Mon.Sep 04, 2017

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Mining Supply Chain Data for Insights

Supply Chain Shaman

Mine sweeping is essential to warfare. Soldiers use special devices to detect underground mines and disarm them from exploding before they cause harm. At Supply Chain Insights, we have been actively working in our own mine sweeping project. Over the course of the last quarter, with the help from Cloudera, we built a data lake of with data from 1449 public companies.

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Editor’s Pick: Profiles in Yard Management Excellence – Pactiv

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Pick ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. In this post, Rafael Granato from PINC Solutions summarizes a video case study we featured recently on Talking Logistics, part of our “Profiles in Yard Management Excellence” series where we highlight companies (in this case, Pactiv) that are leading the w

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Supply Chain Impact of Hurricane Harvey Could Be Worse than Expected

Material Handling & Logistics

Interconnected global supply chains, heavy dependence on chemical products and the lack of sub-tier visibility are key factors affecting recovery timelines. The global supply chain impact of Hurricane Harvey could be unprecedented, widespread and realized, not only in the near term, but in weeks and months to come, according to Bindiya Vakil, CEO and founder, and Joe Carson, chief strategy officer, of Resilinc , a provider of supply chain risk and resiliency solutions.

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Supply Chain 4.0 enabling the Digital Enterprise and Industry 4.0

Vecco International

The real value of the “Digital Enterprise” movement & Industry 4.0 can only be realized unless it is encompassed and orchestrated by parallel automation/Digitization of the ‘Supply Chain’ delivery mechanism. “Global supply chain flows must become increasingly digital and integrated, and end-to-end data will be driven in real-time, exponentially increasing upstream information flows and driving integration across the extended value chain”… thus the r

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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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“While Supplies Last”– Limited Editions Create Supply Chain Challenges

All Things Supply Chain

Some advertisements end with the line saying, “Get yours while supplies last”.

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Labor Day 2017

Enterra Insights

Although most Americans celebrate Labor Day as the unofficial end of summer and see it as a final opportunity to … Continued. The post Labor Day 2017 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How to Choose the Best Trucking Company

3PL Insights

With so many trucking companies now competing nationally and internationally, customers who need to ship freight as quickly and efficiently as possible often find themselves overwhelmed by the quantity of companies that use various methods to gain business. To narrow down your list of trucking companies to the best one for your specific shipping requirements, consider these tips: Do your research.

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How to minimize your last mile costs

Deliv

Many consumers don’t realize everything that goes into delivering a purchase that they made online. You click that buy button and, somewhere hundreds of miles away, your product is selected, wrapped, boxed and taped shut. It’s thrown down a few chutes and across conveyor belts, and prepared for shipping. There’s countless shipping employees and truck drivers and infrastructure, but do you know the most expensive part?

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World Bank Study: Global Shortage of Logistics Skills (Guest Post by Kai Hoberg, KLU)

SCM Research

My guest post today comes from Kai Hoberg from the Kühne Logistics University (KLU) in Hamburg. Together with his co-authors, Alan McKinnon and Christoph Flöthmann, he has just published a new report, which is commissioned by the World Bank and analyzes the shortage of qualified logistics personnel. Qualified logistics personnel is in short supply worldwide.

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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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ChefsOrder: Bringing Aggregation and Infomediation to the Restaurant Industry

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Aditi Dutt Chaudhuri, James Gische, Felipe Caro. The restaurant industry is one of the few industries in which technology adoption has been slow. Many restaurants still rely on conventional ways of ordering supplies and ingredients over the phone and using simple manual entry methods with pen and paper. Although this method has worked over the years, it is error-prone and time-consuming to track order histories.

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ChefsOrder: Bringing Aggregation and Infomediation to the Restaurant Industry

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Aditi Dutt Chaudhuri, James Gische, Felipe Caro. The restaurant industry is one of the few industries in which technology adoption has been slow. Many restaurants still rely on conventional ways of ordering supplies and ingredients over the phone and using simple manual entry methods with pen and paper. Although this method has worked over the years, it is error-prone and time-consuming to track order histories.