Wed.Oct 18, 2017

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The next frontier: supply chain data architecture for your needs, not to feed the needs of numerous supply chain tech vendors

AIMMS

Data overload and quality issues are common problems faced by all organizations. This makes it really difficult to start getting value out of data with analytics. Inevitably, when you buy supply chain optimization software, you need to start hunting around for data to make the technology work – it can feel like you work for the technology vendor, not the other way around.

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Robots in the Last Mile: Are You Ready for Last Mile Automation?

GlobalTranz

Imagine the scenario: consumer orders a product online, and to lower delivery is available in the area. Rather than just picking up the product at the nearest Amazon store or waiting for drones to drop off the package on the doorstep, and autonomous wagon, looking like a refrigerator on wheels, shows up and interacts with the consumer via smartphone.

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The next frontier: supply chain data architecture for your needs

AIMMS

Data overload and quality issues are common problems faced by all organizations. This makes it really difficult to start getting value out of data with analytics. Inevitably, when you buy supply chain optimization software, you need to start hunting around for data to make the technology work – it can feel like you work for the technology vendor, not the other way around.

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The Gartner Magic Quadrant: Why Should We Care About This Research?

Demand Solutions

Full confession: My team is small, yet diverse – I work with boomers and millennials, and the great generation in between. While I find the boomers tend to be more reserved and reticent in their remarks, millennials are quick to provide commentary with little filter engaged. When we discussed licensing the Gartner Magic Quadrant and offering it as part of our value proposition – the boomers said “OK”, and the millennials quickly asked “Why?

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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What’s Holding Back Customer-Centric Air Cargo?

Freightos

What’s Holding Back Customer-Centric Air Cargo? . By Etan Efrati, Freightos. As the cream of air cargo’s innovators held turns on the floor, this question came up time and again. The recurring answer? The industry’s mindset is holding customer-centric air cargo back. And, as if choreographed, speakers from startups, carriers, and forwarders brought up example after another of where the forces of change are finally breaking through.

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How Supply Stores Survived Harvey and Irma

Elementum

After back-to-back hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit the United States in September, supply stores across the country were put to the test in terms of preparedness and their capacity to recover quickly from the destruction caused by the unusual weather. According to reports , the combined property damages from hurricanes Harvey and Irma ranged from US $150 to $200 billion, ranking among the most expensive disasters in US history.

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3 Critical Factors For A Successful Demand Forecasting System Implementation

Silvon Software

A Demand Forecasting system lives and dies by how well the system implementation is handled. As the trite saying goes, “the devil is in the details,” which most certainly applies to a forecasting project. Plus, we mustn’t forget that forecasting is an inexact science and requires a degree of mental interpolation (and a small amount of faith!) in the results.

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The view from APICS 2017

CHAINalytics

By Bob Trebilcock | October 18, 2017 Just what is supply chain management? It’s a question I ask myself about this time each year when I wrap up the fall conference season. After all, the major certification and trade associations representing the industry all position themselves as supply chain organizations, even though the roots of each … The post The view from APICS 2017 appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Sourcing Offices: a shift of paradigm

KEPLER Consulting

Over last decade, sourcing offices became a major piece within globalized footprint of western retailers. Asian countries and China in particular have been privileged destinations for those entities due to cost attractiveness of the area. After a first era of development and opportunity catch up particularly positive and characterized by consistent purchasing gains , most of these Sourcing Offices are now searching for their second breath.

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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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Greenpeace Report Praises Apple’s Closed-Loop Supply Chain, Slams Samsung and Amazon

Supply Chain 24/7

While Apple featured as the second most responsible company, Samsung and Amazon faced heavy criticism from the report with the authors going so far as to say Amazon is “one of the least transparent companies in the world in terms of its environmental performance.

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Designing Customer and Career Success

BlueYonder

Chrystel Black is the User Experience (UX) Director at JDA Labs in Montreal, where she leads a team of 15 professionals, spread out over three countries: India, Canada and the U.S. Between balancing her job at JDA Labs and organizing her son’s boy choir school’s next tour to Europe, she still finds time to put her UX and architecture skills to use to plan the entire renovation of her house in Montreal.

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Digital Supply Chain Conference 2018

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Adapting to a Digital World - Agile, Collaborative and Innovative Supply Chain Management Taking place on the 30-31 January, 2018, in Amsterdam, the conference has been designed to deliver insight from international experts on how they are developing enhanced, agile and connected supply chains through digital technology

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“Non-Brand” Is Now “On Trend” — How the Internet Is Changing Everything for CPGs

FLEXE

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies have built their empires on their brand identities. But as more contenders join the fray, some new entrants are leading with a different foot forward … no brand at all. We all know them. Consumer Package Goods (CPGs) products. They are the items you see at the grocery store—laundry detergent, soap, cosmetics, food & beverage, to name a few.

