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Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

Groundhog Day is celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a Groundhog emerges fro m the burrow, then the forecast of an early spring is predicted. If it is sunny, and the groundhog sees his shadow, then the groundhog retreats back into the hole and the prediction is for winter weather to persist for six more weeks. It is a ritual.

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In Praise of the Digital Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Most analysts agree that in order survive and thrive in the years ahead industrial age organizations need to transform into … Continued. The post In Praise of the Digital Supply Chain appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Gartner Keynote: Algorithms Rule the World (and the Supply Chain)

Logility

Algorithms impact our daily lives from the ads we see online to the price and availability of goods we want at the store. As supply chain professionals, algorithms are transforming the way we do business, the way we optimize our supply chains. David Willis, chief of research at Gartner, kicked off this week’s 2016 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference with a focus on how algorithms impact how the world works and how we must balance agility and stability to take advantage of the new opp

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What is “push” and “pull” distribution?” – Part 14

APICS

In the previous blog a variety of pull system techniques were introduced: electronic techniques (EDI, CPFR, QR, and POS); a lean technique (kanban); and computer application-based (ROP and DRP). It was also stated that there are two essential criteria to consider when selecting a pull technique: 1) distribution lead time, and 2) the originating source of replenishment: either an outside supplier or an internal plant.

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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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Will Big Data change the world?

Arkieva

“ The Death of ‘e’ and the Birth of the Real New Economy ”, “Blown to Bits”, … that were some of the books I read when I started my career in IT in the late nineties. Today we face a comparable optimism and belief in Big Data and Manufacturing 3.0. Where the internet was going to take out the middle man and connect enterprises into seamless supply and demand networks, Big Data and Manufacturing 3.0 promise to take out the human interaction.

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3 Unobvious Supply Chain Risks Companies Shouldn't Overlook

Resilinc

Supply chain practitioners, accustomed to the ongoing disruptions throughout the sub-tier supply chain, are familiar with the usual risks that threaten supply chain continuity: factory fires, port disruptions, force majeure, chemical spills, and so on. But as global supply chains grow more interconnected , seemingly unrelated events can have a ripple effect, branching out and impacting your supply chain.

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Five TMS Change Management Queries that Every RFP Must Address

TMC

Five TMS Change Management Queries that Every RFP Must Address.Connect. Editor’s note: This post originally ran in September 2015. Since this is a relevant topic, we wanted to share it with you again. When issuing a request for proposal (RFP) for a transportation management system (TMS) , shippers often overlook implementation/change management issues that are critical to the project’s success.

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Guest post: Technology Solutions Are The Secret Weapon For Bringing CSR Into Procurement

EcoVadis

Procurement technology should make it easy to source ethically. Guest post by Charlotte Spencer-Smith, Marketing, Pool4Tool. Supply chain transparency is one of the key challenges facing Procurement and Sourcing in the coming years. There is growing awareness among consumers of the effect of supply chains on environmental sustainability and social well-being, for example, child labor.

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Graduation: Now What? Is the Supply Chain Industry for You?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Graduation: Now What? Is the Supply Chain Industry for You? Transportfolio. College graduation can be both an exciting and stressful time. The overwhelming anticipation of the “real world” and the onslaught of job applications can be daunting, but it’s truly a thrilling transition with limitless possibilities. As I approached graduation, I pictured myself in a million different scenarios; however, of all the industries I imagined myself in, I can’t say supply chain was one of them.

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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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Global Supply Chain News on That Did Not Take Long, as Third Major Container Shipping Alliance Formed that May Ultimately Include All the Orphans

Supply Chain Digest

In Something of a Shotgun Wedding,Hapag Lloyd Leads New Vessel Sharing Agreement, Hints at End of Slow Steaming

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Takealot.com: Optimized stock assortment for extensive product range

RELEX Solutions

Takealot.com, South Africa’s largest online retailer, chose RELEX to support their demand forecasting, replenishment, inventory management, and reporting. Watch Rozanne Truter, Retail Divisions Manager, explain how RELEX has provided a dynamic framework for the work of category managers, and clearly reduced the time spent on routine ordering, allowing more focus on value-adding tasks instead.

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Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016 Day 1 Video Review and Commen

Supply Chain Digest

Developing BiModal Supply Chain Capabilities, Smart Crowdsourcing Program for Supply Chain Ideas by Nestle, Why Sales Should Not Own Demand Planning, Guidelines on Outsourcing Logistics

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5 Factors That Go Into LTL Freight Shipping Rates

GlobalTranz

Understanding how less-than-truckload (LTL) freight shipping rates are calculated is critical to surviving and thriving in logistics. Throughout the industry, reports William B. Cassidy of JOC.com, overall freight shipping rates are decreasing. Yet, the cost of LTL is increasing, if not remaining the same. Some shippers may still this rise in rates is unjustified, and history would suggest the same.

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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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Supply Chain News on Rail Carriers See Soft Volumes in Q1, but Rates, Efficiency Gains Protect Profits

Supply Chain Digest

Why are Rates Up when Volumes are Down.

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A Most Impressive IoT Project

Logistics Viewpoints

Over 9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) are transported through the port every year, and this is forecast to double by 2025. But the Hamburg Port is located in an urban area and they cannot increase the size of the port to handle increased traffic. To handle shipments efficiently, the HPA must operate smarter. To help with this, this Port has undertaken one of the most impressive IoT projects this writer has seen.

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Alliances in the Shipping Industry: A Dance among Top Global Container Lines

Elementum

The game of musical chairs in the container shipping industry continues: Several players have agreed to form shipping alliances to combat the confluence of a 30% oversupply of ships and weaker consumer demand amid a faltering global economy. This dance among global container-ship operators is now heating up with three main partnerships projected to dominate the industry.

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Nurture, Grow, and Cultivate Your Third Party Logistics Strategy

Tompkins Blog

Dear 3PL Provider: Spring has arrived. It is time to cultivate. Use this primer to protect and grow your customer base.

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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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Secondary Co Packing Services and Your 3PL?

Consumer Goods Logistics

When it comes to product packaging, p rimary packaging deals with the first layer of packaging that directly contacts the product. Secondary co packing services refers to the next layer of packaging used to group various pre-packaged products together. This final packaging function can include kitting, bundling and sealing products in hundreds of different ways to ready them for retail sale.

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3 Things to Stop Doing If You Want To Reduce Working Capital

Logistics Bureau

As a novel change to sharing tips on what to do, I thought I’d continue this month’s focus on working capital reduction with a post on things you might consider doing less of or even not doing at all. More specifically, this post delves a little into three things companies do, which may seem not to do any obvious harm, but which actually increase the amount of working capital required to operate a supply chain.

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Supply Chain Transparency – The importance of total command in your supply chain

RELEX Solutions

The biggest single supply chain theme in the news these last months has been transparency. In the interconnected world we now find ourselves in, one in which products, parts or ingredients travel half way round the planet in a day, and news or gossip travels all the way around the globe a million times over in minutes, we need tight control over our supply chains.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. Three large, international take-overs are changing the face of the market. as the advance of e-commerce continues, companies with an omnichannel approach are increasingly implementing specific order management systems. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.