Tue.Dec 17, 2019

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Circular Supply Chains: The impact.

DynaSys

Changing a supply chain near you. In a previous post , I wrote on the emergence of Circular Supply Chain models and, whether we welcome it or not, there is a new future coming soon to a supply chain near you. In fact, for many companies, it has already began. The latest KPMG Survey [1] of Corporate Responsibility Reporting found that 93% of global 250 companies are publicly declaring sustainability and corporate responsibility standards. 67% of these companies now disclose targets to cut their c

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The Ultimate SCOR Model for Supply Chain Decisions

River Logic

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Sustainability: A Fresh Opportunity for Convenience Stores

BlueYonder

How can convenience store owners and managers contribute to sustainability — and increase their own profits? The answer is surprisingly simple. Statistics show that about 795 million people worldwide are undernourished — which is about one in nine people. At the same time, about one-third of all food produced is wasted at some point in the supply chain 1.

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Supply Chain: Learning How to Dance

Supply Chain Shaman

My aged hand drapes the barre on the celebration of Global Ballet day. Dutifully, no matter how bad I performed in the last class, I return to the barre, extend my right hand and start a new class. There is a soothing familiarity to refine moves that defy my capabilities. On these days, like most, my teacher sighs and reminds me to listen harder to the music.

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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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12 Ways To Get Control Over Supplier Master Data

ivalua

Jarrod McAdoo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Ivalua. Procure-to-pay (P2P) automation and analytics won’t work very well without accurate supplier master data. Yet that goal — data accuracy — remains a considerable challenge for many Procurement and Accounts Payable organizations. This Gartner report, “Gain Control Over Your Supplier Master Data Before It’s Too Late,” has lots of ideas for improvement.

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6 ideas to improve warehouse efficiency

6 River Systems

The efficiency of your warehouse is an integral part of your business. When operations run smoothly, customers get their orders on time, your staff stays safe and costs are kept to a minimum. On the other hand, if your warehouse is inefficient, you can quickly lose money, orders won’t be delivered on time and you’re more likely to experience issues like stockouts.

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Predictive (Risk-Resilient) Planning

Adexa

How do you plan in the face of uncertainty? Produce more than expected? If so, by how much? Re-plan when an undesired event occurs? It might take too long and it may be too late! How do you even know if a Re-plan is needed? How do you assess the impact of the event on your supply chain? On your profitability and market share? Traditional planning systems rely on a deterministic model of the supply chain.

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2020 Supply Chain Management Trends

EazyStock

Intro to 2020 Supply Chain Management Trends. The new year is upon us, and with the end of 2019 we reach the end of the decade – and the beginning of 2020. Throughout the last decade, the main trends were digitization and globalization. Supply chains have lengthened and extended across borders, bringing a whole new host of opportunities and challenges. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts.

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Leveraging Data in a Digital Transformation: Lessons from JAGGAER’s Fireside Chat

Jaggaer

Digital procurement platforms are capable of producing incredible amounts of data, from spend history to supplier scores , delivery rates and more. But such massive amounts of data can easily lead to a new generation of questions. What do all these numbers really mean? How can I put them to good use? Which data can I trust? . At REV2019 , JAGGAER hosted a fireside chat panel discussion with several procurement professionals to discuss these exact dilemmas and gather expert opinions.

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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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How SMB Carriers Can Reduce Carbon Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

Because of its importance in all types of business, the supply-chain industry is uniquely positioned to make big impacts from the adoption of green practices.

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Sustainability: A Fresh Opportunity for Convenience Stores

BlueYonder

How can convenience store owners and managers contribute to sustainability — and increase their own profits? The answer is surprisingly simple. Statistics show that about 795 million people worldwide are undernourished — which is about one in nine people. At the same time, about one-third of all food produced is wasted at some point in the supply chain 1.

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Logistics Strategy Focused on Partnership Proves More Effective

Zipline Logistics

As industries and consumer expectations shift, logistics has morphed from a cost of doing business to a competitive advantage. Even the largest shippers have taken note and begun working with 3PLs to create strategic partnerships that accomplish more through the supply chain. Some the country’s biggest CPG brands are leaving the old strategy of transactional shipping behind in favor of strategic logistics partnerships.

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How Wholesale Distributors Use Logistics Data Intelligence to Improve Outcomes

MercuryGate

The post How Wholesale Distributors Use Logistics Data Intelligence to Improve Outcomes appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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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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[PODCAST] Celadon Bankruptcy: What does it Mean for Shippers & Employees with Timothy Dooner of FreightWaves

GlobalTranz

Listen to “Celadon Bankruptcy: What does it mean for Shippers & Employees” on Spreaker. Freight Trucking Resources A Guide to Maximize the Use of TMS Download White Paper Inbound Freight Costs: How Gaining Visibility Achieves Bottom Line Savings Download White Paper The 2019 Transportation Management Trends for all Shippers to Know Download White Paper How.read More.

