Wed.Jan 30, 2019

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Investors Call on Food Suppy Chain to Reduce Climate, Water Risk

Material Handling & Logistics

Investor groups want the fast-food industry to adopt a supplier policy with clear requirements for suppliers of animal protein products to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater impacts.

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Does Your Warehouse Check All The Boxes In This Freezing Weather?

Clear Spider

Warehouse safety is very important for employers. Implementing new technologies help improve and create a safer work environment. There are certain concerns that arise when the seasons change. Employers need to know how to keep their employees and operations safe during the freezing winter weather. You can’t change the weather forecast, but you can make […].

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7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. The Negotiation Before the Negotiation! Article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at [link]. Procurement bridges the gap between product, internal stakeholders and customers. In order to support the weight of internal and external expectations, Procurement teams must be prepared to perform as a key value adder within an organization.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

Part I in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . How does you r network design compare to others ? We recently created a quiz to help supply chain professionals answer this question. Our goal was to help you identify potential improvement opportunities by answering a few questions and get a temperature check on the current landscape of network design solutions.

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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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Where Would We Be Without All of the BullS&%T?

Supply Chain Shaman

It is 1:00 AM in Antwerp. I cannot sleep. As I stare at my keyboard sitting on my desk, my view is the train station draped in darkness. The quiet st reets await the coming of the soft snow. It seldom snows in Belgium: the city sits in anticipation. I hate jet lag. There is nothing worse than trying to sleep when you cannot, and you know that you should.

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Where Would We Be Without All of the BullS&%T?

Supply Chain Shaman

It is 1:00 AM in Antwerp. I cannot sleep. As I stare at t he keyboard sitting on my desk, my view is the train station draped in darkness. The quiet streets await the coming of the soft snow. It seldom snows in Belgium: the city sits in anticipation. I hate jet lag. There is nothing worse than trying to sleep when you cannot, and you know that you should.

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Which Industries Will Demand Greater Logistics Capabilities in 2019

GlobalTranz

Strong growth in the U.S. economy, regardless of the slight shakeup at the end of 2018, alludes to a year in which logistics capabilities will expand. Companies across the spectrum of the economy are expanding and demanding more from carriers and the logistics industry, and as a result, logistics capabilities will need to grow in accordance. Consider these industries and areas of the economy where logistics capabilities will expand throughout 2019.

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Personal Predictions for Supply Chain Management in 2019

SCM Research

The 20 th century was dominated by an analog, linear and fossil economy, but we are about to shift to an economy that is digital, circular and post-fossil. It seems obvious that our discipline, to remain relevant, needs to drive this transition rather than clutching at obsolete managerial practices and theoretical perspectives. Those who participate in developing new business models will gain a first-mover advantage, while those trying to keep the 20 th -century economy alive will soon be forced

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Transforming the Construction Materials Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

If you stop to think about it, the construction industry supply chain is all around us — it’s the roads we drive on, our houses and commercial buildings, and all sorts of other infrastructure. But when you take a closer look at how this supply chain works, you realize that there is a lot of waste and inefficiency. Simply put, there’s probably no other supply chain that is in more dire need of transformation than the construction industry 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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Second Annual GLOBE Awards Honor Excellence in Transportation Logistics

Supply Chain Collaborator

Awards Program Sponsored by UltraShipTMS Honors Transportation Excellence at Tyson Foods, Omnimax and Castellini Group. February 4, 2019 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Renowned provider of transportation logistics management software platform UltraShipTMS is proud to announce the recipients of their annual GLOBE awards. The GLOBE Awards program is designed to recognize excellence in the utilization and promotion of leading edge technologies supporting effective transportation planning, execution and managem

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Pursuit of Value, Good Data Underlie Healthcare Supply-Chain Trends in 2019

Supply Chain Brain

The continuing pursuit of value-based healthcare is at the crux of many of the trends that will impact the healthcare supply chain in 2019.

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Five key trends shaping the supply chain in 2019

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Charlie Pool, CEO, Stowga. 2018 was a turbulent year for most industries - logistics and supply chain was no exception. With Brexit, stockpiling, supply chain problems for big brands, and big name retailers closing stores left, right and centre, the next year is undoubtedly going to be as eventful, if not more so.

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Navigate Internal Improvement Programs With A Strategic Roadmap

USC Consulting Group

Modern businesses in almost every sector regularly greenlight operational improvement projects – internal initiatives designed to address serious shop floor deficiencies, boost product quality and output, and ultimately bolster the bottom line. However, a surprisingly large number of these efforts fail on multiple fronts , according to research from the Project Management Institute, an international professional organization for in-house strategic coordinators.

