Thu.Dec 03, 2020

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How High Is Your Control Tower?

Talking Logistics

The recent disruptions worldwide have exposed how important end-to-end visibility and control are to building the resiliency required to survive and thrive in changing conditions. Being equipped when disruptions occur means knowing what’s going on at every tier in your supply chain, understanding cross-functional impacts, quickly executing decisions and continuously monitoring and optimizing the results.

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5 Success Factors in Effective Omnichannel Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

This year with the global pandemic, Black Friday was different from before. Luckily, we did not have to set up our camping tents in front of our favorite stores, but just logged in to their mobile apps. Online shopping has been on a steady rise since 2010. With the global pandemic, it became a necessity. Consumers who realized the ease of use of online shopping – choosing items from the warmth of their seat and […].

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5 More 2021 Trends in the Supply Chain to Start Thinking About Now

GlobalTranz

The saying goes- the only thing staying the same is that everything keeps changing. And the statement becomes especially true with supply chain management. It’s crucial to track the 2021 trends in the supply chain needed for success. Advanced solutions that mirror these trends will enable success in the coming year. During a year of.read More. The post 5 More 2021 Trends in the Supply Chain to Start Thinking About Now appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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5 Success Factors in Effective Omnichannel Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

This year with the global pandemic, Black Friday was different from before. Luckily, we did not have to set up our camping tents in front of our favorite stores, but just logged in to their mobile apps. Online shopping has been on a steady rise since 2010. With the global pandemic, it became a necessity. Consumers who realized the ease of use of online shopping – choosing items from the warmth of their seat and having them delivered in a couple of days – gained a new habit.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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Technology's Role in Delivering a Vaccine Across the Globe

Supply Chain Brain

Supply-chain technologies — including artificial intelligence — can help distribute a COVID-19 vaccine more quickly, and to more people.

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Watch: A New Supply-Chain Resilience Stress Test

Supply Chain Brain

Kris Timmermans, senior managing director and global lead for supply chain operations with Accenture, and David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems at MIT, discuss their joint effort in creating a stress test for assessing the risks to supply chains of major disruptions.

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Mission of the Century: LogiNext Mile to enable the Covid Vaccine Supply Chain

Loginext

LogiNext announces the launch of world's first complete covid vaccine supply chain distribution platform. Enabled for the needs of the pandemic, this SaaS platform can be used by healthcare and government organisations to distribute the vaccine effectively.

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Small Business Shipping During the Holidays with a 3PL

Freight Center

The holidays are a hectic time for everyone, especially for small business shippers and supply chain managers. Not only do you need the right shipping solutions, but you need them at the best rates and on a deadline. Shipping freight without expert guidance makes accomplishing all of this pretty challenging. So how can you meet all these needs and ship easier?

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MPO and ALKIMIUS Announce Strategic Partnerships in Latin America

Supply Chain Brain

MPO and ALKIMIUS Group have recently announced a new strategic partnership to reshape the digital supply chain landscape in Latin America.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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How the Dutch Armed Forces’ Change Management Approach Contributed to 3D Printing Adoption

DiManEx

Last month, we participated in the AM for Defense Conference , a virtual event which offered a window into the innovative uses of Additive Manufacturing in the defense industry. Our CEO, Tibor van Melsem Kocsis, joined our customer Maj. Stephan Wildenberg from the Dutch Armed Forces on stage to share insights from their transition to digital warehousing.

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Online shopping has changed logistics forever

IT Supply Chain

By Stephen Hayes (pictured). Managing director, Beckhoff UK. The post Online shopping has changed logistics forever appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Logistic Challenges: Helpful Lessons from Complex Manufacturing

Arkieva

Today we will discuss a few of the logistics challenges from the perspective of an industry expert with lots of time in the trenches. With all due respect to public health and government experts, their experience cannot match those with substantial time and proven success in these industries. Arkieva is ready to help Delaware. COVID-19 Vaccine Logistic Challenges: Helpful Lessons from Complex Manufacturing was first posted on December 3, 2020 at 8:04 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog -

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Which is The Best Mobile App Development Methodologies For 2020 & Beyond?

IT Supply Chain

By Juned Ghanchi (pictured). Co-Founder & CMO At Indianappdeveloper. The post Which is The Best Mobile App Development Methodologies For 2020 & Beyond? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Tail Inventory: The Silent Cost Driver You Shouldn't Ignore

Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.

