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Demand Segmentation Starter Guide

Arkieva

Use this comprehensive guide to get started with your product-customer demand segmentation analysis process. Demand Segmentation Starter Guide was first posted on April 2, 2019 at 3:02 pm. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Is Trust Blockchain’s Best Characteristic?

Enterra Insights

Trust is defined as firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. In talks with the Soviets about nuclear disarmament, Ronald Reagan famously stated, “Trust, but verify”; but, I’m not sure that’s real trust. Trust is an unwavering assurance that something is as it seems to be. Hope Liu ( @hopeEximchain ), CEO of Eximchain, observes, “As far as one can remember, commerce has been conducted based on trust.

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Revolving Door Management – Who Wants a Turn?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Change Leadership Process … And Guide! How many times have you seen new Management being brought into a company, only to see them leave and be replaced in a very short timeframe? This happens a lot on Sports teams. Coaches and Players alike are replaced after a relatively short stint with no tolerance for poor performance.

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Millennials More Motivated by Rebates Than Other Shoppers

Inmar

Manufacturer-funded rebates — though underutilized by many marketers — are highly effective in engaging millennials, generating significant promotion participation and driving accelerated and increased purchase among members of this sought-after shopper segment. This finding comes from a 2017 survey conducted by Inmar Analytics of more than 5,600 shoppers as well as Inmar’s analysis of rebate activity from a sample of manufacturers across ten product categories for the years 2013-201

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Should You Outsource Demand Planning?

ToolsGroup

Outsourcing non-core business processes has been a time-tested way to cut costs while improving performance. Initially companies focused on functions like Finance and HR. But now they have started outsourcing supply chain business processes like demand planning, allowing them to focus on other business processes while gaining access to world class capabilities.

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Pacific Drilling Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Sourcing Best Practices Globally

ivalua

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. New York, NY April 2, 2019 – Consus Global , a leading Procurement services provider and Ivalua, the leading global Spend Management Cloud provider, today announced that Pacific Drilling , a deep water drilling company based in Houston, has selected Consus’ services in conjunction with Ivalua’s Sourcing platform to achieve cost savings and drive transparency across their sourcing operations

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Managing the healthcare supply chain for better patient outcomes

Kinaxis

by Mike McAllister LogiMed USA 2019 panel discussion focuses on meeting expectations in the age of The Amazon Effect. Recently we had the opportunity to attend the only event that brings together the entire end-to-end healthcare supply chain, LogiMed USA 2019, in San Diego, California. During the session entitled “Integrating better customer service strategies throughout the supply chain,” Kinaxis Vice President of Industry Strategy Raj Aiyar weighed in on the impact the right techno

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Managing Change – Adopting TMS, Supply Chain Tech Projects

Supply Chain Collaborator

As recently as ten years ago, transportation leaders viewed cloud-based logistics automation technology with great skepticism; even outright ambivalence. Today, there is no longer any question about the viability and value of adopting TMS. Bringing users around to embracing emerging tech can be accomplished through well-conceived change management methods. .

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Blockchain for a Better Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Blockchain provides a secure, paperless solution for tracking products through every stage of their lifecycle.

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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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Supply Chain Chief Takes Daughter’s Advice — A Digital Transformation Story

o9 Solutions

Travis Green, Chief Supply Chain Officer of a large consumer product manufacturing company, was more excited than he’d been in […]. The post Supply Chain Chief Takes Daughter’s Advice — <br> A Digital Transformation Story</h4> appeared first on o9 Solutions.

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A Win-Win Situation: Electronic Device Manufacturers and Blockchain Solutions

Shipchain

As blockchain is now a frequent topic of discussion among supply chain circles, it is essential to consider how it could affect electronic device manufacturers. Marrying electronic device manufacturers and blockchain software vendors will have a profound impact on reducing the spread of counterfeit products and more. According to Maja Vujinovic of CoinDesk , 30% of manufacturers expect revenue to grow 10% within the next five years, and with faster growth, minor issues can quickly become major p

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Why Planning?

DynaSys

Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Every company spends an enormous amount of energy to plan. How many meetings and revisions does it take to arrive at a final budget? The same is true for strategic or operational plans? Often this effort is incremental to the burden of everyday tasks. For what results? Are we really able to measure the benefits of these processes?

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Has the Intermodal Rail Rate Bubble Burst?

Freight Plus

Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. After hitting all-time highs in 2018, intermodal rail traffic is down in the first quarter of 2019. Is it because of weather? Trade? The economy? A soft trucking spot market? Something else? Nobody is entirely sure why intermodal rail rates have been sluggish recently, but the fact is that they're down so far in 2019 — and rather significantly.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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A Chief Supply Chain Officer Learns from His Millennial Daughter — A Digital Transformation Story

o9 Solutions

Travis Green, Chief Supply Chain Officer of a large consumer product manufacturing company, was more excited than he’d been in […]. The post A Chief Supply Chain Officer Learns from His Millennial Daughter — A Digital Transformation Story</h4> appeared first on o9 Solutions.

