Wed.Jul 13, 2022

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Supply Chain Fraud 101

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain disruptions are continuing to occur for a variety of reasons. Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few. One issue that does not get talked about as much, however, is supply chain fraud.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are Here to Stay with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

Steve Elwell and Joe Lynch discuss why supply chain disruptions are here to stay. Steve is he Managing Director of Haxlar , an integrated manufacturing solutions provider, delivering design, manufacturing, sourcing, supply chain, and product management services for a wide range of industries. About Steve Elwell. Steve Elwell is the Managing Director of Haxlar , a contract manufacturing company that offers custom-tailored, flexible, and highly competitive contract manufacturing solutions.

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5 Tips to Leverage Digital Tools to Deliver Tangible Sustainability Improvements

ivalua

Procurement Leaders Webinar. Speakers: Arnaud Malardé, Ivalua | Hélène Vermont, Michelin Group. With mounting pressure for organizations to make tangible contributions to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, the procurement function must strategize to implement and report their collective efforts. Buyers are expected to scrutinize every aspect of the purchasing process to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint, source sustainable materials, and promote diversity.

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Supply Chain Greenwashing? Six Certifications to Look For

Supply Chain Brain

In recent years, consumers have become increasingly interested in shopping sustainably. With that increasing interest has come a lot of confusion — 64% of Americans are willing to pay more for sustainable products, but 26% don’t know how to identify them.

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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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Future State Design and Detailed Roadmap Development: Kicking Off the Transformation

CHAINalytics

Now the supply chain transformation begins in earnest. The design of the sought-after future state and the planning of a detailed development roadmap are at a critical stage. It will lead to either a timely completion or make the path ahead bumpier and costlier than necessary. This is the third in a four-part blog post … The post Future State Design and Detailed Roadmap Development: Kicking Off the Transformation appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Supply Chains Unlikely to Stabilize Until 2024, Survey Finds

Supply Chain Brain

More than half of supply chain executives don’t expect a "return to normal" until the first half of 2024 or beyond, according to a new survey.

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The missing link – Delivering digitalisation for contract packing

IT Supply Chain

By Josephine Coombe (pictured). Managing Director of Nulogy in Europe. The post The missing link – Delivering digitalisation for contract packing appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Can Globalization Be Rejuvenated?

MIT Supply Chain

Is globalization in terminal decline, or will it survive or even thrive in some other form? Globalization?—?in particular, international trade?—?is under attack on so many fronts that its future viability is being called into question. At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in May 2022 in Davos, Switzerland?—?perhaps the most well-known cheerleading platform for global trade?

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Watch: How Can Distributors Manage Strained Working Capital?

Supply Chain Brain

Maureen Sullivan, head of supply chain finance with MUFG, explains how current product shortages are driving a shift in inventory management away from “just in time” to “just in case.”.

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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 Transformation to Lower Costs - 12 Questions to Ask

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Why do you need this transformation?

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How to Make the Most of Supplier Rebate Programs

Supply Chain Brain

Wholesale distributors are facing a wide range of global supply chain disruptions — ongoing shortages, longer lead times, higher logistics costs and more — forcing many businesses to seek new avenues to drive revenue.

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Taking Integrated Planning and Execution to the Next Level

John Galt

Connecting supply chain planning and execution is a significant milestone for supply chain organizations, one that pays huge dividends by enabling them to take orders and execute delivery with a lot more visibility and efficiency.

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Demand Patterns Inside a Period

Arkieva

Demand forecasting is often done in planning buckets such as months or weeks. But what about the pattern of demand inside a period? Whatever pattern it is, a demand planner should strive to understand it. Demand Patterns Inside a Period was first posted on July 13, 2022 at 7:48 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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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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Boohoo’s crocodile tears over ending free returns

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). Head of Consumer Research, ParcelHero. The post Boohoo’s crocodile tears over ending free returns appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for July 14, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

Changing Global Demographics. Walmart Making Big Electric Van Buy. June Inflation off the Charts.

