GlobalTranz
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Too often, ERP software is seen as the final answer to any and every distress a business may face. Built to centralize processes, increase productivity and provide end-to-end visibility of your company, why would you ever consider another solution? But more often than not, businesses focused heavily on the supply chain aren’t getting all the promised benefits of this software.
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
We received the first snow of the season last night, followed by heavy rains. It’s a slushy mess out there. On the bright side, my daughter is coming home today for Thanksgiving break, so we’re all very excited to see her. I know I’m a few years late, but I started binge-watching Downton Abbey last week (I’m on episode 7, season two). I’ve started calling my wife “My lady” but she hasn’t come around to calling me “My lord” just yet.
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Claritum
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. Introduction. Step 1. Remove the noise. Step 2. Address Procurement Strategy. Step 3. Focus Procurement on supplier optimisation. Step 4. Don’t lose Procurement’s focus on costs. Step 5. Keep Procurement up to date. Summary. Introduction. Procurement is a complex multidisciplinary team activity that crosses all areas of the business.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out The Supply Chain Detective ! In Search of Broken Supply Chain Clues! “We have to make a decision. We only have enough cash to either pay our employees or our suppliers next week, but not both.” Wow! This was what my Controller just told me. We had just acquired another company. The decision was made to operate it at arm’s length from the parent company.
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
MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies use robust algorithms to interpret patterns from historical sales and predict future demand. Typically, these algorithms only have one or two sources of information (data sets) to derive the forecast for the next period. As the field of business forecasting develops, technological improvements allow companies to experiment with more advanced […].
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Unleashed
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Whether your business is experiencing fair weather or more inclement climes, it’s likely you’ve caught wind of all the talk surrounding “The Cloud’ in recent times. Hotly discussed and often misunderstood, the cloud can seem like a mere buzzword or technical jargon to many business owners. However, this new way of working online – which utilises computers to better manage and make sense of business data – offers companies a tangible opportunity to become more efficient and effective
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Supplier Quality Management: Drive Value By Safeguarding Value! Company 1. The CEO came in to my office carrying a product and said, “The label is off centre on this item. It has a quality defect.” I responded, “Is that actually a quality defect? Quality is a measure of conformance to a standard, and we have no standards.” The CEO didn’t quite understand the distinction.
Freight Plus
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
(. Listen to this article. ). Refrigerated trucks, also known as reefer trucks or reefers, are a cold chain solution that has sent chills down the spine of brokers the world over. But what are reefer trucks and what is it about them that gives them that frosty reception? The term reefer simply refers to a truck, trailer, or shipping container equipped with a refrigeration unit that transports temperature sensitive cargo.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by Ron Emery. Check out 6 Reasons Supply Chain Employees Look For New Jobs! A mentor is a person who can be a sounding board, someone of experience who can listen and help development, while not losing sight of reality. Mentorship is actually rarer than we think but true mentorship is a beautiful thing.
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.
Unleashed
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
The cloud has shaped the way businesses, big and small, operate on a daily basis. The cloud provides a central storage facility that can keep data on the internet. Since data is stored online, it can be accessed from any location, on any device that has the internet. The cloud is broadening the scope of how we do business. It lets businesses operate more efficiently and in different ways than ever before.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out The 5 Point Last Minute Black Friday Supply Chain Checklist! Black Friday is almost here! Retailers have been anticipating and preparing for this over the last year. It has become the biggest online shopping period of the entire year with expectations for exponential growth over last year. Further this period is so dramatically busier than at any other time of the year that it has an absolutely enormous impact on the Supply Chain of these companies.
TradeGecko
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Consumers haven’t rushed to buy on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But savvy marketers are focusing more on how they can connect with customers via social shopping than on sales totals.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post and infographic originally published at [link] , and permission to publish here provided by Patrick Thuot. Check out What Exactly Is Reverse Logistics? Customer Returns are an inevitability in retail. People buy things, take them home and for various reasons, they will then decide to return them to the store they purchased them.
