Mon.Jun 03, 2019

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3D printing and sustainability: less waste and carbon emissions from miles travelled

DiManEx

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What Is a Transportation Management System & 6 Ways a TMS Optimizes Shippers?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain management is a complex, ever-changing process. The actions of yesterday do not necessarily reflect the best practices of tomorrow. Amazon and Walmart continue to encroach on small businesses, and the ability to gain insight into freight spend has never been more critical. With all the hype about savings and improvements through a transportation.read More.

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Should Procurement Fear or Welcome AI and Machine Learning Technology?

Supply Chain Brain

Your lengthy career in procurement has consisted largely of being beaten up by top management over the need to constantly cut supplier costs. Along comes digital technology to make your job easier — or take it away.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

Lemmings are misunderstood. So are supply chain leaders. What is a lemming? Simply put, a lemming is a small rodent. Active in Arctic tundra ecosystems, they are part of the super family Muroidea, which includes rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils. A lemming’s population rises and falls. Sometimes there are large migrations that result in mass drownings.

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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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TMS Visibility: See, Observe, Then Do

Talking Logistics

We’ve all heard the saying “seeing is believing,” which means you need to see something before you can accept that it really exists or occurs. You might also be familiar with W. Edwards Deming’s famous quote, “In God we trust, all others must bring data.” In many ways, both these sayings relate to supply chain. The post TMS Visibility: See, Observe, Then Do appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Omnichannel Supply Chain Approach Now the Standard, Not the Retail Hero of the Future

Veridian Solutions

There was a time when an omnichannel supply chain approach was considered the end-all solution for retailers. Unfortunately, the evolving demands of consumers and changing needs across supply chains have changed the narrative, says Seeta Hariharan of Multichannel Merchant. Implementing an omnichannel approach alone is not enough to maintain or achieve a competitive advantage.

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Blockchain and Sustainability: Making the World More Eco-Friendly, One Business at a Time

Shipchain

We’ve discussed the impacts that blockchain will have on supply chain and logistics day in and day out. It’s poised to revolutionize the industry. But let’s take a step back and analyze blockchain’s bigger picture impact and what global adoption could mean for the green movement. Blockchain and sustainability go hand in hand, and leveraging the technology can make all businesses more ethically and environmentally sound.

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Preparing for a Christmas of Retailer’s Dreams

Repl Group

Christmas is always a critical time for retailers as the entire nation opens their wallets to spend, spend, spend. At least that’s what businesses are hoping for. However, spending increases flattened out at Christmas 2017 prompting some retailers to make bottom line savings in the new year through store closures and staffing cuts. We take a look at the Christmas 2018 market data and footfall data for Easter 2019 to interpret what 2019’s festive period could have in store.

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More Data Gathering Drives More-Better Decisions

Prophetic Technology

It's for sure that your job relies mostly on data. So, it’s imperative that you give giant steps towards Digital Transformation to succeed. Now, to take crucial decisions such as cycle-time insights, how many people you need to hire, or how many lines of operation you need to meet the so- rapid-escalating-customer demands , you can accomplish this via a Digital Transformation.

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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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How To: Validate Supply Chain Sustainability Claims … And Avoid Greenwashing

Sourcemap

Companies regularly make sustainability claims about their supply chains, from ethical and organic to deforestation- and child labor-free. These claims were traditionally backed up by audits and certifications, which only validate a sample of suppliers. But new legislation requires accountability for the end-to-end supply chain. With companies sourcing from thousands of suppliers and new technology that enables end-to-end traceability, audits and certification are no longer best practice: it’s t

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Maverick buying moves mainstream

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. thanks to the rise of cloud based marketplaces. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Procurement the barrier to doing business. 3. Poor governance structure. 4. Many organisations are decentralised. 5. Large programs/projects operate separately. 6. No visibility of the impact of Maverick spending. 7. Marketplaces will continue to grow. 8.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Enhance Customer Experience?