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Expert Comment on MS phishing campaign

IT Supply Chain

By Jasson Casey (pictured). CTO, Beyond Identity. The post Expert Comment on MS phishing campaign appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Walmart Makes A Shrewd Deal with an EV Start-Up

Supply Chain Matters

In our previously published Supply Chain Matters Supply Chain Management Technology Market Perspective commentary, Implications of a More Conservative Private Equity Funding Climate in the Months Ahead , we educated readers on the implications of private equity investment deals now being constricted by both a significantly higher cost of capital along with the growing uncertainties of economic recession.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Microsoft warning of AiTM attack

IT Supply Chain

By Sharon Nachshony (pictured). Security Researcher, Silverfort. The post Microsoft warning of AiTM attack appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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ThroughPut Inc. Announces New AI-powered Supply Chain Capabilities for the Cement Industry to Stride Through Market Disruptions & Erratic Supply Chain Uncertainties?

ThroughPut

Dynamic AI-driven Demand Planning, Logistics and Distribution Capabilities to Enable Cement Manufacturers Achieve Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Unlock Robust Supply Chain Efficiencies . PALO ALTO, Calif., July. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — ThroughPut Inc., the Industrial AI Supply Chain pioneer, today announced key cement industry focused strategic platform updates to its Demand Planning and Distribution Software Modules.

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Blanket Orders

The Smart Software

Our customers are great teachers who have always helped us bridge the gap between textbook theory and practical application. A prime example happened over twenty years ago, when we were introduced to the phenomenon of intermittent demand, which is common among spare parts but rare among the finished goods our original customers working in sales and marketing.

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Implications of a More Conservative Private Equity Funding Climate in the Months Ahead

Supply Chain Matters

Followers of Supply Chain Matters have likely observed the rather large number of private equity investments being made in supply chain focused technology start-ups and promising firms over these prior months. There was a time in late 2020 and all of 2021 when we could literally not keep-up with the numbers of funding rounds being announced in our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech column, along with the extraordinary large valuations being affixed to unprofitable or

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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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Don’t Skip the Sunscreen! One Associate’s Story About Skin Health

BlueYonder

July is UV Safety Awareness Month, aimed at spreading awareness about how important it is to protect skin from the harmful side effects of the sun. Associate Hannah Ling shares her personal experience about why it is important to protect your skin. It’s that time of year again! A time where PTO, H2O, and SPF are all frequently utilized. A time when sunglasses, shade, and a sun-kissed glow all make an appearance on our much-anticipated beach vacations.

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Global Procurement Services and Strategic Sourcing – ProcurePort

ProcurePort

• The quest for efficiency and agility in supply chains has led companies to develop relationships with suppliers from all over the world. • Companies cannot limit themselves to only sourcing from one supplier or market when value opportunities abound elsewhere. • Global trade has led to complications in supply chains and despite the evolution […].

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Supply Chain New Is the Reshoring Movement Finally gaining Steam

Supply Chain Digest

Spending on US Factory Construction is Soaring

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Enabling Safety and Sustainability with Drug Take Back Programs 

Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles

Drug take back programs are a crucial step in the pharmaceutical industry’s push to become a safer, more sustainable industry as a whole.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Blanket Orders - Smart Software

The Smart Software

Learn how to develop optimal stocking policies when you use blanket orders, for fixed replenishment quantities arriving at fixed intervals.

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Make Store Replenishment a Competitive Advantage with Robotic Automation

Supply Chain Brain

Efficient store replenishment is a critical factor when it comes to driving your business to success. With growing labor shortages and increasing costs, it has become imperative for you to explore robotic automation as a solution to ensuring you keep your stores stocked and ready for your customers.

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What Is the Best Project Management Software for Manufacturing?

Elementum

Choosing a project management software for a manufacturing firm can be tricky, as it must complement and support service management. Proper service management is a core opportunity for manufacturers to identify the underlying cause of issues and resolve them. Therefore, using the best project management software isn’t necessarily a standalone solution, but a compatible resource that can integrate with other essential digital assets.