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50 expert tips on improving warehouse efficiency & productivity

6 River Systems

Most warehouses are on an ongoing mission to maximize productivity by optimizing workflows, automating processes and reducing waste (both time and resources). Warehouses are complex operations with many moving parts and functions happening simultaneously, so while there are plenty of areas to improve productivity, it’s not always easy to determine where your efforts will pay off.

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Savant Talks: how Blockchain will shape the future

Savant Events

Ahead of Savant eCommerce London this September, we had the opportunity of sitting together with Scott Cohen, Chief Innovation Officer of Warner Music Group and founder of The Orchard to talk about blockchain and how companies can prepare for future innovation by embracing change. Here’s what we talked about! How can blockchain impact the music industry?

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An Inventory Audit Guide for Wholesalers and Distributors

EMERGE App

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Overcoming the Top 5 Barriers for Supply Chain Network Design Adoption

AIMMS

You have tough decisions to make about your supply chain network design. You need answers to urgent network questions, but it often takes several weeks to get the answers you need. When you finally have the analysis, everything’s changed, and the results are no longer relevant. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that you’re not alone.

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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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Retail Inventory Shrinkage Remains a Problem

Enterra Insights

Retail Shrinkage is a serious retail challenge, especially when its causes can’t be accurately determined. Somewhere between 1.5% and 2.5% of revenue can be lost depending on the channel. For the last few years, inventory shrinkage has annually cost U.S. retailers just under $50 billion combined. Worldwide losses are believed to be north of $100 billion.

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10 Ways IoT Can Improve Supply Chains

IQMS

The majority of enterprises are prioritizing their blockchain pilots that concentrate on supply chains improvements (53%) and the Internet of Things (51%) according to Deloitte’s latest blockchain survey. By 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and tracking of $2T of goods and services annually based on a recent Gartner. By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services.

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Improving Your S&OP Process with S&OE: A dedicated process for “here and now” planning

CHAINalytics

Upon implementation, S&OP processes are designed to make tactical decisions concerning long-term business goals. Unfortunately, there is often a stark difference between design and practice. For many S&OP teams, the majority of their time and energy is focused on immediate needs and disaster mitigation. As a result, the S&OP process breaks down, leaving investment and … The post Improving Your S&OP Process with S&OE: A dedicated process for “here and now” planning app

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Is Blockchain Primed to Transform the Supply Chain? A Nuanced Debate

Supply Chain Brain

What’s the current state and true potential of blockchain for the supply chain?

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The Future of the Digital Supply Chain: IoT, Big Data, Blockchain, Predictive Analytics, and More

Shipchain

Understanding the future of the digital supply chain is essential to success. We must embrace the possibilities of Big Data, the Internet of things, blockchain technology, predictive analytics, and the growing unrest that these things bring to the industry. Let’s take a closer look at how these technologies will affect the future of supply chain management and your day to day operations.

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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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Preventive Maintenance: Unpacking the Cost Equation

USC Consulting Group

The preventive maintenance methodology has become industry standard. An estimated 80% of asset and facilities stakeholders now leverage preventive workflows , while approximately half take advantage of predictive maintenance tools meant to further enhance such forward-thinking processes, per research from Advanced Technology Services and Plant Engineering.

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DiManEx contributes to Digital Spare Parts Research Led by Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

DiManEx

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 – Interest in Additive Manufacturing is brewing in several industries, in particular when it comes to securing the supply of spare parts. On average, engineers waste 10-15% of their time trying to tackle spare parts supply issues, and companies tend to spend up to 10% of their budget on unnecessarily duplicated parts. Having an unreliable supply of spares is also one of the main causes of disruptions like equipment downtime.

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What Exactly Is Augmented Analytics?

Prophetic Technology

Augmented Analytics is the forthcoming disruption of Data and Analytics marketplace. It’s an approach that automates insights using Machine Learning ( ML ) or similar technologies, changing how Analytics content is improved, used and shared through your enterprise. The idea behind Augmented Analytics is that companies and stakeholders can use ML, Deep Learning (DL) and Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) to improve the Analytics process and add capability.

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Overcoming the Top 5 Barriers for Supply Chain Network Design Adoption

AIMMS

You have tough decisions to make about your supply chain network design. You need answers to urgent network questions, but it often takes several weeks to get the answers you need. When you finally have the analysis, everything’s changed, and the results are no longer relevant. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that you’re not alone.

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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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Why Is Trust Important? with Kylie Chain

Logistics Bureau

Want to have more trusting relationships in the workplace? Do you trust your leaders? If you are a leader , do you think your people trust you? Let’s listen to Kylie Chain as she talks about the importance of trust in business and how to win TRUST in the workplace. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com.

