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What’s Inspiring Supply Chain Leaders Now

ProcurePort

• The coronavirus pandemic is nearly over. Global supply chains are gradually getting back to their former efficiency and economies are beginning to pick up. • All of this is of course welcome news for a lot of supply chain leaders for whom the past two years have been nothing short of a nightmare. With […]. The post What’s Inspiring Supply Chain Leaders Now appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

Logistics Viewpoints

Transparent data prepared especially for your logistics operation will get you easily through your peaks. Peaks are all so different. During the summer months, in one sector the demand for sun cream explodes while in another, it’s the demand for mineral water. Everyone is familiar with such seasonal demands. The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items.

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Pharma Supply Chain Failure Is a $35 Billion Problem

Supply Chain Brain

The pharmaceutical industry loses roughly $35 billion annually because of failures in temperature-controlled logistics. Those losses are almost entirely preventable.

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How Digital Transformation Helps EV Companies Accelerate Product Innovation

Arena Solutions

Fulfilling safety and environmental regulations, procuring components with existing supply chain concerns, and meeting quality requirements are all challenges that have electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers turning to digital solutions and processes to help them collaborate across the supply chain. Digital transformation is core to being successful nowadays; a digital backbone can transform the way EV manufacturers work.

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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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Latin America Free Zone Sees Silver Lining in Supply Chain Kinks

Supply Chain Brain

Uruguay’s largest free zone operator Zonamerica SA, which hosts over 350 companies, plans to break ground on more than $100 million in real estate projects through next year as it bets stressed global supply chains will boost the country’s appeal as a regional hub.

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Watch: Why Can't Supply Chains Keep Pace With Change?

Supply Chain Brain

“Disruption” is the word of the year. Alan Amling, distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee's Global Supply Chain Institute, explains what it means to supply chain professionals — and why they keep "getting in their own way.".

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Is Walmart Marketplace coming to Britain? ParcelHero says Walmart is now wooing UK sellers

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). Head of Consumer Research, ParcelHero. The post Is Walmart Marketplace coming to Britain? ParcelHero says Walmart is now wooing UK sellers appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Watch: How to Keep Suppliers Contractually Responsible

Supply Chain Brain

Tiffany Presley, attorney in the Supply Chain Practice of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, offers advice on how manufacturers can achieve better visibility of, and control over, suppliers at the tier-one level and beyond.

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Should You Reinvest Your Crypto Gains?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cryptocurrency Functions! Cryptocurrencies are the most lucrative assets in the world right now. However, like any other investment, it has its drawbacks and disadvantages. An example of this is the market’s unpredictability, which is capable of causing serious damage to your portfolio.

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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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Six months later – has the Log4j threat disappeared? Data says no

IT Supply Chain

By Jamie Moles (pictured). Senior Technical Manager at ExtraHop. The post Six months later – has the Log4j threat disappeared? Data says no appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Two Types of Visibility That Boost Supply Chain Resilience

Supply Chain Brain

The traditional notion of building resiliency in supply chains is evolving — and it should.

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Chainalytics and Supply Chain Movement Present a Checklist for Transport Contracting

CHAINalytics

Transport keeps supply chains moving. However, the European transport market has recently suffered more disruption than ever before, resulting in many supply chains grinding to a halt. The disruptive factors include Brexit (customs) issues and delays, post-COVID driver shortages, global container problems, the recently implemented Mobility Pack and strong fluctuations in fuel prices, to name … The post Chainalytics and <em>Supply Chain Movement</em> Present a Checklist for

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Creating sustainable value within Intralogistics

IT Supply Chain

By Phil Pearson (pictured). Sales Management Director at Jungheinrich. The post Creating sustainable value within Intralogistics appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Flexibility, Transparency: What Supply Chain Candidates Really Want

Supply Chain Brain

How can companies can meet customer demands for faster and more efficient delivery of products? By hiring the right people.

