Mon.Nov 19, 2018

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Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management

GlobalTranz

Imagine you’re an executive of a large international business who has just discovered an excellent opportunity of entering a new exciting market just in time when your product design team has developed a perfect product for that market. Naturally, to take advantage of this opportunity, you will need a well-functioning supply chain, which you happen to have.

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Advanced Visibility in Emergency Response Situations

Talking Logistics

We all know the important role that supply chain and logistics people, processes, and technologies play in everyday commerce. Those capabilities and expertise also play a critical role in responding effectively to emergency situations such as natural disasters. What unique challenges arise from these incidents? How can the supply chain and logistics industry help?

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Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. From planning to negotiating to buying, from moving goods to processing goods, and from managing data to managing inventory. These responsibilities are at the core of making your company run.

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The ‘Rights’ and ‘Mores’ of Supply Chain Execution

Talking Logistics

Gary Barraco, Director of Global Product Marketing at Amber Road , discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What are the six “rights” of supply chain execution? What are the “mores” that are redefining the rules for success? In light of these new rules for success defined by these “rights” and “mores,” how should companies respond?

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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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Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks

E2open

Multienterprise networks and the ability to connect to external partner ecosystems have been recognized as a critical capability for digital transformation. Gartner examined the multienterprise network landscape and evaluated each vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. In addition to be ranked highest overall for combined completeness of vision and ability to execute, E2open was placed furthest on the completeness of vision axis by a wide margin.

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E2open Buy-Sell Management

E2open

When manufacturing or construction is outsourced, materials procurement is often outsourced along with it. As a result, enterprises quickly lose visibility into essential planning and execution data. E2open’s Buy-Sell Management application helps companies regain visibility and control over materials procurement, lowering procurement spend and improving supply chain efficiency.

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MonarchFx Announces ToyHouse LLC as its Newest Seller Client

Supply Chain Network

RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) November 19, 2018. MonarchFx, a nationwide alliance of best-in-class providers focused on delivering integration, cost efficiency, and high service fulfillment solutions for brands and retailers through distributed logistics, announces our newest client, ToyHouse LLC. ToyHouse LLC is the exclusive distributor for LEGO Systems, Inc. in the United States and is excited to partner with small independent and specialty retailers on behalf of LEGO to provide the best customer ser

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E2open Demand Sensing

E2open

Next-generation forecasting with E2open’s Demand Sensing application creates the most accurate picture of near-term demand. The application uses automation and machine-learning technology to analyze real-time supply chain data that includes orders, point-of-sale data, social media sentiment and more. Demand sensing algorithms determine the predictive influence of each signal and produce an accurate daily forecast for every item at every location.

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Anatomy of the Perfect Unboxing Experience! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jake Rheude at [link]. Check out E-Commerce Delivery: Stop Shipping Air and Empty Boxes! As the marketplace for physical products continues to transition online, the customer experiences far less interaction with the actual company. These lost opportunities for a business to impress through exemplary service will need to be compensated for in other ways.

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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 Exactly Is Omnichannel 2.0 and How Is It Different?

Veridian Solutions

Omnichannel is a term frequently used in today’s modern supply chain management. Omnichannel capability is associated with getting product to the customer in any possible fashion, that is convenient for the customer. The emergence of e-commerce mainly drives this, and in the process, is turning traditional supply chain models on their heads. While omnichannel refers to the integration and seamless experience across channels for supply chain partners, omnichannel 2.0 takes it a bit further

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10 Industries That Can Benefit From Cloud Software

Unleashed

You may have come across the cloud as a common buzzword that is the must-have solution for business needs, from communication to data storage to application development. However, the cloud is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution. Best solutions for using cloud software now account for the nuances of specific industries. There are legitimate reasons behind the fact that many industries have been slow to adopt cloud software.

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Improving Forecast Accuracy through Demand Sensing

Supply Chain 24/7

This research brief assesses the feasibility and potential value of implementing Demand Sensing in the supply chain of a major consumer medical device company - Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.

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Supply Chain Predictions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Kuebix at [link]. Check out Procurement Experiences, Trends and the Future! In the book, The Living Supply Chain , the authors argue that, “Speeding up the supply chain is at the root of everything that is good: improved revenue, reduced working capital, higher profitability, and less obsolete inventory.

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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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MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics: Improving Forecast Accuracy through Demand Sensing

Supply Chain 24/7

Students in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Master of Supply Chain Management program spent a year mapping a manufacturer’s forecasting process to help determine if Demand Sensing was a worthwhile ambition to pursue.

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To Centralize or to Decentralize? That is the Organization Design Question!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Outsourcing Sourcing! 5 Lessons from Around the Globe! It seems that every time there is a Management change in an organization there is movement to change the existing organization structure. In some cases your Function or company is decentralized and new management wants to centralize everything. In the opposite case they want to centralize everything.

