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The Intelligent Food Supply Chain Can Reduce Waste

Enterra Insights

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TMS Development: Who Should Develop My TMS? A 3PL or a Tech Company the 3PL Hires?

GlobalTranz

The value of implementing a transportation management system (TMS) is undisputed. Companies across the globe are looking to leverage an advanced TMS function and capabilities to streamline logistics management. Unfortunately, not all TMS solutions are created equally. According to Emma James of Inbound Logistics, a shippers core business strategy must include an evaluation of who.read More.

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Why warehouse conveyor systems are outdated and costing you money (and what you should be using instead)

6 River Systems

A technology used to aid in order fulfillment, warehouse conveyor systems transport products throughout the facility, such as from picking zones to packing areas. They’re similar to the conveyors found in grocery store checkout lanes, but on a much larger scale. Warehouse conveyor systems offer several benefits, but they also come with a few important disadvantages.

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How does your demand forecasting process compare to others? Take this quiz to find out

AIMMS

Sales and Operations Planning and demand forecasting are two sides of the same coin. For many, a well-executed S&OP process should start with a demand forecast on one end and supply and resource plans to meet that forecast on the other. But in today’s VUCA world, the future is getting harder and harder to predict. Demand forecasts are only becoming less accurate.

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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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Macro Growth of Micro Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

The impact of e-commerce on the retail grocery industry and perishables supply chains has created a phenomenon called Micro Supply Chains. It’s driving rapid change across the industry, which has presented challenges for all stakeholders, but also new opportunities to differentiate and capture market share. What are some of these challenges and opportunities?

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How Automation Empowers Retail Warehousing Success

Veridian Solutions

Automation is quickly becoming the newest way to empower supply chain leaders with warehousing success. Automation enables paperless warehouses, and cloud computing spending has seen a remarkable trend upward of 4.5 times the rate of IT spending over the last decade. More importantly, cloud system automation is on track to become the dominant factor in the market by 2020, driving customer satisfaction , and more.

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How does your demand forecasting process compare to others? Take this quiz to find out

AIMMS

Sales and Operations Planning and demand forecasting are two sides of the same coin. For many, a well-executed S&OP process should start with a demand forecast on one end and supply and resource plans to meet that forecast on the other. But in today’s VUCA world, the future is getting harder and harder to predict. Demand forecasts are only becoming less accurate.

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Reveal Your Real Inventory Planning and Forecasting Policy by Answering These 10 Questions

The Smart Software

In this blog, we review 10 specific questions you can ask to uncover what’s really happening with the inventory planning and demand forecasting policy at your company. We detail the typical answers provided when a forecasting/inventory planning policy doesn’t really exist, explain how to interpret these answers, and offer some clear advice on what to do about it.

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[Event Recap] Insights and learnings from IRCE 2019, Chicago

Vinculum

Vinculum participated at Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE), one of the biggest eCommerce conferences in Chicago. Date: 25-28 June 2019. Venue: McCormick Place South, Chicago. With over 130 sessions and 600 top technology solution providers , IRCE saw huge participation of brands, retailers, 3PLs and brand distributors from all over the world.

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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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SC Certifications. A good idea to help you out filling the gaps

The Supply Chainer Report

Passionate Supply Chainers all around the world are wondering whether studying a Certification makes sense or not. Allow me to say this is quite normal taking into account the huge number of them. Check out the Top 8 according to CIO magazine. You could have arrived to the Operations department a long time ago. Perhaps you’re a New joiner … It really doesn’t matter.

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Shifting Supply Chains --HP, Dell to Move 30% of Laptop Production From China

Material Handling & Logistics

“HP shares industry concerns that broad-based tariffs harm consumers by increasing the cost of electronics," the company said,

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Fires Challenging the Automotive Industry

Resilinc

Download the full 2018 annual report here.

