Wed.Oct 02, 2019

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AI vs Human Planning – which is better?

Vanguard Software

With AI capabilities automating more and more decisions and tasks in our personal lives, it can be a bit daunting to think of its expansion.

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RCCP versus MPS – Can They Be Connected?

Arkieva

Master Production Scheduling (MPS) plans for items that are independent (or direct) demand. Independent Demand is a demand that comes from Sales Orders, Service Orders, or forecasts on end items, i.e., items that we sell to customers. In RCCP, the principle assumption is that family-level assumptions are good approximations for the SKU level detail and the change in the mix will not have a big impact on the capacity projection.

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Retail Peak Season Preparation: Why Labor Day Kicks Off the Real Peak Season

Veridian Solutions

When do you start retail peak season preparation in your warehouse? November, October, or earlier? If you haven’t already started planning, you are late to the game. Products are going to be out of stock, available carriers from China are going to cease for Golden Week, and your entire hope for the season will begin to falter. Instead of risking your success, supply chain leaders need to seriously think about how earlier planning equals faster and more effective management of the retail peak sea

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How Diversity and Adversity Can Challenge and Grow your Career

BlueYonder

This week’s Wednesday’s for Women features ElMarie Hugo, senior director of North America Industry Strategy as interviewed by Christine Dykstra, director of North America Demand Generation. ElMarie shares how moving from South Africa to the U.S. has taken her career path in a totally different direction and how building her network and base helped her to get there. .

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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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Making Food & Beverage Supply Chains Pay

IQMS

Bottom Line: High performance, integrated food & beverage supply chains are the lifeblood of successful manufacturers in the industry, enabling them to flex in response to customer demand. When production lines are running smoothly, product quality is up, and customer delivery dates are being met it’s a sure sign the supply chain management, inventory, and warehouse management systems supporting the shop floor are tightly integrated.

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars. September 25th, 2019. Are industrial bottlenecks preventing your business from growing? According to IDC, most companies lose 20-30% in revenue every year due to bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Operational bottlenecks in the form of downtime, production quality issues, and process delays can emerge anywhere, at anytime, along your supply chain, creating an irreparable dent to your revenue streams.

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Bristlecone Flash – September 2019

Bristlecone

BRISTLECONE PULSE AT MIT 2019 – IT’S A WRAP! Pulse attendees witnessed the supply chain of the future come alive on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They gained insight from the industry’s brightest minds and were inspired by stories of digital transformation and lessons learned, as shared by top executives across various industries. They also enjoyed a VIP evening at Fenway Park, two book signings with MIT authors, and unique networking opportunities.

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An Interview with Michael Hutzli, Engineering

Alloy

Michael Hutzli is an engineering team lead in Alloy’s Vancouver office. Before joining Alloy a bit over three years ago, he worked as a software engineer at Addepar in Mountain View and at AdNovum in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. What first interested you in software engineering? When I was 11 or 12, I became really interested in building dynamic websites.

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How Testing Automation Gives Retailers Competitive Advantage

Repl Group

What would it mean to your retail business if you could test changes to your global IT systems overnight? What sort of competitive advantage would that give you? This isn’t a theoretical question for some retailers: they’ve already benefited from testing automation which has significantly reduced the time it takes to fix bugs, enhanced their systems, accelerated development projects and decreased cost.

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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 by the Numbers for Oct. 3, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

The GM Strike and Electric Cars, Labor Share of US Income Continues to Fall, US Manufacturing Index Falls to Lowerst Level in a Decade, DHL Plans Big Technology Spend

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Digital Transformation of Your Supply Chain Network in the Age of AI

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

The post Digital Transformation of Your Supply Chain Network in the Age of AI appeared first on Solvoyo.

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How to hit a moving target: Managing tariffs & other supply chain uncertainties

FLEXE

The trade wars wage on, but navigating them comes down to your supply chain

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3PL Challenges and Trends: How Technology Can Drive Value

Talking Logistics

Customer expectations are becoming more demanding across all industries, but that is especially true in the third-party logistics (3PL) industry. Companies are relying on their 3PL partners more than ever to help them succeed in today’s marketplace, which means 3PLs have to keep pace with their customers’ expanding expectations. What are some of the challenges.

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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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The Micro-Fulfillment Center Automation Race

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-fulfillment center automation is poised for rapid growth. Customer proximity, throughput, responsiveness, and space utilization are critical factors for success. Innovative companies are addressing the micro-fulfillment challenge with cutting-edge technology and process innovations. Front and center is a number of automation technologies that can be categorized as a hybrid of shuttle system and robotic technologies.

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10 Things to Know about Driver Detention

PINC

Here’s how those hours that drivers spend waiting around the yard can impact the trucking industry, and what shippers, customers, and carriers can do about it. . When a truck driver’s route is delayed at origin or pickup, that interruption can cause a trickle-down effect across the entire transportation chain. Say, for example, a driver is nearing the end of his hours of service (HOS) limit as he pulls his tractor trailer into the yard.

