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Robust and continuously updated Master Data: A key ingredient for successful supply chain digital transformation

o9 Solutions

Over the past weeks we have been speaking with a large number of Fortune 500 companies to provide support and guidance on how to respond to and rebound from the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. At many of these companies, CXOs have asked their teams to accelerate supply chain related digital transformation initiatives. Why would they ask for that?

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3PLs and the Trials of COVID-19

BlueYonder

By Kirk Waldrop & ElMarie Hugo. Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. .

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Driving Supply Chain Analytics User Adoption with Cross-Departmental Metrics

Logility

User adoption is a challenge that often arises during the rollout of supply chain analytics solutions. Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs. The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data governance often don’t exist from department to department or user to user, leaving an overall picture into the health of th

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The Consumer-Direct Strategy: Why You Need to Strengthen Your Direct-to-Consumer Channels

The Network Effect

The post The Consumer-Direct Strategy: Why You Need to Strengthen Your Direct-to-Consumer Channels 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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Transportation of Goods in a Changed World

Kuebix

The Covid-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of both small and large businesses for the foreseeable future. Supply chains throughout the country are adapting to changes in demand and new rules and regulations. Manufacturers, suppliers and truck drivers are adjusting to changes posed by Covid-19 every day. How Truck Drivers are Operating in an Economy […].

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Securing the First, Middle and Last Mile with Andrew Kelley

The Logistics of Logistics

Securing the First, Middle and Last Mile with Andrew Kelley. Andrew Kelley and Joe Lynch discuss securing the first, middle and last mile. As supply chains evolve, the need for secure asset transfer increases for both consumers and business to business applications. About Andrew Kelley. Andrew Kelley is the Chief Commercial Officer at BoxLock is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in supply chain, logistics, SaaS, software, and technology-enabled

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Trimming Your Product Portfolio Tail: A ?Covid Beard? or Here to Stay?

CHAINalytics

One trend that is as prevalent these days as the beards men are sporting in tandem with their sweatpants: to deal with spiking demand, constrained production capacity, or both, many companies are cutting off the tail of their product portfolios. Companies have traditionally been willing to accept the fact that 80% of their product portfolio … The post Trimming Your Product Portfolio Tail: A “Covid Beard” or Here to Stay?

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Major Shifts Happening in the E-Commerce Supply Chain

Vanguard Software

The need for more advanced supply chain planning solutions has never been more prevalent. Retailers will need to re-evaluate their supply chain processes with the shifts in e-commerce.

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Interviewing the Innovators: Kegan Fisher, CEO of SOLS on the rise of on-demand, mass customised manufacturing.

Supply Chain Movement

It was the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter who coined the term ‘creative destruction’, the processes whereby entrepreneurs and their innovations create new technological paradigms and new industries that disrupt and ultimately destroy the existing ones. It is a process that we often forget about, because we live in the here and now, and lose sight of both the journey to date and the road ahead.

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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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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 05/15/20 – 05/21/20

All Things Supply Chain

European ports hit hard by Coronavirus lockdowns Trade gateways across the world have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic, but European ports have been the hardest hit.

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How to keep PPE Protected During Transportation

Freight Plus

What is BSI? BSI (British Standards Institution) is a standards organization that was a founding member of the international standards organization and they were instrumental in propagating and issuing some of the most instrumental standards in the world. Recently they have become more involved in information security standards, environmental sustainability standards and they have also expanded into consulting.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

Rob Handfield has over 30 years of experience in supply chain as an educator, researcher, consultant, and author. He is the Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at NC State University, and is a prolific author of articles and books, most recently The LIVING Supply Chain (co-authored with Tom Linton). He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intellig

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How to keep PPE Protected During Transportation

Freight Plus

Tony Pelli, a supply chain risk consultant at BSI, provides guidance to carriers and shippers to keep their PPE shipments safe from theft. Audio only version. Tony can be reached on. LinkedIn. BSI Website. BSI Coronavirus Resources. Future proof your supply chain. today! Subscribe now on. iTunes. , Spotify. , or simply search your favorite podcast player for Consulting Logistics!

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Collaboration between Finance and Procurement Leaders is more important than ever

Proxima

Observations from EVP, Europe – Ed Winterschladen. The role of the Chief Financial Officer has grown in recent years. Long gone are the days when their role was restricted to accounting and forecasting – they are now pivotal to setting business strategy and in many cases act as the ‘right-hand’ of the Chief Executive. For procurement leaders, finance leaders are often a key stakeholder or indeed the person they directly report to.

