Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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What Social Distancing Means for Retailers

Vanguard Software

As the disruption caused by the Coronavirus progress, industry observers and analysts expect more shoppers to spend less time in stores and more time buying items online, even after this time of crisis.

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8 Tips for Supply Chain Leaders on Working Remotely

River Logic

Following patterns seen in Europe and the East, it seems to be only a matter of time before major centers in the U.S. will need to consider similar restrictions.

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How Robust are your Global Manufacturing and Sourcing Strategies?

Dragon Innovation

Global manufacturing choices are almost endless, but with innovation and progress what works today may not work in the future.

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Supply Chain Disruptions: How Stronger Collaboration Will Have a Big Impact on the Future of Warehouse Management

GlobalTranz

From Walmart to Amazon, the positive role of collaboration in warehouse management is undisputed, and collaboration is on track to revolutionize tomorrow’s warehouse management standards. In fact, both Amazon and Walmart leveraged warehouse management and supply chain management strategies to grow two of the world’s largest retailers. Meanwhile, the demand for more products, more space.read More.

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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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Recognizing Culture at the 2020 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards

Demand Solutions

It's common knowledge that your employees are your greatest asset. If that's true, that means corporate culture is critically important to your bottom line. So then, how are you shaping your company's culture to empower your employees? When trying to answer this question, many people think of company perks like benefits programs, flexible schedules, office lunch parties and open-door policies.

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Pyle People Deliver with John Tillison of A. Duie Pyle

Freight Plus

John Tillison, VP of Sales and Marketing at A. Duie Pyle to join the show to discuss the current state of the industry and where trucking and logistics are headed. John will discuss the emerging trends and technologies that he believes will have the most disruption in logistics going forward and how Pyle’s business philosophy and culture enable them to address and thrive at the moment.

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Why ISO Standards for Warehouse Work Should Be Reevaluated

Supply Chain Brain

Lower back pain is the second most common reason for a doctor visit, and costs the supply-chain industry around $100 billion per year. One of the leading culprits is the pushing and pulling that occurs in distribution facilities throughout the world.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. In the process, it has highlighted an aspect of manufacturing ERP that is not as visible in more normal times— business continuity. It’s not that an ERP system’s ability to mitigate abrupt business changes hasn’t been noted in the past.

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Pyle People Deliver with John Tillison of A. Duie Pyle

Freight Plus

John Tillison, Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing at A. Duie Pyle to join the show to discuss the current state of the industry and where trucking and logistics are headed. John will discuss the emerging trends and technologies that he believes will have the most disruption in logistics going forward and how Pyle’s business philosophy and culture enable them to address and thrive at the moment.

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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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Crisp’s DemandWatch Surfaces Real-time, Interactive European Grocery Data for U.S. Inventory Planning

crisp

Global events like COVID-19 heighten the interconnectivity of our food supply chain and we are collaborating with our clients to navigate through this crisis. To that end, Crisp has made live exclusive European supermarket point-of-sale data available to help our clients understand the impact of COVID-19 and the demand, inventory & replenishment effects predicted to be felt 2-4 weeks later in the US Market.

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COVID-19: Coping with unpredictability in supply chain

Proxima

Building Predictive Success in an Unpredictable World: A Modified Playbook for Supply Chain Stardom. We can all look around and see an unpredictable world. Six months ago, our minds were forward-facing, we were building our budgets, closing out the third quarter, and looking forward to the holiday season with friends and family. Three months ago, when we first watched COVID-19 develop half a world away from us, we weren’t preparing for the wave of uncertainty a virus may bring to our businesses.

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Coronavirus & Retailers: How to build resilience?

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

COVID-19 is changing the way we think about almost everything: the way we live, the way we work, our plans for the future and our evaluations of the past. We hope these times of crisis will be over soon. We thought we should try and do our part to help people overcome the challenges that came along with this global crisis. Below we discuss these challenges in detail.

