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How to Mitigate the COVID-19 Impact on Your Supply Chain Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

We’ve been receiving a number of questions from customers asking how to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) on their operations, employees, customers and carriers. The good news is there is a lot that can be done now with your existing logistics and supply chain solutions. You could also quickly take advantage of new ones to be safe and mitigate the financial impact on your business.

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11 Inventory Management Best Practices

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Inventory Management Best Practices article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Dave Joseph at veridian.info. Supply chain leaders are continuously looking for ways to improve inventory management, and the role of technology in the supply chain offers significant advantages.

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Overcoming Manufacturing SC Challenges with Digital Planning

Prophetic Technology

The Supply Chain ( SC ) has been growing up to such an extent, that it is getting much more complicated each day; to the same degree, manufacturing challenge and competition are escalating fast in no time.

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Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

DELMIA Quintiq

Supermarkets are heavily impacted by unexpected peaks in demand and product unavailability from areas that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This global health crisis has uncovered vulnerabilities in our food supply chains, affecting the capacity of food retailers to ensure its continuity. It is critical for retailers to quickly respond to these sudden changes, but many struggle with this because their planners still rely on spreadsheets and legacy tools to plan their logistics operat

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Editor’s Pick: Is Your Logistics Network Built by Ants or Grasshoppers?

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This post by John Richardson from Transportation Insight’s blog looks at Aesop’s fable about the ants and the grasshopper as a.

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Sugar Beet Shortages Could Impact Food and Beverage Manufacturing

QAD

One October, when I was about 10 years old, my family and I traveled from the east coast of the United States to Michigan for a relative’s wedding. As we were driving on the highway, I saw a lot of trucks filled with things that looked like footballs. My mother, a Michigan native, told me that those were sugar beets and that they were used to make sugar.

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Why U.S. Companies Are Moving Their Supply Chains From China to Mexico

Supply Chain Brain

The U.S.-China trade war already had American companies rethinking their relationships with Chinese manufacturers. Then came two additional nails in the coffin.

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Congratulations to BOA Logistics Vincent Rivait, 2020 Food Logistics Rock Star of the Supply Chain

Tive

A big congratulations to Vincent Rivait of BOA Logistics. Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Vince to its 2020 Food Logistics Champions: Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.

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What Retailers Need to Consider to Come Out Ahead from Times of Uncertainty

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. . During times of distress, nothing brings comfort like returning to basics and simplicity.

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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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COVID-19 Crisis and the New Supply Chain

RFgen

Overview. COVID-19 is forcing the supply chain to evolve into a new paradigm to fulfill needs of mass labor shortages, industry shut downs and consumer base living almost entirely at home. In the uncertain times ahead, we will rely on the new supply chain more than ever. Technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection will be necessary to augment a small workforce and create real-time transparency while safeguarding health and human safety.

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Freight Claims: How Food, Beverage, and Grocery Shippers Can Manage Freight Claims

MercuryGate

The cold supply chain remains susceptible to many risks, and for grocers, the threat of inefficiencies related to food-related freight claims remains high. Failure to properly process claims in a timely manner may result in an inability to recoup delivery shortages and damage recoveries. What’s more, failures within such claims could lead to a delay […].

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COVID-19 Crisis and the New Supply Chain

RFgen

Overview. COVID-19 is forcing the supply chain to evolve into a new paradigm to fulfill needs of mass labor shortages, industry shut downs and consumer base living almost entirely at home. In the uncertain times ahead, we will rely on the new supply chain more than ever. Technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection will be necessary to augment a small workforce and create real-time transparency while safeguarding health and human safety.

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March 25, 2020 Round Table Discussion Summary - Coronavirus

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 25, 2020. What is going on with Intermodal? . We are still seeing excess capacity in the IMDL mode. If you can afford the increase in-transit time, IMDL is a good mode of transport. Are you seeing tender acceptance lower? Yes, we are seeing tender acceptance rates lower again. However, any locations where COVID-19 has been a particular hot spot, we are seeing difficultly in tender acceptance.

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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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Q&A: CEOs Discuss COVID-19, the Supply Chain, and Modern Logistics Solutions

FLEXE

Hear from the Co-Founders and CEOs Convoy, FLEXE, and Flexport and get their take on COVID-19 and its impact on the retail and supply chain industries.