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The Best Pharma Supply Chain Move Of All Time ? Digitize to Legitimize

Gravity Supply Chain

Why complex, highly regulated Pharma Supply Chains must digitize to enable agility, traceability, accountability, resilience, security, and adaptability.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

This Monday is an important day. It is Memorial Day, a US federal holiday to honor and mourn the military personnel who have died while serving in the Armed Forces. But that is not the only important thing happening on Monday. It is also my birthday. And while this is exciting, there is still one more important thing happening. On Monday, May 25, 2020, as the Massachusetts economy opens in its multi-phase plan, barber shops […].

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 22, 2020)

Talking Logistics

Citigroup Chief Executive Michael Corbat told employees they can take an extra day off this Friday (today) after working “harder than ever” in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Cisco told its 75,000 employees to take today off too to recharge after weeks of working remotely amid the COVID-19 crisis. I’m taking (most of) today off. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 22, 2020).

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for March 25, 2020 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Fred Simpson of Columbus, IN and Christina Alcorn of Alvarez and Marsal Take Home the Prize with a Great Captions

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Retail Fulfillment Tips to Boost Your Omnichannel Strategy

GlobalTranz

Today’s consumers are more connected than ever before. Customers have several channels to make a purchase, such as online or mobile, bought in a store, a combination of the two, known as buy-online, pick-up in-store (BOPIS), or any other channel to purchase offered by the retailer. To stay competitive, today’s retailers need responsive, integrated technology that.read More.

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The 5 Billion Dollar Overcharge with Steve Ferreira

The Logistics of Logistics

The 5 Billion Dollar Overcharge with Steve Ferreira. Steve Ferreira and Joe Lynch discuss the 5 billion dollar overcharge which refers to the amount that ocean shippers are overcharged every year. Steve is well recognized expert in ocean freight auditing and in the interview, he describes the problem of ocean freight overcharges and ways to recapture the difference.

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Fast Forward to Strategic: Accelerating Procurement Transformation

ivalua

The post Fast Forward to Strategic: Accelerating Procurement Transformation appeared first on Ivalua.

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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.

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What Cancellation of Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto Project Says About the Future of Smart Cities

Enterra Insights

Sidewalk Labs, an arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., recently announced the cancellation of an ambitious project to turn a Toronto neighborhood into a model for future smart city projects. When the project began in 2017, Sidewalk Labs announced, “Toronto’s eastern waterfront presents an extraordinary opportunity to shape the city’s future and provide a global model for inclusive urban growth.

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Rethinking How Business Gets Done to Build a Competitive Edge

ivalua

The post Rethinking How Business Gets Done to Build a Competitive Edge appeared first on Ivalua.

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What Manufacturers Can Do Now to Maintain Continuity in the New Normal

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors are operating in intensely pressured times as a result of COVID-19. According to a survey conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 78.3% of manufacturers anticipate a financial impact, while 53.1% anticipate a change in operations. In response, many countries are looking into relief aid solutions to keep essential industries afloat.

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Driving Value in a Virtual Environment

ivalua

The post Driving Value in a Virtual Environment appeared first on Ivalua.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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Feel Good Friday: Refreshments for Delivery Drivers

Freight Center

It has been really inspiring to share the stories that we have come across about people and businesses doing some great things to support those on the front lines. In this Feel Good Friday series, we highlight how appreciation is coming in all shapes and sizes starting with one very creative kid who setup his own refreshment stand for delivery drivers.

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WHITE PAPER: SAP S/4HANA 1909: Budget Availability Control for Cost Centers – New Feature

Bristlecone

SAP introduced the much-awaited Budget Availability Control for Cost Centers in the on-premise version of SAP S/4HANA 1909. This new functionality makes it possible to perform a budget check at the time of Purchase Requisition / Purchase Order creation against a Cost Center and the actual expense booking directly to the Cost Center. The Cost Center Budget report displays commitment as well as actual budget position.

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Forecast Using Leading Indicators ? Regression Analysis:

The Smart Software

In this Video Tutorials Dr. Thomas Willemain, co–Founder and SVP Research, presents Regression Analysis, a specialized statistical modeling technique to improve the accuracy of the forecasts. These videos explain with examples how to use Regression Analysis and the various scenarios where this technique makes a good choice. The post Forecast Using Leading Indicators – Regression Analysis: appeared first on Smart Software.