Tue.Oct 29, 2019

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Supply Chain Wars: Episode V – The Corporation Strikes Back

Logility

The next episode in the Supply Chain Wars saga, Episode V – The Corporation Strikes Back is the second in a series of articles that follow a supply chain team’s efforts to improve their supply chain capabilities. The Star Wars movies have influenced generations of movie goers for the last 40 years, I being one of them. You could make the case that Supply Chain Management has grown up in the same 40 year period.

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Control Tower Software Reaches New Heights

Talking Logistics

Shippers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) face significant challenges tracking in-transit cargo due to a lack of status updates between ports. While this isn’t a new problem, the complexity of today’s modern supply chains – multi-carrier, multi-mode shipments, multi-leg, shipments crossing several countries’ borders – has exacerbated the scenario.

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What is a Circular Supply Chain?

DynaSys

At QAD DynaSys we proud ourselves on delivering solutions that determine the precise future capacity requirements for an enterprise to trade into the future. As companies grow, capacity requirements grow. And the planet earth is no different. As populations grow the number of planets required to provide the water, energy, and food for the future population will grow.

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Digital Transformation of your Supply Chain Network in the Age of AI

Logistics Viewpoints

Trying to understand and implement artificial intelligence (AI) for your supply chain network during your digital transformation efforts, or let alone finding the right partner in your journey, is like walking in an enchanted forest full of myths, ogres, and lost souls trying to find a way out. Finding the right path in there to an eternal bliss starts with knowing what is not right.

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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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The Bionic Supply Chain: The human, robotics, drones inventory management workforce.

PINC

If you happen to be in the Toronto area or are planning to attend the Distribution Logistics Summit in the first week of November in Toronto, Canada, I would like to invite you to attend the panel titled The Bionic Supply Chain. Our CEO, Matt Yearling, will be hosting three seasoned executives to discuss how robots and advanced technologies are merging into day-to-day operations and helping organizations understand what it means to have a Bionic Supply Chain, and how this will affect you moving

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Listening and Learning from Leaders in Supply Chain Management

Tecsys

Every customer’s journey is unique; and each organization builds a culture and strategy to support… The post Listening and Learning from Leaders in Supply Chain Management appeared first on Tecsys.

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Predict Supply Chain Delays and Cost Overruns BEFORE they Happen!

Adexa

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to predict which orders for which customers are likely to be late even before they place the order and what might be the cause of it ? Or if you could know which of your customer are expected to place orders, in future, that might cost more because of their special requests or rush orders? Perhaps you know that certain items go a lot faster in months of November and December before the holidays.

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How IoT Improves Consumer Packaged Goods Value Chain

Savi

Many companies are already leveraging the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to turn orders around in a day, deliver customized orders and replenish stocks in short order. Agile supply chain operations, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, are using IoT and end-to-end shipment visibility software to outperform competitors with better service while keeping lower inventory levels.

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Why packaging plays a pivotal role in logistics?

20Cube Logistics

Packaging is an ever-evolving process. It’s no longer the old simple cardboard boxes but is a complex, coordinated system ensuring that the consignment can move safely and effectively without any damage throughout the supply chain movement. . According to Per Engelseth’s thesis on ‘The core role of packages in a logistics network’, “The basic objective of logistics is concerned with the provision of goods to an end-user and four main activities are involved in this provision of goods.

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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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Freight Savings: Implementing a TMS Can Save Even More Than You Think

MercuryGate

The post Freight Savings: Implementing a TMS Can Save Even More Than You Think appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Global Supply Chain News on Low Sulfur Fuel Surcharges will be Key Bargaining Point for Container Shipping Lines

Supply Chain Digest

As New Diesel Prices Expected to Soar, Sagging Volumes Leave Carriers with Little Leverage

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Duct Tape Can’t Fix Your Legacy Systems

ivalua

A decade ago, very few public sector jurisdictions or agencies were concerned about the amount of disparate systems they were operating and what data-driven challenges this might lead to in the future. If they needed contract management, they put a contract management system in place. If they needed an ERP system or a workforce management system, they would define their requirements and either select a system to implement or build their own. .

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Challenges With Auditing Freight Invoices Internally

GlobalTranz

Today shippers face considerable challenges. E-commerce continues to grow, and the modern consumer expects omnichannel delivery and order fulfillment options. At the same time, Amazon’s unrelenting push to offer faster, free service on millions of items undermines shippers’ ability to stay profitable. As a result, more shippers have turned to auditing freight invoices as a.read More.

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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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Managing demand, tariffs and sustainability: Top three automotive industry takeaways from Kinexions ‘19

Kinaxis

by Manda Schweitzer-Miller. Recently, over 500 supply chain professionals descended upon Orlando, Florida for a few days of awesome sessions, training courses and networking. It was Kinexions ‘19! Being a fairly new member of Kinaxis, this was my first Kinexions and I was excited to see what it was all about. With attendees from all over the world and across multiple industries, the type of discussions underway were diverse.

