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Creating a Smart Supply Chain in the Era of Disruption!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Shiny New Technology or Back to the Basics? What is Your Strategy? Smart Supply Chain article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Raanan Cohen at bringg.com. In a recent article on CIO Dive, The state of AI across 5 industries , I read that “retailers now have a call to action to use AI.

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Track and Trace in the Food Supply Chain: Eggs

Shipchain

Modern-day food supply chains are extremely complex. Especially in today’s age in which recalls are seemingly an everyday occurrence, consumers are wary of what’s on their plate. Thankfully, ShipChain’s Track and Trace Platform tackles this lack of trust by bringing visibility to the food supply chain via blockchain technology. If you’re scratching your head and wondering what that actually means, let me explain.

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Transparency in beauty & wellness: why 2020 will be a breakthrough year

Provenance

Trust has been on a journey in the beauty space. What will the next generation of brands do to solve this and support a healthier, more sustainable industry? Let’s talk beauty from the inside out when it comes to the true makeup of our products and their impact. A brief background on the trust problem. For most of the 20th century, the titans of the beauty space were in a one-way communication flow with their audience.

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The Ever-Expanding Role of AI and AR in Food Logistics

GlobalTranz

The food supply chain is unlike any other. While electronics, automotive, and consumer goods’ supply chains promote their products, the food supply chain represents a basic human necessity–food. As a requirement to everyone, foods and beverages deserve a highlighted view of the use of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to.read More.

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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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What Does Great Look Like in Logistics?

Talking Logistics

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, the mayor at the time, Ed Koch, was famous for always asking “How’m I doin’?” That’s a question that supply chain and logistics professionals ask all the time too. But understanding how you’re doing and how your performance compares to others in the industry has historically. Read more What Does Great Look Like in Logistics?

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The Fabric of Industrial Change: Held Together by a Digital Thread

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains can become fragile and broken. Managing abrupt changes in the manufacturing environment — both planned and unplanned — is among the key benefits of the digital enterprise.

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How Can Small Businesses Make the Most of Big Data?

Unleashed

Having access to information about competitors and customers can be key to the growth and success of a business. For smaller businesses just starting out, they may not have adequate resources to capture this information — and managers may not know what metrics to look out for. In this article, we explore what big data is and its benefits for small businesses, from tracking sales trends to keeping an eye on competitors.

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How to Figure Out the Cost of Freight Shipping

Freight Center

There’s one question every shipper, manager of a supply chain or small business owner asks during the shipping process. That question sounds something like: “How much is this going to cost?”.

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The Value of a WMS Implementation Company

Veridian Solutions

How often does your organization really think about its next upgrade? Will you upgrade and add automation to picking and packing? Do inventory management capabilities and visibility continue to fall short? What else is going wrong with the warehouse management system (WMS)? These questions reflect the problems supply chain leaders using legacy or “lite” technology solutions have, and once professionals make the decision to upgrade, the set budget and timelines can get out of hand.

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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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How Mobile Technology is Reshaping the Future of Oil and Gas

RFgen

Overview. Oil and gas supply chain is facing stressors from political and economic uncertainties, tightening regulations and price volatility. Many oil and gas companies are turning to technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection to offset pressures. Off-network mobility solutions supply ERP system data and data collection capabilities to remote and off-network locations.

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Multi-party Supply Chain Network - changing the future of your business

Prophetic Technology

The Supply Chain ( SC ) embodies all the stages it requires to procure a particular product or service, from its primary condition to the customer. It is a network among an enterprise and its suppliers to manufacture goods and deliver a specific product to the ultimate buyer.

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How Mobile Technology is Reshaping the Future of Oil and Gas

RFgen

Overview. Oil and gas supply chain is facing stressors from political and economic uncertainties, tightening regulations and price volatility. Many oil and gas companies are turning to technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection to offset pressures. Off-network mobility solutions supply ERP system data and data collection capabilities to remote and off-network locations.

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Browse through the Ultimate WMS Implementation checklist

Vinculum

The transportation and logistics industry have witnessed a substantial paradigm shift over the past couple of decades and this shift can be attributed to the rapid technological advancements and breakthrough innovations. Warehouse management has been an essential function for the logistics industry and has evolved with the introduction of robust, efficient and automated warehouse management systems, available in two variants – on-premise and cloud-based.

