Wed.Aug 22, 2018

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Supply Chain, Supply Chain: What’s That All About?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

I started my career as an R&D type who helped bring new FMCG products to the market. Nobody really knew how a product made the transition from bench top and pilot plant testing to the supermarket shelves. Somebody must have been involved somewhere but this was hardly a cohesive team with job descriptions let alone aligned roles and responsibilities.

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Solutions for Managing Transportation Spend

Talking Logistics

Successfully managing their transportation spend is a key challenge for transportation executives across all industries today. It’s easy to get bogged down in day-to-day operations, like making sure you get the capacity you need, at the right cost, to meet your immediate delivery commitments. Leading companies, however, take a broader perspective to set themselves up for success over the long term.

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Big Data Analytics Continue to Improve

Enterra Insights

Big data is not a new topic, but it remains a fresh topic of discussion because the amount of data being generated each day continues to grow. Without advanced analytics, finding actionable insights and gaining new knowledge from that data would be difficult and slow — too slow for today’s speed of business. Over the years, however, big data analytics has earned a reputation of under-delivering on promises.

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21st Century Sales Skills for Transportation and Logistics Professionals

The Logistics of Logistics

Download the audio file. Podcast Summary: In this podcast, Joe Lynch welcomes Ann Holm to the show. Joe and Ann discuss their upcoming sales improvement program. The program, 21st Century Sales Skills for Transportation Logistics Professionals begins Wednesday, September 19th, 1:00 p.m. EST and last 10 weeks. The sales improvement program was designed specifically for transportation and logistics professionals and their hectic, unpredictable schedules.

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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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Solving the Supply Chain Planning Puzzle

Logility

The variety of products available through a growing number of distribution channels is truly amazing. Competition between brick and mortar and e-commerce retail channels, often within the same company, has led to a proliferation of products and services. In fact, on a recent trip to a Nike store I explored the NIKEiD program they launched a few years ago that allows customers to customize their footwear.

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Five Supply Chain Best Practices for Life Sciences Companies

E2open

Supply chain management is playing an increasingly important role for the pharmaceutical industry – an industry that is facing new cost, performance, and quality issues. In this webinar, Patrick Lemoine, VP of Product Marketing at E2open, addresses five best practices you should start looking into if you haven’t already to tackle these challenges.

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A fifth of UK businesses have found wage abuses in their supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Research from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) has revealed that 21% of UK supply chain managers have seen wage violations in their supply chains over the last two years.

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Video | Five Supply Chain Best Practices for Life Sciences Companies

E2open

Supply chain management is playing an increasingly important role for the pharmaceutical industry – an industry that is facing new cost, performance, and quality issues. In this webinar, Patrick Lemoine, VP of Product Marketing at E2open, addresses five best practices you should start looking into if you haven’t already to tackle these challenges.

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Brexit concerns loom large, despite businesses doing all they can to prepare

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Fears over Brexit appear to be increasing businesses' perception of the risks in their supply chain, despite evidence suggesting many have taken steps to ready themselves for a post-Brexit environment, a new report has found.

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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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Seagate and E2open’s Partnership

E2open

Joe DiIorio, Director, Supply Chain at Seagate Technology talks about the partnership Seagate and E2open have and how E2open’s solutions have automated processes at the company. The post Seagate and E2open’s Partnership appeared first on E2open® | Demand. Supply. Delivered.

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Is Professional Courtesy a Thing of the Past?

BlueYonder

We live in a hyper-connected world and the pace in the corporate environment is lightning fast. The desire to make every deadline, attend every meeting, join each conference call may result in our being over-stretched and less productive. Although we may have access to all types of communications devices, we aren’t always using them effectively. I grew up with parents who taught me to respect everyone around me.

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Supply Chain Simulation Game Toronto Canada | October 16, 2018 | 2:00PM – 6:30 PM

Bristlecone

Get ready to play Bristlecone’s very own Supply Chain Simulation Game. Here, we re-visit supply chain planning concepts and showcase SAP IBP, SAP’s latest flagship supply chain planning product, in a unique exercise that is both fun and educational. Modelled on the famous Beer Distribution Game concept, this unique exercise will put you in roles where you will have to make real time decisions to ensure your end-to-end supply chain is coordinated & optimized. 2:00 – 5:00 PM – Game

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Conquer the Supply Chain Talent Shortage with Better Job Descriptions

APICS

Two years ago, I was tasked with rewriting more than 150 supply chain job descriptions that had been sitting in four dusty binders in a back office. Here's what I learned.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Aug. 23, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Strange XPO Logistics Dispute in the UK, Brick and Mortar Retail Sales Soaring, the High Price of Chinese Belt and Road on Countries, Long Delays for New Heavy Duty Trucks Orders

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My Boogie Woogie Trucking Shoes!

Tailwind

I was heading to baseball practice on Friday with my youngest – a newly-minted teenager – when the Eagles song ‘Witchy Woman’ came on the radio. The Eagles were in town that day, and the concert was happening that night. My mother in law, his grandmother, was attending the concert. We all pitched in to give it to her for her birthday: it was on her bucket list.