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In the ‘Age of Disruption’, Shippers are on the Hunt for “Elastic” Freight Forwarders

IT Supply Chain

By James Coombes (pictured). Co-Founder & CEO of Vector.ai. The post In the ‘Age of Disruption’, Shippers are on the Hunt for “Elastic” Freight Forwarders appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How Connecting Your TMS Saves Time and Money

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In your personal life, you can use a variety of devices to make purchases—from your phone to your smart TV, it’s all possible within whatever device you’re using. Now you can obtain transportation services where you already operate as well. In fact, today you can procure freight rates from your transportation providers right in your TMS. Through transportation management system (TMS) integrations and application programming interface (API), you can get real-time truckload rates further upstream

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No Business is Too Small for Automation

IT Supply Chain

By Dr Paul Rivers (pictured). Managing Director, Guidance Automation. The post No Business is Too Small for Automation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Podcast | Get Smart! Why Supply Chains Are Embracing Decision Intelligence

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains need to get smarter.

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Is Walmart Marketplace coming to Britain? Walmart is now wooing UK sellers

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). Head of Consumer Research, ParcelHero. The post Is Walmart Marketplace coming to Britain? Walmart is now wooing UK sellers appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Former Senior Amazon Executive Dave Clark Named CEO of Flexport

Supply Chain Matters

Five days ago, Supply Chain Matters highlighted in a breaking news posting that Dave Clark, Amazon’s overall head of the Consumer business had resigned his leadership position. Bloomberg had reported that the sudden departure had signaled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is seeking changes in the consumer retail division, which was admittedly overbuilt with excess warehouse capacity in 2021.

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What Is a Spot Rate in Trucking?

MercuryGate

What is a spot rate in trucking? Supply chain professionals tend to associate spot rates with uncertainty, which may create a sense of dread or worry. While there’s good reason for that sentiment and the spot rate definition is complex, understanding what drives those transportation rates is not. The post What Is a Spot Rate in Trucking? appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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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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How to take advantage of supplier information and mitigate risk

HICX Solutions

By Anthony Payne, Chief Marketing Officer of HICX. With social and environmental concerns on the rise, supplier information that was once discretionary is now defined by law. Stakeholders and governments are demanding, with regulatory backing, that businesses run ethical and sustainable supply chains. Apart from being the right thing to do, getting this right is also crucial to circumventing reputational and regulatory consequences.

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4 Levers Shippers Can Pull to Master a Deflationary Market

Talking Logistics

In the freight industry, we often contextualize fluctuations in market trends in terms of contract rates versus spot rates. When spot rates are beneath contract rates and trending down, or are significantly below contract rates regardless of trend, we consider that environment a deflationary market. The inverse is an inflationary market. For the first time.

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Trip Report on Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2022

Supply Chain Digest

Conference Continues to Gain Momementum, as We Review Opening Day Keynote

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The Race Towards Carbon Neutrality: Procurement on the Frontline Understanding Decarbonization to Make the Right Moves

ivalua

The post The Race Towards Carbon Neutrality: Procurement on the Frontline Understanding Decarbonization to Make the Right Moves appeared first on Ivalua.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Case Study: Scaling Fulfillment to Support Hyper-Growth

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Scaling order fulfillment operations is tough enough. But when your multi-channel brand is experiencing 4X growth, it's essential to have a buttoned-up back-end operation so you don’t disappoint customers.

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Rice Krispies and the Slow Slog to Normal Logistics

Tecsys

Another day, another shortage. It’s a cereal problem. “I go out to the grocery store… The post Rice Krispies and the Slow Slog to Normal Logistics appeared first on Tecsys.

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Product Update, May 2022

Precoro

Updates in Integrations. Slack Integration Improvements. In the last Product Update , we announced a new exciting integration with Slack, and we continue making it better. Here is what we've prepared for you this time: Approve or reject documents in Slack without opening Precoro in a new tab. After the approval, the notification will be changed to " Document has been approved.".