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Hot Holiday Sales or Retail Recession?

Enterra Insights

The holiday season is rapidly approaching and retailers are receiving mixed signals about the economy. It’s no secret that consumer spending has kept the U.S. economy strong over the past decade; however, there are signs the good times could be coming to an end. Philip Georgiadis ( @Philgeorgiadis ) writes, “Investors are increasingly fearful of a global recession, according to a survey of many of the world’s biggest asset managers.

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10 Things to Know about Driver Detention

PINC

Here’s how those hours that drivers spend waiting around the yard can impact the trucking industry, and what shippers, customers, and carriers can do about it.

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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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Innovation: A common theme at CSCMP EDGE 2019

CHAINalytics

Last month, I was honored to participate as a track chair at EDGE, the annual conference for CSCMP. Specifically, I helped lead the Sponsor Series II track in which the content is chosen by the conference sponsors themselves. Having only attended the strictly educational tracks at past events, I honestly did not know what to … The post Innovation: A common theme at CSCMP EDGE 2019 appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Need Last-Minute Holiday Fulfillment? Get Started Quickly With a 3PL

ShipBob

Not everything always goes according to plan. Sometimes you need to make a change — fast. Logistics is no exception. If you find yourself in the position of looking for immediate help fulfilling your customers’ orders, you may come across a plethora of third-party logistics ( 3PL ) providers. When it comes to getting started with a new 3PL, the onboarding process can be slow and cumbersome.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: We’re Going Pink for October!

Intelligent Audit

Throughout the month of October, you may notice something different – we’re turning our company logo pink to reflect the worldwide annual campaign taking place, involving thousands of organizations to highlight the importance of breast cancer awareness, education, and research. Did you know that nearly 1 in 8 women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point?

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Our New iOS Unleashed Sales App is Now Available to Download

Unleashed

We’ve launched a new Unleashed Sales App on the App Store ! The Unleashed Sales App has a few changes and to make the most out of its great features, there are some things you have to do. Before you download the new Unleashed Sales App, don’t forget to: Save draft orders on the App to Unleashed Software — you’ll lose any draft orders when you migrate to the app.

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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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The Orr Experience at enVista

EnVista

Figuring out how you want to leverage the ~18 years of education you have just received upon college graduation is no easy feat. With so many options at a college grad’s disposal, it can be hard to understand not only what you want out of a career, but then how to find it – and finding a job that aligns with your personal and professional values on top of that can seem like a dream, until now.

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Guest opinion: The best retail solution for brands that I have seen, hands down

Alloy

Jennifer Freyer has been in the retail technology sector since 1993. For 10 years she worked in sales, account management and training for EDI and UPC catalogue solutions. The past 15 years, she has been focused on POS reporting and analysis solutions, directing sales, marketing and client consulting, while speaking and working with industry thought leaders to drive best practices and adoption.

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Arena Solutions Forges Strategic Partnership with Acumatica

Arena Solutions

Foster City, Calif., October 2, 2019 – Arena Solutions , the leading provider of cloud-based product development solutions for high tech, consumer electronics, and medical device industries, today announced a significant new partnership with Acumatica , the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company. The integration from Arena to Acumatica will extend an organization’s end-to-end cloud environment to help design, produce, and deliver innovative products rapidly.

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How to Track and Benchmark Your Success into Cloud Adoption

Unleashed

So you’ve removed the obstacles to implementing cloud apps and have migrated onto the cloud — you want to know how it’s going. How can you tell if the benefits outweigh the costs? Generally speaking, migrating into cloud-based technologies gives you a platform to grow with technology and seek previously unattainable opportunities. If you want to track and benchmark your successes with your cloud adoption, here are some key performance indicators (KPIs) that demonstrate the value of your choice.

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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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Are Your Purchasing and Budgeting Systems Encouraging Rogue Spend?

EC Sourcing Group

Rogue spend is often a sign that there are bigger issues in purchasing and budgeting that aren’t being addressed. Let me outline a couple of recent stories that were shared with me to illustrate some underlying issues. A company was opening a new facility. Unfortunately, the bathrooms were not ready for the opening and were not expected to be ready for several months.

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Join Axway as a Silver sponsor at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2019 on November 3-7, 2019

Axway

Digital transformation, sound decision making, information and technology are topics on every executive’s mind. The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2019 is where executives go to learn from innovative leaders on how to take their companies to the highest level.

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Acquia and ORM reveal customer experience is the key focus For manufacturers as online shopping behaviours evolve

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Almost three-quarters (73%) of manufacturers are re-directing their key focus to enhancing the customer experience to accommodate changes in consumer behaviour, according to new research from Acquia and ORM.