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How to Adapt Industrial Planning During and After Disruptive Events

DELMIA Quintiq

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, production and planning processes have become subject to a level of stress unprecedented in recent history. Many manufacturers depend on impacted networks for their supplies and the strain on planning organizations is jeopardizing business continuity. What are some of the ways that manufacturers might improve their resilience, to address the crisis today and also to prepare for the recovery and the future?

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Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into Your Supply Chain

Logility

Let’s start by busting a myth about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): it’s a feel-good movement recently started by millennials. Not true! CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s with the expansion of large corporations and became a popular subject in the 1980s, covered extensively by Peter F. Drucker and others. In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008–2010, CSR again became a focus for evaluating corporate behavior.

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What are the Top Warehouse KPIs to Succeed?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 8 Ways to Improve Your Warehouse Fulfillment Efficiency! Article and permission to publish here provided by Dave Joseph at veridian.info. Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide an invaluable way to judge the efficacy of operations, determine opportunities for improvement, improve customer experiences , and better manage supply chain functions, including warehouse management.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

My left arm hurts. I have been on a waiting list to get the shot for three years. This week, I rolled up my sleeve and got the Shingrix vaccine. Glaxo SmithKline introduced Shingrix in 2017, but shortages prevailed. I paused when the pharmacist asked, “Do you mind which arm gets the shot?” I replied, “Isn’t it all the same?” However, two hours after getting the shot, my arm throbbed and turned red.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Last Mile Visibility: Why It’s Not Really Changing Much Post COVID-19

GlobalTranz

The throes of COVID-19 remain an unprecedented challenge for supply chain management. However, the traditional concerns of efficiency within the supply chain continue to set the standard for operational efficiency. C-Suite executives have their minds focused on the need to serve customers and maintain safety, and organizations across the globe continue to implement more strategic.read More.

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The Promise of Certainty in Uncertain Times

Invata Intralogistics

Remember the days when certainty played a key role in your daily routine? — When the national supply chain was a given and finding what you needed only required a stop by the store or cursory search on the internet? And when you didn’t have to worry that a pat on the back from a friend might hospitalize one or both of you? And remember what it felt like to only worry about what the competition was doing to your business versus the Corona Virus, and to have confidence that you’d still be employed

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Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Building a Resilient Enterprise

ivalua

The post Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Building a Resilient Enterprise appeared first on Ivalua.

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Crisis Response Part 3: Getting Back to Business

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. . The COVID-19 pandemic has practically transformed the way organizations should operate their businesses overnight.

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5 Examples of How COVID-19 Made Shipment Monitoring a “Must-Have” in the Industry

Roambee

Up until now, investing in shipment tracking solutions was like buying travel insurance - it was usually purchased in the last step of the transportation contracting process. Much like insurance, you would add it at the last step in the cart as an optional item when purchasing your air ticket, and often only if the firm had previously bitter experiences.

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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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Shipping Food With an Eye on Visibility to Reduce Delays & Bottlenecks

MercuryGate

In the current situation, it’s easy to assume disruption caused by COVID-19 triggered problems in the supply chain. However, it is not necessarily the virus causing these problems; it’s the changes in shipping and purchasing behaviors. That’s right—consumers still control the flow, and when shipping food, consumer changes in demand will have resounding effects on […].

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Bristlecone Flash – April 2020, COVID-19 Special Edition

Bristlecone

BUILD YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN WAR ROOM. Enhance your supply chain and operations to accelerate decision-making around these Top 3 Challenges: Cash Runway, Supply Visibility and Demand Volatility. Our experts will create a customized Supply Chain War Room for your business to help you build a resilient supply chain – and emerge even stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Produce Transport Season Tips

Freight Center

Spring is in the air and that means it’s time for produce season to get up and running. Many fruits and vegetables have entered their prime growing time of the year, and farmers and food distributors are looking to get their produce out fast and effectively. But when it comes to properly transporting food so it stays fresh and safe, some expert freight guidance can go a long way.

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WHITE PAPER: COVID-19: ‘RIDE’ Today to Thrive Tomorrow

Bristlecone

How to Respond, Identify, Differentiate and Engage in this Time of Coronavirus Disruption. The speed at which COVID-19 impacted the world would have been beyond conception in December 2019. Within just 12 weeks of the first identification of the coronavirus in Wuhan, the whole world had come to a standstill. Across geographies, industries, and demand and supply, there is disruption.

