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TMS Optimization: Transitioning from “Nice to Have” to “Must Have”

Talking Logistics

Optimization is a ubiquitous term in the supply chain and logistics industry. We all talk about how we need to optimize our operations. In practice, however, relatively few companies are using optimization technology, particularly in transportation. In the past, a lot of companies believed that they didn’t need optimization, but is that still true today?

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Millennial Employees Are Key to Connecting With Millennial Customers

Supply Chain Brain

Millennials are by nature disruptive thinkers.

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Why Supply Chain Transparency Results in Big Business Benefits

GlobalTranz

Gone are the days when shoppers are left in the dark about the origins of the products they buy. Supply chain transparency is a major competitive advantage at a time when consumers are savvier and more concerned about the provenance of their favorite products. Emerging technologies make it easier than ever for companies to shed.read More. The post Why Supply Chain Transparency Results in Big Business Benefits appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. Historically, when consumers needed something, they made their way to a bazaar, a marketplace, or a shopping center. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex.

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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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Electric Vehicles Will Revolutionize Transportation Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

The supply chain for the entire powertrain will be transformed by the types of components needed and the logistics processes employed to move them.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 28, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Wisconsin Paper Mill gets Second Life, UPS First Revenue Generating Drone, I, DC Robot, Chinese Ship Building

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How to get a Job in Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

It’s a common question. How do I get a job in Supply Chain? We hope these tips help. Watch the full video below. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307. P.S. Please feel free to leave a comment and tell us what other information or tips you would like to hear.

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Help build a more transparent future for brands and products

Provenance

Small businesses can now get started on Provenance for free to share what’s great about their business and supply chain with shoppers that want to know more. I set up Provenance for a simple reason – I wanted to know more about the things I buy. We don’t get many chances to vote these days, but when companies are more powerful than governments, you can’t take for granted the votes you make every day with your wallet.

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Ivalua believes businesses are in ‘no-deal denial’

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Smart procurement firm Ivalua has warned that businesses trading with Europe need to urgently review supply chain operations ahead of Brexit, or risk being unprepared for the cliff edge posed by leaving without a deal.

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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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Food Logistics: Track and Trace in the Food Supply Chain

Tive

As in-transit visibility gets better, faster, and cheaper, one of the industries benefiting the most from new track and trace technologies is the food supply chain. In this recent Food Logistics article , President of Transworld Data Mary Shacklett sheds light on the current state of food tracking solutions through interviews with a variety of vendors.

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RELEX and Retail Business Services: Enhancing Grocery Freshness

RELEX Solutions

For the last year, RELEX has been working closely with Hannaford and Food Lion, local brands of Ahold Delhaize USA , on a pilot to improve forecasting and replenishment for fresh products. Starting in 2019, we’ll be expanding our partnership through a new agreement with Ahold Delhaize USA’s services company, Retail Business Services, to provide an innovative, integrated solution for forecasting and replenishment, which will support each of Ahold Delhaize USA’s local brands, including Hannaford,

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Supply Chain Graphic of Week on Store Margins are Better than Delivery Margins for Grocers

Supply Chain Digest

Profit is about Double for Store Orders for Now, but Costs could Change

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The Future Is Fresh

ITradeNetwork

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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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ProMat 2019: The Ultimate Supply Chain Toolkit

Material Handling & Logistics

ProMat 2019 will offer a showcase of the material handling and logistics solutions that will help you improve every aspect of your supply chain operations.

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Book Now: Instant bookings with your trusted carriers

Parade

We’re proud to announce Book Now: a feature that enables Parade freight brokerage customers to securely digitally book a load end-to-end with their trusted carriers. Reward your most trusted and consistent carriers. As your team pushes for more carrier re-utilization to reduce the number of new carriers entering your procurement mix, your team builds trust with the carriers that you do the most business with.

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IMAGINE SUMMIT Europe: The fun continues in Chantilly

Axway

IMAGINE SUMMIT Europe in Chantilly, France was a smashing success. Over 200 exhibitors and customers took part in the two-day summit.

