Tue.Aug 18, 2020

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How to Evaluate & Buy Supply Chain Visibility Software

Turvo

In the modern supply chain, selecting the right supply chain technology and software can make or break company goals. Unfortunately, choosing the right supply chain visibility software is even more complicated. Every company promises access to more information, the latest market data, and a better way to manage the supply chain. The reality is simple.

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Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro! Lessons for Life and Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. I spent a year working in Colorado. In Colorado you can’t help but be drawn to the beauty of the mountains. Eventually I started climbing those peaks (called the Fourteeners, as they are over 14,000 feet high) in my spare time. I hadn’t even thought about Mount Kilimanjaro at that point.

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Shipping During Hurricane Season

Freight Center

2020 will undoubtedly go down in the history books – and it’s not over yet. We are rolling right on into hurricane season, and the 2020 hurricane season is predicted to be very active. It’s a different kind of disruption because we can see when a hurricane is coming as opposed to a pandemic that no one could have predicted. As we know, when it comes to keeping your small business shipping smoothly, it’s important to have a plan, including a disaster recovery plan.

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Top 5 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Planning System

Arkieva

Industry analysts, big-time consultants, and your peers are all talking about technology, digital transformation, and the future of the supply chain. It can seem like a lot of noise given the day-to-day pressure you feel while working to ensure that inventory is on hand and positioned where it is supposed to be. With all you have on your plate, are you aware of the signs that it is time for a change?

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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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Health Supply Chains & Education with Deborah Dull + Gates Foundation Insights

Logistics Bureau

We have another exciting episode to watch and learn! We got Deborah Dull to share about Health Supply Chains and Supply Chain Education. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307.

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Higher Education opportunities after COVID-19

Prophetic Technology

Many governments, industries, as well as educational institutions, are hardly affected by the global pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. As of March 30, over 166 countries have implemented nationwide closures, impacting over 87% of the world student population (1.52 students) nearly 60.2 million teachers not able to teach in the classroom, according to UNESCO monitoring on Education.

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White Paper: SAP Production Engineering and Operations (PEO)

Bristlecone

To remain competitive in today’s global economy and keep pace with market demand, industries like engineered products, complex assembly manufacturing, and aerospace and defense must continue to innovate and introduce new products. Oftentimes, these new products are highly engineered and high value, and they require long lead times for procurement of materials.

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COVID-19, an excellent opportunity to reduce modern slavery

Prophetic Technology

How could we transform the risk of modern slavery practices across supply chains (SCs) during the pandemic into an opportunity to eliminate them?

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What You Need to Know About Supply Chain Theft

American Global Logistics

Supply chain theft is real. It’s costly. And it’s rampant. It can bring your business to its knees. In today’s environment, supply chain theft is increasing. In the U.S. supply chain theft costs business and consumers $35 billion per year. That’s based on reported theft, according to Transportation and Logistics International. And that’s a conservative […].

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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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Manufacturing Operations Management Post COVID-19- What’s Next?

ThroughPut

Manufacturing Operations 4.0 technologies have emerged as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which can play a vital role in the manufacturers’ ability to remain agile. A recent survey by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) suggests that 80% of manufacturers today expect that the pandemic will have a financial impact on their business.

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The Fundamentals of Warehouse KPIs

3PL Insights

It’s important to measure the performance of your warehouse operations to find ways to improve efficiency. Tracking the right key performance indicators (KPIs) month-over-month highlight trends in your operations. We have put together a list of some of the most important metrics to track. Receiving Efficiency. Receiving efficiency measures the time from when stock is received at the warehouse to when it is stored and ready to be picked for orders.

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The importance of upgrading inventory management practices to deal with supply chain challenges in 2020 and beyond

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Ecommerce businesses have had a tough time of late; firstly, there was the threat of a hard Brexit, and more recently the overwhelming impact of the coronavirus has been felt by all. Unfortunately, the future looks set to remain uncertain as Brexit looms, Covid-19 continues to cause disruption and global geopolitical and environmental threats remain.

