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Shippers at Home Delivery World Look for Consistency & Control

Convey

Long gone are the days when “fast and free delivery” was the only solution […]. The post Shippers at Home Delivery World Look for Consistency & Control appeared first on Convey.

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Hyper-localization: How to Overcome the Challenge of Meeting Local Market Needs

Material Handling & Logistics

With customer behavior changing more frequently,retailers are adapting their supply chains to increase engagement with their always-on customers.

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Supply Chain AI Series: 5 Things You Need to Achieve End-to-End Visibility

ThroughPut

Supply Chain AI Series: Five Things You Need to Know to Achieve End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility Through AI. End-to-end visibility of supply chain can seem like a Utopian concept, mostly given the scale of operation that comes under its purview. Yet, a number of organizations are relentlessly pursuing it. Especially because such in-depth visibility into the supply chain can give you unprecedented control over the efficiency of your supply chain operations.

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7 Wastes Plus One? The Hidden 8th Waste in Lean Manufacturing

Seebo

Mistakes become more costly as development progresses. Here's what to consider when designing an industrial IoT product or network. The post 7 Wastes Plus One? The Hidden 8th Waste in Lean Manufacturing appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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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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TMS for Inbound Logistics: The Top 10 Benefits

GlobalTranz

Using a TMS for inbound logistics is an excellent way to restore confidence within inbound supply chains and gain visibility into their associated processes and actions. Deploying a TMS for inbound logistics offers 10 unique benefits that shippers need to understand. 1. TMS for Inbound Logistics Saves Money Transportation management accounts for 50 percent of.read More.

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Is Direct to Consumer (D2C) the biggest disruptor for 2019?

TradeGecko

The traditional supply chain consists of four or five entities: supplier, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, and consumer. With the advent of eCommerce and globalized retail, however, more customer-facing businesses are cutting out the middlemen by turning to a Direct to Consumer (D2C) model where they manage every aspect of the supply chain – from manufacturing to distribution, marketing, and fulfillment.

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Leveraging Technology in the Retail Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

Companies in the retail sector are looking to automation, artificial intelligence, and other technological advancements to augment various sectors of their business. Savvy businesses are deploying new technology solutions everywhere from their supply chains to their storefronts. Technology is assisting retailers with creating a complete picture of their business operations, from the back-office, to the production center, to the sales floor.

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Is Direct to Consumer (D2C) the biggest disruptor for 2019?

TradeGecko

The traditional supply chain consists of four or five entities: supplier, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, and consumer. With the advent of eCommerce and globalized retail, however, more customer-facing businesses are cutting out the middlemen by turning to a Direct to Consumer (D2C) model where they manage every aspect of the supply chain – from manufacturing to distribution, marketing, and fulfillment.

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Vision and Voice in the Warehouse: How Are These Technologies Impacting Warehouse Management?

Veridian Solutions

Vision and voice in the warehouse , i.e., voice-assisted systems and augmented reality, can change how the typical warehouse operates. While voice-assistive technologies have been around for several years, they are still limited in their capacity to help pickers speed their operation. In addition, voice technologies are fickle. Slight changes in tone, attitude, speech rate and more can affect the ability of voice assistive technologies to help.

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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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DynaSys rebrands as QAD DynaSys

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

DynaSys, a leading provider of demand and supply chain planning solutions, has announced that the company will now be known as QAD DynaSys. QAD DynaSys is a division of QAD Inc.

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How to Attract Supply Chain Technology Talent

Veridian Solutions

Attracting supply chain technology talent is a big issue for today’s supply chain leaders. Existing workers are aging out of the workforce, and most millennials, the group that will make up half of the U.S. workforce by 2020, are willing to leave their current job within the next year to make a personal change. The generation is notorious for job hopping, and this creates the risk of attracting and retaining supply chain technology talent.

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Blockchain in the Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

This e-book is designed to help bring some clarity to what blockchain is, and how it can help companies improve their supply chain operations.

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Keep up with the new OECD guidance on Conflict Minerals with Sourcemap's Responsible Minerals Platform

Sourcemap

Dodd-Frank conflict minerals disclosure ushered in supply chain transparency law, and now it's been superseded by the new EU requirements. What's changed? Transparency isn't enough: companies have to show that they perform due diligence on their extended conflict minerals supply chain, ensuring that risk is monitored and improvement plans are put in place.

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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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Logistics Providers Shift Focus with the Rise of DTC

American Global Logistics

Sourcing Journal—Logistics brokers have been undergoing a steady metamorphosis in recent years, stemming from the influx of direct-to-consumer brands and the unrelenting rise of e-commerce. “We are living through a renaissance in the logistics space,” said CEO of American Global Logistics (AGL), Jon Slangerup. “It changes the supply chain for all our customers.

