Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Shelves are empty. Online orders take much longer to arrive. The media are warning of a Christmas devoid of presents. The supply chain has probably affected you firsthand in some way, the shock of expensive or absent products likely throwing your world out of whack and bringing mild panic. But there are several prominent myths circulating about the supply crunch and its causes.
The Logistics of Logistics
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Surviving The LTL Market with Todd Trompeter. Todd Trompeter and Joe Lynch discuss surviving the LTL market. Todd is the Vice President of Logistics Operations for BlueGrace Logistics , a company that offers customizable transportation management solutions as a full-service Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider that helps businesses manage their freight spend through industry leading technology with a large network of established carriers to customers across the country.
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IT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
By Brian Atkinson (pictured). Vice President & General Manager, Five9. The post Brands need to ensure transparency & great customer service appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. ECommerce SEO : How Online Stores Can Drive Organic Traffic! Businesses moved online article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. Over the last few years, there has been a huge boom in online business, which has seen so many companies shift their operations online both for cost and convenience reasons.
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
IT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
By Mike Loukides (pictured). Vice President of Emerging Tech at O’Reilly. The post Black Friday is the time to have cloud strategies & investments in place appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
IT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
By Oliver Guy (pictured). Senior Director, Industry solutions at Software AG. The post What should businesses be doing? And how can they benefit in the long term? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
SupplyShift
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
For a business to meet its sustainability goals, it can’t look solely within its own four walls. To see truly impactful sustainability improvements in a company, suppliers need to be a top consideration, as their activities have an outsized impact on a company’s sustainability performance overall. However, understanding exactly how to navigate sustainability with your suppliers can be challenging.
IT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
By Samuel Mueller (pictured). CEO & Co-founder, Scandit. The post 3 in 4 businesses believe AR is key to delivering on customer satisfaction appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Freight Plus
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Calling FreightPlus a, “Local company helping to unravel supply chain, getting products to you faster & cheaper,” Fox 25 Boston did a great segment on what we do, who we are, and how we can help during the holiday season. . Jill Clifford, president at FreightPlus, was interviewed about her background in the freight industry and discussed how the solutions FreightPlus has developed have positively impacted its clients. .
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.
BlueYonder
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, many Americans skipped their annual medical exam. In fact, a survey conducted in early 2020 showed that 22% of Americans say they have steered clear over that past year of some sort of medical care — including doctor visits, medications, vaccinations, annual exams, screenings, vision checks and routine blood work.
Freight Plus
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Calling FreightPlus a, “Local company helping to unravel supply chain, getting products to you faster & cheaper,” Fox 25 Boston did a great segment on what we do, who we are, and how we can help during the holiday season.
Amware Logistics and Fulfillment
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
If the combination of holiday demand, higher rates and volume caps has you seeking alternatives to FedEx, UPS and the USPS, maybe it’s time to consider adding some regional carriers to your parcel delivery options.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving Day feast has risen 14% this year, while the bird’s price tag has jumped 24%.
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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.
TrackVia
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
At TrackVia, we pride ourselves on the fact that you don’t need a ton of training to get started building apps. Native tools like the import wizard and FasTrack make it easy to get your first application underway by uploading existing spreadsheets or physical forms. However, we also know that many of our customers want to build more robust, complex, enterprise-wide applications that need more customization.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Cutting out fuel stops can save time, money and the environment.
ProcurePort
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Are you looking for ways to improve your procurement management process? You’re in the right place. In order to be successful in procurement management, it’s important that you understand · What the process actually entails, · The key people involved in the operation, and lastly · Best practices you can adopt to improve your own […]. The post Key Steps for Successful Procurement Management in Manufacturing Companies appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.
Arena Solutions
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Introduction to Razorleaf, Arena’s Custom Integration Partner. Full transcript below: Ann McGuire. Hello, and welcome to our latest Arena virtual event: Introducing Arena Events Engine, the latest APIs, and custom integration partner, Razorleaf. I am Ann McGuire, Director of Product Marketing at Arena. I have a few items to review before we begin.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on manufacturing companies, which have been forced to adapt to supply chain interruptions, market shifts and labor shortages. But with these challenges have come opportunities – to reconfigure work, transform operations and emerge with more resiliency and ingenuity than ever before. Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations.
ShipBob
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
If your ecommerce business is scaling at a rapid pace but you’re struggling to accurately fulfill hundreds of orders, it might be time to hire a fulfillment manager. Fulfillment managers oversee all fulfillment -related activities in an ecommerce company, — including order processing and confirmation, inventory tracking and planning, picking, packing, and shipping preparations — to ensure that all orders are received, packaged, and delivered accurately and in a timely manner.
Proxima
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
We spoke with National Highways’ Executive Director of Commercial & Procurement about how his organisation uses its position to deliver positive change. How do you define social value? For us as an organisation, social value encompasses a huge range of things. Together they quantify the experience we add to people’s lives, from skills and job creation through enhancements to the local environment to boosting community facilities.
Multichannel Merchant
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Via.Delivery, a startup platform offering the power of buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS) to smaller retail and ecommerce businesses, has expanded beyond its Russian roots with a launch here that features 21,000+ pickup locations at pharmacies, convenience marts and grocery stores. The Via.Delivery app has now gone live on Shopify, Magento, OpenCart and Ecwid, via plugin or API, with other ecommerce platforms to follow, said co-founder and CEO Mitchell Nitikin.
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Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
In a recent New Yorker article, author Louis Menand insists, “It’s time to stop talking about ‘generations.’ From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.”[1] The thing is, marketers aren’t really interested in “social history.” They want to sell products. And the manufacturers who make those products along with the retailers sell those products don’t want to waste money on non-productive advertising.
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