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Multi-Omni Channel Retail Supply Chains

Cranfield

Multichannel and Omni channel supply chains - what are they and what is the difference?

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Suppliers are Friends, not Food!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. “Fish are friends, not food.”. Bruce, a great white shark, and his two shark friends gather alongside Dory and Marlin, taking a sacred oath, swearing off eating fish.

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Supply Chain Digitization Efforts are in Full Swing

Enterra Insights

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10 Ways Machine Learning Can Improve Manufacturing Today

IQMS

AI has the potential to create $1.4T to $2.6T of value in marketing and sales across the world’s businesses, and $1.2T to $2T in supply-chain management and manufacturing. By 2021, 20% of leading manufacturers will rely on embedded intelligence, using AI, IoT, and blockchain applications to automate processes and increase execution times by up to 25% according to IDC.

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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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Top 7 Benefits of System driven Inventory Projections

Arkieva

Scientific and system-driven Inventory Projection facilitates a quick decision-making process and enables a prompt analysis of alternative what-if scenarios. The following are the top 7 benefits of system driven inventory projection. Top 7 Benefits of System driven Inventory Projections was first posted on September 5, 2019 at 10:26 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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8 Fundamentals for Achieving Artificial Intelligence Success in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain 24/7

In the race to use AI, many companies have made attempts to implement it, but the results have been disappointing, and despite its benefits when looked at through the lens of a supply chain executive, AI is relatively useless unless it’s able to add value to support better decision-making.

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Gartner Supply Chain Conference: Trends 2019

The Network Effect

I recently presented at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix Arizona. It was a great conference, and I. The post Gartner Supply Chain Conference: Trends 2019 appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Introducing our inaugural guide to concurrent planning

Kinaxis

by John Sicard A transformation is taking place. Political landscapes shift overnight, global trade is constantly changing, consumers demand increasingly personalized service and smaller day-to-day challenges hit without warning. If your job is supply chain management, how on earth do you plan for the unplannable? At Kinaxis, we devote our time to the innovative technologies, processes and methods that help our customers and partners navigate the changing landscape of supply chain planning.

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[WHITE PAPER] How to Realize the Substantial Benefits of Final Mile Logistics

GlobalTranz

Fill out the Form Below to Get a Free Copy of the White Paper to Your Inbox! Cerasis is excited to announce the release of an all new, exclusive, & educational resource “How to Realize the Substantial Benefits of Final Mile Logistics” white paper! This is a must read for those in looking to maximize.read More. The post [WHITE PAPER] How to Realize the Substantial Benefits of Final Mile Logistics appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Top US Cities for Industrial Robot Densities

Supply Chain Digest

Cities in Midwest, probably Driven by the Auto Sector, Top the List

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Benchmarking: Avoid Being The Tallest Pigmy

Logistics Viewpoints

Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies. It is used to measure performance using a specific indicator or indicators resulting in a metric of performance that is then compared to others to assess how well or how poorly a company is performing. This is sometimes referred to as “best practice benchmarking” or “process benchmarking” Management uses this process to evaluate

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What Shippers Need to Know About the New IMO 2020 Emissions Standards

Talking Logistics

In an effort to reduce air pollution from container ships, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) recently announced a new standard regarding the acceptable levels of sulfur oxides (SOx) emissions in bunker fuel. With the updated emissions requirements going into effect at the start of 2020, it’s important for shippers to stay informed about the new.

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Ivalua Recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites 2019

ivalua

The post Ivalua Recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites 2019 appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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Finally some good news for reefer carriers

DAT Solutions

The negative news we’ve been reporting for reefer produce turned around last week, as robust apple harvests were underway in several markets throughout the country.

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Hyperlocal Fulfillment: Models, Benefits, and Considerations

C3 Solutions

With all these pressures, it's no wonder logisticians are being creative in designing fulfillment networks. It just makes sense to bring the fulfillment centre closer to the customer, when the last mile is proving to be such a costly challenge.

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Can Blockchain Really Help The Food Industry?

ITradeNetwork

Blockchain is a hot topic these days. From expediting and tracking the transfer of funds to keeping more secure and accurate medical records, blockchain is being considered as a solution to challenges across a number of industries. But when it comes to the benefits that blockchain can bring to food and beverage, there are a lot of skeptics out there.

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6 River Systems and Soft Robotics Announce Strategic Partnership

6 River Systems

6 River Systems and Soft Robotics Announce the Integration of SuperPick and Chuck Bedford & Waltham, Mass. – (Sept. 5, 2019) – 6 River Systems, Inc. (6RS) and Soft Robotics today announced a strategic partnership to deliver an automated picking solution for e-commerce and retail warehouses. The solution combines 6 River Systems’ automated collaborative mobile robot, Chuck, with Soft Robotics’ disruptive, full stack bin picking and order fulfillment solution, SuperPick.