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Four Strategy Shifts Toward Building an 'Antifragile' Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Making these four shifts is proving to be table stakes for companies looking to compete on a global scale.

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Retailers’ final Christmas order dates are in meltdown, so shop now

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks MILT (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, The post Retailers’ final Christmas order dates are in meltdown, so shop now appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How to Benefit from Trucking Companies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Minimum Load for Trucking! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Benefit from trucking article and permission to publish here provided by Saeed Darwish. Are you looking to work with a trucking company to transport your products? If so, you want to make sure that you get the most out of transport services.

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How Can a Transportation Management System (TMS) Promote Sustainability?

IT Supply Chain

By Martin Verwijmeren (pictured). CEO & Co-Founder of MPO. The post How Can a Transportation Management System (TMS) Promote Sustainability? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Conducting a PPAP Audit in an Age of Supply Chain Flexibility

AFFLINK

Supply chain flexibility is this year's buzzword in the wake of COVID-19, but supply chain quality remains equally important. If you don't want your efforts at supply chain flexibility to go awry, you need the ability to perform fast and thorough PPAP audits. What's a PPAP Audit? PPAP stands for the "Production Part Approval Process." This audit process was initially used by the automotive industry—although it's often used in broader contexts—to ensure that a supplier can deliver tools, parts, o

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Proven Way to Balance Demand Planning and Supply Planning

Vanguard Software

Adopting supply chain planning software can facilitate an organization’s coordination of demand and supply planning, ensuring all contributors can access the same data through a single efficient, and accessible platform.

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BR Williams Celebrates 5 Years in Mobile, AL

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

BR Williams is celebrating the 5 th anniversary of their Mobile, AL distribution center and thanking the Mobile team for their incredible work over the years. Established in 2015, the Mobile, AL distribution center and leased warehouse space is strategically located in Mobile County, Alabama near the Port of Mobile. As it is nearly five hours from the home office in Oxford, the Mobile location employs a full dispatch and trucking division, along with the employees in the warehouse and distributi

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Benefits of IoT in the Warehouse

3PL Insights

The internet of things, or IoT, encompasses interrelated, internet-connected objects that allow data to be collected and transferred over a network without human interaction. In a warehouse, these “objects” can include sensors for warehouse machinery and temperature, RFID tags for goods, wearables for employees, automated robots, and warehouse management systems.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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6 financial reasons to switch to automated piece picking

6 River Systems

The e-commerce boom has increased the load on warehouses and distribution centers. To accommodate the surge in demand, distribution centers and warehouses are ramping up hiring. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , there was a shortage of workers in the market, resulting in a surge in the labor costs throughout supply chains. The average hourly wage of a warehouse employee has increased by 16% over a decade.

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Use these 5 Data & Analytics Best Practices to Reduce Transportation Costs

Intelligent Audit

Shipping and logistics are extraordinarily complex. The two business functions generate a ton of shipping data. But managing data manually is too time-consuming. Instead, management and analysis of shipping and logistics data needs to be more straightforward. It needs a digital, automated process. That requires the use of data analytics, business intelligence , and advanced value-added service.

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How IoT connectivity can strengthen the world’s supply chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

This year, supply chains have been under more spotlight and pressure than ever. Managing a global supply chain is complex on its own, without the added challenges from a global disruption like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this challenging environment, shippers who leverage the latest technologies, like Internet of Things (IoT), to drive supply chain visibility and connectivity will gain a distinct advantage.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Dec. 3, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Christmas Toy Inventories in Danger Zone, UPS Stops taking Some Retailer Shipments, US Purchasing Managers Index Strong in November, Brick and Mortar Sales Drop Sharply

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Procure to Pay (P2P) Demo

ivalua

The post Procure to Pay (P2P) Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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In Trade’s 2020 Comeback, Globalization Is Alive and Kicking

Supply Chain Brain

The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to put the final nail in the coffin of globalization and prompt a retreat into a new era of protectionism. Instead, some are now calling the crisis the Great Accelerator.

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CIPS Middle East Supply Management Awards 2021

ivalua

The post CIPS Middle East Supply Management Awards 2021 appeared first on Ivalua.