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Gravity A Supply Chain Force To Be Reckoned With

Gravity Supply Chain

Scientifically, Gravity defines how we interact with our world, as a solution, the power of Gravity helps prevent businesses’ supply chains from failing.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

Across the country stay-at-home orders have been extended for another month as we grapple with the ongoing reality of COVID-19. This means that schools, libraries, daycare centers, and other non-essential businesses are closed for the foreseeable future. As a father of young children, this certainly poses a unique set of challenges as my wife and I balance work and home life in the confined space that is our home.

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Coronavirus Is a Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Management

Resilinc

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 27, 2020)

Talking Logistics

Speedy the hamster is gone. Not gone as in dead, but gone as in escaped. Speedy is my daughter’s pet. He was living with her in college and she brought him home for spring break. He was keeping me up one night running on his wheel, so I moved his cage into the living room. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 27, 2020). The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 27, 2020) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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'Once-in-a-century disruption' reverberates across global supply chains

Resilinc

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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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One Way to Dramatically Improve Delivery Productivity During the COVID-19 Crisis

Descartes

An event like COVID-19 (coronavirus) changes everything. One big change is the number of vehicles on the road. There has been a significant reduction in traffic and, as a result, actual road speeds have increased. If your company uses a route planning system and you haven’t increased road speeds, then you’re potentially missing out on a significant increase in delivery productivity.

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Sharing Offers Of Conditional Complimentary Supply Chain Management Technology – Update Three

Resilinc

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Forrester: Effective Procurement Performance Measurement

ivalua

The post Forrester: Effective Procurement Performance Measurement appeared first on Ivalua.

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COVID-19 Advice for Ecommerce Brands, From Leading DTC Brands [Updated Weekly]

ShipBob

As long as the COVID-19 pandemic is in effect, ShipBob is hosting a weekly “Moving Your Business Forward” webinar series. Each week we feature two leading bands, and discuss how they are adjusting to the novel coronavirus and answer questions from the audience. If you miss any episodes, we will recap them here and provide the recording to watch. Episode 1.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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How Blockchain Technology Will Improve Mobile Healthcare

Supply Chain Brain

The key concerns of healthcare management today are data processing and security. Both can be addressed with the use of blockchain technology.

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What apps are in our stack?

Unleashed

Lisa Miles-Heal, our COO, shares her views on the apps we use to stay connected. It’s been quite a few days – hasn’t it? We’re coping fine here at Unleashed, and as you might expect we’re using a lot of cloud apps to make that happen. You may well be thinking about some new apps yourself. I’d recommend it. Now is a great time to try out software that will help you work smarter both now and in the long run.

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Senior Software Engineer

ivalua

The post Senior Software Engineer appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 03/20/20 – 03/26/20

All Things Supply Chain

Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business The coronavirus pandemic has left many passenger planes grounded due to a of lack people wanting to travel accompanied by government…

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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New technology transforming the mortgage lending experience

TrackVia

Applying for a mortgage is a grueling experience. Even though the industry is investing in better technology to improve the process, many borrowers still relate the experience to a financial colonoscopy. Financial institutions feel the growing demand for better user experiences as new borrowers prove they’re willing to go anywhere to get it—even if it means making one of the biggest purchases of their life through an unknown fintech company.

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Feel Good Friday: 3 Ways We Have Come Together

Freight Center

Tired of all the depressing and seemingly unending stream of sad news? We are, too, so we searched the web to find some good news to share with you. Even during unprecedented times such as this COVID-19 situation, it’s important to look for the helpers in society. As a nation, we have come together (while practicing social distancing, of course) to lend a helping hand to each other.

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Introducing the Supply Management Manifesto

LevaData

Right now, global manufacturers are purely (and understandably) in reaction mode to a pandemic that’s swept the world with unprecedented speed. Addressing emergency supply shortages and figuring out how to manage an entirely remote team are appropriate responses to this fluid situation. It’s also time to recognize that the coronavirus is not a stand-alone event, but the continuation of a trend towards volatility, complexity and uncertainty.