Enterra Insights
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Every business selling a product or service looks for a successful end game (i.e., a consumer purchase). The rise of the Internet and mobile devices (especially smartphones) has significantly impacted the complexity of the consumer path to purchase. Hugh Williams explains, “Shopping is no longer as simple as walking into a local store and selecting an item.
GlobalTranz
OCTOBER 15, 2018
The world has entered the era of e-commerce, and companies around the globe are struggling to keep up with the trend. Innovative last-mile delivery options have been created, such as concierge services, the app, Doorman, Amazon Key and more. For shippers, the best way to handle the e-commerce logistics surge lies in e-commerce freight consolidation and deconsolidation.
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Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 15, 2018
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and retailers are jostling into position to take advantage of a growing economy and increased consumer confidence. With the uncertainty surrounding trade wars and tariffs, increasing sales is one way to mitigate the potential negative impact on a company’s bottom line and reassure investors that you can weather the storm.
Unleashed
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Demand forecasting is a fundamental part of the business. It plays an integral role in shaping how a business operates each month and each year. If a business wants to be successful with their inventory control, it’s necessary to plan for the many components of supply chain management. Forecasting tools will never be 100% accurate, but they facilitate a way to minimise errors throughout the supply chain.
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.
Supply Chain Digest
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Outstanding Discussion with CEOs of Werner Enterprises, YRC Worldwide, and New England Motor Freight.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Digest
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Johnson and Johnson and Intel Lead the Way in 2018
Freight Plus
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Michelle Cully, CEO of Xpressman Trucking & Courier joins the show to discuss how at the lowest point in her life she decided to pull herself up and start again.
Unleashed
OCTOBER 15, 2018
A company’s inventory is a significant asset on their books, however, if frequent shortages or excess happens, it can become a significant liability, costing the business’ bottom line. It is imperative to manage inventory appropriately so that supply and demand are always balanced. However, all the inventory management techniques and software in the world will not solve the problem if forecasting is not done appropriately.
Insights Solutions Global
OCTOBER 15, 2018
How to make sure that you and your supplier are on the same page in creating the ideal products? Why not consider assessing your suppliers? Then you may ask, what good can supplier assessment does? Read on and know more.
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Unleashed
OCTOBER 15, 2018
When your physical stock in the warehouse doesn’t agree with the inventory on record, you’ll have a problem on your hands. You now have the onerous task of figuring out where the rouge inventory went so you can reconcile the numbers. This is what we call inventory shrinkage. It occurs where inventory disappears or cannot be sold and creates a mismatch between physical stock counts and what is showing in the inventory management software.
Provenance
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Provenance empowers brands to increase trust, using revolutionary technologies for greater supply chain transparency. Our SaaS software enables businesses to bring the origin, journey and social and environmental impact of products to the point of sale. At Provenance, we envision a future where every great product comes with accessible, verifiable information about the people, places and materials behind its creation, helping us all make positive choices about the things we buy.
Material Handling & Logistics
OCTOBER 15, 2018
The value of overall sales rose 0.1% for a second month, compared with the median forecast of economists for a 0.6% gain. U.S. retail sales rose less than forecast in September, as a broad-based increase was overshadowed by a drop in restaurant receipts that may reflect the impact of Hurricane Florence. The value of overall sales rose 0.1% for a second month, compared with the median forecast of economists for a 0.6% gain, Commerce Department figures showed on Oct. 15.
Freight Plus
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Michelle Cully, CEO of Xpressman Trucking & Courier joins the show to discuss how at the lowest point in her life she decided to pull herself up and start again. After escaping an abusive relationship and with only a high school diploma and zero business experience, she set out to start her own company. Today she is the CEO of Xpressman Trucking and Courier, a multimillion dollar venture with operations coast-to-coast.
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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.
Insights Solutions Global
OCTOBER 15, 2018
How to make sure that you and your supplier are on the same page in creating the ideal products? Why not consider assessing your suppliers? Then you may ask, what good can supplier assessment does? Read on and know more. The post Effective Supplier Assessment and Evaluation: Why is it Important? appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
OCTOBER 15, 2018
by F. Robert Jacobs. This study is a Learning Curve [i] analysis of Tesla Model 3 production using data provided by the company [ii]. Using Model 3 production data from 2017-Q3 through 2018-Q3, the Wright learning curve function was fitted. The squared error (difference) between the predicted cumulative days to achieve cumulative production amounts and the reported cumulative production amounts was the criteria used in the fitting.
Exapro Hub
OCTOBER 15, 2018
As always, buyers can find some very interesting machine tools on Exapro.com, whatever the month of the year is. September 2018 is a great example as many of them (maybe you?) have shown their interest for some particular machines […]. The post Top 5 machine tools in September 2018 appeared first on Exapro Hub.
EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work
OCTOBER 15, 2018
We are in the midst a global epidemic that annually causes three to five million cases of very severe illness and about 200,000 to 500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the United States alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 5-20% of the entire U.S. population contracts the disease annually.
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3AG Systems
OCTOBER 15, 2018
We all want to get home safely, right? For some of us, the worst risk we face at the office is a sore neck from bad posture. But for many others, the risk of serious personal injury on the job site is very real. One of the best approaches to safety management begins from the ground up, through a safety-driven culture that focuses on getting every employee to be aware of their surroundings and actions.
TradeGecko
OCTOBER 15, 2018
As we talked about in our recent blog on single channel vs. multichannel buyers , almost three quarters of consumers today shop on more than one channel, and those that do spend an average of 4% more on every shopping occasion in-store and 10% more online than single-channel customers.
TradeGecko
OCTOBER 15, 2018
As we talked about in our recent blog on single channel vs. multichannel buyers , almost three quarters of consumers today shop on more than one channel, and those that do spend an average of 4% more on every shopping occasion in-store and 10% more online than single-channel customers.
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