Mon.Aug 01, 2022

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Reshoring: “The Beginning of De-globalization” or More of the Same?

Talking Logistics

As reported by Dion Rabouin in the Wall Street Journal last week, “top executives at large U.S. companies are increasingly talking up bringing workforces and supply chains back home — known as ‘re-shoring’ — during second quarter earnings calls. Data from Bank of America shows use of the term has spiked to a record level, Read more Reshoring: “The Beginning of De-globalization” or More of the Same?

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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

Retail returns occur when a customer returns the purchased items to a seller in exchange for a refund, store credit, or a similar product. Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Yet, in today’s omnichannel world, retail returns are key to driving business growth, thanks to their ability to enhance the customer experience, minimize losses, and preserve long-term revenue.

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Logistics Buyers Survey with Jim Bierfeldt

The Logistics of Logistics

Jim Bierfeldt and Joe Lynch discuss the logistics buyers survey created by Jim and his team at Logistics Marketing Advisors. About Jim Bierfeldt. Jim Bierfeldt is the Founder and President of Logistics Marketing Advisors. Jim has had a 35-year career in marketing and communications, including 25+ within the logistics industry. He ran marketing for a large 3PL before launching his own marketing agency, Logistics Marketing Advisors, which focuses exclusively on providing marketing strategy and ser

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The role of a Bill of Materials in optimizing your inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Ongoing challenges in the supply chain, such as shortages caused by increased demands and the shutting down of some factories, continue to affect manufacturing businesses even to this day. However, effectively dealing with these challenges and optimizing a manufacturing business’ processes is challenging without adopting and implementing a Bill of Materials (BOM) to accompany an organization’s ERP system.

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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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Taiwan Tensions Raise Risks in One of Busiest Shipping Lanes

Supply Chain Brain

The standoff between the U.S. and China over Taiwan has thrown a spotlight on growing risks to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes — even a minor disruption could ripple through supply chains.

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Taiwan Turmoil Prompts Detours and Delays for Global Shipping

Supply Chain Brain

China’s announcement of military drills around Taiwan as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits the island is already having ripple effects across global supply chains, prompting detours and causing delays of energy shipments.

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UK Manufacturing PMI: Industrial strategy can no longer be kicked into the long grass

IT Supply Chain

By Chris Barlow (pictured). Partner & Head of Manufacturing, MHA. The post UK Manufacturing PMI: Industrial strategy can no longer be kicked into the long grass appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Watch: Dealing With Supply Chain Uncertainty

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains are in flux, and planners will need to deal with continuing challenges in the near future, says David Food, head of supply chain marketing at Board International.

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Could Your Autumn Peak Be Riskier Than Usual?

IT Supply Chain

By Matt Whittaker (pictured). Commercial Director at Bis Henderson Space. The post Could Your Autumn Peak Be Riskier Than Usual? appeared first on IT 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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Visibility of Scope 3 Emissions Is Lacking. It’s Time to Fix That.

Supply Chain Brain

Companies seeking to decarbonize their supply chains will never reach that goal without the help of suppliers over which they assert no direct control.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? If so, a few minutes of online research will reveal what you probably suspected deep down all along—that there are real risks involved, which can stand in the way of promised benefits. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully?

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The truck driver shortage is fueling supply chain chaos- What can be done to solve it?

All Things Supply Chain

In recent times, shortages of goods have caused widespread supply chain issues. Labor shortages have also been troublesome for production and the economy.

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Five Ways Autonomous Vehicles Can Impact Last- and Middle-Mile Delivery

Supply Chain Brain

As supply chain managers face unprecedented challenges, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are becoming a source of relief.