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EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
With more than 70,000 chemicals currently in common use – and 1,000 new chemicals coming into use every year – maintaining and managing their effective, appropriate and responsible use is a challenging task. Cost, process, regulatory and safety issues converge to making chemical management a critical, complex and cumbersome activity. But by implementing a range of measures on site and across businesses, the risks associated with chemical use can be eliminated.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series. This interview is with Sandra Ketchen, Senior Vice President of Operations at SE Health. I first met Sandra while at Celestica.
APICS
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
An article earlier this week from The Wall Street Journal tells us we are in the midst of the next industrial revolution, the fourth of its kind. Mobile internet, automation and artificial intelligence are what’s fueling this revolution.
The Supply Chainer Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
[This is Part 1 of a series of posts about Investing in Biopharma/BioTech companies]. You have already heard and read comments about it, however you don’t know exactly where to start … we all have had the same feeling. Biopharma and Biotech companies are not very accessible stocks to follow-up, in comparison with other huge industries which are everyday on the newspapers, such as: Consumer Goods ( Nike, Unilever, P&G ), Technology ( Facebook, Google, Oracle ) and so on.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
3AG Systems
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
It seems that most dispatching software focuses on providing back-office services. While these features are important as many companies struggle with paperwork, they mask the real challenge associated with running a business with significant transportation costs. Companies that deploy nurses, truck drivers, warehouse workers, or cleaning staff live or die based on how effectively they can deploy their teams.
Freight Plus
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
5 Tips for Keeping Your Cool When Selecting a Reefer Carrier
Exapro Hub
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Safe transportation of heavy cargo is not an easy task, particularly in the case of used machinery. When it comes to handling and transporting such heavy machinery, a set protocol of loading, transport, and unloading is required […]. The post Trucking Industry in the USA – Application in Sourcing Used Machinery appeared first on Exapro Hub.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at tenfold.com Permission to publish provided by Ira Padilla. Check out How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Change Decision Making for Businesses! We are living in exciting and innovative times with futuristic technology literally at our fingertips. But for the longest time, small to medium sized businesses were not serviced by the latest tech trends enterprises have been able to benefit from.
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Veridian Solutions
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
This year is the first holiday season without Toys “R” Us. Looking through the Toys “R” Us Christmas toy catalog was practically a tradition in households across the country. Unfortunately, Toys “R” Us was unable to survive in the age of Amazon and e-commerce. At the same time, Sears, another holiday catalog tradition, is in its final days as well. Amazon understands that voids create opportunities.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Global Process Excellence: Defining the Roadmap to Achieve Best In Class Results. My first Management job was on the Manufacturing floor on 3rd shift. It was company policy … anyone’s first Management job was in Manufacturing. The principle was sound: to really understand how the business operated you needed to be at the very core of what it did, which in this case was Manufacturing.
Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Over the past few years, the U.S. economy has boomed and unemployment rates have fallen. While the full impact of current trade and immigration policies remain uncertain, one thing is certain — if the U.S. wants continued economic growth, its infrastructure needs to be repaired and/or upgraded. With Congress now divided following midterm elections and more Washington deadlock likely, fixing America’s infrastructure should be an issue on which both parties can agree.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Warehouse Fulfillment – Move The Material To The People, Not The Other Way Around! “We just spent several millions of dollars on a new Warehouse Management System for our E-Commerce Online Distribution Centre. We do not need to spend any more money on our Supply Chain.” That sounded very intriguing.
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.
Softeon
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Blockchain tech came to prominence as the technology undergirding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It has many uses outside of the world of finance, including in supply chain management. Some experts are likening it to the invention of the World Wide Web - and it really has the potential to become that important. What is Blockchain? The blockchain refers to a method of recording transactions within a system.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Article originally created by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jenis Sheth at [link]. Check out The Digital Supply Chain – Supply Chain 4.0! (Infographic). The history of Industry 4.0 tracks the manufacturing industry from the industrial revolution to the digital transformation and beyond. Each new stage represents a revolution in the manufacturing process that has changed the way we think about and work in the industry.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Transformation Breakthrough – Creating the Culture to Break Barriers! Improving Inventory turnover performance is both a requirement and a challenge for many companies. We’ve written several blogs on this subject to share our experiences in achieving truly game changing results in inventory management.
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