Enterra Insights

For several years, social commentators have predicted we are transitioning to an experience economy. They insist younger generations are more interested in spending their money on experiences than possessions. Analysts argue the retail sector is affected by the experience economy and companies failing to provide their customers with good experiences will lose them.

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Sharing is caring–the whole of Victorian government API Platform

Axway

Having been involved literally from day 0, it was a humbling and gratifying experience to witness the public announcement of the Whole of Victorian Government API Portal (WoVG) launch last week in Australia. Victorian Government API Portal.

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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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Equation and Unleashed help Golden Goose achieve full visibility over their bottom line

Unleashed

We love our Implementation Partners at Unleashed. They’ve helped hundreds of companies around the world upgrade their business systems. So when we get the opportunity to hear the story of a Partner helping their client hit the next level using Unleashed, we jump at the chance. Here’s Nicole Elvy from Implementation Partner Equation, and Jo Williamson from their client Golden Goose, on how they found working with each other to set up Unleashed. “We listened to all the issues Golden Goose we

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IMAGINE SUMMIT Singapore 2019–welcome to sunny Sentosa

Axway

Have you ever found yourself on a tropical island, sitting on the beach while watching a beautiful sunset and feel the sea breeze chill your face? That’s how we started this year’s Axway IMAGINE SUMMIT in Singapore.

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At the Point of Inflection: Are You Ready for the eCommerce Hockey Stick?

Supply Chain Network

As most of you likely know I’m from Canada eh, and so of course I love hockey! All of Canada is hockey crazy and as those in the know are aware the NHL is now in the midst of The Stanley Cup Final series between the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins. Alas, no teams from Canada made it past the first round of the NHL Playoffs this year, but I take solace in the fact that more than half of the players on the two teams in the Final series are actually Canadians!

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4 Highlights of Microsoft Build 2019

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Recently I was I lucky enough to take a break from cleaning barnacles off the hull of the good ship SYSPRO to spend the week attending the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle. Microsoft uses this conference to communicate their technology vision and strategy to technology professionals. It’s a great way for nerds to get their creative juices flowing – […].

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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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Automation with a human touch

SnapFulfil

With all the enthusiasm surrounding IoT capabilities and new automation technologies, it’s easy to forget that robots will not improve picking times or reduce packing errors by themselves – they need human guidance.

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CNN: Self-Driving Cars Unlikely to Dent Driver Demand

Tailwind

“For the short term, however, those fears are overblown. Through at least the next decade, human truck drivers, bus drivers and taxi drivers will remain in strong demand. And during that time, self-driving technology will put little, if any, dent in that demand. What accounts for drivers being such a hot commodity? Labor shortages have afflicted a broad swath of blue-collar industries, including the transportation sector.

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Kechie ERP Earns Two Awards through Software Suggest

My Office Apps

Kechie ERP Earns Two Awards through Software Suggest. SANTA ANA, CA, USA – June 3, 2019 – My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA), is an innovator of next-generation, cloud-based inventory management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution, Kechie ERP. It announced today that it has been awarded both a Rising Star and a Great User Experience award by Software Suggest , a business software discovery and recommendation platform.

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Michigan Never Forgets – Bob Seger

3PL Insights

There he is, on the road again; there he is, up on the stage; there he goes, playin’ the star again! Bob Seger returns to Michigan to perform for not one or two, but six nights in Clarkston, Michigan! Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band will finish up their Roll Me Away Tour at DTE Energy Music Theater this month. This will be Seger’s last six shows of his last tour.

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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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Developing a Culture of Safety Beyond the Boundaries of the Factory

Supply Chain 24/7

As the world’s first internationally approved standard on workplace health and safety, ISO 45001 offers a single definitive framework to improve the performance of occupational health and safety management systems.

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Claritum extends SAP integration to SRM

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (June 3, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that they have extended their integration with SAP to include additional functionality on the integration of SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management). “Claritum is committed to an integration approach.”, said Prof.

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