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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 to Look for in a Food Distribution Warehouse Provider

Kanban Logistics

Makers of all types of products turn to third-party logistics (3PL) providers to optimize warehousing and distribution operations in order to meet modern supply chain demands. Makers of food products, however, have a host of safety and regulatory requirements to contend with that make selecting the right 3PL even more crucial. In this article, we’ll examine the many things you’ll need to look for in a food distribution warehouse provider to not only optimize your operations – but do so safely as

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Logistics Planning Crucial to Smooth Warehouse Start-up Projects

Consumer Goods Logistics

Back in 2005, the Tyler Texas Area Builders Association built a large home from the ground up in less than 3 hours. At the time, it set a record. Here's the video. It was a promotional effort to publicize the Association, but the overarching message was the importance of planning. While the build itself took just 2:52 hours, it was the product of months of meetings – among engineers, architects, builders, landscapers, tradesman, and project planners – to spec out every last aspect of the project

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Thoughts on the ‘New Normal’

ITradeNetwork

Collaboration and information sharing are at an all-time high in our industry between producers, buyers, associations and allied organizations. Personally, I find myself hungrier for information every day than I ever have been. And, I find that information is being shared more freely than I have ever seen in my career, to the point where I am struggling with where to put it all, how much to retain, and how it all works together to help move us forward into this looming new normal.

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Logistics Planning Crucial to Smooth Warehouse Start-up Projects

Consumer Goods Logistics

Back in 2005, the Tyler Texas Area Builders Association built a large home from the ground up in less than 3 hours. At the time, it set a record. Here's the video. It was a promotional effort to publicize the Association, but the overarching message was the importance of planning. While the build itself took just 2:52 hours, it was the product of months of meetings – among engineers, architects, builders, landscapers, tradesman, and project planners – to spec out every last aspect of the project

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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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The Current State of PPE in Healthcare: Guest Post from Professor Blan Godfrey

NC State SCRC

In the last few weeks, me and my research team of Beena, Nikhil, and Pratyush have been communicating frequently with Professor Blan Godfrey , and his team of graduate students taking his Six Sigma class. Dr. Godfrey is the Joseph D. Moore Professor in the Wilson College of Textiles, which has been working hard to produce materials for PPE masks to support healthcare providers all over the state and the country.

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COVID-19 EU border closures and Brexit impacts movement of medical supplies, says GlobalData

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Free goods movement restrictions, imposed by the majority of EU countries at their borders to control the spread COVID-19, are disrupting supply chains, including crucial drug and medical equipment supplies.

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Digital Transformation in Retail

Logistics Viewpoints

A few months ago, I attended the ARC Advisory Group’s Industry Forum in Orlando. While I was there, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview a few ARC analysts including Craig Resnick, Harry Forbes, Inderpreet Shoker, and Jim Frazier. I also had the opportunity to sit down with Ed O’Brien and discuss digital transformation in the changing retail landscape.

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Stacey Huddleston | Receivables Financing — What You Need To Know

4WL Consulting

In today’s episode of Manufacturing Success, we have a guest who is out of the norm for this show, but has equally valuable information to share! Joining us today is Stacey Huddleston— sales director of Prestige Capital in Kansas City. Stacey is responsible for overseeing the firm’s growth throughout the Midwest and Western regions of the US. Not only does Stacey devote his time to Prestige Capital, but he is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and supports several non-profit e

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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.

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Three UX tips for your next hackathon project

Axway

Axway recently kicked off its first hackathon of the year—the #BetterConnected hackathon , aimed at developing applications that could help improve the lives of users during challenging times.

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Stacey Huddleston | Receivables Financing — What You Need To Know

4WL Consulting

In today’s episode of Manufacturing Success, we have a guest who is out of the norm for this show, but has equally valuable information to share! Joining us today is Stacey Huddleston— sales director of Prestige Capital in Kansas City. Stacey is responsible for overseeing the firm’s growth throughout the Midwest and Western regions of the US. Not only does Stacey devote his time to Prestige Capital, but he is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and supports several non-profit e

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5 Provider Tips for the 3PL Middle East Market

SCJunction

Traditional bricks and mortar retail is under attack globally, with retailers struggling to compete with the growing popularity of large-scale competitors such as Amazon and Alibaba.

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Make to Order at Scale – A Disruptor Here to Stay

QAD

What if one day, we all woke up, opened up our closets to grab out clothes for the day, and there were nothing but blue shirts? Your pants are still there, but we all just wear blue shirts every day. A ridiculous thought, right? We have (and prefer to have) different colored shirts, shirts with different patterns, shirts for different occasions, and shirts made from different types of material.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Pandemic Highlights Need for Agile Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Food sector and supply chain professionals have been rightfully praised for their efforts to ensure essential goods are available to a locked-down population. Frank Morris ( @FrankNewsman ) explains, “Fast-moving viruses come with a cruel twist. They tend to hammer hardest at people on the front lines of defense, making the rest of us that much more vulnerable.

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What on Earth is “Autonomous Procurement,” Anyway?

Jaggaer

With hot new buzzwords coming and going year after year, it’s hard to blame any procurement professionals who are becoming disillusioned. One of the latest, “autonomous procurement,” has been the focus of writings by industry experts both enthusiastic and less optimistic. But many purchasing team members, including leadership, still lack clarity on what exactly the term means.

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It’s arrived… read the April edition of our digital magazine here!

Gravity Supply Chain

The COVID-19 crisis is creating uncertainties for businesses globally; we’ve picked some topics we hope will be of interest to you if you need some inspiration!

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