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5 Things You Need To Know Before Getting In Bed With A Furniture Carrier

Freight Plus

(. Listen to this article. ). Unlike general commodity shipments, furniture requires specialized carriers that not only have trucks equipped to handle your loads but also staff trained to safely move them. Since furniture requires specific equipment, care when packing and handling, and some rather unique routing, it is imperative that you understand your costs before selecting a new furniture carrier.

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10 Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) Overview! What You Need to Know! (Video). Everywhere you turn there is talk of a lot of very exciting technologies. The Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR), Drones and Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Analytics are front and centre.

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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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Thanksgiving Supply Chain News: Online Grocery Surge, Tracking Turkey, and Cranberry Tariffs

Lucas

In recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday this Thursday in the U.S., we have collected a few distribution and supply chain news items with a tie in to the holiday. We lead off with a report on online grocery shopping trends and new fulfillment technology investments, a Turkey traceability initiative using blockchain, and the impact of tariffs on cranberry and turkey prices.

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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is Becoming Younger, More Educated, More Diverse!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Attracting Millennials Gets Your Digital Supply Chain in Order! Everyone knows that the demographics of the Supply Chain industry are changing. They have to. Within a few years, demographers estimate that 400,000 baby boomers will be retiring in Canada every year.

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Global Supply Chain News on China is Taking Industrial Espionage to Never Seen before Levels

Supply Chain Digest

Chinese Manufacturer Cannot Make Chips, So It Simply Steal Billions Worth of IP from Micron Technology

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7 Pitfalls of Amazon FBA (Fulfillment By Amazon)!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Article provided by Jake Rheude at [link]. Check out 5 E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Choices! Fulfillment by Amazon or Amazon FBA lets sellers in the Amazon marketplace take advantage of Amazon’s giant logistics operation to ship their orders. FBA items are eligible for Amazon Prime shipping and Amazon handles your angry customers (which Amazon considers its customers, not yours).

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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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Non-digital Enterprises on the Edge of Tomorrow

Enterra Insights

A few years ago, Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt starred in a science fiction film entitled “Edge of Tomorrow.” The marketing tagline for the movie was “Live. Die. Repeat.” In the film Cruise and Blunt are trying to defeat alien invaders and find themselves in a time loop that allows them to gradually improve their fighting skills and slowly progress towards their objective.

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The Current State of the Shipping Capacity Crunch!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Adam Robinson on [link]. The shipping capacity crunch is not a new topic, but the end of 2017 is shaping up to reveal an unprecedented crunch, reports Chris Brady of Logistics Viewpoints. An active hurricane season, the forthcoming implementation deadline for electronic logging devices (ELD) and record-shattering projections for the upcoming holiday shipping season reflect some of the top factors affecting the current state shipp

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Minnesota turkeys are stuffing outbound trucks

DAT Solutions

When you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner in the Midwestern U.S., remember to be thankful for Minnesota. The Land of a Thousand Lakes is also the number-one state for turkey production, by a wide margin. So it's no big surprise that the Minneapolis market area was also the land of a thousand loads (per day) in the first half of November, as fresh turkeys got stuffed into temp-controlled trailers during the run-up to Thanksgiving.

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Unboxing: a massive opportunity to increase customer engagement

TradeGecko

If you go to YouTube and type in ‘unboxing’ your search results will be flooded with videos of people opening everything from cosmetics to Kinder Surprise eggs, all accompanied by their running commentary. Related searches include ‘mass unboxings’ and even ‘retro unboxings’ which are as bizarre as they are fascinating.

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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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E2open Allocation and Order Promising

E2open

Automating order promising strategies with E2open’s Allocation and Order Promising application eliminates manual reallocations and provides greater stability of promise, leading to a reputation for reliability. Based on a fresh, validated view of available materials and current capacity from the network, promises are driven by commitments made to customer forecasts, allocations to strategic markets and customers, and previously made promises to customers.

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Rev Up Your B2B Sales With These New Features

Unleashed

Manufacturers, wholesalers and other business-to-business companies are embracing eCommerce platforms, with early adopters reducing order processing times and eliminating manual errors. We’ve been improving our B2B eCommerce platform functionality. Here’s a look at what features you can use to supercharge your B2B sales. Allow multiple admins. We’ve improved the admin access capabilities on our B2B eCommerce platform.

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E2open Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

E2open

Optimal staging of inventory results in more orders met on time and in full with less stock. E2open’s Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization application provides accurate modeling of current conditions, optimal inventory targets, fast run-times and rapid analyses, enabling organizations to reduce inventory while protecting or increasing service levels and customer satisfaction.