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How to Support Customers When Supply Chains Are Unpredictable

Supply Chain Brain

The holidays are placing even more stress on supply chains. Here are four ways you can help lower stress, minimize damage and deliver positive customer service.

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Looking back at 2021: Lessons for manufacturers and distributors

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

2021 has been a year of transition. The evolving crisis and measures taken worldwide to contain the spread of the pandemic accelerated certain long-term and emerging trends. The past year has shown us that if organizations and industries are to keep up with the fast-paced change and uncertainty of the current market, they need to accelerate their digital transformation strategy.

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2022: The Year to Build Supply Chain Resiliency

ProcurePort

Global supply chains have suffered immensely in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a shortage of materials, shipping prices have gone up, and ports have been backed up. A lot of companies missed their demand forecasts. This has in turn affected global commodity prices leading to a discussion about […]. The post 2022: The Year to Build Supply Chain Resiliency appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Supply Chain 2022 & Beyond. Just-In-Time or Just-In-Case?

IT Supply Chain

By David Shillingford (pictured). Chief Strategy Officer, Everstream Analytics. The post Supply Chain 2022 & Beyond. Just-In-Time or Just-In-Case? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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5 Things to Look for in eSourcing Software

EC Sourcing Group

5 Things to Look for in eSourcing Software. Underneath the umbrella of supply chain management are procurement and the sourcing of goods and materials. When this is performed electronically through the internet, it is known as eSourcing or electronic sourcing. eSourcing software helps guide you through the process of Sourcing by offering certain features and benefits, which help eSourcing (and eProcurement , by proxy) perform a more seamless process.

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5 Things to Look for in eSourcing Software

EC Sourcing Group

5 Things to Look for in eSourcing Software. Underneath the umbrella of supply chain management are procurement and the sourcing of goods and materials. When this is performed electronically through the internet, it is known as eSourcing or electronic sourcing. eSourcing software helps guide you through the process of Sourcing by offering certain features and benefits, which help eSourcing (and eProcurement , by proxy) perform a more seamless process.

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How Can Manufacturing Companies Benefit from AI in 2022?

IT Supply Chain

By Kate Grigorenko (pictured). Tech Writer. The post How Can Manufacturing Companies Benefit from AI in 2022? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Will the Circular Economy Ever Go Mainstream?

Enterra Insights

The 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) held in mid-November 2021 in Glasgow once again, for a brief moment, focused world attention on the dangers of climate change and the importance taking long-term actions to mitigate its negative effects. One oft-discussed strategy to save the planet is transitioning to a circular economy. As the SmartCitiesWorld news team writes, “While the circular economy is still in its infancy, it is a key sustainability strategy being adopted by world and industr

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Acme Intralog reports 35 per cent growth in 2021

Logistics Middle East

Over the past year, Acme has substantially expanded its client portfolio, by offering warehouse automation and robotics solutions to customers from different sectors, including fashion, food and beverage and more.

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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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Premium Leather Goods E-Tailer

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Digital Transformation for Shopify Vendor Bonaventura started their digital transformation of end-to-end Pre-Season Planning with Solvoyo. Bonaventura sells its premium products on 5 different sales channels, including Shopify, Amazon and Rakuten. The post Premium Leather Goods E-Tailer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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Carrier & Customer Portals: How Cloud-Based TMS Is Changing Logistics Collaboration

MercuryGate

Transportation carbon emissions are a major threat to the planet, and left unchecked, they have the potential to cause vast devastation and limit the abilities of humanity to thrive. Carbon emissions have risen in recent years, but as social media has grown and politics have evolved, ESG initiatives have become more commonplace. The post Carrier & Customer Portals: How Cloud-Based TMS Is Changing Logistics Collaboration appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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API Management Tools

Axway

API management tools offer the API team the instruments and processes needed to create, document, manage and publish APIs in a secure development environment.

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The 15 Best Ways to Reduce Inventory and Cut Costs

Unleashed

In these fast-moving days of technological advancement and economic change, a lot of manufacturers are talking about going ‘lean’. One major aspect of running a lean business is reducing inventory – that is, a reduction in the amount of inventory your organisation keeps on hand at a given time. Read more: What is Inventory Management? Techniques for 2022.

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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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It’s Time for a New Approach: Warehouse Automation With a Human Touch

Accelogix

Automation is a no-brainer and a necessity. In order to automate effectively, software has to be combined with people. Bottlenecks are a major issue in warehousing. There are a lot of products and services out there, but which are optimizing most effectively and unifying the key elements (most of all, people)? Here’s what you need to look for in a software solution.

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What will be the main reason for D2C sales in 2021? Discover how the D2C business model can benefit you!

Vinculum

Direct-to-Consumer selling deals the end-user directly through the digital platform eliminating the middlemen’s involvement. The D2C is the right platform to establish a strong bond with the buyer and the seller to strengthen the market and built-up the relationship in a fascinating manner. The goal of the D2C is to display the products of customers’ choice rather than what service they can provide to attract the consumers.

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Love at First Flight! Flying and Crashing My First Drone!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Delivery Drones are Taking Off! (Infographic). For many years I have thought about buying a drone. With so many shows available showing aerial video of beautiful places around the world it, having a drone would enable me to realize that same experience on my own. On a recent trip to Costco I noticed that they had a great deal on a Drone bundle, with great features.

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Are Procurement and Logistics Executives Aligned When Faced with Current Supply Chain Challenges?

NC State SCRC

Procurement and supply chain executives are on the “same team” – and in general, a recent study conducted by the SCRC and GEP suggests that there is strong alignment between the two functions when it comes to prioritizing lower risks and reducing uncertainty in supply chains. Both procurement and logistics are aware of the increased uncertainties arising from COVID outbreaks, labor shortages, port disruptions, and prioritizing lowest cost suppliers, focusing on financial outco

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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.