Fri.Feb 25, 2022

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Bridging the Gap Toward the Factory of the Future

DELMIA Quintiq

This blog features excerpts from the Manufacturing Leadership Journal’s article, “ Leveraging Digital Twins to Accelerate the Journey to Factory of the Future. “ When the pandemic disrupted the operations of manufacturing companies and their supply chains, many organizations were forced to reexamine their strategies. For example, on how to secure business continuity.

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The Open Deck Market with Jacob Mcleod

The Logistics of Logistics

The Open Deck Market with Jacob Mcleod. Jacob Mcleod and Joe Lynch discuss the open deck market. Jacob is the President at EXO Freight, the first managed marketplace built for open deck shippers and carriers. About Jacob Mcleod. Jacob Mcleod , Graduate of University of Michigan, began a logistics career at Con-way Multimodal learning the industry from the floor.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (February 25, 2022)

Talking Logistics

Russia invades Ukraine. The headline was anticipated for months (actually, years), but it finally came true this week. Now what? Supply Chain Disruption from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (Interos) Oil tops $105/bbl after Russia attacks Ukraine (Reuters) Expeditors Targeted in Cyber-attack Cyber attack hits state-run terminal at India’s top container port (Splash 247) New Leases Will.

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6 Ways Technology Makes the Supply Chain More Efficient

The Network Effect

The post 6 Ways Technology Makes the Supply Chain More Efficient appeared first on The Network Effect.

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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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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

The world is rightfully concerned about Russia’s ruthless and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Not only is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack an assault on democracy, it is an assault on world order. In a television speech that precipitated the invasion, Putin warned, “To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside — if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history.” Some experts see that as a not-so-veiled threat of nuclea

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Why Setting SMART Goals with Suppliers Has Never Been More Important

IT Supply Chain

By Mark Perera (pictured). CEO & founder, Vizibl. The post Why Setting SMART Goals with Suppliers Has Never Been More Important appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How 3rd Party Liability Insurance Protects Your Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How Business Insurance Can Protect You! Businesses face all sorts of risks in almost all aspects of their business operations. Perils in the supply chain are some of the risks that can potentially cause severe and lasting damage to the capability of a business to operate and its reputation with clients and customers.

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Going on the attack: Top five consequences of cyber security breaches

IT Supply Chain

By Chris Huggett (pictured). Senior VP EMEA & India, Sungard Availability Services. The post Going on the attack: Top five consequences of cyber security breaches appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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What Is On Time & In Full (OTIF) And How To Measure It

ShipBob

Ecommerce businesses need to closely monitor their performance across the supply chain so they can optimize their processes and increase efficiency. This involves keeping track of critical distribution metrics such as how many orders were shipped out on time because this is vital to determine how efficient their processes are, how satisfied customers will be, and whether they need to make improvements.

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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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The importance of personalized learning journeys

Procurement Academy

Have you ever sat through a training session where you already knew half the content? Or walked out the room wondering what you’ve learned. If so, you’re not alone. One recent survey found that half of participants are dissatisfied with their employer’s learning and development (L&D) programs. Another , found that 70% of employees believe they don’t have mastery of the skills needed to do their jobs.

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Textiles 2030: Purpose is the new luxury for the fashion industry

Proxima

Since the year 2000 global clothing production has doubled, driven by colossal consumer spending on ‘fast fashion’. Fashion is widely regarded to be one of the most wasteful industries on the planet. However, leaders across the fashion sector are now starting to think differently as consumers become increasingly conscious of sustainability and the impact their buying habits have on the environment.

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Added In-Transit Inventory Exposures Add to Implications of Inbound Cost Inflation for Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters provides a supplemental commentary related to the implications of rapidly rising inbound costs for industry supply chains. . In a Supply Chain Matters commentary published earlier this month, we highlighted for readers that the implications of rapidly rising producer prices and end-product consumer goods inflation on industry supply chains.

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What does supply chain resilience really mean for retailers in 2022

Proxima

For the past 2 years, predictability has been in short supply. It’s been especially hard on retailers who have seen demand and supply continuously lurching in and out of sync for many of the things that we buy today, or in modern parlance, wait for. Unpredictability hits retailers especially hard. Business models are fine-tuned according to expected customer and supplier behavior, and cost is squeezed out, to compete on price, leaving low margins leave little room for error.

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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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Happening Now: $450 million in new port grants announced

West Coast and California Logistics

According to an article in FreightWaves , the U.S. Maritime Administration has announced nearly $450 million in FY22 competitive grant funding “for projects to help ports speed cargo flows and ultimately lower costs for consumers.”.

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Fortune Logistics Used Parade to Improve Bookings Per Rep & Per Carrier In a Short Time

Parade

When Fortune Logistics had big plans to modernize their freight brokerage, they turned to Parade for capacity management and process automation. Before Parade, Manual Processes Ruled at Fortune Logistics Finding capacity for their loads before involved using a program they developed in Tableau that tracked their load history and showed every carrier in the country on a plot map.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. Jim Hackett, the CEO of Ford at the time, was quoted as saying: “We didn’t realize there was an off switch. We knew it might go into a recession, more like a dimmer switch, but off?

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Podcast | The Real-World Impact of the Infrastructure Bill

Supply Chain Brain

The $1.2 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden late last year has been heralded by some as the solution to the problem of how to repair and expand the nation’s crumbling and antiquated system of roads, rails, ports, airports and waterways. One can only hope.

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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.