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How Prescriptive Analytics can help you build supply chain network agility and resilience

AIMMS

In a world full of turmoil, change has become the new normal. New import tariffs being introduced across the globe, extreme weather events, Brexit… The list goes on and on. What can Supply Chain leaders do to mitigate the risks that these disruptions bring to the Supply Chain? Businesses are constantly reminded that they need to be more agile and resilient in order to survive.

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Transform your supply chain’s sustainability impact by going beyond operational constraints

DELMIA Quintiq

This is the second blog post of a two-part series – in part one , I explained supply chain planning and execution tweaks that can be applied without significant change management programs. Here in part two, I will highlight how more drastic shifts to supply chain networks and operations can have a larger impact on sustainability. The examples in part one demonstrated small operational changes that can significantly improve a company’s footprint, with very little to no change management efforts.

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Guardian of the Supply Chain: Blockchain-Enabled Control Towers

The Network Effect

For the patient, the pharmaceutical supply chain can mean the difference between life or death. It is very complex, and. The post Guardian of the Supply Chain: Blockchain-Enabled Control Towers appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Campbell’s Soup Innovative Supply Chain Training

Logistics Viewpoints

Many companies send their employees to leading supply chain conferences. Yet outside the Logistics Service Provider industry, widespread internal training within a supply chain organization remains rare. But that is what Campbell Soup has done, they have put in place an innovative supply chain training program. The Campbell Soup Company is a global food company with a range of products, including soups, simple meals, snacks and healthy beverages.

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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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Using Prescriptive Analytics to Decrease Supply Chain Disruptions

River Logic

An article by Nari Viswanathan, Vice President of Product Management for River Logic, was recently featured on Supply Chain Management Review. In this article, Nari discusses the fact that Supply Chain in particular has been slow to adopt advanced analytics capabilities, mainly due to their apprehensiveness around replacing existing systems. However, Nari makes the argument that, given recent advancements in technology, data and more, it's now easier than ever for Supply Chain leaders to embrace

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Supply Chain Newsmakers Video Series on Zakaria of CNN on Globalization, Automation, Job

Supply Chain Digest

Highlights from His Keynote Address at the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

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Case Derome: Ensuring a Successful Implementation and Change Management During Rapid Growth

RELEX Solutions

Case Derome: Ensuring a Successful Implementation and Change Management During Rapid Growth. Customers » Case Studies. Since being founded in 1946, Derome Byggvaror, a Swedish trade builders’ merchant, has been growing exceptionally fast. During 2017, the company almost doubled its store count, from 20 to 39, increasing its revenue by 29%. In 2015, Derome set out to improve its supply chain processes knowing it needed an agile solution to support its growth as keeping track of stock levels

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Chain Reaction for May 22, 2018 Mongo Aspires to Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain List

Supply Chain Digest

If They could Just Get that Supply Chain Orchestrator Thing Down

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How Dollar Shave Club dominates the cutthroat world of eCommerce

TradeGecko

It was December 2010, and Michael Dubin was at a Christmas party where a family friend – Mark Levine – asked him for help selling 250,000 razors he’d bought from Asia ( you know – standard party chat ).

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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 Chain News on Lessons from US Cities Seeing Manufacturing Growth

Supply Chain Digest

Worker Training is Far More Important than Tax Cuts, EconomistTim Bartik Finds

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Shipping Carbonated Beverages

Zipline Logistics

Even if you’ve never been on the wrong end of a shaken soda bottle, you’re likely aware that these fizzy drinks can explode if shaken or frozen and cause sticky chaos. So how do you avoid product damage (and major messes) while shipping carbonated beverages? Why do carbonated beverages explode when shaken? Carbonated drinks contain […]. The post Shipping Carbonated Beverages appeared first on Zipline Logistics.

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Maximize Warehousing Advances to Win in the “Now Economy”

APICS

For a warehouse to be dubbed “smart,” it must be automated; provide real-time visibility; be agile, as relates to space, staff and software; scale to respond to needs instantaneously; take a web-driven approach to running the business; and maintain focus on delivering a customer-centric experience.

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Laser Cutting

Exapro Hub

The use of laser technologies in the processing of materials is extremely diverse. Laser cutting of metal is the most common type of laser treatment. In the course of laser cutting, melting, evaporation of the metal and removal of molten particles from the cutting zone occurs by purging with process gas: air, nitrogen, oxygen or other process gas. The main advantages of laser cutting: high quality of the technological process, speed, flexibility, minimum material costs because the width of the c

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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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Three Ways Leaders Create Lean

synchrono

Three Ways Leaders Create Lean. “Relentless” leadership and team empowerment drive lean change. For those of you who have heard this before, it bears repeating. For those of you who have not, this is important – leadership is the single most important component to lean success. . It is exciting to talk about bottom-up change and expect that a ground swell of individuals in virtually every level of the organizational chart can succeed with lean—in spite of those in the C-suite that just d

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Getting Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry on the Map

Supply Chain Brain

A series of social compliance audits had failed to uncover structural problems in the five-story Rana Plaza building, which collapsed on April 24, 2013. (Just hours after workers were threatened with termination if they failed to enter the facility.) It was reportedly the deadliest garment-factory accident in history. Several major apparel brands and retailers, including J.C.

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Control the Cost of Free Shipping with Enterprise Parcel Shipping Analytics

GlobalTranz

It’s Time To Take A Closer Look At Your Parcel Shipping Costs eCommerce is driving the demand for smaller, more frequent last-mile deliveries. As a result, parcel rates are soaring at more than twice the rate of inflation. At the same time, consumer expectations for free shipping and more delivery options are increasing, largely reinforced by Amazon.

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The Digital Path to Purchase is often the Mobile Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

One of the most impactful innovations of the past three decades is the smartphone. Although the term “smartphone” wasn’t used until 1995, IBM introduced the first smartphone — a gadget called the Simon Personal Communicator — three years earlier. That was a decade and a half before the iPhone was introduced. The smartphone has impacted our lives in many ways; not the least of which has been changing the way we shop.

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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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Huawei and the US Market: The Next Frontier, or an Impossible Dream?

Elementum

Huawei's Next Frontier: The US Market. Huawei's plan to burst into the U.S. smartphone market isn’t going quite as planned. Despite a promising product portfolio, the Chinese smartphone giant is still struggling to crack the US market. It boils down to tightening US restrictions against Chinese tech and telecommunications companies. What’s the rationale behind these blockades, and what is Huawei doing to circumvent them?

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Huawei and the US Market: The Next Frontier, or an Impossible Dream?

Elementum

Huawei's plan to burst into the U.S. smartphone market isn’t going quite as planned. Despite a promising product portfolio, the Chinese smartphone giant is still struggling to crack the US market. It boils down to tightening US restrictions against Chinese tech and telecommunications companies. What’s the rationale behind these blockades, and what is Huawei doing to circumvent them?