Wed.Sep 11, 2019

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How Eco-Friendly Packaging is Impacting Sustainability!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Sustainable Logistics: Making the Last Mile Eco-Friendly! Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Phil Edwards at Melbourne Packaging Supplies. Plastics have integrated every sphere of our lives. We use them every day in our kitchens, schools and almost every place of business you can think of.

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Top 3 Barriers in Supply Chain That Affect the Customer Experience

Clear Spider

Customer satisfaction is the key to your organization’s success. In fact, in a recent survey by BlueJay Solutions, six in ten supply chain professionals believe that the customer experience is more important than price when it comes to the purchase of new technologies. With this in mind, it is important to foster a great customer […]. The post Top 3 Barriers in Supply Chain That Affect the Customer Experience appeared first on [link].

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Business Forecasting Lessons From Hurricanes

Arkieva

With each storm, there comes a bevy of forecasts put out by different computer models. These forecasts begin about 10 days out and change as the storm gets closer and closer. This blog tries to extract some learnings from this process of forecasting. Business Forecasting Lessons From Hurricanes was first posted on September 11, 2019 at 10:09 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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How To Make Your Supply Chain More Efficient

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

by James Daniels, freelance writer. There are multiple benefits to creating a more efficient supply chain in your business, you’ll be able to cut unnecessary costs from your spending and respond more quickly to market changes, supply irregularities and fluctuating demand.

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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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How to Tell if Your Suppliers are Underperforming

Unleashed

Not all suppliers are created equal: some are better at providing low-cost goods, while others are great at customisation. Some suppliers have optimised for fast-shipping times, and some suppliers focus on high-quality materials. Regardless of whether you make, manage or move products, suppliers are a vital part of your company’s success. Without reliable suppliers, you could be jeopardising with your business model.

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Traceability In Food & Beverage Manufacturing is The Cornerstone of Quality

IQMS

Compliance and quality are the foundations all great food & beverage manufacturers rely on to create and strengthen trust with their distribution networks and customers. How strong they are at traceability is the cornerstone every one of them rely on to meet compliance requirements and keep excelling at quality. Traceability Is Key To Excelling At Compliance And Quality for Food & Beverage Manufacturing Companies.

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The Impact of Innovative Supply Chain Management Tools on Working Capital

Savi

PwC, in its 2018/2019 report titled “Navigating Uncertainty: PwC’s annual global Working Capital Study”, provides a comprehensive overview of global trends in working capital management by region and by sector. The insights and conclusions speak to the impact of using traditional tools to manage working capital. However, the report stops short of addressing the impact of global supply chain management on working capital.

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Cloud-based MRO Forecasting and Planning

Vanguard Software

Stochastic forecasting and cloud-based planning help AIOs and MRO providers reduce spare parts inventory while keeping machinery running smoothly.

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Benore Logistic Systems achieves tenfold performance increase and 100 percent uptime with SvSAN

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

StorMagic, simplifying storage at the edge, announced that Benore Logistic Systems, Inc., a Michigan-based supply-chain solutions company, has replaced its legacy standalone SAN with StorMagic SvSAN to improve performance and add redundancy. With SvSAN, Benore Logistic has maintained 100 percent uptime and realised a tenfold system performance increase compared to its previous solution.

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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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Public Sector: Will day-to-day commercial demands catch us out?

Proxima

What does Brexit mean for Government Commercial? With the current level of uncertainty, no one quite knows – and perhaps we are even unsure if Brexit still means “Brexit”. What is clear however is that there have been significant efforts to ensure that front-line suppliers are ‘Brexit-ready’ and critical contracts are adapted for various the scenarios that may ensue.

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The Benefits of Effective Final Mile Logistics

GlobalTranz

An effective final mile logistics strategy must consider all variables, defining what is necessary to provide a superior customer experience. Unfortunately, not all final mile carriers are equal, and services may vary widely between geographic regions. However, this is not enough to abandon the management of final mile logistics, especially as Amazon rolls out newer,read More.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on What Countries have What Share of the Globl Economy

Supply Chain Digest

USA Still by Far Largest Economy, though China is Rising Rapidly

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The Robot Uprising Reaches the Store

Logistics Viewpoints

The robot uprising is coming to a store near you. And no, I’m not talking about Skynet building T-1000 Terminators to take over the world (or store in this case). I am talking about how the retail store is drastically changing to become more automated, using artificial intelligence, and relying on non-human assistance for check-outs, price checks, and inventory management.

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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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Project Freshstart: A National DCP Success Story

Talking Logistics

At the Manhattan Associates Momentum 2019 conference earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interview Chris LaFaire, SVP of IT at National DCP, a $2 billion supply chain management company. You might not be familiar with the name National DCP (NDCP), but you likely know the brands it supports: Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins. Read more Project Freshstart: A National DCP Success Story.

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Will Superjobs Require Super Humans?

