Fri.Aug 03, 2018

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Supply Chain in the C-Suite

APICS

Earlier this year, Fortune reported that the number of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies dropped from 32 — an all-time high — in 2017 to 24 in 2018. That’s a 25 percent decrease over the course of only one year. However, something important happened this week.

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“See Famous Guitars and Meet TMS Stars” at CSCMP EDGE Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Event Center in Nashville

Supply Chain Collaborator

UltraShipTMS Hosts the CSCMP EDGE Conference Sponsors’ Lounge with Private Viewing of Rare & Vintage Guitars from the Gallery of Iconic Guitars. Fair Lawn, NJ – August 6, 2018 – UltraShipTMS is underwriting the EDGE Sponsor’s Lounge at the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals’ annual event and using the space to host a “ See Famous Guitars and Meet the TMS Stars ” promotion.

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Packaging and the Road to a Circular Economy

EcoVadis

Nearly everything we touch has packaging. Think about all the variables in packaging – types of plastic or metal, variations in shapes, inks added for marketing and regulatory labeling, the list goes on. This sheer volume of packaging means the industry has a significant potential to impact the sustainability of supply chains, and makes it a crucial element to achieving a circular economy.

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International TMS - 7 Steps Getting to Great

3rdwave

The supply chain has become the lens through which leading organizations now view their world.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Aug. 3, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Uber Calls it Quits on Self Driving Trucks,Levis Turning Its Blue Jeans Supply Chain Green, Expanding the Driver Pool, Economic Good Times Roll On

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Supply Chain News on Walmart and Amazon by the Numbers 2018 Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

More Analysis from Our Annual Review of the Worlds Two Most Important Retailers

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The Enterprise Journey to Blockchain (Part 4)

The Network Effect

In Enterprise Journey to Blockchain Part 1 I discussed the threat of disruption that blockchain poses to many companies today. The post The Enterprise Journey to Blockchain (Part 4) appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Innovation: The Value of being Cheap in the Information Age

Enterra Insights

Ernest (Lord) Rutherford, who some people call the father of nuclear physics, once famously said, “We have no money, therefore we must think.” Money is just one resource that can constrain innovation efforts and force people to think more creatively. Even if an organization is blessed with resources, some pundits believe innovation teams ought to be given constraints under which to work in order to ensure they think more creatively.

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Come See Famous Guitars and Meet the TMS Stars at CSCMP in Nashville

Supply Chain Collaborator

Coming to the CSCMP Edge Event in Nashville in the Fall? Take advantage of the opportunity to meet with leaders from UltraShipTMS in the Sponsor’s Lounge. Click the image below to reserve your space today! The post Come See Famous Guitars and Meet the TMS Stars at CSCMP in Nashville appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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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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What are the causes of project delays?

Insights Solutions Global

Project delay is like the fire: it requires you immediate action, and it could ruin your whole project if handled badly. To better tackle it, you should know it well.

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SalesWarp OnBoards Caroline’s Cakes

Saleswarp

SalesWarp has recently had the pleasure of taking on a new client: Caroline’s Cakes , based in Spartanburg, SC. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? If you haven’t, be sure to check them out online at Caroline’s Cakes Website. One thing that really has stood out throughout the implementation period, is Caroline’s Cakes devotion to their customers.

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What are the causes of project delays?

Insights Solutions Global

Project delay is like the fire: it requires you immediate action, and it could ruin your whole project if handled badly. To better tackle it, you should know it well. The post What are the causes of project delays? appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.

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Why is ‘right logistics tech’ the only way to compete in this high-demand ‘Amazon’ world

Loginext

Ever wondered how some of these big-name e-commerce companies across the globe manage international sales events? It is only possible with tech creating shorter delivery routes and more successful (on-time) deliveries per day. This tech is the crux of what makes same-day delivery, not just a phenomenon but a reality.

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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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Top 5 used injection moulding machines in July 2018

Exapro Hub

Injections moulding machines are among the most represented machines of this month of July in the Exapro catalog. Although some of you might be on holidays and have stopped their activity, sellers continue to add machines and buyers continue their search to be ready for September. This type of machine has always aroused interest from our visitors and readers from around the world, so we decided to select for you the top 5 used injection moulding machine for July 2018.

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Expect truckload market volatility to continue through the fall

DAT Solutions

To say that the first half of 2018 was "a period of both extreme volatility and unprecedented imbalance between capacity and demand for trucking services in North America" at first sounds like hyperbole. But if you ask anyone who lived through it, they'll probably tell you it's an understatement. That raises two basic questions: What created the environment of extreme volatility and unprecedented imbalance?

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Compliance Networks Corner on It Really is about Fully Managing the PO Lifecyle

Supply Chain Digest

Retailers Should Focus on the PO Lifecycle because that is Where the Money Is

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Reimagining the Digital Control Tower:  Modern, Resilient, Intuitive 

BlueYonder

It has been two decades since the logistics industry created the control tower, addressing the challenge of accounting for inventory in motion / at rest and providing greater visibility for 3PLs, distributors, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers. Today, digital control towers (DCTs) have benefitted from two decades of supply chain innovation. However, when it comes to better enabling companies to predict demand with greater accuracy, progress has been slow.

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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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Retail Vendor Performance Management News Round Up for July 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon Blow Out Q2 , Sort of. Walmart Share of US Retail Stays Steady.

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Reimagining the Digital Control Tower:  Modern, Resilient, Intuitive 

BlueYonder

It has been two decades since the logistics industry created the control tower, addressing the challenge of accounting for inventory in motion / at rest and providing greater visibility for 3PLs, distributors, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers. Today, digital control towers (DCTs) have benefitted from two decades of supply chain innovation. However, when it comes to better enabling companies to predict demand with greater accuracy, progress has been slow.

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Highlights from the 2018 Retail Deductions Study Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

Great insight for retailers and manufacturers

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What Freight Brokers Need to Know About the New National Carrier Hiring Standard

GlobalTranz

Freight professionals can expect a new national carrier hiring standard in the coming months. In April 2018, a relevant amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act successfully passed through the House of Representatives. It creates a statewide standard for hiring truckers that should help shippers and brokers in their work.

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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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Tariffs Just the Latest Reason to Implement a TMS Solution

Supply Chain Collaborator

As if you needed another reason to embrace the cost-saving, capacity-finding, efficiency-boosting, customer-pleasing benefits yielded by the use of a well-designed and deployed TMS platform – the Trump Trade War and associated tariffs add another unexpected cost to already-squeezed transportation budgets. Few industries are feeling the pinch of tariffs more than food production.

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China Plans Tariffs on $60 Billion of Imports to Counter US

Material Handling & Logistics

Duties ranging from 5% to 25% will be levied on 5,207 kinds of American imports if the U.S. delivers its proposed taxes on another $200 billion of Chinese goods. China announced a list of $60 billion worth of U.S. imports it plans to apply tariffs on should the Trump administration follow through with its latest trade threats. Duties ranging from 5% to 25 % will be levied on 5,207 kinds of American imports if the U.S. delivers its proposed taxes on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, the Mini

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