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New Product Introduction and Product Lifecycle Management: The C-suite Dilemma

Maine Pointe

In the first of a series of blogs examining the importance of NPI and PLM optimization to the end-to-end supply chain and operations ecosystem , Simon Knowles and Dorothea Grimes-Farrow, look at the challenges faced by executives as they endeavor to connect today’s supply chain priorities to new product introduction and product lifecycle management.

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Refining Analysis of M&A Impacts

Resilinc

Download the full 2018 annual report here.

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Why Last Mile Logistics Should Be Your First Priority

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. The big-player disruptors (you know who they are) have set lofty goalposts and acclimated consumers to a kind of good life they’ve happily claimed as the new norm. For businesses, last mile logistics marks the end of a transaction. However, much like the Olympic vault, the total sum of a company’s fulfillment efforts means little if they can’t stick the landing.

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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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TMS Selection Criteria: Questions to Ask Upon Evaluation of a TMS

GlobalTranz

Investing in a transportation management system (TMS) is one of the best ways for shippers to improve logistics management and reduce freight costs. While a TMS might have been a game-changer in the past, it is essential for shippers that wish to stay competitive and attract customers. Everyone offers fast, free shipping for qualified purchases,read More.

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Using a TMS and Business Logic to Complete the API Equation

Talking Logistics

“API” is one of those terms that get thrown around with abandon. While at a trade show recently, I talked to dozens of vendors and heard them say, “I have an API for that!” over and over. What’s upsetting is that most of them didn’t have a clue as to what an API is, other. The post Using a TMS and Business Logic to Complete the API Equation appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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[PODCAST] A Primer on Effective Freight Claims Management

GlobalTranz

Listen to “A Primer on Effective Freight Claims Management” on Spreaker. Effective Freight Claims Management Resources Cerasis Freight Claims Management Services Learn More The Essential Guide to Freight Claims Management: Laws, Fundamentals, Management, & Staying Proactive Download the E-Book The Essential Guide to Freight Claims Management Watch the Webinar 5 Ways To Help Avoid Freight.read More.

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The Fastest Route to Better Efficiency Starts with a Modern TMS

Logistics Viewpoints

Every day, many medium to large shippers face a challenge. At any given moment, they have a fortune on the highway, with significant capital in materials and inventory at stake. And yet, they don’t have the means to know where it all is located. Meanwhile, fuel costs are up, and delayed shipments can have a significant negative economic effect on shippers and receivers.

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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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Supply chain planning – Does it makes dollars and cents to get it all from one vendor?

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois. Full disclosure: I work for a best-of-breed supply chain planning vendor so I will do my best to take an unbiased approach as I provide my opinions on how to solve the challenges of planning today’s supply chains with all its complexity and volatility. I’ll be honest, it would be great to get everything from one supply chain software vendor.

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Want to Start a Clothing Label? Here’s How

TradeGecko

Opening an online clothing label can be a daunting task, so it helps to know what you’re getting in to and what decisions will need to be made. The world of fashion eCommerce is one that’s constantly—and rapidly—changing. One report predicted 2019 would be a year when the industry began to seize some of the opportunities presented by shifts in consumer habits and preferences, including the closure of many physical retail locations.

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Five Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Order Fulfillment Warehouse (Or Are About To)

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Complete this sentence: We’re going to need a bigger. Not surprisingly, most movie buffs’ automatic response is “boat.”. If you sell online and want to prepare your business for exponential growth, the best answer might be: “We’re going to need a bigger order fulfillment warehouse.”.

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Corporate TMS: A Software for Everyone

GTG Technology Group

As a smaller business, many wonder how TMS can work well for corporations. Sure, it has all the important features to grow a small business and provide great help to customers and business owners, but what about larger corporations? Places like WalMart or Amazon? Can they get as much out of a TMS system as a smaller business? The answer: yes, they can!

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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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Impact Acceleration Award for Claritum

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (June 25, 2019) – Claritum, together with Setsquared and the University of Southampton Business School, has secured an Impact Acceleration Award* focused on using AI Data Analytics to identify issues, gain better spend visibility and make faster business decisions. Claritum will benefit from the research insight of the Business School applied to advance our analytics offering focused on business efficiency.

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The whys and hows of the new Walmart OTIF penalties

Alloy

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference , one of the standout sessions was “The Penalty Conundrum?—?Suppliers and Retailers Can Both Benefit From Renewed Focus on OTIF.” It featured Monique Picou, Senior VP of Flow and Supply Chain at Walmart, who shared the motivation behind the retailer’s recent increase in On Time In Full targets for suppliers.

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Our 2019 Top 10 List!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Here at Supply Chain Game Changer our fundamental mission has been to share experiences and expertise in the areas of Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Procurement, Business, Human Resources and more. In our 3rd year at Supply Chain Game Changer we have had the tremendous opportunity to share more content created by ourselves and a growing number of Guest contributors.