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How IoT and Augmented Reality in Logistics are Moving The Industry Forward

GlobalTranz

Supply chain logistics providers made significant changes in standard operations in 2016. From ditching age-old tactics of shipping products now, to advancing the capabilities of augmented reality in logistics, our logistics trends highlighted expected improvements in the supply chain, many of which came true. While our initial predictions were somewhat concise, this update shows how incredibly far these entities have come.

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The Future of Supply Chain Management

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater Closed Today. Fresh out of Supply Chain Talent. There’s no time like the present to talk about the future of supply chain management. That was the perfect lead-in for a great Supply Chain Insights webinar I attended recently – Journey to Supply Chain 2030. Admittedly, 2030 is a few years out. Sometimes it’s difficult to predict what’s going to happen next week let alone 14 or 15 years down the road.

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SCM – It’s All About Data

SCM Research

The volume, variety and velocity of business and supply chain data are increasing dramatically. At the same time, improved technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning , are already on the horizon. Ernst & Young has recently published an interesting report, titled Digital Supply Chain: It’s All About That Data. The authors make one thing very clear: “Companies must act now to focus, simplify and standardize big data through an enterprise data management strategy.&

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The New Value Equation in Contract Logistics

Talking Logistics

With all of the changes happening in the supply chain and logistics realm — whether it’s technology, regulations, mergers and acquisitions, new business models and competitors — is the value equation in contract logistics changing too? That was the main question I addressed with Greg Boring, VP of Sales at Kenco Group , in a recent episode of Talking Logistics.

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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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6 Key Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2017

Logistics Bureau

Call it a cop-out if you like, but seriously, predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done. At the same time, technological advances such as the Internet of Things, automated transportation and similar futuristic innovations , have been offering the promise of disruption for the last few years without really

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Top 3 Logistics Challenges for Automotive Manufacturers in China

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Top 3 Logistics Challenges for Automotive Manufacturers in China | Transportfolio. By 2020, China is expected to have more than 200 million registered vehicles [1]. And that’s only a tiny fraction of the country’s total population—there’s still plenty of room for growth. That’s not to say there aren’t challenges you’ll need to overcome as an automotive manufacturer in China —especially when it comes to logistics.

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Supply Chain News on New Study from the University of Sheffield Finds Supply Audits not Getting Job Done in Improving Conditions at Suppliers

Supply Chain Digest

Despite Growing Popularity, Variety of Factors Make Audits Ineffective Tools in Reaching Claimed Goals

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Common Sales and Operations Planning Myths - Part 2

Logility

In this second post in our series of S&OP myths we highlight the need for flexibility in the S&OP process to facilitate a robust and repeatable process that can support your company’s business objectives. Myth: “S&OP is Rigid; Our Business Moves Quickly and is too Unpredictable” This myth has been propagated and reinforced due to a misconception that an S&OP process needs to be run in a standard way to be effective.

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Supply Chain News on A Fresh Look at Task Management in WMS

Supply Chain Digest

New JDA Solution brings WMS Style Tasking in the Store, as We Revisit the 3 Ps of Task Management

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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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Targeted Marketing in the Age of Smart Systems

Enterra Insights

No one doubts we are fully immersed in the Age of Information. A few years ago, David Russell Schilling (@davidrschilling) … Continued. The post Targeted Marketing in the Age of Smart Systems appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Supply Chain News on Interesting Solution for Bar Code Scanning Using Smart Phones Featured at NRF 2017

Supply Chain Digest

SCANDIT Software Uses Phone Camera and Provides High Performance Bar Code Reading Capabilities

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Transportations Services

Tompkins Blog

By Lisa Kennedy Project Manager, Tompkins International Uber’s recent investment in artificial intelligence and new division Uber AI Labs, is a vital step to the realization of self-driving cars. With this technology vehicles can be routed more efficiently. Customers can receive deliveries anytime and anyplace at a lower cost. Driverless trucks can reduce emissions and.

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B2B & B2C E-Commerce: Merely the Same?

ModusLink Corporation

Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce usability demands are shifting more and more towards those commonly found in Business to Consumer (B2C) situations. Although business portals that offer the possibility to directly place orders in a supplier’s ERP system have been around for a while, this basic functionality simply doesn’t fulfill a user’s demands.

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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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UltraShipTMS Named Most Innovative TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

Corporate America Magazine Recognizes UltraShipTMS as the “Best Logistics IT Solution Provider for 2016”. January 23, 2017 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Corporate America Magazine named UltraShipTMS the “Best Logistics IT Cloud Solution Provider in 2016” and the “Most innovative Transportation Management System” Corporate America is the leading magazine for the dealmakers, game changers and decision makers in the US business market, with a subscription list of over 135,000 busine

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Is Apple Working on a Trump Contingency Plan?

Supply Chain 24/7

A closer look at Apple's supply chain shows you that it's a combination of foreign talent, huge labor forces and weaker laws protecting workers that really put together an iPhone and make Apple the company it is today.