Mon.May 16, 2022

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC has done research and writing on supply chain collaboration networks. A supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply chain. SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds.

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Supply Chain’s Most Profitable Four-Letter Word: Data

Talking Logistics

Today, supply chain and logistics professionals are awash in all kinds of data. So, why do some companies seem to be drowning in it, while others find a way to convert it into business value? One area in particular where data plays a critical role is in transportation procurement. How does analyzing data effectively connect. Read more Supply Chain’s Most Profitable Four-Letter Word: Data.

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Watch: Digital Data Drives Supply Chain Design

Supply Chain Brain

Digitizing data is of immense help in mitigating supply chain risks, says Bernard Tremblay, chief executive officer of the U.S. and Canada for Miebach Consulting.

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How Oil and Gas Companies Can Benefit from 3PL | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

The oil and gas supply chain is an irreplaceable part of people’s lives: it warms houses and offices, fuels vehicles, and makes the world go around. Unlike any other industry, oil and gas supply chains are incredibly complex.

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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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Making Better Decisions, Faster in the New Era of Supply Chain Execution & Orchestration

Supply Chain Brain

In this executive panel, Blue Yonder and Armada Supply Chain Solutions discuss top challenges that continue to test supply chain teams across industries, from labor shortages and higher customer expectations to evolving regulations, sanctions, and international pressures.

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A call for action to Supply Chain leaders

Prophetic Technology

Significant advances in communication worldwide and the enormous increase in data processing capacity generated exponential growth in the Supply Chain (SC) complexity revealing a substantial rise in risks globally.

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The Power of Data Aggregation

LevaData

Are you paying more than your competitors or peers for the same component? If so, which negotiation strategies—or alternative sourcing decisions—might reduce the gap? Does a proliferation of component stock-keeping units provide an opportunity for component aggregation and consequent price reduction? And does your supplier base have inherently greater risk exposure than those of your competitors or peers?

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Real-time data and the road to net-zero

IT Supply Chain

By Phillip van der Wilt (pictured). VP EMEA, Samsara. The post Real-time data and the road to net-zero appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Stord Solve E-Commerce Supply Chain Challenges

Stord

Salesforce Commerce Cloud storefronts easily can access e-commerce fulfillment services with Stord’s Cloud Supply Chain app

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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 Can You Automate Procurement and Supply Chain Jobs?

All Things Supply Chain

Automation has brought a lot of value to industries across the United States in recent years.

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6 Questions to Ask Your Recovery Audit Company Before Hiring

TransAudit

Your recovery audit company can function as a valuable source of savings and business intelligence. Together, these two attributes can make a direct impact on your bottom line. However, not all recovery audit companies are created equally. Because of this, it’s imperative for you to know how to choose the best recovery audit company. In other words, you should be able to audit the recovery audit company.

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How Women Could Drive Further Growth in Manufacturing

DELMIA Quintiq

Despite the effects that recent disruptions have had on global economies, the manufacturing sector continues to exhibit strong growth with its production output growing to $41.9 trillion in 2021, up from $39.3 trillion in 2020 [i]. But in order to sustain this continued growth, the global manufacturing sector has a challenge to overcome: the largest skills gap the industry has ever seen.

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Supply Chain News on Shopify Tries to Out Amazon Amazon with Acquisition of Deliverr

Supply Chain Digest

eCommerce Fulfillment Platform will Enable End to End Logistics and Inventory Management, Shopify Says

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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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FDA Announces Steps to Help Boost Baby-Formula Supply

Supply Chain Brain

Abbott Laboratories reached a pact with U.S. authorities that would allow it to begin making baby formula again at a troubled plant in Michigan, a move that could help ease a supply shortfall that has rattled many parents.

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Supply Chain News on Report Says Freight Volumes Starting to Slow

Supply Chain Digest

Rates still Up, but Trajectory Likely will Change Soon

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Transforming Global Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That’s an oft-quoted saying of uncertain origin dating back to the 1980s. It rings so true, however, that it has often been misattributed to the late Albert Einstein to ensure it maintains it gravitas. Many pundits insist that anyone who believes the global supply chain is going to return to normal is suffering from this form of insanity.

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Fewer Nuggets, Smaller Salads: Shrinkflation Hits U.S. Restaurants

Supply Chain Brain

America’s restaurants are in the same boat as the rest of the country, battling the soaring food and fuel costs that recently helped send U.S. inflation to a 40-year high.

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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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AWS Rekognition image analysis plugin for API Builder

Axway

This blog post describes an image analysis plugin for API Builder based on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Rekognition. The plugin is intended to help create API Builder-based APIs and integrations that include image analysis.

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TA Industrial + Xeeva Marketplace – How Public Catalogs Benefit Our Partner Suppliers and Customers

Xeeva

This week on supplier showcase we had Quinn Phelps, Supplier Partnerships and Success Manager for Xeeva Marketplace, interview one of our preferred suppliers, Peter Koury from TA Industrial. TA Industrial is a member of Xeeva’s Supplier Marketplace and has proven they can provide high-quality products on a consistent basis for Xeeva customers. They specialize in […].

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AWS Rekognition image analysis plugin for API Builder

Axway

This blog post describes an image analysis plugin for API Builder based on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Rekognition. The plugin is intended to help create API Builder-based APIs and integrations that include image analysis.

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Top 8 E-commerce Trends in 2022

Vinculum

As the world enters the era of technology, the e-commerce business model is skyrocketing to attract a huge crowd. With the start of the new year 2022, some recent trends are showcased in the growing e-commerce industries to excel in the business and make a rise in the sales channel in a significant way. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the market up and down and imposed lots of trade restrictions to take safety measures at times of shopping.

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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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AWS Rekognition image analysis plugin for API Builder

Axway

This blog post describes an image analysis plugin for API Builder based on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Rekognition. The plugin is intended to help create API Builder-based APIs and integrations that include image analysis.

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6 Ways to Protect Your Business from Ransomware Attacks!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Why Cyber Security is Important! As a business owner, you need to be aware of the threat of ransomware which holds data hostage in exchange for payment. This form of malware is not new. So, why is it even more important to protect your data against this type of threat? The pandemic has prompted a surge in digitization in the last couple of years: more people work remotely, and we use the internet to hold meetings and exchange

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Dynamic Safety Stock in Retail

BlueYonder

Underselling and overselling are common challenges for most retailers. On the one hand, companies strive to place just enough quantities of goods at the right locations, particularly at the right stores to enable buy-online-pickup-in store (BOPIS). On the other hand, companies fear the risk of stocking excess inventory, which needs to be at a deep markdown for selling.

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Staying Ahead of Holiday Allocation Issues as a Candy and Snacks Brand

Alloy

The candy and snacks category is probably the most challenging category in the supply chain, perhaps second only to floral. The immense complexity of seasonality, temperature control, expiration dates, holiday packaging and event displays can cause even the best-oiled team to falter. “Fighting the fire” after an issue is identified can result in rushed and sloppy allocation decisions.

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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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AP News: McDonald’s to sell its Russian business, try to keep workers

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Baby Formula Shortage Across the U.S. Not a Reflection of Global Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Matters

Over the past several weeks there has been a lot of concern on the part of parents and families regarding the ongoing availability of baby formula across the United States. Supply Chain Matters would like to clarify that this shortage is not related to global supply chain disruptions but rather domestic supply network disruption. The shortage has reached a stage where store out-of-stock levels have reached levels of 40 percent according to Datasembly , a retail analysis firm.