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This Week in Logistics News (February 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

What do you when you have no school due to snow? You build a 10 ft. 6 in. giant snowman. At least that’s what my kids did this past Monday, with the help of a couple of neighborhood friends. All this week, people have been taking pictures with Billy Bob Joe III, including firemen who snapped photos with their phones as they drove by in their big red engine.

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The Evolution of the Grocery Store

Enterra Insights

We’ve all seen western movies that include a scene in which a calico-clad frontier woman tells the owner of the … Continued. The post The Evolution of the Grocery Store appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Brno Round Table – Supporting Our Local Economies on a Global Scale

ModusLink Corporation

For over ten years, ModusLink’s Solution Center in Brno, Czech Republic has been providing customers with a wide range of critical supply chain capabilities in the consumer packaged goods, medical device and technology industries – even providing the facility with some major upgrades and reservations as it reached its ten year anniversary in April 2015. […].

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Supply Chain Talk: Are Best Practices Always Best?

Arkieva

Are best SCM practices really all that they are hyped to be? What can organizations do to truly improve supply chain process? If you Google Supply Chain Best Practice you end up with more than a million results. Trying to define supply chain best practices is like trying to select the best car. It is not so much how good the car is, but how well the car works for you.

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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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Update on Forecasting vs. Demand Planning

Supply Chain Action Blog

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . The fact that one concept is a subset of the other obscures the resulting confusion. . Forecasting is the process of mathematically predicting a future event. As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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Forecasting vs. Demand Planning

Supply Chain Action Blog

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . The fact that one concept is a subset of the other obscures the distinction. . Forecasting is the process of mathematically predicting a future event. As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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Industrial Computing | 5 Things Computers Hate About Your Manufacturing Floor

GlobalTranz

It’s estimated that manufacturing facilities worldwid e use at least one computer as part of their operation. However, manufacturers tend to have a love-hate relationship with computer systems. Your manufacturing floor might have some gripes with computers, but here are 5 thing s computers hate about your manufacturing floor … . Despite their obvious value to your manufacturing floor, computers alone don’t do well in a manufacturing setting – ‘alone’ meaning ‘without any form of protection to e

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Logistics PR Opportunities: Avoid “Pay for Play” Ploys

Logistics Marketing Advisors

The email may start out something like this: “XYZ Logistics has been identified as an innovative logistics provider that we would like to feature in an upcoming issue of INDUSTRY WORLD (I made up this name) – a magazine aimed at CEOs and senior operations executives…”. The email is typically sent to the CEO of.

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Are We Giving Them Pizza?

Tailwind

It was an audacious move no doubt. He saw the passengers stranded in the lounge. Their flight had been cancelled. It was late in the evening and they were frustrated. He could also see that they were now hungry and probably would be waiting most of the night for another flight out. So he decided that he would take it upon himself to address the situation.

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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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When it Comes to Direct-to-Consumer Shipping, Warehouse Size Matters

BlueYonder

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Big warehouses get even bigger thanks to direct-to-consumer shipping trends, and Trader Joe’s gets some new competition. Also, Fast Company names Amazon and Home Depot as two of the Most Innovative Companies of 2017. Ship-to-consumer means bigger warehouses.