Tue.Dec 19, 2017

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10 Steps to Surviving & Thriving in a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

The capacity crunch is starting to take hold of the shipping industry. The onslaught of tropical storms, hurricanes and an expected, record-breaking holiday shopping season spell C-A-P-A-C-I-T-Y C-R-U-N-C-H. However, this capacity crunch is likely to exceed even the worst capacity crunches in history, says Karen Sage of Talking Logistics With Adrian Gonzalez.

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Air Freight Rates Peak, Ocean Rates Slowly Sink: Freight Rate Update W50

Freightos

Air Freight Rates Peak, Ocean Rates Slowly Sink: Freight Rate Update Wk 50. By John Edmonds, Research & Marketing, Freightos. Early week snowstorms at major airports (like Frankfurt and Atlanta) continue to play havoc, while peak air season may extend into February. Rates have been stabilizing, but by the time pre-Christmas backlogs are cleared, the Chinese New Year surge will kick in.

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Checklist for an S&OP Mindset

Supply Chain Trend

For those of you who’ve been following supplychaintrend for a while, you know I’ve written many blogs about how mindset improves S&OP and business performance. And maybe more importantly, it can also improve employee well-being. I’m pleased that in collaboration with the leading European Supply Chain Platform – Supply Chain Movement – I developed a checklist to assess if your organisation has an effective mindset.

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12 Supply Chain Pains of Christmas and How to Turn them into Gains

ModusLink Corporation

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — and for companies, it can also be the craziest. December brings spikes in business for brands and sales for consumers, spreading the holiday cheer. With so much excitement, it’s easy for young companies to get wrapped up in the holiday honeymoon phase and forget that more […]. The post 12 Supply Chain Pains of Christmas and How to Turn them into Gains appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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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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Implementing an S&OP System? Here’s How to Make Your Data Work for You

Arkieva

A look at some of the S&OP implementation best practices for managing your data. Now I’m not going to say, “Ask not what your data can do for you, but ask what you can do for your data.” In the past, I was under the impression that going through a system implementation process of setting up product hierarchies would mark the end of the process.

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How Do You Feel About Predictive Analytics?

Tecsys

I just read a blog post entitled How do you feel when someone mentions predictive analytics? Well, I feel like it’s a good thing. How about you? The post How Do You Feel About Predictive Analytics? appeared first on Tecsys.

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Answering the Call in Times of Disaster

Material Handling & Logistics

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017. On the line was a procurement person for a big-box home products retailer, wondering if the manufacturer, which produces doors, windows and other home construction ma

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Supply Chain News on Back to the Future, as Parasails Might Help Reduce Cargo Ship Fuel Usage 20 Percent

Supply Chain Digest

Two European Companies Offering Systems that Harness Wind Power with Airborne Sails

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TMS Systems have Changed Dramatically; Your Buying Process Should Too

3GTMS

To say that transportation logistics have changed a lot in the last decade would be the understatement of the…well, decade. From the impact of omni-channel to complex routing needs and the demand for lightning-fast integrations, a transportation management system (TMS) can help you manage these challenges and give you a competitive advantage. At its core, […].

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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 News on Identifying Your Procurement Personality Type

Supply Chain Digest

Any of Four Common Types Can Succeed, UK Procurement Exec Says, by Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses

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FMCG Noddy Holder & Slade Implement S&OP

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Christmas is coming around faster than ever and who better than Noddy Holder and Slade to celebrate Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP). This festive song has been heard at Christmas every year since 1973! If you have been living in a cave on a remote island and don't know the tune you can click here for the original, boring non-S&OP version.

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century

Enterra Insights

Corporate social responsibility is an interesting topic. Skeptics dismiss the topic as a corporate public relations stunt and some investors … Continued. The post Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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2017 in Review: Disruptive Events and Trends Drive Rates Up

DAT Solutions

2017 was a wild year. Freight transportation faced one disruption after another. The biggest influences were the Four Es: Economic growth. E-commerce. Electronic logging devices. Extreme weather (especially Hurricanes Harvey and Irma).

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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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Fulfillment Year In Review: Most Popular Blogs Of 2017

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

As a father of four, I’ve learned never to play favorites, especially at this time of year. But I’ll make an exception in this case. Following are the three most popular Amware blog posts on warehousing and fulfillment for 2017, based on readership. If you missed them the first time around, give them a read.

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How Will ELDs and Christmas Affect Van Rates?

DAT Solutions

Before this week, the spot market had been a bit calmer in December compared to November. Dry van volumes were pretty similar last week to the week before, and rates settled down from the peaks we saw around Thanksgiving. We'd normally expect rates to decline steadily from now until early March. In recent years, e-commerce has kept rates high through early January.

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Concrete company increases productivity through paperless scheduling solution

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A concrete company has seen its productivity boosted by more than 25 per cent after switching to a paperless system for ordering and job scheduling, underpinned by telematics.

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Track Drivers in Real-time and Ensure SLA Compliance

Loginext

Reduce your logistics management costs and increase overall efficiency by tracking drivers and their behavior in real-time. Industries, especially those with sensitive cargo and shipments, focus on tracking the behavior of their drivers to ensure service level agreement (SLA) compliance.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Why Super Saturday will be bigger than ever for retailers

Deliv

While Black Friday and Cyber Monday grab a lot of headlines, you’ll be surprised to know they’re not the biggest shopping day of the year for brick and mortar retailers. Not even close. Super Saturday, or the last full Saturday before Christmas, has traditionally been the busiest day for shoppers and brick and mortar retailers. Last year, 66% of Americans, a whopping 155 million, were reported to have gone shopping on December 17th compared to the 99 million who made it out over Thanksgiving wee

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Not so much a bang but a little sparkle from November sales

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Bonfire night and Black Friday sales seemed to hold up the November Retail Sales, but food price inflation continues to hit consumers' pockets, says one retail expert.

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Global Shipping Trends: What to Expect in 2018

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Overall, 2017 has been a good year for the ocean shipping industry. It’s a big switch from 2016, when the bankruptcy of Hanjin, one of the largest container shipping providers, forced everyone to confront how volatile this industry really is. Now, at the tail end of 2017, we are starting to see most carriers’ operating margins improve, driven mainly by robust demand, positive inventory developments, and higher rate levels.