Fri.Jun 05, 2020

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Will the Rush to E-Grocery Recede or Stick After the COVID-19 Crisis?

Multichannel Merchant

COVID-19 has completely changed the grocery industry, challenging supply chains and product on hand as demand soared. E-grocery has seen a massive boost as shoppers have been concerned about going out. Many grocers had already begun investing in ecommerce solutions, but COVID-19 pushed it up to a need-to-have priority. With states and localities reopening for business, experts wonder how grocers will continue to adapt, and how ingrained online buying patterns will be.

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Marketers are Turning Attention to Generation Z

Enterra Insights

There’s a common belief that younger generations, especially teenagers, believe they are invincible. I’m not sure it’s invincibility they feel; more likely it’s possibility. Before them lies the future and all the choices they will have to make along life’s journey. The current coming-of-age generation is Generation Z (aka Gen Z).

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4 Simple Steps to Becoming a Walmart Supplier

SupplyPike

Learn about: The key differences between being a retail and marketplace supplier The four basic steps to becoming a Walmart supplier The kinds of products that Walmart sells. Walmart has suppliers that can be segregated into different categories. Together, they form an association of more than 100,000 enterprises all across the globe. This the technique that Walmart uses to fulfill its customer’s product requirements and demands. .

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Elementum to #leadboldly by supporting global supply chain organizations with free Virtual “War Room” to manage disruptions caused by COVID-19

Elementum

At Elementum, it has always been our mission to be a socially responsible supply chain partner. So in this time of global crisis, we are stepping up to do our part. We invite any and all supply chain organizations to use Elementum Essentials at no cost for the rest of this year to run their virtual “war rooms” as they triage the countless supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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4 Unique Services Offered By Trucking Companies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 6 Technologies that will Change Transportation and Trucking Forever! Trucking companies article and permission to publish here provided by Saeed Darwish. A trucking company’s primary purpose is to transport full-truckloads of goods from one location to another. It is no surprise that most people think truck companies offer no other services to their customers.

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What is small package shipping?

Freight Plus

Chris Peckham, Director of Operations at Aborn & Co., explains small package shipping and it's cost. This conversation is a part of a white paper guide to small package coming Summer 2020. Audio only version. Chris can be reached on. LinkedIn. Future proof your supply chain. today! Subscribe now on. iTunes. , Spotify. , or simply search your favorite podcast player for Consulting Logistics!

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Recalls ? How Food and Beverage Manufacturers can Avoid this Scary Reality

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As the food supply chain has become more costly and complex, any food safety incident can have a negative impact on public health and ultimately, the economy. In June, the second World Food Safety Day will be celebrated to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect, and manage foodborne risks. Product recalls in the […]. The post Recalls – How Food and Beverage Manufacturers can Avoid this Scary Reality appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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What is small package shipping?

Freight Plus

Chris Peckham, Director of Operations at Aborn & Co., explains small package shipping and it's cost. This conversation is a part of a white paper guide to small package coming Summer 2020. Audio only version. Chris can be reached on. LinkedIn. Future proof your supply chain. today! Subscribe now on. iTunes. , Spotify. , or simply search your favorite podcast player for Consulting Logistics!

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Financial Hedging of Food Prices

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Hedging has become a critical tool for companies seeking to weather disruptions in food supply chains during the coronavirus pandemic. Grocers, food manufacturers and restaurant chains have been leaning on the financial mechanism, the WSJ’s Nina Trentmann and Kristin Broughton report, as shipments from suppliers have wavered because of shutdowns at meatprocessing plants and prices have fluctuated wildly.

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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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Level the Playing Field with Automation in the Warehouse

GlobalTranz

Automation is transforming industries around the globe, and the use of automation in the warehouse holds great potential for small and mid-sized businesses(SMBs). While different levels of automation exist, today’s smaller companies do not necessarily understand how automation could benefit their organizations. In addition, automation has been made synonymous with robotic operations and a complete loss of.read More.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS has dubbed January 2 as National Returns Day, where the company ships close to 2 million unwanted items back to retailers. While retailers plan for the holiday buying surge for months, they take equal care in preparing for the influx of returns when the holiday season ends. But as we know, 2020 is a different beast, as the coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of shifts and pivots in the global economy.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 5, 2020)

Talking Logistics

Many years from now, when we look back on 2020, what will we say about it? As we begin the sixth month of this year, may the days and weeks ahead, through hard work and the courage to change and innovate, lead us to a better future. —- In this week’s supply chain and logistics. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 5, 2020).

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Accelerating Time to Value for 3PLs with John Golob

The Logistics of Logistics

Accelerating Time to Value for 3PLs with John Golob. John Golob and Joe Lynch discuss accelerating time to value for 3PLs implementing and onboarding new accounts. 3PLs, freight forwarders, and carriers are increasingly concerned with the timely implementation of new customers. A poorly managed or late implementation can be very costly for both the LSP and the shipper.

