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Are You Happy (logistically speaking)?

Consumer Goods Logistics

In logistics, we measure just about everything. If it moves, we measure how fast. If it sits, we measure how long. If it costs money, we measure how much. But do we ever measure happy ? Not often, if at all. And that’s too bad. Happy is an under-rated metric.

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A Look at Direct v. Indirect Supplier Management in Three Industries

ivalua

Doug Keeley, Product Marketing Manager, Ivalua. The most fundamental spend categorization in Procurement is the line between direct and indirect spend, but one effort that transcends this split is supplier management. This includes supplier information management, supply chain risk management/mitigation, and supplier performance management. Whether spend is direct or indirect, supplier information should be maintained centrally and with a high level of accuracy.

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Striking Gold: Discovering New Ways to Dig Up Savings in Your Warehouse

RFgen

With so many challenges facing warehouse managers just like you, finding ways to dig up cost savings "gold" through warehouse automation technology offers a source of relief.

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Health Check Your Supply Chain for Inefficiencies

Talking Logistics

Even in 2019 many companies still underestimate the importance of their global supply chain and above all, how their logistics and supply chain performance can beneficially impact their marketing, ultimately leading to healthier financial results. Depending on your industry sector, transportation and logistics costs (as a percentage of sales) may range up to 14% or even higher for companies with an inefficient or outdated logistics set-up.

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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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Working On Vs. In Your Business! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Creating a High Performance Organization and Culture (Infographic). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Simon Pleass at 2flow.ie. Some business owners are too involved in day-to-day operations of their business. This means that they don’t spend enough time trying to grow the business.

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How Blockchain Will Transform the Modern Supply Chain

Supply Chain 24/7

This ebook describes how blockchain has the power to bring transparency and accountability to even the most complex supply chains, and why it is poised to transform the way suppliers, retailers, and consumers interact with one another and their goods.

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5 Key Criteria for Evaluating a Food-Grade Carrier

West Coast and California Logistics

If your company produces or markets food and beverage products, the safety and integrity of those products mean everything to your business. It’s ill-advised then to entrust key components of your supply chain to just any 3PL. With product safety and integrity in mind, we examined 5 things to look for in a food warehousing provider in our previous blog post.

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Supply Chain Finance: Trends, Challenges and Questions for 2019

Supply Chain Brain

There are trillions of dollars’ worth of unmet needs in the market for supply chain finance.

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How Under Armour Is Using The Latest Tech To Provide Value

Gravity Supply Chain

Under Armour is a tech-savvy retailer. The company has a broad ecosystem of connected fitness products, including Smart shoes, watches, and earbuds… The post How Under Armour Is Using The Latest Tech To Provide Value appeared first on Gravity Supply Chain.

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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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Procurement – Creating organisational Value

Cranfield

With a wider view than purchasing cost management, procurement is the organisation’s gateway to external resources, which are typically valuable and rare.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for May 10, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Warehouse Jobs Keep Growing and Growing, Apple Supplier Audits having Big Impact, Nestle Ending DSD, Shippers Often do not Select Lowest Carrier Bid

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[WEBINAR] Market Trends and the Case for Adding Parcel Shipping to your Freight TMS

GlobalTranz

Fill out the Form Below to Register for the Webinar [PODCAST] How Freight Shippers Can Effectively Ship Parcel & Go “Omni-Modal” Click to Listen Cerasis invites you to register for the “Market Trends and the Case for Adding Parcel Shipping to your Freight TMS” Webinar on May 23rd, 2018 a 12 PM CST. In this 45-minute.read More. The post [WEBINAR] Market Trends and the Case for Adding Parcel Shipping to your Freight TMS appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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What is Machine Learning and How Can It Help Your Business?

