Mon.Jul 06, 2020

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The Changing Landscape of Direct-to-Consumer Sales

Enterra Insights

The introduction of e-commerce inevitably meant consumers would use the digital path to purchase more regularly. In fact, every year the percentage of purchases made online increases. Manufacturers aren’t blind to this trend and some of them have developed direct-to-consumer (DTC/D2C) strategies. DTC strategies allow manufacturers to sell products directly to customers, bypassing third-party retailers, wholesalers, or any other middlemen.

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The Ongoing Convergence of 3PL and TMS Business Models

Talking Logistics

What is a third-party logistics provider (3PL)? What is a transportation management system (TMS)? For more than 20 years, I’ve been exploring those questions, and over the years, the answers have continued to evolve. As I wrote last year in “Putting Community In TMS: Enabling The Network Effect In Transportation Management,” and in a follow-up. Read more The Ongoing Convergence of 3PL and TMS Business Models.

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4 Examples of Successful Social Commerce + What You Can Learn from Top Brands

ShipBob

Shopping has always been a social event, and even now with ecommerce we’re seeing a new wave of it unfold thanks to advances in the technology that runs social media and behaviors from Gen Z shoppers and millennial shoppers alike. For consumers, sharing original content, tagging brands, using their hashtags, and even posting reviews on company pages has never been easier.

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History Repeats Itself Without Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

This is a story for the Eds, Franks, and Toms working together in supply chains across the globe. It is also a story for a young supply chain manager attempting to make a difference, but feeling stymied. Sharing My Experience. The year was 1982. I lived in Cincinnati and worked in R&D for P&G. My ex-husband decided that we were going to move to Delaware.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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Medtronic’s Digital Twin Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Medtronic MDT has been engaged in a digital transformation. This includes building out a digital twin of their end-to-end supply chain to make it easier for people to make better and faster supply chain decisions. The company has built a data lake to feed LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Analytics Platform, llama.ai, to create their supply chain digital twin.

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High velocity supply chains – From Socks to Masks, virtually overnight

Adexa

One of Adexa’s major clients in apparel industry used Adexa supply chain planning applications in order to change production from hosiery to protective mask manufacturing virtually overnight. The company has already delivered 60 million and the production of more than 300 million is ahead of schedule. It may look trivial, however when you have to design and operate a supply chain at this scale and plan on supplies and capacity availability, then it is not that simple!

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DiManEx joins the World Economic Forum Global Innovators Community

DiManEx

Geneva, Switzerland, July 6, 2020 – Today, DiManEx is proud to announce that it has joined the World Economic Forum Global Innovators Community, a group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation. DiManEx re-invents supply chains with flexible, on-demand manufacturing.

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Introducing the Sourcemap Human Rights Module

Sourcemap

Federal statute 19 U.S.C. 1307 prohibits the importation of merchandise mined, manufactured, or produced, wholly or in part, by forced labor, including convict labor, forced child labor, and indentured labor. As US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) steps up seizures of goods suspected of being produced through forced labor, and US government and NGO's call for investigations of cocoa importing companies, we are introducing a streamlined solution for managing supply chain due diligence so that

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What Are Omnichannel Reverse Logistics?

GlobalTranz

In the omnichannel world, keeping track of the various forms of logistics is complicated at best. Omnichannel implies a need for seamless shopping experience across online and physical interactions, and that functionality must transcend all devices, browsers, and other options for shopping. The complexity continues to grow, and as customers grow more accustomed to e-commerce.read More.

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End High Turnover: Discover Stability with Remote-Insourcing

High turnover isn't just inconvenient—it's costly. U.S. logistics businesses lose thousands in training, productivity, and morale every year, with an average quit rate exceeding 27%. Remote-Insourcing changes this reality. Remote-Insourcing seamlessly integrates dedicated, remote professionals into your team, significantly reducing turnover to under 4%.

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Innovation Begins With A Question

ivalua

Innovation is a difficult subject for many organizations. Some companies try to radically innovate, while others take an incremental approach. Some will look to outside sources for solutions and inspiration, whereas some tap into the knowledge that exists within the organization. Sometimes innovation occurs by accident, other times it is the result of a methodical approach.

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Supply Chain News on Report on Plans for a Network of Electric Trucking Charging Stations Shows Challenge of eTruck Adoption

Supply Chain Digest

Charging Network is Critical to Support Over the Road Transport

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Jane Newman

ivalua

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Avoiding planning pandemonium in a pandemic: How can you forecast in the new normal?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

During the pandemic, the foundations on which retailers, brands and Consumer Products companies rely to determine trade volumes, pricing and promotions have been shaken and, in some cases, broken.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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A 4-Step Strategy for Building Procurement Resilience in a VUCA World

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The role of procurement is about ensuring that business operations continue like clockwork no matter how disrupted the business environment is. This involves understanding the current environment as well as foreseeing the potential future environments and preparing for them; specifically market changes, selecting and evaluating new vendors, cutting costs without adding risk to the business, […].

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Social distancing, swipe cards and shift patterns: the changing face of warehouses post-Coronavirus

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

We are currently witnessing a time of unparalleled polarisation within different sections of the global economy. The impact of COVID-19 on economies around the world has resulted in massive increases in redundancies, wiping out much of the positive growth since 2008.

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Building a Strong e-Auction Strategy in 5 Steps

ProcurePort

As procurement software and e-procurement solutions become more popular, simply using e-procurement systems isn’t enough in order to compete. To really optimize the return on e-procurement, an organization should dedicate the necessary resources to become masters of every step. This means doing a deep dive into each and every process and procedure built into the […].

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A Four-Step Strategy for Building Procurement Resilience in a VUCA World

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The role of procurement is about ensuring that business operations continue like clockwork no matter how disrupted the business environment is. This involves understanding the current environment as well as foreseeing the potential future environments and preparing for them; specifically market changes, selecting and evaluating new vendors, cutting costs without adding risk to the business, […].

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Supply Chain Resilience Checklist

Strengthen your operations with the Supply Chain Resilience Checklist. This practical, easy-to-use tool helps your organization prepare for disruptions and ensure long-term continuity in an unpredictable world. Why Download: Identify and assess critical supply chain risks Ask the right questions to evaluate vendor preparedness Implement effective strategies to reduce vulnerabilities Improve communication, transparency, and coordination across your network What You’ll Learn: How to evaluate and m

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Unleashed recognised by Xero for providing excellent business support

Unleashed

With Unleashed soon to celebrate its tenth anniversary in business, we’re proud to be recognised by Xero this week for our work helping businesses bridge the gap during Covid lockdowns. The majority of Unleashed customers also use Xero, making Unleashed+Xero one of the most potent cloud app combinations for manufactures, wholesalers and retailers making, managing or moving good products.

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Bristlecone Earns Leadership Positioning in Zinnov Zones Ratings 2020 for RPA Services

Bristlecone

The post Bristlecone Earns Leadership Positioning in Zinnov Zones Ratings 2020 for RPA Services appeared first on Bristlecone.

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Rail Tracking Brochure

Gravity Supply Chain

Gain complete, end-to-end visibility of your shipments with Gravity’s rail tracking feature.

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