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Global Supply Chain New on Volumes for China to Europe Cargo Trains Continue to See Raid Growth

Supply Chain Digest

Rail Containers Up Sharp 68 Prcent in July, as Chinese Investment Showing Results

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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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Economic Recovery Should Stress Human/Machine Collaboration

Enterra Insights

Three of the top concerns during the novel coronavirus pandemic have been keeping people safe, minimizing the effects of high unemployment, and preparing for an economic recovery. Allen Bernard ( @allen_bernard1 ), a freelance business writer and journalist, reports Forrester analysts fear the latter two concerns might be in conflict. He writes, “As the world slowly comes to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic and begins to reopen for business, the adoption of automation and autonomous techno

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Literature Distribution: How to Ensure Compliant Pharmaceutical Marketing

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

We’re all familiar with the expression “rules are made to be broken” – and maybe there are times when it’s okay to at least bend the rules a little. But, when it comes to pharmaceutical marketing, your best move is to stay compliant. Pharma manufacturers and distributors are subject to a wide range of federal and state regulations governing how they advertise and promote their drugs.

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5 types of mobile robots that are changing the face of warehousing

6 River Systems

The adoption of robots in warehousing, once considered a pipe dream, has become mainstream. According to market intelligence firm Tractica , nearly a million warehousing and logistic robots will be shipped annually by the year 2022 — almost five times the volume in 2018. It is not a surprise as the efficiency and cost advantages of using robots in the warehouse have increased in recent years.

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A snapshot of the food industry in 2020: What the data says

Unleashed

How has the food industry managed the tumult of 2020? We pulled aggregated and anonymised performance data from Unleashed to get an early look at the types of business navigating the disruption successfully – and what they’ve done. Why use Unleashed to gain a food industry snapshot? Because Unleashed is used by many in the industry as their primary food manufacturing software platform, the data processed by the cloud SaaS product can be mined for valuable insights.

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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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Software, Not Hardware, Will Drive the Future of Automotive

QAD

As we continue to navigate the tumult of a global pandemic , we are still keeping an eye on the widespread, irreversible impact electrification, autonomy, and connectedness will have on the automotive industry. In line with continuous automotive innovation, it’s becoming increasingly clear that such a change is no longer happening in hardware. If they aren’t already, suppliers and other companies in the automotive space must be forming strategies around this reality – that software is going to b

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Ways of Working in an “Open Everything” World

Axway

Is your organization still trying to open up digital capabilities with a closed organization mentality and culture? If so, I feel your frustration!

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Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore

Supply Chain Brain

As the coronavirus ravages economies and cripples demand, European oil majors have made some uncomfortable admissions in recent months: oil and gas worth billions of dollars might never be pumped out of the ground.

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What Is The Speculated Future Of E Commerce?

DocShipper Sourcing

The imperative trend in e-commerce has already changed the lifestyle of people globally. As a matter of fact, e-commerce revolutionized the retailing industry: no matter speaking from the costumer’s side or the retailer’s side. The interconnection of the internet has achieved the success of tons of e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, etc.

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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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Virtual Change Control Boards Better Than Face to Face

Arena Solutions

Virtual Change Control Boards Better Than Face to Face. CONTACT SALES. SEE Arena IN ACTION. GET A DEMO. The post Virtual Change Control Boards Better Than Face to Face appeared first on Arena Solutions.

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What Is a Soft Auction & Why Might it Be Better for You?

EC Sourcing Group

If you’re using procurement software, you’re most likely running some RFP management software , or in more general terms, eRFx. The “x” allows you to use the technology to have the request be for something beyond a proposal—you can request a quotation, information, or tender, among other things. . Auctions are also considered part of eRFx software, and you may be wondering, how does a soft auction work and how it’s similar to a reverse auction.

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How to Promote from Within: Featuring Manuel Torres

3PL Insights

Manuel Torres joined Evans in 2012 during his senior year of high school. He began as a processor/loader for Evans’ Kumho Tire USA account. Manuel excelled in this role and was therefore given more responsibilities, including receiving and inputting inbound loads into our warehouse management system using RF equipment. In 2013, he was promoted to floor supervisor and oversaw the “tire dock” at our Fort Street warehouse.

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MercuryPartners Overview

MercuryGate

Download Brochure. The post MercuryPartners Overview appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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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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Amazon Makes It Harder for Sellers to Avoid Shipping Service

Supply Chain Brain

Amazon.com plans to make it harder for merchants to ship products themselves, meaning they’ll be more likely to pay the company to handle the task.

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94% of UK shoppers will walk from brands if they don’t agree with their response to COVID-19, Braze survey reveals

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Almost all (94%) UK shoppers warn they’d switch from a brand or company if they didn’t agree with their response to employees or customers during the pandemic, new research from customer engagement platform Braze reveals.

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Basware Enables Companies to Monitor Carbon Footprint of Invoices

Supply Chain Brain

Basware has introduced an invoice carbon footprint index to its Analytics solution. Customers can now view their carbon dioxide emissions per invoice and benchmark the index against peer companies.

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