Enterra Insights

Most articles written about artificial intelligence (AI) focus on machine learning (ML). Nicole Martin, owner of NR Digital Consulting, writes, “When it comes to Big Data, these computer science terms are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.”[1] She asserts machine learning is basically a self-explanatory term. “The important thing to remember with ML,” she writes, “is that it can only output what is input based on the large sets of data it i

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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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[WHITE PAPER] Inbound Freight Costs: How Gaining Visibility Achieves Bottom Line Savings

GlobalTranz

Fill out the Form Below to Get a Free Copy of the White Paper to Your Inbox! Cerasis is excited to announce the release of an all new, exclusive, & educational resource “Inbound Freight Costs: How Gaining Visibility Achieves Bottom Line Savings” white paper! This is a must read for those in the manufacturing industry.read More. The post [WHITE PAPER] Inbound Freight Costs: How Gaining Visibility Achieves Bottom Line Savings appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Ce

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3 Biggest Challenges with a Multichannel Strategy

Unleashed

Running a business with a multichannel strategy can feel like you’re running eight businesses all at once. Although a multichannel strategy gives you the opportunity to sell your inventory stock through a variety of platforms, the balancing act can be tricky. Each channel has specific requirements for sales and orders, inventory stock quantities, re-ordering amounts, refund policies and exchanges or returns.

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Learn how to Scale Repeat Purchases Using Personalised Transactional Emails

TradeGecko

Guest post by Sal Noorani, Growth Lead at Spently Transactional emails are usually sent during financial transactions. They include notifications like shipping confirmation emails, order confirmation emails, or POS receipt emails among many others. These emails update users about their transactions or confirm their purchase. Other types of transactional emails like follow-ups are used to engage and incentivize customers to make another purchase.

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Ivalua Paints a Great Procurement Picture at Ivalua NOW Chicago 2019

ivalua

“We have this long-term strategy of building a very big company with a fantastic product that we can offer to the market. And this is our vision,” . Ivalua CEO David Khuat-Duy on Tuesday kicked off Ivalua NOW 2019 Chicago, at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel and welcomed hundreds of customers, prospects and partners. The event was themed on “The Art of Procurement” relating to how the further procurement leaders mature in their transformations, the more their approach shifts from science t

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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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Learn how to Scale Repeat Purchases Using Personalised Transactional Emails

TradeGecko

Guest post by Sal Noorani, Growth Lead at Spently Transactional emails are usually sent during financial transactions. They include notifications like shipping confirmation emails, order confirmation emails, or POS receipt emails among many others. These emails update users about their transactions or confirm their purchase. Other types of transactional emails like follow-ups are used to engage and incentivize customers to make another purchase.

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FUEL 2019: A Sneak Peek at enVista's Annual Event

EnVista

This September 25 th through the 27 th in Scottsdale, Arizona, enVista is hosting its annual physical and digital commerce executive summit!

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Data-driven: how the Best-in-Class use spend visibility to gain a competitive advantage

Xeeva

Xeeva welcomes this guest post on spend visibility and strategies for success from Andrew Bartolini, Founder and Chief Research Officer, Ardent Partners. Ardent Partners recently published its 14 th annual “State of Procurement” research study, CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion. And what was true when this series started remains true today – that there may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than comprehensive spend visibility and an ability to take action on it.

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Axway & Unit4 team up for digital insurance

Axway

Last month, we ( Axway AI Suite team) were exhibiting at Tekplace de l’assurance in Paris.

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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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Starbucks Provides Personal Customer Connection with Microsoft’s Reinforcement Learning Technology

Supply Chain 24/7

Starbucks has been using Microsoft's reinforcement learning technology, a type of machine learning in which a system learns to make decisions in complex, unpredictable environments based upon external feedback, to provide a more personalized experience for customers.

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Axway & Unit4 team up for digital insurance

Axway

Last month, we ( Axway AI Suite team) were exhibiting at Tekplace de l’assurance in Paris.

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Retail Imports Rising Ahead of Expected Higher Tariffs

Material Handling & Logistics

Tariff increases and new tariffs will mean higher costs for U.S. businesses, higher prices for American consumers and lost jobs for many American workers.

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Artificial Intelligence Drives More Efficient Goods Handling in Retail

RELEX Solutions

Artificial Intelligence Drives More Efficient Goods Handling in Retail. Resources » Whitepapers. Authors: Aki Ali-Vehmas, Data Scientist & Johanna Småros, Group CMO. Store staff is an essential sales and cost driver in physical retail. In grocery, store labor is the single biggest operating cost, amounting to around 14% of revenue. Therefore, it is always good business for retailers to improve work efficiency in their stores.

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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.