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Paris 2020 – FR – FLH

ivalua

Franck Lheureux Directeur Général EMEA. Franck apporte à IVALUA plus de 18 ans d’expérience chez des éditeurs de logiciels de premier plan, dont 10 ans chez le spécialiste de la Supply Chain JDA Software, où il a occupé divers postes de direction, notamment celui de Directeur Général délégué EMEA et Membre du comité de direction Groupe. Franck a accompagné des entreprises du Fortune 500 du monde entier dans la mise en œuvre de leur programme de transformation digitale et Supply Chain.

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Flatbed activity slows in October

DAT Solutions

Even though many flatbed markets are down compared to last month, we are seeing pockets of actively spread throughout the country, and several of the major flatbed lanes improved last week.

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Paris 2020 – EN – FLH

ivalua

Franck Lheureux General Manager EMEA. Franck brings to IVALUA more than 18 year’s experience in leading entreprise software companies, including 10 years domain experience in Supply Chain Software industry with JDA Software, where he ran multiple Sales management position, including Senior Vice President EMEA position and membership of JDA Executive Comittee.

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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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ERP, Baseball and Diseconomies of Scale

QAD

The book and movie, Moneyball tells the story of how Billy Beane , the General Manager for the Oakland Athletics, utilized a rogue statistical strategy to get the maximum value out of his minuscule baseball team budget. With severely limited resources, Beane put his strategy to work and successfully competed against teams with star players and budgets twice the amount as his.

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Paris 2020 – FR- Contact – FAQ

ivalua

Veuillez trouvez ci-dessous une Foire Aux Questions pour l’évènement Ivalua Now 2020 – Paris. Below are commonly asked questions regarding Ivalua NOW – Washington, D.C. Combien coûte l’évènement ? Ivalua Now 2020 est un évènement gratuit. Tous les professionnels des achats et supply chain sont les bienvenus, qu’importe votre niveau de maturité en matière de transformation numérique de votre processus achat.

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Savant Talks: Customisation as a Service

Savant Events

Ahead of Savant eCommerce Berlin , we had the pleasure of having a chat with Christian Möhring, CEO & Founder of Helmade and MadeOne, about mass customisation, in-store integrations and much more! Here’s what we talked about. From helmade to madeone. Tell us your story! I founded helmade in October 2015 with the vision in mind to make helmet design more accessible for many people.

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Transparency with Purpose – Public Sector Procurement

ivalua

Procurement transparency exists within the public sector because it is required by law. And yet, not all transparency is equally effective. In order for the public to be well-served by transparency, the agencies providing it need to consider which groups need transparency, why they need it, and what actions they expect to be able to take as a result of what they see.

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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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The Role of the CEO and ERP in Digital Transformation

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Digital transformation is a hot topic these days. As the name implies, a digital transformation journey is one that will – if it is successful – completely transform how an organization operates by overhauling old processes. This transformation could result in a completely different company and for this reason, it is imperative that the CEO becomes the […].

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Unique Problems Require Unique Solutions

ivalua

By now, the question has been asked so many times that it is hard to stifle an eye roll: Why can’t the public sector be more like the private sector in the implementation and use of technology? Enormous, complex, global enterprises use procurement technology to manage their spend, suppliers, contracts and bids every day without seeming to run into the same stumbling blocks as the public sector, which operates on a smaller and more localized basis.

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Gartner Smart Insights for the Real-Time Transportation Visibility and Monitoring Solution Market

Tive

Recently, Tive was named in the 2019 Gartner Smart Insights for the Real-Time Transportation Visibility and Monitoring Solution Market by analysts Bart De Muynck and Christian Titze. Gartner is one of the world’s leading research and advisory companies, and its Smart Insights series are used to highlight specific market sectors.

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Paris 2020 – FR – ASA

ivalua

Alex Saric Directeur Marketing Groupe. Alex possède 20 ans d’expérience dans le développement d’éditeurs de logiciels, dont quinze axés plus spécifiquement sur le marché des solutions e-Achats. Précédemment, Alex avait rejoint Ariba pour y monter une offre d’analyse des dépenses, qu’il a pilotée en qualité de Directeur Solutions Management. Par la suite, il a constitué et dirigé l’équipe en charge du Marketing en Europe chez Ariba jusqu’au rachat de cette entité par SAP, prenant alors la tête du

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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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Wellness is hot, Axway AMPLIFY and FHIR APIs can take the heat

Axway

November 19th will be hot! Come join Axway in New York City from 8 am to 11 am for our event: Wellness is hot, Axway AMPLIFY and FHIR APIs can take the heat. What’s it all about?

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Paris 2020 – EN – ASA

ivalua

Alex Saric CMO. Alex has 20 years’ experience growing enterprise software companies, including 15 focused on Spend Management. Alex joined Ariba to build its spend analytics business, which he led as general manager. He then built and led Ariba’s international marketing team until successful acquisition by SAP, transitioning to lead business network marketing globally.

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Aged Inventory Reports: What are they and how do they impact inventory control?

Unleashed

Aged inventory generally refers to inventory stock that has been held for longer than six months usually due to low consumption or slow sales. Aged inventory is not an overnight occurrence however, any surplus of inventory stock is both costing you money and restricting your cashflow. Aged inventory reports. Aged inventory reports are documents that provide key metrics about the status of your inventory and information provided is grouped by cost currency, product line, product identification, u