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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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Don’t Chicken Out On Supply Planning

Vanguard Software

It is in every company’s best interest to be ready if they were to be affected by internet-breaking campaigns or risk losing these battles to competitors.

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Another View of the Best Supply Chains 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Different Methodologies Again Lead to Different Results in Gartner Top 25 and Kantar Top CPG and Retail Supply Chain Lists

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Overcome Manufacturing Supply Chain Challenges with Digital Planning

Brookes Supply Chain Planning Blog

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A Zen Master’s Guide to a Good Forecasting System

Logility

Having a hard time figuring out how to use forecasting when the results never seem good enough? For many of us, forecasting seems like either too much work, or too complicated to get right. So we fall back on our best estimates, based on information from our sales team, or simple spreadsheets that use some historical sales data to generate trend lines.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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*Infographic* Savings On Truckload Freight Rates

Kuebix

Truckload solution for shippers with regular shipping lanes Kuebix provides complimentary truckload rate assessments leveraging the Load Match platform to help companies determine whether they are making the most strategic truckload shipping decisions. The assessment gives shippers insight into whether they can save money on recurring or spot freight by leveraging Kuebix’s vast network of […].

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Dr. Yossi Sheffi of MIT on Coronavirus and the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

Five Steps Companies Should Take Right Now

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Is your small business ready for tax time?

TradeGecko

Whether you’re a traditional retailer or an eCommerce company, small business tax preparation can be time-consuming and overwhelming with a never-ending list of things to do to get your finances in order.

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Ecosystems & Platforms: An API Q&A with Emmanuel Méthivier

Axway

Emmanuel Méthivier is an Innovation & Digital Transformation Catalyst in France at Axway. With his long experience in the banking sector, he shares his analysis of the current challenges facing French companies in terms of opening up to their ecosystems.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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How to find LTL refrigerated carriers on the West Coast

West Coast and California Logistics

In our last blog post , we examined some of the characteristics you should look for in a refrigerated truck carrier – specifically one that specializes in candy and snack products. In this article, we’ll drill down a step further and discuss what you need to look for in refrigerated LTL carriers, particularly those that operate on the West Coast. While most of these characteristics are the same across the country, there are a few West-Coast-specific items to keep an eye on.

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Using Real-Time Data to Win New Business

IQMS

Bottom Line: Manufacturers are achieving only 40% of their potential because they’re spending too much valuable time manually updating inventory control , production reporting , and pricing reports when their competitors using real-time data to get the data they need to win deals and plan next-generation real-time factories. Manual Reporting Creates Mediocre Results.

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Optimizing Parts Management at BC Transit

The Smart Software

BC Transit values its newfound ability to forecast the financial impact of stocking decisions. They are able to balance capacity against criticality and the cost of inventory. The post Optimizing Parts Management at BC Transit appeared first on Smart Software.

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Shipping Peak Season: Why 2020 Peak Season Will Include More Than Retail

MercuryGate

The 2019 shipping peak season broke all prior records. According to Commercial Appeal, UPS handled more than 840 million packages, and FedEx handled more than 540 million. While this holiday peak season broke annual sales’ records for retailers, 2020 is shaping up to offer something new. Instead of the hyper-focus on retail during the holiday […].

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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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How Chemical Freight 3PLs Source Bulk Tanker Trailers and Other Equipment

Bulk Connection

In the world of bulk liquid shipping, there can sometimes be a gap between what a shipper needs and what a carrier ultimately delivers. As the transportation experts in the middle, freight brokers and other third-party logistics (3PL) transportation providers can play the role of matchmaker between the two – working out key details with both shippers & receivers so that their needs are fully and accurately communicated.

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How Route Optimization Software Simplified Delivery Routing Complexity for a Major Food Manufacturer

Paragon

The post How Route Optimization Software Simplified Delivery Routing Complexity for a Major Food Manufacturer appeared first on Paragon Routing.

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Blockchain in the Supply Chain is Only a Few Links Long

Enterra Insights

The global supply chain appears to be a perfect arena for blockchain technology. John Monarch ( @realjohnmonarch ) reports, “Blockchain innovation in the supply chain shows great promise for enabling proactive management of shipping. Faster, cheaper transaction settlement has a proven history of reducing processing time up to 80 percent; when paired with blockchain, payment processing will speed transactions and complete more payments.