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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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Education Industry Trends 2021-2022

IT Supply Chain

By John Hampton (pictured). Content Writer. The post Education Industry Trends 2021-2022 appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Digitalization in the Real-World, Part 1

BlueYonder

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. This is part 1 of a multiple part series to explore their stories. The extreme volatility of the last two years, which continues today, has starkly demonstrated the need for supply chain and logistics professionals to monitor real-time conditions across the extended

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How Technology Is Changing the Construction Industry Supply Chain

IT Supply Chain

By Charlie Fletcher (pictured). Freelance Writer. The post How Technology Is Changing the Construction Industry Supply Chain appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Your Guide to eAuction Tools

EC Sourcing Group

eAuction tools are imperative to sourcing, affecting your sourcing , procurement management, and ultimately, the entire supply chain. However, eAuctions are simply auctions conducted electronically to have a transaction occur between the supplier and the buyer. Reverse auctions and their respective types are the most common types of eAuctions. software is typically cloud-based, which means nothing is stored locally at your location (or your suppliers’ locations), and all transactions are process

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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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Supply Chain Shortages: What’s Behind Them?

Aioneers

Whatever the reasons, we can’t seem to keep up with the panic caused by items disappearing off the s helves. It’ s like Black Friday all year round, except people are fighting over baby formula, toilet paper, or bags of flour. As a company, what can you possibly do to avoid the next shortage being your product?

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Supply Chain News on Interesting Results from Annual Voice of the Blue Collar Worker

Supply Chain Digest

EmployBridge Says Schedule Flexibility Growing Priority for Warehouse and Manufacturing Workers

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Sustainability’s Inconvenient Truth

Logistics Viewpoints

A book called How the World Really Works argues that “we are a fossil-fueled civilization whose technical and scientific advances, quality of life, and prosperity rest on the combustion of huge quantities of fossil carbon. The author, the polymath Vaclev Smil, declares it will take at a minimum several decades, but perhaps well over a century, to move away from our dependance on fossil fuels.

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Supply Chain News on Wall Street Journal Article Raises Questions about Safety for TuSimple Driverless Truck Technology

Supply Chain Digest

Accident in April Partly Led to OnGoing FMSCA Review

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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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Targeted Marketing and Supercookies

Enterra Insights

Privacy advocates applauded when Google announced it would follow Apple’s lead and discontinue the use of cookies on its search platform. On the other hand, the move had marketers scrambling for ways to continue effective personalized marketing. Many experts suggest the best way forward is through the use of first-party data collected with the express permission of consumers.

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How the Metaverse Has Changed Manufacturing

Supply Chain Brain

While for some companies the concept of digital twins may be new, others in the manufacturing space have been using them for years now, proving not just their effectiveness, but also their ability to drive innovation in an increasingly competitive economy.

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Purchase Requisition – What Is It and Does Your Business Need It?

Precoro

Have you ever felt overwhelmed with numerous employees’ requests to buy things? Purchasing for the business is universal, but what matters the most is how it’s handled. Read on how to utilize Purchase Requisitions to start the procurement process on the right note. Purchase Requisition Is a First Step of the Procurement Process. When it comes to buying in the name of a company, it’s important to approach the task with great responsibility and critically evaluate the need for spending.

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Europe’s Rhine River Is on the Brink of Effectively Closing

Supply Chain Brain

Water levels on the Rhine River are set to fall perilously close to the point at which it would effectively close, putting the trade of huge quantities of goods at risk as the continent seeks to stave off an economic crisis.

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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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The Future of Supplier Management is Here, and it’s Holistic

ivalua

The Future of Supplier Management is Here, and it’s Holistic. Leading, high-performing procurement organizations share one common trait–they consistently prioritize a holistic and integrated approach to Supplier Management. In fact, they go beyond simply supplier management, what they do is Supplier Engagement. Aligning suppliers to overall Procurement and broader business strategy is critical to create sustained long-term value. .

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Buyers Newsletter

Herlitz Inventory Management

Buyer’s Newsletter – Long Term Outs. Long Term Outs have now become the norm instead of the exception. Buyers are being increasingly forced to deal with them. Here we talk about best practices within HIMPACT to deal with these situations so buyers are able to handle long term outs and react as best they can. How to Manage Long Term Outs in HIMPACT.

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Top E-Commerce Sites in Malaysia 2022

Vinculum

The booming economy in Malaysia has touched many hearts as it comes out with the best marketing strategies to fetch the massive crowd from Southeast Asia (SEA). Malaysia is at its peak in terms of growth and increases in population to look into the purchasing of the customer significantly. It would be interesting if such purchasing is done through an e-commerce site and operated at a premium level.