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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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Diversity Matters

JDA software

Recently, I experienced a case where I became very aware of diversity and the importance of it, while helping my daughters research and apply to colleges. Sometimes, diversity ‘sneaks up’ on you and you don’t realize how important it is until you look back on your experiences and become more aware of it. This is one of those experiences. Back in the spring of 2017, my daughters (18-year-old twins) were juniors at Coppell High School in Dallas Texas, mostly focused on grades and preparing for the

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Diversity Matters

BlueYonder

Recently, I experienced a case where I became very aware of diversity and the importance of it, while helping my daughters research and apply to colleges. Sometimes, diversity ‘sneaks up’ on you and you don’t realize how important it is until you look back on your experiences and become more aware of it. This is one of those experiences. Back in the spring of 2017, my daughters (18-year-old twins) were juniors at Coppell High School in Dallas Texas, mostly focused on grades and preparing for the

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The Supply Chain Academy and Leeds Trinity University have signed an agreement to deliver Degree Apprenticeship in supply chain management

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

25 apprentices, including employees of Uniserve, Henry Shein and Royal Mail have enrolled to study for the Supply Chain Leadership Professional Degree Apprenticeship over the next three years.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Jan. 31, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Major Change in Foxconn US Factory Plans, Amazon Flex Drivers Worried, AI will Indeed Eliminate Many Jobs, Giant Foods Building eCom Only Store

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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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5 Important Tips from Google’s ‘Secret’ Retail Playbook (and Summary)

TradeGecko

Google’s mistake is your gain. Google accidentally published a 108-page Playbook filled with best practices for retail and eCommerce UX design, and subtitled “Ecommerce playbook. Creating frictionless experience across the funnel.” While it is marked “proprietary + confidential,” the PDF is indexed by the search engine giant and is freely available to access online.

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Integration as a Service: Why do you need iPaaS?

Axway

To succeed in digital transformation goals, businesses need to integrate more systems, people and things than ever before.

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TMS – Visibility, Productivity, Performance and Savings

Supply Chain Collaborator

A recent American Shipper report on the subject of domestic TMS adoption by shippers in the US reveals that just shy of two thirds of US companies with more than $100 million in annual freight spend are using TMS systems to manage transportation. The same report shows that a whopping 58% of TMS users are yielding freight spend reductions between 2% and 10% – the largest segment (28%) capturing around 8% annual freight savings.

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Lessons in Transportation Sourcing Optimization Presented by Chainalytics & Coupa

CHAINalytics

The post Lessons in Transportation Sourcing Optimization Presented by Chainalytics & Coupa appeared first on Chainalytics.

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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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Omnichannel Operations are the New Retail Standard

Enterra Insights

The past holiday season solidified the importance of omnichannel operations in the retail sector. Paul A. Myerson ( @Paul_A_Myerson ), a supply chain instructor at Monmouth University, notes, “An omnichannel retail strategy provides a consistent shopping experience across different channels and devices, requiring your supply chain to offer a smooth, positive experience for customers — no matter where and how they interact with your brand.”[1] Adam Robinson, a marketing strategist at

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Retailers focus on savings to avoid becoming another high street casualty

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Dave Locke, Field CTO at World Wide Technology, explores how retailers can reassess their 2019 strategies and reduce outgoings in an increasingly challenging environment.

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Tips For Your Small Business to Ensure Profitability During the Holidays

Unleashed

The holiday season is a pressing time not only for families but also for small businesses who are trying to figure out a fool-proof way to brave the rush of shoppers in one month to the anticlimactic downturn in the next. It does not, however, have to be doom and gloom. In this article, we consider some strategies small businesses can implement to strengthen their ability to weather the storm of inventory management during the holidays.

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Vietnamese Dong Press Release

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Claritum processes first transaction in Vietnamese Dong. Bath, UK (January 1st , 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions in Vietnamese Dong. “With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide from the Cloud, we see many different currencies being used to transact purchases.” said Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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RFID, AIDC and IoT News on Israeli Company Claims Breakthrough in Low Cost Passive Bluetooth Chip and Sensors

Supply Chain Digest

New Tags Harvest Energy from Ambient WiFi and Cellular Signals

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Malaysian Ringgit Press Release

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Claritum processes first transaction in Malaysian Ringgit. Bath, UK (January 1st , 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions in Malaysian Ringgit. “With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide from the Cloud, we see many different currencies being used to transact purchases.” said Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Clarit