Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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How Resilient is Your Global Supply Chain?

3rdwave

Almost since 1982 when Keith Oliver coined the term supply chain, analysts, reporters, academics, and consultants have written about supply chain resiliency. For an equal amount of time, the global trading community has largely ignored the issue and not invested in solutions designed to dramatically increase a company’s supply chain resiliency, flexibility, and agility.

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Robotic Warehouses: Why Are Companies Straggling Behind the Movement?

GlobalTranz

Robotic warehouses have great potential. Supply chain leaders across the globe scour the latest technologies and capabilities of robots. The reasoning is simple; robots offer a tireless army of workers without the hassle of managing human laborers. Unfortunately, significant obstacles to robotic warehouses still result in some companies eyeing the technology with suspicion, if not.read More.

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Five Things You Need to Know about Inventory Optimisation in the Digital Age

Brookes Supply Chain Planning Blog

With all the buzz around digital transformation, someone peering in from outside supply chain may assume most businesses have already digitised essential tasks like inventory planning. The reality is that this transformation takes time and a change of mindset. It’s about learning to transition from long-held inventory systems and processes, having new conversations across logistics and sales, and the shifting role of supply chain planners.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an article earlier this week that detailed how Amazon has gone about testing its delivery robots. The robot revolution is gaining a lot of traction and lots of companies are looking at how they can use robots to make last mile deliveries (see Dominos Pizza article below). Many companies have done initial testing in dense, urban locations to see how their robots handle the changing nature of the physical environment.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 21, 2019)

Talking Logistics

This would have been a fantastic April Fools’ joke, except it’s real. Check out this video from GE on how to reset their “C” light bulbs. Again, this is not a joke, this a real instructional video: The best part is reading the comments people are posting, like these gems: “I reset mine by using. The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 21, 2019) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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June 2019 Automation Hero: Erwin van der Wouden of Araco

EazyStock

Erwin van der Wouden, supply chain manager at Araco, has automated the purchasing of more than 2000 SKUs. Name: Erwin van der Wouden. Title: Supply Chain Manager. Company: Araco International. Congratulations on the award, Erwin! Could you please tell me a little about your role and what processes or tasks have you automated at Araco? Thank you! I am the Supply Chain Manager at Araco International , a fast-growing wholesaler of promotional business gifts, based out of Enschede, the Netherlands.

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How Resilient is Your Global Supply Chain?

3rdwave

In a trade environment that is highly uncertain, the probability of massive supply chain disruption is growing and the consequences can be dire.

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June 2019 Automation Hero: Erwin van der Wouden of Araco

EazyStock

Erwin van der Wouden, supply chain manager at Araco, has automated the purchasing of more than 2000 SKUs. Name: Erwin van der Wouden. Title: Supply Chain Manager. Company: Araco International. Congratulations on the award, Erwin! Could you please tell me a little about your role and what processes or tasks have you automated at Araco? Thank you! I am the Supply Chain Manager at Araco International , a fast-growing wholesaler of promotional business gifts, based out of Enschede, the Netherlands.

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Decision-Making in the Face of Tariffs

Vanguard Software

The Office of the US Trade Representative released a list of $300 billion worth of Chinese imports that could be slapped with another 25% hike in duties.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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Project-based Learning can Lead to Real-world Solutions

Enterra Insights

Adults often walk a fine line when dealing with teenagers. On one hand, teenagers need to be guided in some areas of their lives. Their knowledge & experience is limited and their minds & emotions are still maturing. On the other hand, teenagers need to be treated with respect and understanding. Their capacity to think deeply and creatively needs to acknowledged.

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What is the Value of Trade Compliance?

3rdwave

Trade compliance provides valuable insights affecting the optimization of sourcing, purchasing, and product engineering decisions.

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The Retail Inventory Method, Explained

TradeGecko

How much retail inventory do I have left this period? What is its total value? If counting by hand, performing a physical inventory count of your merchandise can be time-consuming and even expensive, as it could mean shutting down the store to get an accurate count. Adopting the retail inventory method can help owners get a more regular sense of what’s available.

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UniSuper Hackathon 2019 – “Innovation and Collaboration as a competitive advantage”

Axway

Axway was honored to be approached by UniSuper to participate in their first ever Hackathon– UniSuper Hackathon 2019.

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Tail Inventory: The Silent Cost Driver You Shouldn't Ignore

Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.

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Three Benefits of Moving Spend Management to the Cloud

Supply Chain Brain

Many organizations today are recognizing the need to shift their spend-management operations to the cloud.

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Shopify Launches Fulfillment Network for SMB Merchants

Multichannel Merchant

Shooting across Amazon’s bow with its FBA program, Shopify is going all-in on ecommerce fulfillment, tapping 3PL partners to provide two-day delivery across the U.S. for merchants on its ecommerce platform, many with physical stores. Through its partners, Shopify has access to fulfillment centers in California, Georgia, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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Spot Rates, Volume Declines Leave Trans-Pac Carriers One Option

American Global Logistics

JOC —With trans-Pacific eastbound spot rates falling for a third straight week, China imports declining, and time running out for a beat-the-tariff import surge, container lines have only one option to prevent the loss of peak season gains: more blank sailings. Container lines have already announced three blank sailings for June. A blank sailing occurs […].

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The Importance of Stocktaking for Measuring Inventory Turnover

Unleashed

As a business owner selling goods, knowing how much you are selling is key to understanding how well your business is doing. While many new business owners make the mistake of assuming they are doing okay simply by observing that customers are still buying, doing so can be fatal for your business. A successful business owner is always sure to measure the increases — and decreases — of sales across time.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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FLEXE Hub: Take a hike

FLEXE

Walmart's autonomous delivery vans, tariff-related price hikes, and the business of sustainability.