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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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5 B2B eCommerce Strategies you need now

TradeGecko

Every wholesaler worth his salt knows that successful wholesale businesses are built on the back of strong customer relationships. Unlike the B2C buyer experience, B2B customers require relationship building on a personalized, almost bespoke level. Therein lies the challenge of B2B marketing.

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Elementum to #leadboldly by supporting global supply chain organizations with free Virtual ?War Room? to manage disruptions caused by COVID-19

Elementum

At Elementum, it has always been our mission to be a socially responsible supply chain partner. So in this time of global crisis, we are stepping up to do our part. We invite any and all supply chain organizations to use Elementum Essentials at no cost for the rest of this year to run their virtual “war rooms” as they triage the countless supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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6 B2B eCommerce Strategies you need now

TradeGecko

Every wholesaler worth his salt knows that successful wholesale businesses are built on the backs of strong customer relationships. Unlike the B2C buyer experience, B2B customers require relationship building on a personalized, almost bespoke level. Therein lies the challenge of B2B marketing.

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The fault lines of all enterprise applications and business are being redrawn

Axway

Technology architecture and business models are shifting and we’re not going back to the “way it used to be.” Providing a great experience across the headless use of our platform + products (containers, orchestration, multi-cloud, APIs, CLI, etc.

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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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Utilizing Scenario Planning to Drive S&OP Decision Making

Vanguard Software

Despite sales and operations planning (S&OP) its importance, many organizations are unable to achieve effective decision making in their S&OP process.

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Webinar : Turbo-Charging Cost Savings Utilizing Machine Learning

KEPLER Consulting

The Easy-Kost Solution. EasyKost is a publisher of cost estimation and modeling software based on artificial intelligence algorithms. Capable of generating predictive models from random forests, EasyKost is a leading tool both for helping to develop new products and for calculating savings. A Webinar on Artificial Intelligence applied to Costing. During a Webinar held on June 4th, 2020, KEPLER and EasyKost presented Machine Learning technology applied to modeling and cost optimization.

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Transportation Management Systems: 101

Freightview

Transportation management systems (TMS) are a staple of the shipping industry. Those systems scale from big, robust, and expensive systems to smaller, more hands-on and affordable systems, and everything in between. A properly utilized TMS can be extremely beneficial for a shipping department of any size.

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?? BUY VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET IN CHINA

DocShipper Sourcing

Who knows Second Life? One of the first virtual reality platforms, even if, at that time, there were already virtual reality headsets and your avatar had to manipulate them with the keyboard and the mouse. Today, using the keyboard and mouse to play any type of game looks like almost the last century. Virtual … The post ?️ BUY VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET IN CHINA appeared first on ?

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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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Supply Snafus, New Costs Hobble Factories – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Supply Snafus, New Costs Hobble Factories. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 05/29/20 ? 06/04/20

All Things Supply Chain

China Halts Some U.S.

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The Supply Chain Can’t Stop: A Guide to Setting Up a Virtual “War Room”

Elementum

We’re shut in. There’s no toilet paper (although, I have hoarded 37 rolls for my family). My hair is getting way too long but I still need to be “camera ready” for my next video conference. It’s overwhelming at times — but we can’t stop. If you make produts and run a supply chain, goods need to get around the globe now more than ever. We are facing the largest supply and demand shocks to the world’s economy in my lifetime.

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Industrial Factory Worker Distancing

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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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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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

It was Wednesday, March 11th and Ken’s Foods had a dilemma. They wanted their corporate teams to work from home but at least 60 individuals currently worked on desktop computers in the office, many had no access to personal computers, and a few of them didn’t even have Wi-Fi access in their homes. Solving this and other operational issues like VPN capacity, phone connections and getting the teams up to speed on virtual meeting platforms was only their first hurdle.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A Guide to Setting Up a Virtual ?War Room?

Elementum

We’re shut in. There’s no toilet paper (although, I have hoarded 37 rolls for my family). My hair is getting way too long but I still need to be “camera ready” for my next video conference. It’s overwhelming at times — but we can’t stop. If you make produts and run a supply chain, goods need to get around the globe now more than ever. We are facing the largest supply and demand shocks to the world’s economy in my lifetime.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: Mitigating Customer Stockouts (and Not Just of Toilet Paper)

Elementum

Restaurants are giving away toilet paper with to-go orders — even the coveted two-ply. Handsanitizer has become a black market item. Empty shelves are a familiar sight and it’s tempting to go to the grocery store as a way to gauge if we’re recovering from the severe demand and supply shock caused by COVID-19. This is our new normal. As much as we consumers have felt the pain of “out of stock”, our hospitals and first responders (like nurses, as highlighted by Linkedin) , have felt it even more i