulting in reduced working capital requirements and less product waste. Since food and beverage products have a short shelf life, there’s a big upside to getting inventory levels just right. So when our client, a Fortune … The post Eliminating Excess Inventory in India & China for Fortune 500 Food Manufacturer appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Coronavirus and Supply Chain Leaders: 9 Must-Know Threats

River Logic

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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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How Vehicle Tracking can help Businesses Negotiate Emission Zones!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Vehicle Tracking article and permission to publish here provided by Thomas Goodall at Masternaut. Emissions zones in cities are becoming more prominent across Europe, to try to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles and improve the health of members of the public living and working in those cities.

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Finding and Using Your Voice

BlueYonder

Randi Gold, senior process analyst, rejoined Blue Yonder (then JDA) about a year ago and shares why she needed to leave in order to find her way back. She found her voice in that time away and shares why it is so important to find – and use it – and to feel empowered and confident in your role and life. Tell us about yourself. Randi with her family.

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What Is an Inventory Management System & Its Role in Omnichannel Fulfillment?

Veridian Solutions

Supply chain leaders often interchangeably refer to both a warehouse management system and an inventory management system as one and the same. However, systems used to manage inventory refer to the combination of technology, including hardware and software, for the following: Product identification Product matching to orders Data analysis Product labeling and management Documentation Reporting .

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Marketing and Promotions Management

o9 Solutions

Increase Sales, Marketing and Promotion Initiatives Success Rates and ROI. Top Reasons Organizations are Upgrading their Initiative Management Capabilities. Creating a system of record for sales, marketing and promotion initiative plans. Increasing cross-functional visibility to spend, outcomes and ROI for initiatives. Analytics to drive learning from past initiatives & prescribing new initiatives.

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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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WHITE PAPER: Supplier Risk Management

Bristlecone

In our global economy, extreme complexity exists in today’s supplier management function, and there is great risk to supply chain continuity, particularly when little to no visibility exists. In a BCI survey, 56% of respondents had suffered a supply chain disruption over the previous 12 months and 52% of disruptions occurred with Tier 1 suppliers. Companies have faced severe problems caused by delivery failure, sudden supply shocks, natural disasters at supplier locations, discontinuation of cer

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Supply Chain Control Tower

o9 Solutions

Intelligent, Real Time Matching of Customer Orders to Supply in an Omni-Channel World. Top Reasons Organizations are Upgrading their Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities. Driving real time, lowest cost order fulfillment decision. Respecting allocations and reservations in order fulfillment decisions. Integrating in real time to order management and front end order taking systems.

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How To Improve Stock Availability

EazyStock

Stock Availability – A Common Inventory Management Challenge. The global marketplace is constantly evolving due to political, economic, technological and social factors. As small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) try to remain competitive, many are coming up against inventory management challenges. In this three-part blog series we’re looking at three of the most common inventory management issues faced by stock holding companies.

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How to Dispute Walmart OTIF Chargebacks

SupplyPike

Want in on a little secret? You can dispute Walmart On Time In Full (OTIF) chargebacks. Here’s some information on what you’ll need to do. Beware – it’s an uphill battle all the way. What’s the difference between a deduction claim and an OTIF claim? Deductions are commonly disputed through Direct Commerce and have specific adjustment codes stating what the issue was and why it was deducted.

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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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eCommerce fulfillment and the modern supply chain: Out with the old, in with the new

FLEXE

It's no secret that online shopping has introduced operational complexity to retailers and brands. But without it, very few (if any) retailers can survive at scale.

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You Can’t Achieve Procurement Success Without A Strong Foundation

HICX Solutions

When it comes to managing your organisation’s suppliers , it’s likely that one of your main concerns is increasing supply chain efficiency. What makes us sure about this? Well, because you’re not alone in this respect. In fact, according to a survey carried out by PayStream Advisors , 39% of enterprise-level (companies with revenues greater than $2bn) procurement and sourcing professionals listed ‘increasing supply chain efficiency’ as their main aim when it comes t

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How To Make Manufacturing Sustainability A Strategic Priority

DELMIA Quintiq

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How Automation Will Impact the Global Packaging Landscape

Supply Chain Brain

A broad range of technological innovations promises to transform the global packaging equipment industry in the near future.

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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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How Do You Distinguish Between Reporting and BI?

Unleashed

Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) are both incredibly vital tools for your business and each has a strong suit. In this article, we explain the difference between the two, in what contexts they are both respectively useful and how to ensure the data underpinning them both is of a high and reliable standard. Reporting. Reporting is usually thought of as being static.

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Surf’s up and looking good for Euroglass

TradeGecko

Soorts-Hossegor is the European capital of surfing and action sports, it’s also where you’ll find Euroglass.

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Bristlecone Flash – February 2020

Bristlecone

UNIFY DEMAND, SUPPLY AND FINANCIAL PLANNING IN THE CLOUD. Today’s supply chains face a daunting list of complex challenges – from rapidly changing markets and intense global competition to production constraints and increasing customer expectations. These challenges are driving the need for organizations to improve the agility and accuracy of their supply chain planning.

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Amazon Power Shoppers: How And When Consumers Want Their Last Mile Deliveries

Convey

[This blog is part of a four-part series. Using SurveyMonkey, we surveyed 2,000 shoppers […]. The post Amazon Power Shoppers: How And When Consumers Want Their Last Mile Deliveries appeared first on Convey.

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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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ATPCO speakers at IMAGINE SUMMIT 2020 Americas

Axway

For over 50 years, the ATPCO company has provided the world’s leading technology, pricing and shopping data to airlines around the world. They also supply data to global distribution systems, tech companies and travel agencies.

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Emailgistics launches new SaaS Solution for team email collaboration

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Emailgistics Corp. has announced the general availability of its self-named Software-as-a-Service solution.

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Paris 2020 – EN – S?awomir Peter

ivalua

S?awomir Peter Solution Area Manager. S?awomir Peter is Solution Area Manager in the IKEA Supply Business Solution, responsible for the application landscape in the area of purchasing and supplier development. S?awomir has long and comprehensive experience in the purchasing / logistics business. Seven years ago, he joined the organization of business solutions with the task of building and managing the organization responsible for conducting business and developing IT tools.