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Getting started with an omnichannel strategy

TradeGecko

In an age where customers’ expectations are high, omnichannel selling is less a choice than a necessity for commerce businesses. Thankfully, taking an omnichannel approach offers a multitude of benefits and we have developed this checklist to help get you started.

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Peak? Which peak?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Craig Summers, UK managing director, Manhattan Associates. Whilst we are enjoying an uncharacteristic English summer, Christmas may seem a million miles away. But, as is customary in the retail world, brands far and wide will be setting up their plans to survive the busiest time of the retail calendar.

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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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Cloud ERP vs On-Premise ERP - The Continuing Debate

Rootstock

A CIO of a manufacturing firm has a mandate to replace the company’s legacy on-premise ERP system to cut rising costs without sacrificing functionality. An executive at another manufacturer looks at cloud-based ERP solutions to see how they might drive his company’s digital future. The CIO at a third company wonders if he can somehow implement a cloud solution without giving up his company’s investment in their on-premise ERP system.

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4 Things to Do With Your eCommerce Business to Prep for the Holidays

3PL Insights

The winter holidays can be a chaotic time in the world of logistics. There is a great deal of planning that must happen before the holiday season hits, and it starts earlier than one would think. From the summer months to the winter, one must add seasonal products to the lineup, build an inventory pipeline, prepare for restrictions and delays in the transportation arena, and plan for a spike in returns.

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Blockchain & Transportation Management: How Will the Ledger Technology Impact Shippers?

GlobalTranz

The promise of an incorruptible ledger for use in transportation management will reduce inefficiencies and create opportunities in supply chains. With the potential blockchain growing with the interest of software giants, more supply chains are turning to blockchain & transportation management with open arms. Shippers Still Have Problems With Costs and Delays in Transportation Management The Internet of Things (IoT), well known for its benefits in automating decision making, merges with bloc

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Ecommerce Shipping Software That Protects Profit Margins and Processes Omnichannel Orders Fast

Supply Chain 24/7

Omnichannel fulfillment enables retailers to serve their customers from any fulfillment location; warehouse, supplier, and store locations, and integrating order management, inventory management and shipping solutions are crucial to the success of your omnichannel program.

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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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Is Professional Courtesy a Thing of the Past?

BlueYonder

We live in a hyper-connected world and the pace in the corporate environment is lightning fast. The desire to make every deadline, attend every meeting, join each conference call may result in our being over-stretched and less productive. Although we may have access to all types of communications devices, we aren’t always using them effectively. I grew up with parents who taught me to respect everyone around me.

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Changing the Laws of Logistics

GTG Technology Group

The DRIVE-Safe Act: What You Need to Know. In March 2018 lawmakers proposed HR5358 , known as the DRIVE-Safe Act, to Congress. Should it pass into law, this act would result in monumental changes to the trucking industry. Specifically, it proposes a solution to the massive truck driver shortage that’s currently impacting the nation’s economy. Under the DRIVE-Safe Act, individuals 18 to 21 years old with commercial driver’s licenses could make interstate deliveries.

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Fueling Sales & Operations Planning with Technology

E2open

Over the past decade, advanced technology has become commercially available to dramatically improve the S&OP process and provide a single view of rationalized, harmonized planning data to power monthly cross-functional and multi-enterprise business reviews. In this webinar, Lisa Aleman, Senior Supply Chain Strategist at E2open, shares why enabling technology is necessary to support a company’s S&OP journey, benefits of supporting the components of S&OP with advanced technology,

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Supply chain and logistics providers prepare for Hard Brexit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

One in six (17 per cent) of UK manufacturers have identified supply chain disruption as being the single biggest factor that will impact their business post Brexit.

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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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Video | Fueling Sales & Operations Planning with Technology

E2open

Over the past decade, advanced technology has become commercially available to dramatically improve the S&OP process and provide a single view of rationalized, harmonized planning data to power monthly cross-functional and multi-enterprise business reviews. In this webinar, Lisa Aleman, Senior Supply Chain Strategist at E2open, shares why enabling technology is necessary to support a company’s S&OP journey, benefits of supporting the components of S&OP with advanced technology,

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What's Really Going On With USPS and Amazon?

Elementum

The Truth about the USPS-Amazon Relationship. The partnership between Amazon and the United States Postal Services (USPS) has been in the spotlight since March of this year, after Donald Trump took to Twitter to express his concern that the private company is eating into the federal agency’s revenue. The controversy reached its zenith when Trump issued an executive order requesting an audit of USPS’ finances.

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What's the Deal With USPS and Amazon?

Elementum

The Truth about the USPS-Amazon Relationship. The partnership between Amazon and the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been in the spotlight since March of this year, after Donald Trump took to Twitter to express his concern that the private company is eating into the federal agency’s revenue. The controversy reached its zenith when Trump issued an executive order requesting an audit of USPS’ finances.