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Supply Chain News on Shippers Harnessing New Age Technology in Bid to Recruit New Warehouse Workers

Supply Chain Digest

Medical Waste Handler Stericycle Draws Geo Fence around Another Shipper Parking Lot to Send Targeted Cell Phone Ads

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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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Pipeline Scheduling Solutions Can Yield Real Business Value

Logistics Viewpoints

When logistics folks think about transportation, the pipeline mode is an afterthought. But it is a very important mode that gets far too little coverage and is not sufficiently well understood. Pipeline scheduling solutions are every bit as complex as other transportation management solutions. The post Pipeline Scheduling Solutions Can Yield Real Business Value appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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For Every Tom, Dick, and Harry

Supply Chain Shaman

I help business leaders transform supply chains. Fiercely independent, I triangulate the market and share insights. While companies like research, they love stories. For me, this poses a dilemma. How so? No one wants their story told, yet they want to know stories of other companies. I sign a Non-Disclosure (NDA) everywhere I go. Stories from Tom, Dick, and Harry.

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Van rates ride high through Independence Day

DAT Solutions

Independence Day fell on a Thursday this year, so there were many people who took Friday off as well. That meant any shipments needing to be delivered last week had a tighter window, and those shipments moved at a premium.

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Lessons From the Military for Improving the Retail Customer Experience

Supply Chain Brain

Retailing as a business model is being challenged by e-tailers and demands for an ever-improving customer experience. Lessons from the military can help.

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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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Reefer freight hits its stride as summer produce arrives

DAT Solutions

After a slow start, reefer freight is finally hitting its stride. We've seen a uptick in both rates and freight volumes the past two weeks. The Midwest is leading the way, as summer produce is finally moving.

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Manage Stock on Etsy with Free Inventory Spreadsheet

TradeGecko

The Etsy shop you started as a side income has grown to become a much more substantial business. Nice work! Now it’s time to put some better tools in place. Keeping track of inventory with a paper checklist worked in the past, but now you need a better system. What you’re looking for is a solution that lets you: Instantly see what you have on hand. Track seasonal and other trends.

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Why CPM Helps Finance Workers Sleep at Night

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

If I had ever, in my youth, invented an acronym, I believe it would have been ‘GARR’. GARR represents the repetitive processes that countless financial workers have suffered through since the invention of…well…finance. Finance, almost by definition, requires attention to detail, and for a finance worker, the details are in the data. And if you rely on […].

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Online and In-Store, Retailers Must Adapt to New Shopping Trends

Supply Chain Brain

What many economists view as a growing gap between rich and poor in America is being reflected in online retailing trends.

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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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MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES IN THE WORKPLACE

Eyvo

By Bhargavi Nake. Dwight Eisenhower famously said, “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”. This little quote says a lot and has a lot of meaning hidden in it. Motivation in employees is as rare as the stars upon a clouded night. However, this is not true for every company. We have seen companies with some unique cultures which focus on employee well-being and keeping them happy and motivated.

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How Montana Colors Australia took control of sales with the B2B eCommerce Store

Unleashed

Utilising online B2B sales systems is an easy way to drastically reduce the time you spend punching numbers into a computer instead of growing your business. Here’s Ben Morton from MTN Australia on how their team used the Unleashed B2B Store to stop time-consuming admin tasks detracting from their marketing and direct sales, and took back control of their day.

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The Shippers Guide to Transportation Management System ROI White Paper

MercuryGate

The post The Shippers Guide to Transportation Management System ROI White Paper appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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RFID, AIDC and IoT New Round Up for July 8, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Nike CEO Bullish on RFID, RF Controls Claims Low Cost RTLS Technology, Flexible RFID ICs to Tackle Counterfeit Consumer Goods

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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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5 Ways to Enhance Your Data Quality

Unleashed

Not all data is created equal. Although it can be informative and helpful to your business, poor quality data can also drag you down. It’s important to keep on top of the data and to make sure it’s working to your advantage. Good quality data can help your business look at market trends, cultivate satisfactory customer experiences and encourage efficiencies throughout the business.

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