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The Impact of Urbanization in the Age of Living Retail

RELEX Solutions

Welcome to the third installment of our Living Retail series. In Part 2 , we explored the first of three major change agents in the age of Living Retail — a power shift toward the consumer. In Part 3, we’ll discuss a second, closely related change agent: a rapid demographic shift toward urbanization. Retail is about people: what we need, what we want, and where and how we live.

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The Evolution from Control Tower to Center of Excellence

Talking Logistics

Control Tower and Center of Excellence (CoE) are two terms mentioned repeatedly as companies try to gain better visibility, control, and performance from supply chains that are becoming more dynamic and complex every day. But what do these terms mean and how do they relate to each other? What defines a successful Center of Excellence? Read more The Evolution from Control Tower to Center of Excellence.

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Supply Chain Peak Season Prep: Tips to Prepare your Warehouse Laborers

Veridian Solutions

From parcels to business-to-business transactions, organizations across the globe are ramping up in anticipation of peak season. Supply chain peak season prep includes optimizing inventory, rethinking distribution center strategies, and keeping a strong focus on preparing warehouse laborers for the change in demand and pace. To ensure maximized productivity and performance throughout this busy period, supply chain leaders need to follow these steps.

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Thanksgiving Causes Logistics Headaches

Logistics Viewpoints

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, which as I pointed out last year, is a time for FFFTT – family, friends, football, thankfulness, and turkey. Thanksgiving is also a time for logistics headaches. The holiday is centered around the big family meal, and the food supply chain tied to that meal is complex. But there are a number of other areas that can result in logistics headaches as well.

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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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Steering innovation: The importance of agile decision-making in the auto industry

Kinaxis

by Manda Schweitzer-Miller. The automotive industry is in the midst of unprecedented change driven by a trifecta of emerging technology, rapidly evolving consumption preferences and dramatically shifting business landscapes. All three drivers combine to further complicate the already complex and high-volume vehicle supply chain – and the supplier sub-chains that feed into it.

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Shutdown Days & Demand Patterns

Arkieva

Shutdown days are either planned well in advance or inadvertent and unwelcome manufacturing excursion- this is a factory issue, not a demand issue. The answer is simple. Shutdown Days & Demand Patterns was first posted on November 20, 2019 at 11:10 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Demurrage & Detention charges: Know the difference

20Cube Logistics

For a common person, the words Demurrage and Detention charges are kind of similar, but in the shipping industry, logistics and supply chain one cannot use them interchangeably. They are widely different from each other. Demurrage charges : Relates to cargo while it is still in the container. Detention charges : Relates to equipment while the container is empty either before packing or after unpacking.

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Same Day Delivery Benefits for Small Business! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Same Day vs Next Day Delivery … What’s the Difference? (Infographic). Article and infographic, and permission to publish here, provided by Bryce Battle at siegemedia.com. Believe it or not, the world is shrinking. For clarification, the world is not physically shrinking, but instantaneous communication definitely makes the world seem like it can fit in the palm of your hand.

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Career Critical Moments

BlueYonder

Amy Drevna, group vice president, sales at JDA has in a roundabout way, been nearly a lifelong JDAer, working at i2 (acquired by JDA) and Manugistcs (also acquired by JDA). Respected across the JDA ecosystem, she shares what she believes are the characteristics of a powerful leader, why it’s so important to really care about your team, and how her pivot from presales to sales was a critical decision that changed her career path for the better.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Nov. 21, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Maersk Line Continues its Logistics Transformation, Game Changing Battery Breakthrough, China Getting Old Fast, Truckload Rates Down Again

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To Control Supply Chain Costs, You Need to Know What They Are

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Over the past 25 years, companies have been using the supply chain as a competitive tool. The most successful manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and logistics providers leverage superior supply chain management practices to distinguish and elevate their brands. Most of them have done so by investing billions of dollars into home-grown systems to implement these practices, as off-the-shelf software has typically failed to meet requirements.

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Managing Carrier Compliance With a TMS

GlobalTranz

Ensuring carrier compliance is a critical concern for shippers. Poor carrier compliance may lead to financial repercussions, blowback from consumers, delays in order fulfillment, out of stock warehouses, damaged freight and even perished freight. The legal ramifications of poor compliance are amplified on the international stage, and violations could render all freight spend cost savings.read More.

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Weeks on hand formula: what is it and what is it for?

TradeGecko

Weeks on hand refers to the average amount of time it takes a business to sell the inventory it has on hold. For businesses where there is high, recurring demand, this metric can also be measured in days.

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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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Gartner announces rankings of Its 2019 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Gartner, Inc. has released its 11th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking, which recognises companies across the healthcare value chain that advance healthcare by improving patient outcomes and controlling costs.