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Santa Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting Dec. 17, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Show us your Supply Chain Wit

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Targeted Marketing: To Infinity … and Beyond

Enterra Insights

On a clear night in the countryside, you can look up and see a star-studded sky. As impressive as the night sky can be, the Hubble telescope has opened our eyes to the mind-boggling truth that an endless array of galaxies containing an innumerable number of stars lie outside our field of vision. Chief Marketing Officer Lance Porigow ( @lporigow ) likens the galaxies, and the stars they contain, to marketing segments and individual consumers. “In a fundamental way,” he writes, “

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Amazon’s Relationships with Carriers Further Frays over the Holiday Season

Intelligent Audit

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported a rather shocking development – Amazon is now blocking its third-party sellers from using FedEx ground for Prime shipments. The reason for this seemingly extreme directive has been attributed to FedEx’s poor performance during the holiday shopping season. The ban will be instituted this week and remain in place until such time as Amazon feels that FedEx’s “delivery performance…improves.” There’s been a history

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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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Incoterms 2020: New Changes and Updates

Promptus LLC

Here’s What You Need to Know The Incoterms 2020 are out now! Brush up on any relevant changes and revisions that have been made by the ICC’s (International Chamber of […] The post Incoterms 2020: New Changes and Updates appeared first on Promptus, LLC.

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7 Important Tips to Optimize Your Freight Management

AFFLINK

Your business is often only as strong as its freight management. Better freight management can make it possible for you to save money, improve your day-to-day operations, and increase your reputation with those you ship to. Meanwhile, poor freight management cuts dramatically into your bottom line and can vastly reduce your effectiveness. Here are a few important tips on how to improve your freight management. 1.

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A Handy Acronym to Reduce Parcel Shipping Costs

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

This holiday season blog is our gift to budget-conscious B2C shippers who need to control fulfillment expenses. The subject: reducing parcel shipping costs. How do you do it? Think P – A – R – C – E – L.

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Overcoming Safety and Security Challenges in Manufacturing

Dragon Innovation

Despite the common goal of protecting the business, safety and security are somewhat separate problems that require a different approach to solving. Both remain hot topics in manufacturing, especially with respect to risk reduction. Fortunately, today’s technology solutions can work to improve both safety and security, sometimes solving both issues at once.

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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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6 River Systems Named to Food Logistics’ 2019 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers

6 River Systems

Food Logistics , the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named 6 River Systems (6RS) to its 2019 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list. The annual FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers serves as a resource guide of software and technology providers whose products and services are critical for companies in the global food and beverage supply chain.

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What Does 90 Years Mean to Me?

3PL Insights

Very few companies have been around for 90 years. A logistics company from 1929 is world’s away from today’s standards. The resilience that Evans Distribution Systems has shown makes it a truly special place to work. As our 90 th year comes to an end, we take a moment to reflect on all our years of business, the greatest takeaways, moments and people who make Evans what it is today.

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How Reverse Auction Services Avoid Procurement Hiccups

ProcurePort

What is a Reverse Auction? Reverse auction services are occasions, whereby the buyer and the sellers play an exchanged role. Here, the buyer puts up a price, and the sellers offer their services and products. The lowest price gets the auction. The standard auction is slightly different from the Reverse Auction – not categorized differently, […].

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Bristlecone Flash – December 2019

Bristlecone

DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION – THE TIME IS NOW. In 2019, digital transformation projects were top-of-mind for supply chain leaders in every industry, and there’s no doubt the trend will continue in 2020 and beyond. Businesses remain focused on transitioning from the ERPs of yesteryear to the digital cores of today. They’re taking on projects that enhance supply chain planning and analytics, supplier collaboration, and procurement and supply chain efficiencies.

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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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Warehouse Design and Automation. Do you need it?

Logistics Bureau

Mal Walker will show us what’s around warehouse design and automation. As you might not know yet, he is one of our expert consultants in Logistics Bureau and he’s been going across the US to check out on the latest warehousing technologies including automation. No wonder he’s enthusiastic to share that at one of our seminars and now we get the chance to listen to his presentation.

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RFID, AIDC, and IoT News on CoInventor of Bar Code George Lauer, Dies

Supply Chain Digest

Lauer Took a Risk with then New Linear Design for UPC Instead of Existing Circular Bar Code

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The Rise of the Consultative 3PL

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s no secret that shipper’s needs are changing. Evolving consumer expectations, the impact of tariffs, and new sources of competition are among the many factors driving supply chain complexity. As a result, shippers are looking to their logistics service providers for more support than ever before. In order to meet their customer’s demands, remain competitive, and manage volatility, shippers are seeking personalized solutions, end-to-end visibility, cost controls, often through a single 3PL pa

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