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Mass Customization for a Consumer Packaged Good Giant

Supply Chain 24/7

Kellogg, like other brands, are relying more heavily upon external suppliers, contract manufacturers, and contract packaging service providers to handle the details of mass customization.

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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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Supplier relationships in procurement

Eyvo

At Eyvo, we have spoken multiple times about how managing supplier relationships is a crucial aspect in the procurement cycle. Keeping a close relationship with your suppliers is a must in procurement. No matter how close and trustworthy the relationship, it is a commercial relationship with both parties under obligation to hold up their end. At times, the closest of relationships can also fall out of place or can lead either of the parties to follow different agendas from what was earlier agree

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Sustain 2019: Exponential Progress in Responsible Purchasing, Perseverance and Innovation

EcoVadis

This year’s Sustain, EcoVadis’ annual event and one of the world’s top conferences on sustainable global supply chains, saw more grandeur than ever before. More than 600 professionals from the procurement and CSR worlds descended upon Paris on March 11-12, ready to share best practices, exchange ideas and ignite change in global supply chains and beyond.

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Supplier relationships in procurement

Eyvo

At Eyvo, we have spoken multiple times about how managing supplier relationships is a crucial aspect in the procurement cycle. Keeping a close relationship with your suppliers is a must in procurement. No matter how close and trustworthy the relationship, it is a commercial relationship with both parties under obligation to hold up their end. At times, the closest of relationships can also fall out of place or can lead either of the parties to follow different agendas from what was earlier agree

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Time’s Up! Stop Hitting Snooze & Update Your Inventory Management System

Clear Spider

It’s common to delay fixing a problem until you no longer can. A weak inventory management system triggers problems, which can’t be fixed overnight. Once you realize where the gaps are in your system, you can take steps to fix them. This blog will help you identify your inventory management problems, and show you how […]. The post Time’s Up!

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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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Ocean Freight Visibility: The Advantage of a Strategic Freight Audit Partner

EnVista

In today’s complex rating environment, shippers need valid, flexible, forward-looking analytics to drive decision making. Surveys show that market intelligence and benchmarking is the most valuable asset a shipper can have going into a transportation negotiation project.

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IMAGINE SUMMIT Europe: The fun continues in Chantilly

Axway

IMAGINE SUMMIT Europe in Chantilly, France was a smashing success. Over 200 exhibitors and customers took part in the two-day summit.

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Aerospace supply chains in times of digital change

SupplyOn

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Hutchinson Successfully Deploys Ivalua to Facilitate Purchasing Team Activity Internationally

ivalua

Ivalua’s suite will enable the strengthening of internal collaboration between the various Group Procurement entities around the world by industrializing and improving reliability of the Chemicals Price List Publication processes. London, UK – March 26, 2019 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and the Chemical Purchasing Department of the Hutchinson Group , a world leader in technologies for vibration control, fluid management systems and sealing

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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Book Now: Instant bookings with your trusted carriers

Parade

We’re proud to announce Book Now: a feature that enables Parade freight brokerage customers to securely digitally book a load end-to-end with their trusted carriers. Reward your most trusted and consistent carriers. As your team pushes for more carrier re-utilization to reduce the number of new carriers entering your procurement mix, your team builds trust with the carriers that you do the most business with.

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Hutchinson Successfully Deploys Ivalua to Facilitate Purchasing Team Activity Internationally

ivalua

Ivalua’s suite will enable the strengthening of internal collaboration between the various Group Procurement entities around the world by industrializing and improving reliability of the Chemicals Price List Publication processes. Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and the Chemical Purchasing Department of the Hutchinson Group, a world leader in technologies for vibration control, fluid management systems and sealing systems, today announced successfully launc

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Embrace Opportunity

JDA software

Michelle Eisenberg is vice president of Legal, deputy general counsel and head of Legal for the EMEA region at JDA. She has a rich upbringing, born in Israel, moving to the UK and then spending a few years in South Africa, just at the time Apartheid ended. There she witnessed the value of justice and the importance of education. She strives to be a role model for her two daughters, teaching them that life’s opportunities are meant to be embraced, even if they may not seem perfect, as you never k