Enterra Insights

Among the many threads of discussion relating to the future of human work, perhaps the most interesting speculation involves the kinds of jobs that don’t exist today but will be created in the future. Journalist Kaveh Waddell ( @kavehwaddell ) observes, “Experts [are] puzzling out the future of work [and trying to figure out] what kind of new jobs will be enabled by AI and robotics — and how many there will be, relative to the work that is likely to disappear due to automation.”

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How to overcome distribution challenges with WMS features: 6 Tips

SCJunction

A common KPI in a growing business is to improve the bottom line of your distribution centre. Margins vary wildly between 3% and 30%, and the slicker your operation, the higher that margin becomes. A good Warehouse Management System can make a huge difference to your growth.

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An interview with Michael Hutzli, Engineering

Alloy

Michael Hutzli is an engineering team lead in Alloy’s Vancouver office. Before joining Alloy a bit over three years ago, he worked as a software engineer at Addepar in Mountain View and at AdNovum in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.

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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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United States is Leaving the UPU

Intelligent Audit

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) will meet on September 24th due to the possibility of a United States withdrawal in October. The reason for the potential withdrawal is due to the fact that UPU agreements make it easy and relatively cheap for developing countries to ship packages under 4.4 pounds into the United States. More specifically countries such as China can easily ship “counterfeit goods and dangerous drugs into the country” said Jay Timmons (CEO and President of the National Association

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What’s your carbon footprint? Measure your personal climate impact with the UN’s calculator

Provenance

Your lifestyle is affecting the planet. From your energy consumption and household waste to how you get around and the things you buy – your decisions impact the world you live in. So, what’s the plan to minimise your footprint? Measure, reduce, then compensate. This is the advice set out by the United Nations Climate Change. . Their online calculator accounts for specific factors to “ give you a better understanding of how much greenhouse gas your daily activities represent.”.

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Carrier Bankruptcies Make 3PLs More Important to Shippers than Ever

Freight Center

In 2017, New England Motor Freight (NEMF) generated $402 million in revenue. On February 12, 2019, NEMF, the country’s 19 th largest LTL carrier , shut down operations and announced that it was filing for bankruptcy protection. 1,472 truck drivers were out of work in the largest U.S. trucking company shutdown since Consolidated Freightways in 2002. First in a Rash of Carrier Bankruptcies.

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Personnel Tracking for Every Situation

AB&R

Tracking people’s movement around a defined area extends beyond tracking employees within a business. From the day to day uses, to emergency situations, to the special occasions,RFID enables you to track and control access throughout your space. For Every Day. Tracking Employees Within Your Business. Tracking your assets extends beyond the tools and equipment you use.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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iPaaS Webinar: Making the Case for an iPaaS, September 19th

Axway

Integration platform as a Service (iPaaS) simplifies any combination of cloud and ground deployment by providing prebuilt application connectors to the most popular SaaS applications.

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Video: 5 Steps To Get Rid Of Supplier Data Silos

HICX Solutions

This short video clip is taken from our webinar ‘How To Connect Your Data Silos’ , which you can watch in full in our Resources section here >>> [link]. If you’re unable to view the video clip for any reason, below you can find the transcript of what our CEO Costas Xyloyiannis said during this part of the webinar: “Now the five steps which we need to consider here in terms of an approach which we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into during the pres

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We’re hiring a Freelance Software Engineer!

Provenance

Provenance is a platform that empowers brands to take steps toward greater transparency. . With our technology, businesses make the origin, journey and impact behind products transparent to the millions of shoppers that want to know more. From ingredients and farm data to workers rights and recycling instructions, Provenance connects what shoppers care about – to the brands and products that match their needs and values. .

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CSCMP Edge 2019 Annual ConferenceDay 1 Video Review and Comment

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the conference floor in Anaheim

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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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Taking Leaps of Faith

BlueYonder

Meet Donna Gaspard, senior director of alliances at JDA, who believes listening is the most important thing a leader can do, and that authenticity is the single-most important trait we should carry within ourselves. She took a position in sales at a time she thought she’d become a lawyer, changing her career trajectory for the better. After a leap into teaching yoga full-time, she came to JDA and shares what she’s learned in her career there, and throughout her life.

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How to Implement a Transportation Management System SAP

AFFLINK

An advanced enterprise software solution, SAP can help optimize and improve upon the performance of a transportation management company. A transportation management system SAP is a valuable tool for consolidating logistics, shipping, and inventory information. It can be tailored for use in the transportation management industry. Here's what you need to know about transportation management SAP.

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Listen Technologies’ Keys to Faster Product Development

Arena Solutions

Jeremy Timothy of Listen Technologies recently shared his experiences with Arena’s Scott Reedy during a webinar panel discussion focused on accelerating new product development. We wanted to share some of his noteworthy insights with our readers. Jeremy spent the last eight years as a Configuration Analyst and worked closely with the engineering and manufacturing teams.