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The TMS Outlook: 2020 Update

Logistics Viewpoints

I recently wrapped up my Transportation Management Systems market study which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2024, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, and customer size. The study includes a holistic view of the TMS outlook. I was recently interviewed by ARC Advisory Group’s Allen Avery to take a deeper look into the TMS outlook for the foreseeable future and identify some of the larger trends in the TMS market

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Managing Reverse Logistics: The Value of Integration

GlobalTranz

Managing reverse logistics can be challenging. It includes tapping carriers and non-traditional returns options to give customers a positive experience. Unfortunately, the rate of returns and demand for reverse logistics are increasing. As reported by Supply Chain Dive, the Reverse Logistics Association estimated “more than $550 billion worth of returns move through the economy per.read More.

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LogiSYM Webinars: e-Commerce – How Does e-Commerce Transform Today’s Supply Chain?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Thursday, 13 August | 11:00 SGT. We all see that e-Commerce is growing by leaps and bounds but why are e-commerce supply chains different from traditional supply chains – or are they? – Is only the last mile delivery portion that is different? – What does the future of home delivery look like? – Differences in pick & pack operation. – Eco-Friendly supply chain.

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ToolsGroup Wins Microsoft’s Best ISV Solution Innovation Award

ToolsGroup

Prestigious award presented by Microsoft at the Inspire event. BOSTON and MILAN (July 29, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, is proud to announce it has been awarded Microsoft’s Best ISV Solution Innovation Award at Inspire 2020, the annual event dedicated to the Microsoft partners ecosystem. ToolsGroup won the award, presented by Microsoft Italia, for the dizzying growth of its global partnership activity in a short time, and its close collaboration with Micros

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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PINC named Top Supply Chain Projects for 2020 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

PINC

Union City, CA – July 29th, 2020 – Supply & Demand Chain Executive , the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected PINC, the leader in digital yard ™ solutions, as a recipient of an SDCE 100 Award for 2020. The SDCE 100 spotlights successful and innovative projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across the range of supply chain functions.

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How a Collaborative Logistics Platform Mitigates Supply Chain Disruption

Turvo

The value of a collaborative logistics platform implementation is quite clear. Collaborative logistics affords an opportunity for businesses to unlock more resilience and flexibility in their supply chains. IMD.org previously talked about the lessons learned on resilience for global value chains under threat and the five supply chain resilience ‘levers ’ companies should put in place.

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Sewing in Creativity

BlueYonder

Kavitha Tumuluri learned the meaning of hard work from a young age. As the second oldest of five, she felt she had to be a role model for her younger siblings, which taught her to be an authentic, empathetic teacher and a mentor from a very young age. Today, she is a vice president, Information Technology for Blue Yonder in Hyderabad, India. She brings an artistic and creative brain to work because she believes this will help create magic in her teams and the solutions they work on.

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Overcoming Vendor Management Challenges!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. Vendor Management Challenges article and permission to publish here provided by Aggy Zawadzka at straightnorth.com. Executives and managers already understand how vital it is to manage employees. However, for those who work in the supply chain industry, there is the added difficulty of vendor management.

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Resilinc and CreditRiskMonitor Announce Partnership to Drive Supply Chain Resiliency

Resilinc

Integrated Solution Will Enable Fortune 1000 Organizations to Achieve Greater Visibility into Financial Health of Suppliers.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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How to Implement Multi-Factor Authentication — and Why It Matters

Supply Chain Brain

There's been an increase in supply-chain cyberattacks during the COVID-19 pandemic — and it’s likely to keep rising.

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End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility: a £1Bn Cautionary Tale

Maine Pointe

A UK online retailer recently received a very expensive lesson in the importance of supply chain risk management. Maine Pointe's Eduardo Kuehnel and Burton White discuss why this should act as a catalyst to business leaders to urgently review their own supply base and ask themselves : Can we afford to lose £1Bn ?

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Challenges facing the Financial Services sector

Proxima

Today, economists are reporting we may be facing another global economic crisis. In many ways, the financial services sector continues to show resiliency and has contributed greatly to mitigating the pandemic-caused recession, ensuring the world could transact despite the lockdown. However, the financial services sector is not out of the woods yet and firms that proactively manage future supply chain challenges will outperform their peers.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting July 30, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Show us your Supply Chain Wit

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Tail Inventory: The Silent Cost Driver You Shouldn't Ignore

Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.

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Sorry, I Was On Mute

Talking Logistics

[silence]. Oh, sorry, I was on mute. It happens at least once a week: someone on a Zoom call forgets that they’re on mute. They start talking, but nobody can hear them. “I think you’re on mute,” another participant will say. Oh, yes, sorry, I was on mute. I’ve been on mute. Read more Sorry, I Was On Mute. The post Sorry, I Was On Mute appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on What Sectors are Most Aggressive in Developing Women in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

Consumer Goods Companies Seem to be in the Lead, but Only 29 Percent have Formal Targets, Gartner Research Finds

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COVID-19 disrupts normal seasonal trends on spot market

DAT Solutions

The coronavirus continues to drive the direction of the freight economy, with varied results across different regions that have caused disruptions to carrier networks.

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LTL Basics with Doug Sartain

The Logistics of Logistics

The post LTL Basics with Doug Sartain appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Marketing and Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

Anyone who surfs the web on a regular basis knows they will start seeing advertisements for products for which they’ve shown an interest. Humans aren’t serving up those ads; rather, some sort of cognitive technology is being used. Cognitive technologies fall under the umbrella term “artificial intelligence” (AI). There is hardly an area of human activity that isn’t impacted in some way by cognitive technologies.

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How Procurement can Improve Inventory Management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

One thing that procurement departments are working intensively on at the moment is how to spend more effectively. That doesn’t mean just cost-cutting, but where to prioritize spending. Given that direct and indirect materials make up at least 50% of the typical manufacturer’s costs, what procurement can do to improve inventory management is an obvious place […].

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Cross-Border E-Commerce Delivery

Supply Chain Brain

Selling across borders means you can reach new customers in bigger and faster-growing markets. Yet businesses can become intimidated by the operational complexities of selling internationally, especially when it comes to delivery and returns.

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5 Steps for Optimizing Waste Management at Your Warehouse

IT Supply Chain

By Erich Lawson (pictured) Online Marketing Manager of Compactor Management Company

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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A guide to selling online in the USA

Vinculum

America is a world leader in cross-border eCommerce exports and imports. eCommerce behemoth like eBay and Amazon belongs to America. The USA is the land of opportunity and a superpower in the world of online sales. According to Statista, U.S. online retail sales of physical goods amounted to 343.15 billion US dollars, in 2019 and are estimated to reach close to 476.5 billion US dollars in 2024.

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This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. This week in logistics we are taking a look at an article published in. Freight Waves. by. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. .

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Are your scorecards aligning or diverging for digital transformation?

Axway

Know the old saying that “What gets measured gets improved?” It has never been truer than today.

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This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. This week in logistics we are taking a look at an article published in. Freight Waves. by. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. .

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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UK manufacturing exports hit record low in Q2 2020

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

UK manufacturing exports fell sharply in Q2 2020, according to the Lloyds Bank International Trade Index.

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Growing Blacklists of Chinese Companies Adds to Risk of Chinese Sourcing

Supply Chain Digest

US Government Adds 11 More to List Associated with Forced Labor in China

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The last mile of logistics: Will we soon be getting parcels from a robot courier?

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

CEP service providers face major challenges. Firstly, they have to cope with the high volume of orders, which – driven by e-commerce – is constantly increasing.