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Human/Machine Collaboration in the Workplace

Enterra Insights

According to tradition, in 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston to surrounding areas hollering, “The redcoats are coming! The redcoats are coming!” It was a warning to people that revolution was in the air. Many of today’s headlines scream similar warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) and robots coming to take jobs. An AI revolution is in the air.

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Understanding the Buying Process with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

download the audio file. [00:21] Opening / Introduction. [01:09] Tell us about your background. I grew up in Southern Michigan about 1 hour from Detroit, Michigan. I graduated from Albion College (MI) with a degree in economics. Then, I got an MBA from Wayne State. [01:40] What was your first adult job? When I got my MBA, I hoped to land a top job, instead I found myself selling printing services door-to-door, which was a great way to learn about sales.

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Storms put damper on spot rates

DAT Solutions

Despite an increase in freight volumes, national average rates slipped again last week for vans and reefers. Even the arrival of produce season in several southern markets wasn't enough to boost national averages. Weather was a factor, with snowstorms affecting a large swath of the country's mid-section last week, from Colorado to the Upper Midwest and beyond.

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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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Understanding the Power of the Consumer in the eCommerce Sector

Unleashed

Retail is driven by the consumer and always has been — the eCommerce sector is no different in terms of its susceptibility to consumer preference. This article considers how consumer choices have changed the eCommerce landscape, and how e-tailers (eCommerce retailers) must adapt. Timing is everything. With the dawn of new, consumeristic generations comes an increased expectation for products as soon as the desire arises.

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Trucking scams: How brokers and carriers can protect themselves

DAT Solutions

Working with a broker or carrier for the first time can lead to a successful and profitable relationship that will last for years. But in this digital age where carriers and brokers rarely meet in person, it's good to follow some common-sense rules to ensure your new business partner is who they say they are. "One of the most common ways thieves pull off scams today is to pose as a legitimate carrier or broker," said DAT Compliance Manager Tami Hart.

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Shipping Industry Isn’t Ready for Looming Low-Sulphur Fuel Requirement

Supply Chain Brain

The “IMO Scramble” isn’t the name of a new breakfast dish at a fast-food restaurant. It describes the plight of ocean carriers, who find themselves woefully unprepared for a new mandate on switching to cleaner-burning fuel.

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Q2 2019 Freight Rates and Trucking Market Update — The End of AORBDs

Zipline Logistics

As we head into the warmer months of the year, there are a few factors that will continue to influence the direction of the trucking market for 2019. Throughout 2018, much of the market was affected by the electronic logging devices (ELD) mandate, the driver shortage, national disasters, import tariffs and a booming domestic economy. […]. The post Q2 2019 Freight Rates and Trucking Market Update — The End of AORBDs appeared first on Zipline Logistics.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

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.

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Could Amazon Be Worried About The “Walmart Effect”?

Supply Chain 24/7

We take a closer look at the parallels between the Walmart Effect and the Amazon Effect and explore the implications for the future of online and brick-and-mortar shopping.

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What Can Trucking Companies Do to Improve Mental Health for Truckers?

GTG Technology Group

5 Tips for Improving Trucker Mental Health in the Workplace. Truck driver mental health should be a major topic for discussion in the transportation industry. The stressful working and living conditions of the average trucker can lead to significant physical, mental, and emotional health problems. A review of several published studies on the topic concluded a high risk for truck driver health and safety due to untreated mental health problems.

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White Paper – Robots in the Warehouse: Changing the Fulfillment Paradigm

Locus Robotics

Warehouse robotics has created a major paradigm shift in the industry, causing management to “think outside the cart” in order to improve productivity while managing costs and a tight labor market. In this new whitepaper from Logistics Management, Locus Robotics’ CEO Rick Faulk talks about how this powerful shift is driving the revolutionary development of powerful and flexible warehouse robotics, and how they are dramatically improving worker performance and operational efficiency w

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EDI Transaction Sets

TPSynergy

An EDI transaction set is a standardized document that business use to communicate. Any EDI set needs to adhere to a set of rules, put in place by the ANSI X12. For example, EDI 810 is a set that covers invoices being sent and received. Using a Transaction Set. To fully utilize an EDI transaction set, it has to be translated from computer code into human readable information.

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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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New British technology eCargo bike manufacturer announces ‘Project 1'

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A new, technology-led, eCargo bike manufacturer from Oxford, Electric Assisted Vehicles Limited (EAV) launched its new company and announced its new Project 1 (P1) eCargo bike at the eBike summit in Oxford on 10 April.

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Handling High Order Volume Using EDI

TPSynergy

As order volume increases, business need to work with more suppliers and vendors to meet their increasing demand. This is especially true today, when each supplier has their own unique data management system. Having to manually enter data that matches with each supplier is not only incredibly inefficient, but is also prone to errors due to typos, etc.

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Shell Unveils Very Cool Tractor and Trailer Design for Greatly Improved Mileage

Supply Chain Digest

Integrated System Include Solar Panels on Trailer Roof

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