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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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Honeywell Helps Apparel Logistics Group Triple Daily Output from Its Ecommerce Distribution Center

Supply Chain 24/7

Honeywell Intelligrated’s technology and technical support services will help The Apparel Logistics Group expand its e-commerce parcel shipping capability, increase productivity at the shipping dock, ensure order accuracy and expand its value-added services capacity, which includes returned merchandise management and product customization.

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Michigan, It’s Time to Bring Out Your Dirndl or Lederhosen!

3PL Insights

Guten tag! Frankenmuth, Michigan is celebrating its 30 th Oktoberfest this year. What is Oktoberfest? Oktoberfest originated in Munich, Germany in 1810 and it has been held annually ever since. It is a Volksfest or “people’s festival,” which combines a beer festival and carnival, to celebrate Bavarian culture. Munich’s Oktoberfest is the largest Volksfest in the world.

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Honeywell Helps Apparel Logistics Group Triple Daily Output from Its Ecommerce Distribution Center

Supply Chain 24/7

Honeywell Intelligrated’s technology and technical support services will help The Apparel Logistics Group expand its e-commerce parcel shipping capability, increase productivity at the shipping dock, ensure order accuracy and expand its value-added services capacity, which includes returned merchandise management and product customization.

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How To Decrease Your Purchase Order Cycle Time

Unleashed

If you’re looking to make your business more efficient, you might need to revamp some processes. Of course, there are big processes in a business that take lots of time and effort to overhaul. Rather, how about spending some time focusing on some of the little processes such as reducing your purchase order cycle time. A purchase order cycle is the journey of steps that a purchase order goes through when it’s being processed.

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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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Building a Successful RFQ

ProcurePort

Imagine if your RFQ process took 50% less time, eliminating stacks of paper, manila file folders, and clunky filing cabinets. Imagine that you’re able to handle the typically arduous and detailed processes of procurement automatically and with less staff. This isn’t a dream. According to The Hackett Group, world-class procurement organizations successfully handle the RFQ […].

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Michigan, It’s Time to Bring Out Your Dirndl or Lederhosen!

3PL Insights

Guten tag! Frankenmuth, Michigan is celebrating its 30 th Oktoberfest this year. What is Oktoberfest? Oktoberfest originated in Munich, Germany in 1810 and it has been held annually ever since. It is a Volksfest or “people’s festival,” which combines a beer festival and carnival, to celebrate Bavarian culture. Munich’s Oktoberfest is the largest Volksfest in the world.

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PetSmart to Automate Demand Planning & Replenishment Processes with RELEX Solutions

RELEX Solutions

Read PDF. PetSmart Inc. , the leading specialty pet retailer in North America, has chosen RELEX Solutions to automate and optimize its demand planning and replenishment processes. The RELEX solution will be used to plan demand for PetSmart’s more than 1650 stores, distribution centers and e-commerce site. Through this partnership, RELEX will introduce end-to-end, integrated planning capabilities that will help PetSmart improve the accuracy of its demand forecasts, replenishment and allocation.

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Warehouse and DC News Roundup-September 2019

Lucas

Warehouse and DC News The Painful Truth About Warehousing Most companies in the warehousing and distribution space have no idea what their costs should be. Why? Most companies have not determined a clear methodology for. Keep Reading. The post Warehouse and DC News Roundup-September 2019 appeared first on Work Execution Software Solutions.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Dreaming about accurate forecasts?

DELMIA Quintiq

There is a saying among forecast users: “ If you forecast, you may be wrong; but you will always be wrong if you do not forecast.”. Demand planning is crucial for companies to determine the figures they need in different areas of operations, such as production planning, purchasing raw materials and inventory investments. But how much faith are companies willing to place in inaccurate forecasts?

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On-demand warehousing 101: Top 10 locations for warehousing & eCommerce fulfillment

FLEXE

The most strategic locations to add capacity and services

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New LTL Reefer Freight Rates in Canada are now Live on Freightera.com!

Freightera

Ready for Booking with a Click of a Button: Reefer Rates Between Major Canadian Cities, and to/from the Okanagan. The summer is almost over, but protecting freight from heat is still in high demand! Here are some reefer LTL rates we’ve recently added to our quoting system. FROZEN / -5°F (-20°C), COOLER / 34°F (1°C) or Mixed. The temperature does not affect the rate between frozen or cooler but needs to be indicated in the orders.

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