Tue.May 17, 2016

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Building Talent: A New Approach

Supply Chain Insights

You are running hard. As a supply chain leader you want your team to make progress and outpace the pack. One of the toughest challenges for the supply chain leader is building and retaining talent. Managing a global supply chain team today is not easy. We find that 59% of companies are experiencing issues in training and retaining mid-management talent.

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Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel Survival?

ToolsGroup

For multi-channel retailers, it’s getting increasingly difficult to survive in “the Amazon jungle”. Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters recently pointed to The Sports Authority bankruptcy as one indication. As Amazon invests relentlessly to boost its agility and drop its costs, retailers are also looking for ways to raise their game. Industry analysts have pointed out an obvious fit with inventory optimization.

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Can Supply Chains Become Truly Sustainable?

SCM Research

Our world is in crisis! Ten years ago, Time Magazine featured the headline: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” (about global warming). But things only got worse since. Leaked TTIP documents point to a race to the bottom in ecological standards between the EU and the U.S. New NASA figures show that April 2016 was the seventh month in a row that broke global temperature records and NOAA data show that “[t]he globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2015 was the

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Five Technology Trends That Will Change Global Freight

Freightos

Five Tech Trends That Will Change Freight. A whopping $13.92 billion dollars of US venture capital was invested in the first quarter of 2016. And with daily headlines on new Ubers for X, new tech acquisitions, and the continuing crawl of technology into our everyday life, we’re focussing on five emerging tech trends that have the potential to reshape logistics. 1.

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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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Can Supply Chains Become Truly Sustainable?

SCM Research

Our world is in crisis! Ten years ago, Time Magazine featured the headline: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” (about global warming). But things only got worse since. Leaked TTIP documents point to a race to the bottom in ecological standards between the EU and the U.S. New NASA figures show that April 2016 was the seventh month in a row that broke global temperature records and NOAA data show that “[t]he globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2015 was the

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Urbanization: Delivering Unique Perishables Around The Globe

NFI Industries

Guest Post: Shubh Mann, VP of Sales Urbanization, the shift of populations from rural areas to cities, has been growing around the world. It is expected that the urban population of the world will nearly double between 2007 and 2050, leading to roughly an additional three billion people living in cities 1. Most of these shifts. READ MORE.

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Technology’s Impact on the Nature of Work

Arkieva

In today’s business world, technology plays a central role in how work gets done. I am not talking about how products get made or shipped, but more in the way human beings go about doing their job. Now, in some ways, this has always happened. Be it pen and paper, the telephone or the computer, technology of the day has always impacted how work gets done.

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Go Green or Go Home

ModusLink Corporation

As many of you know, corporate social responsibility and sustainability have been at the forefront of our agenda here at ModusLink. Over the last few years, we’ve instituted a number of processes like our 4-D methodology for assessing new and existing supply chain operations and our sustainable packaging initiatives. These practices have not only benefited […].

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Supply Chain Disruptions: How to Create a More Resilient Supply Chain

Supply Chain 24/7

For shippers, planning for the unexpected is imperative, but the right ingredients are also necessary.

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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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Cognitive Computing and the Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise

Enterra Insights

More and more is being written about the need for industrial age organizations to transform themselves into digital enterprises. With … Continued. The post Cognitive Computing and the Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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EcoVadis SustaIn 2016 Conference – Watch the recap video!

EcoVadis

A heartfelt Thank you to the 330 participants , 25 speakers and 6 sponsors from Europe, Asia and Americas who joined us in Paris for a day dedicated to best practice sharing in Sustainable Procurement and Sustainability. Watch a short recap video below and read our blog post including a summary and the key takeaways of the discussions. Stay tuned: starting next week we will publish on our blog interviews of key speakers such as Andrew Winston, David Cowell (Coca-Cola Enterprises CPO) and Jean-Y

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'I Must Have Told Them a Thousand Times'

Tailwind

I am sure many of you are tired of seeing and reading this quote. You know it’s part of the collection with these high sounding concepts: Perseverance, Perspiration, and Commitment. Not sure putting pictures up around your office walls makes people more motivated. My favorite is the parody motivation series:  Motivation If a pretty picture and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job; the kind robots will be doing soon.

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Don’t Let Inventory Levels Bloat Your Working Capital

Logistics Bureau

Did you ever hear that phrase about “never work with children or animals” ? Sometimes I think that short list of hard-to-control entities should be amended to include inventory. For something that sits on a shelf until somebody moves it, inventory seems to have a heck of strong will. Why Prioritise Inventory Control? Make no mistake; inventory is tough to control effectively.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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3 Benefits a TMS Provides for Team Collaboration & Inner-Management

GlobalTranz

Logistics faces a crisis. The driver shortage appears to be worsening, customers are demanding lower rates, oversight is becoming more intense, and stakeholders demand reductions across the board. Overcoming these difficulties seems impossible, but there is a solution. Logistics providers must leverage the power of inter-management and team collaboration to continue growth in an industry that’s under a great deal of stress.