Fri.Jun 07, 2019

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Hear That Sound? (It’s Your $14,000 Paper Productivity Drain) According to LEAN experts, manufacturing and distribution organizations can experience a $14,000 loss of productivity per staff member per year due to the inefficiencies of paper-based filing systems. Here’s a quick primer on the price tag of a paper-based system, based on a number of independent […].

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Retail Warehouse Automation Is Finally Top-Priority

GlobalTranz

Omnichannel retail is the new “Gold Standard” for the industry. On the surface, an omnichannel approach gives consumers the ability to blend their online and physical experience into one. For supply chains, the impact of omnichannel is more significant. Supply chain technology requires integration for omnichannel success, and the entire system relies on data.

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FedEx Not Renewing Express US Contract with Amazon

EnVista

The transportation world is abuzz today as FedEx announces it will not renew Amazon’s domestic Express agreement. The agreement, which is set to expire on June 30, specifically covers small-package air services. FedEx is downplaying the importance of the situation, citing the fact that Amazon is not FedEx’s largest customer. And this is true.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

After 32 victories and $2,462,216 in earnings, the run is finally over. Of course, I am talking about James Holzhauer’s Jeopardy win streak, which ended earlier this week, about $60,000 shy of Ken Jennings’s record of $2,522,700 in a 74-game winning streak in 2004. And while the big loss was not much of a surprise based on leaked information, many people thought he may have thrown the round, considering that he bet just $1,399 in […].

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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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WEBINAR: Developing an Agile Supply Chain by Fusing Demand, Supply, Sourcing, Design and Suppliers – Wednesday, June 12 | 2:00 PM ET • 11:00 AM PT

Bristlecone

In this Bristlecone and SAP Ariba webinar you’ll learn how organizations leverage. Innovation. State-of-the-art technology. Best-in-class business processes. and combine sourcing, procurement, business planning, and supply collaboration to deliver on business results. Register Now > The post WEBINAR: Developing an Agile Supply Chain by Fusing Demand, Supply, Sourcing, Design and Suppliers – Wednesday, June 12 | 2:00 PM ET • 11:00 AM PT appeared first on Bristlecone.

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Supply Chain Innovations

Cranfield

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How to Select a 3PL with Joe Lynch and Adam Robinson

The Logistics of Logistics

. Understand the 3PL Business Models – Asset based, Non-asset based, Asset light. Asset based 3PLs own physical assets like trucks, planes, warehouses, etc. Pros: Since they own their assets, these 3PLs are able to use their own equipment to service customers. Truck availability is not a problem. Cons: Asset based companies typically have a limited service area compared to non-asset based companies that broker shipments through partner carriers.

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Freight Forecast: Is the worst yet to come?

DAT Solutions

It’s natural to prefer predictability over surprise in many parts of your life, but as the axiom says, “change is inevitable.” That is especially true in the factors affecting the transportation industry, whether it’s the daily truckload rate for St. Louis to Chicago or the global supply and demand for oil or the interest rates for U.S. dollar-denominated debt.

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Stoplight and Axway: API-First Design

Axway

Leaders in Digital Transformation lead with an API-First Design. An API-First approach means that development of the API revolves around how the end-product will be consumed by mobile devices and client applications.

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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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Why Digital Transformation is for all Manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Digital transformation is achievable for all manufacturers. A ‘DX’ strategy unlocks real value today and transforms your business for future success. The problems that digitalization solves strike at the very heart of manufacturer’s challenges today. What is real and what matters right now is how technology can solve immediate problems. Manufacturers are under competitive pressure to deliver […].

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How technology can fight food waste

Provenance

“Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten, and the value of this wasted food is worth over $1 trillion. To put that in perspective, in the USA food waste represents 1.3% of the total GDP. Food waste is a massive market inefficiency, the kind of which does not persist in other industries.” – Olio. Along with our keynote at The Next Web around the wider topic of circularity, we also joined a panel of food-waste warriors to drill down into solutions for cutting waste across the f

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Walmart Taking Grocery Delivery One Step Further

Supply Chain 24/7

Walmart's latest announcement at its annual shareholder meeting: a grocery delivery service where a Walmart employee enters your home and loads your refrigerator.

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Seven Common Pick-and-Pack Errors — and How to Fix Them

Supply Chain Brain

A mispick often isn’t discovered until an inventory count is wrong, or the customer sends the order back.

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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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What's in a Complete Bill of Materials (BOM) & CAD Package

Dragon Innovation

Here at Dragon Innovation, we’re often approached with incomplete Bills of Materials (BOM)/CAD packages. BOM and CAD packages come in all shapes and sizes, but in order to move forward with choosing your factory and starting manufacturing, they need to be complete.

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Looming Tariffs Pose Threat of Capacity Disruption for National Retail Transportation

Zipline Logistics

If you have been dialed in to the news cycle over the past month, then you likely have heard a lot about tariffs and their potential impact on US trade. Though we can only speculate as to their effects on the entire economy, we can say for certain CPG manufacturers and their national retail transportation […]. The post Looming Tariffs Pose Threat of Capacity Disruption for National Retail Transportation appeared first on Zipline Logistics.

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From College to Consulting: The Challenges of Going from the Classroom to the Conference Room

EnVista

With graduation season and summer internships in full swing, two enVista consultants took the time to answer some questions about what it’s like to be a new consultant or intern at a company.

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International standards for sustainable and traceable cocoa launched

ChainPoint

Last month, ISO, the International Organization for Standardization. launched a set of standards on the sustainability and traceability of cocoa production. The series, collectively known as ISO 34101, was in eight years in the making.

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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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FLEXE Hub: The struggle to stand out

FLEXE

A roundup of the latest news on logistics, retail, and industry trends

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Deploy a Strategic Category Management Solution to Maximize ROI

Jaggaer

Defining Category Management. Category management has a decades-long history that has lead us to our modern understanding of procurement categories. Created in the 1980s, category management was originally the process of grouping products into categories based on how consumers used them. Originally created by marketing teams, category management helped retailers increase sales by minimizing unproductive competition between their own products.

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Innovation in the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

Many a pundit has predicted that companies failing to innovate and/or transform into digital enterprises will end up failing. Their reasoning is simple: The world is changing more rapidly than any other time in history and companies that don’t change with the times will be left in the dustbin of history. The late Charles Franklin Kettering, founder of Delco and head of research at General Motors nearly three decades, one stated, “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wr

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Looming Tariffs Pose Threat of Capacity Disruption for National Retail Transportation

Zipline Logistics

Editorial Note: Since publication, the Trump Administration reached a trade deal with the Mexican government, which suspended the steep percent tariff rate scheduled to be applied on June 10. Although the tariff will not be instituted as proposed, the threat of the duty temporarily strained capacity along the US-Mexico border, which does affect freight pricing. […].

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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.