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What is lead time and why is it important to your small business?

TradeGecko

Lead time in inventory management refers to the lapse in time between when an order is placed to replenish inventory and when the order is received. Lead time affects the amount of stock a company needs to hold at any point in time.

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2019 Holiday Gift Guide for Everyone on Your List

ShipBob

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are right around the corner, which means it’s time to get a head start on your holiday shopping. This is the best time to snag some amazing online deals for holiday gifts before they sell out! At ShipBob, we’re passionate about supporting independent ecommerce businesses. To help you better prepare for BFCM holiday shopping, here are 30 gift ideas sold by some of today’s most unique online brands. .

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Weeks of inventory on-hand: what is it and how do you measure it?

TradeGecko

Weeks on hand refers to the average amount of time it takes a business to sell the inventory it has on hold. For businesses where there is high, recurring demand, this metric can also be measured in days.

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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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Why You Should Be Using Business Reports

Unleashed

Writing a report might not be at the top of your priority list at the moment, but business reports are a critical part of running a successful company. When you’re able to produce good business reports, you’ll be able to save time, money and see a tangible shift in the way your company runs and addresses the future. Business reports compile a snapshot of what is going on in a business at a certain point in time.

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Warehouse Processes: How to Run a World-Class Warehouse Operation

SCJunction

Optimising your warehouse processes helps you reduce your expenses, increase your revenue and working capital, and provide your customers with a seamless purchasing experience. Here’s how you can achieve a world class warehouse.

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Extended ISO Certification for Supply Chain Services

DynaSys

The implementation of quality management processes is in line with QAD’s goal to gather all the divisions around a common optimization of their processes and internal behaviors, in order to improve the overall customer service quality. At QAD DynaSys, the R&D, Professional Services and Support teams engaged, in 2016, in a “Quality Certification” process, compliant with the wish and policy initiated by the Group.

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Are robots finally getting a good reputation? Advanced report reveals workers’ growing appetite for disruptive technology

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A new report from Advanced, one of the UK’s largest software and services providers, has revealed workers’ increasing hunger for innovation to improve the way they work. Findings from its Annual Trends Survey for 2019-20 show that disruptive tools are fast earning their spot as must-have tools in the day-to-day workplace.

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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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The Difference Between Gross and Dimensional Weight

Promptus LLC

How to Calculate Costs In Air Freight Shipping Source What is Gross and Dimensional Weight? When it comes to shipping goods anywhere the weight and dimensions (among others) are important […]. The post The Difference Between Gross and Dimensional Weight appeared first on Promptus, LLC.

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Tis nearly the season to be jolly

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Matthew Robertson, Co-CEO, NetDespatch. As the kids return to school after half-term and with Halloween and Bonfire Night behind us, we are now well and truly on the countdown to Christmas and retailers are in the midst of gearing up for Peak Season.

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Spotlight Series: Clear Spider Company Culture

Clear Spider

Working at Clear Spider: Company Culture Company culture bridges the gap between employees working together and driven team members. It guides collaboration, increases productivity and performance and creates a high sense of morale throughout your company’s work environment. Here at Clear Spider, we are dedicated to fostering a hardworking team environment.

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Interview Groupe Chantelle: Ces entreprises qui se transforment en écosystèmes grâce aux API (English translation provided)

Axway

Cycle de partage d’expériences autour des enjeux stratégiques et business des écosystèmes et des API. En collaboration avec Alliancy.

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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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Career Critical Moments

BlueYonder

Amy Drevna, group vice president, sales at JDA has in a roundabout way, been nearly a lifelong JDAer, working at i2 (acquired by JDA) and Manugistcs (also acquired by JDA). Respected across the JDA ecosystem, she shares what she believes are the characteristics of a powerful leader, why it’s so important to really care about your team, and how her pivot from presales to sales was a critical decision that changed her career path for the better.

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Kofax enhances its Intelligent Automation platform with new AI capabilities

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Kofax, the supplier of Intelligent Automation software to digitally transform end-to-end business operations, has announced the latest evolution of its Intelligent Automation platform.

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Bristlecone Flash – November 2019

Bristlecone

SENSE.AI SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MONITORING APP – TRY IT FOR FREE. Powered by the Bristlecone NEO® platform, Sense.ai is an AI-fueled, cloud-based app that monitors, quantifies and proactively recommends a response to mitigate supply chain risks. And now it’s available on a free trial basis. See for yourself how Sense.ai can elevate your supply chain’s overall performance with end-to-end visibility of the supply chain ecosystem, proactive monitoring of external events that threaten the supply chain, a