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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 Comment on Trip Report for CSCMP 2017 Part 3

Supply Chain Digest

The Three Best Breakut Sessions I Saw, on Analyzing the Procurment Process, Analytics Centers of Excellence, and Use of Blockchain in Supply Chain by Schneider Electric

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More Accurate Promotion Forecasting with Causal Modelling

RELEX Solutions

More accurate promotion forecasting with causal modelling. Insights » Whitepapers. Author: Aki Ali-Vehmas, Data Scientist. The importance of sales promotions as the drivers of consumer behavior has grown during the last decades and a significant proportion of all retail sales are made due to promotions. The increased usage of digital marketing with personalized, time-dependent offers only amplify this phenomenon.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Wee on Is Amazon as Walmart before It Keeping Inflation Low

Supply Chain Digest

Some Economists Say It is Part of Answer to Mystery as to Why Inflation Remains So Low Despite Stimulous

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Cognitive Computing is More than a Gimmicky Name

Enterra Insights

The term cognitive computing was first adopted by IBM as an alternative to the term artificial intelligence (AI). When Bloomberg … Continued. The post Cognitive Computing is More than a Gimmicky Name appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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Designing Customer and Career Success

BlueYonder

Chrystel Black is the User Experience (UX) Director at JDA Labs in Montreal, where she leads a team of 15 professionals, spread out over three countries: India, Canada and the U.S. Between balancing her job at JDA Labs and organizing her son’s boy choir school’s next tour to Europe, she still finds time to put her UX and architecture skills to use to plan the entire renovation of her house in Montreal.

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3 easy ways to increase business productivity

TradeGecko

Scaling a retail business, from running it out of your garage, to managing multiple sales channels, and then evolving into an omnichannel model, can be overwhelming. As your retail business model becomes more complex, the cost of running the business goes up due to increased overhead, marketing, labor and inventory costs.

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Detention Charges in Shipping: What They Are and How to Prevent Them

West Coast and California Logistics

When your container reaches its destination port, a lot needs to happen before your goods get to market. At this point, it is possible to begin incurring accessorial charges, which can pile up quickly. In this blog post, we’ll cover detention charges in shipping – one of the most common charges you’ll want to avoid after your container hits the port.

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IBM Wants to Make 2017 the Year of Blockchain Enterprise Deployment

Supply Chain 24/7

This IDC Vendor Profile discusses IBM's blockchain strategy, existing portfolio around this technology, and specific use cases, defines blockchain and outlines its benefits and current limitations and describes IBM's engagement with the technology since 2014 and its current offering.

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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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Leadership Personified: Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck

NC State SCRC

I had the opportunity to hear Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck, speak at the SC50 meeting. Ken was a single child raised by a single father in Philadelphia, making his way into Harvard Law eventually. Prior to becoming CEO, Ken was the general counsel for Merck, and was the lead representative in defending Merck against the 60,000 individual lawsuits associated with the Vioxx scare.

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Major Blockchain Solution to Speed Global Payments

Supply Chain 24/7

Solution powered by IBM Blockchain in partnership with Stellar.org and KlickEx Group, collaboration with banking leaders to accelerate financial exchange and settlement across currency corridors.

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Retailers Trying to Reform as Online Shoppers Disappointed Last Holiday Season

Material Handling & Logistics

Nearly half (47%) of online shoppers globally reported frustration with everything from shipping, to returns, to lost products and miscalculated duties and taxes during the 2016 holiday shopping season. As this year’s holiday season is expected to increase between 3.6% and 4% this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), retailers ehave a lot of work to do to accommodate consumers.

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Greenpeace: Guide to Greener Electronics

Supply Chain 24/7

This Guide to Greener Electronics is an analysis of what 17 of the world’s leading consumer electronics companies are doing to address their environmental impacts and how these companies stack up.

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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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How Blockchain Can Transform the Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Supply chain has become complicated. Some would say cumbersome. It takes days to make a payment between a manufacturer and a supplier, or a customer and a vendor. Contracts must be handled by lawyers and bankers, which means extra cost and delay. Products and parts are often hard to trace back to suppliers, making defects difficult to eliminate. Whether for industrial equipment, consumer goods, food products, or digital offerings, supply chains have headaches a-plenty.

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Machine intelligence and human creativity in supply chain planning

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha I am reading this absolutely fascinating book “Deep Thinking: Where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins” by Garry Kasparov , former world chess champion. As the title suggests, in this book Kasparov shares a highly provocative point of view on artificial intelligence and its implications for the human race, with the backdrop of his 1997 loss in a highly publicized chess match up against IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue.

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Blockchain: A Single, Immutable, Serialized Source of Truth

Material Handling & Logistics

Blockchain technology could help introduce higher levels of security to and confidence in supply chain transactions. When many people hear the word blockchain, they immediately think about bitcoin and crypto-currencies, conjuring up images of hackers and black markets. However, bitcoin is simply an implementation of blockchain—a technology that can be used to create powerful new capabilities in the supply chain world.