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8 Tips for Efficient Omnichannel Distribution

Consumer Goods Logistics

As the percent of online sales grow and as the line between web and traditional retail store fulfillment blurs, E-retailers and brands need to assess their fulfillment capabilities and those of their 3PL omnichannel distribution partners. Following are 8 tips to maximize efficiency in an omnichannel environment.

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Digital procurement marketplace connects hospitals responding to coronavirus outbreak

Resilinc

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8 Tips for Efficient Omnichannel Distribution

Consumer Goods Logistics

As the percent of online sales grow and as the line between web and traditional retail store fulfillment blurs, E-retailers and brands need to assess their fulfillment capabilities and those of their 3PL omnichannel distribution partners. Following are 8 tips to maximize efficiency in an omnichannel environment.

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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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Making the Most of Data for Targeted Marketing

Enterra Insights

The business world has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Terms like big data, omnichannel operations, digital marketing, targeted marketing, personas, and others are scattered all over the business landscape. Business leaders are told big data is the new oil; but, they must also acknowledge that data breaches can make data a liability.

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Laerdal – How Can Digitalization Help Save Lives?

ivalua

The post Laerdal – How Can Digitalization Help Save Lives? appeared first on Ivalua.

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How Axway is assisting companies facing an increase in remote workers

Axway

The past couple of weeks have been challenging for all of us. We are all confronting something that we don’t completely understand, with an undefined timeline and with outcomes that we cannot control.

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Key takeaways from the latest QuickBooks Small Business Marketing Report

TradeGecko

Leading cloud accounting solutions provider QuickBooks recently published a report on the main strategies and tips for small businesses. In conjunction with LinkedIn, QuickBooks surveyed 3,671 small businesses owners, diving into their budgets, marketing channels and consumer preferences to determine the most profitable strategies for accelerated growth.

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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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‘7 ways the beauty industry is supporting the coronavirus relief effort’ – The Independent

Provenance

How are beauty and personal care brands helping tackle the Covid-19 crisis? The Independent’s Ellie Fry shares the projects underway– from providing essentials to the most vulnerable to getting anti-viral products into the hands of authorities as a top priority. “You can help support those in need through many of these initiatives, by purchasing products from brands who are donating profits to charities, or by donating money to the organisations, like Beauty Banks, who are deliverin

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I’ll See You Online. The Shift to Virtual Work.

Arena Solutions

As of this writing, more than 16,230 deaths worldwide have been attributed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). [1] Because social distancing 1 is the most effective way to slow the transmission of COVID-19, U.S. companies began to send their employees home to work in mid-February. Today, with “shelter in place” orders spreading from the Bay Area to the East Coast, knowledge workers across the U.S. are settling into new routines.

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March 25, 2020 Round Table Discussion Summary - Coronavirus

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 25, 2020. What is going on with Intermodal? . We are still seeing excess capacity in the IMDL mode. If you can afford the increase in-transit time, IMDL is a good mode of transport. Are you seeing tender acceptance lower? Yes, we are seeing tender acceptance rates lower again. However, any locations where COVID-19 has been a particular hot spot, we are seeing difficultly in tender acceptance.

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10 Ways to Measure Freight Broker Effectiveness

Freight Center

Shippers everywhere rely on their freight broker to get them the solutions they need and to help them reach their goals. But how do you measure freight broker effectiveness? How do you know the freight broker you’re currently working with is the right one for you? We break it all down for you with 10 ways to measure freight broker effectiveness, so you can make sure your shipping department is getting all the necessary support it needs.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Clear Spider Update on COVID-19

Clear Spider

We are Here for You. Clear Spider serves clients across the world. Regardless of where you are and how you use our inventory management system, here is our commitment to ensure your organizational needs and requirements will continue to be met. Client Service and Success. Our support service will continue to be available to our clients during this time.

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Vulnerability is Exposed in Volatile Markets

LevaData

Every day, we wake up to a new event disrupting businesses. In 2020, those disruptions are flowing into our personal and professional lives at a scale unlike anything we have seen before. As we deal with personal safety, it is also clear that our professional lives are also under siege with the economic impact that has been triggered with Covid-19. This will truly test our resiliency in many ways.

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Analysis of Catalog Management

Vinculum

A requirement and a challenge of sorts to most companies of today is the accurate and detailed management of product information. Customers these days prefer their product to display all the content one needs to know before making a purchase. In recent times, customers are preferring to flock to online shopping to buy what they require. Not just limited to customers or rather because of them, the online shopping business hit a significant boom with almost a quarter of the world’s population pref