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Do You Have the DTs? Why It’s Time to Bring Digital Transformation Down to Earth

MIT Supply Chain

Delirium Tremens, or the DTs, is a condition that causes “delirium, tremor, anxiety and vivid hallucinations,” according to one dictionary definition. It’s a symptom of alcoholism, but there is another type of DT, digital transformation, caused by the excessive consumption of hype, not alcohol. The Digital DTs appear to be on the rise in the […].

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Sharing is Caring: How Data Is Enabling the Supply Chain of the Future

Tive

As the world grows ever more interconnected, modern manufacturers are embracing a mentality of collaboration and transparency to stay competitive.

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What Transportation Professionals Need to Know About the U.S.-Mexico Border Situation

CH Robinson Transportfolio

On March 27, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a notice detailing the re-assignment of over 750 officers from various ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border to help process people crossing the border. This past weekend, rhetoric increased significantly regarding the potential of closing the border completely. While this threat is not new, it certainly feels different this time around, and specifically raises questions for those involved in regular cross border freight movements.

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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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The Walmart Effect: More Stringent Inbound Freight Management Demands on the Way

GlobalTranz

In today’s world of inbound freight management demands, it is easy to get wrapped up in the hype over the Amazon effect. Essentially, Amazon’s continuous push for world domination is forcing shippers and carriers to rethink their strategies. However, another effect exists-the Walmart Effect. The Walmart Effect refers to the brick-and-mortar Giants capability to enact.read More.

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Know What You Want & How to Ask for It (III)

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Approaching a digital transformation can seem daunting. There are many considerations and software providers, so how do you determine which solutions are best? After assembling a small, cross-functional team, outline a strategic approach for summarizing your intentions and highlighting priorities for the initiative. In the following sections, we’ll discuss how to effectively approach the task and apply your decisions to the vendor selection process.

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[PODCAST] Amazon’s Push to Compete with Logistics Services Providers

GlobalTranz

Listen to “Amazon’s Push to Compete with Logistics Services Providers” on Spreaker. Tips for Retailers (And All Shippers) to Overcome the Amazon Effect Amazon Resources Is Amazon In-Sourcing or Creating a New Service? You Already Know Read Blog Post Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming Read Blog Post Tips for Retailers (And All Shippers) to Overcome.read More.

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Pacific Drilling Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Sourcing Best Practices Globally

ivalua

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. New York, NY April 2, 2019 – Consus Global , a leading Procurement services provider and Ivalua, the leading global Spend Management Cloud provider, today announced that Pacific Drilling , a deep water drilling company based in Houston, has selected Consus’ services in conjunction with Ivalua’s Sourcing platform to achieve cost savings and drive transparency across their sourcing opera

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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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DELMIA Quintiq’s Matt Barry Named to Top Lists of Industry Professionals

DELMIA Quintiq

Director of Technical Sales for DELMIA Quintiq in North America, Matt Barry was recently named a Provider Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive, and a Rock Star of the Supply Chain by Food Logistics. With over 12 years of supply chain experience in leading successful customer projects, Matt is attuned to the needs of supply chain organizations across various industries.

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The AMPLIFY™ platform–it’s HIP, it’s big, it’s here!

Axway

Axway is pleased to announce the next major release of the AMPLIFY platform. (Read the Axway AMPLIFY Integration announcement here.

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Effects of Full Employment

3PL Insights

When discussing the health of the economy, one of the important measures that shows the strength of it, is the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is measured by the number of people available for work who don’t have jobs and have actively looked for one in the past four weeks. The economy needs a low unemployment rate because with a low rate, more people have jobs and are willing to spend money.

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Turning Life Science Vantages into Competitive Advantage

QAD

Changing Vantage Points. The way people interpret life experiences depends on the vantage point. This goes for both personal and business experiences. Take a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana as an example. You can experience this interesting city in a number of different ways and from a number of different vantage points. For example, you can be the saxophone player at a jazz club, or you can be the jazz club patron.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Reefers still waiting for spring

DAT Solutions

It’s still early in the spring, but the refrigerated truckload sector is not picking up any momentum yet. I wouldn’t say spring was canceled, but it seems to have been delayed, partly due to flooding or continued rain in some regions. The lack of volume is hurting prices. While the Lakeland, FL market was a big winner last week — gaining over 20% more volume — those gains were more than offset by a week-over-week slump in other major reefer markets, including Fresno, Noga

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APIdays 2019: Axway a proud global sponsor

Axway

Axway is very happy to announce that they are a proud Global Sponsor at the APIdays 2019 Worldwide events series in seven cities across the globe.

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Flatbed rates and volumes move upward

DAT Solutions

While van and reefer rates saw a decline in March compared to February, flatbed bucked the trend, making gains in both freight volumes and rates. Flatbed rates have risen for 5 consecutive weeks, and the national average rate ended March at $2.34/mi. In the top 78 flatbed lanes, rates moved higher on 36 lanes, while 42 were lower. Even so, rates have increased 4% overall in the past two weeks.

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