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Supply Chain Risk Management: You Can’t Outsource Responsibility

Enterra Insights

“There’s a saying,” writes Warrick Beaver (@WarrickBeaver), Managing Director of Customer & Third Party Risk at Thomas Reuters, “that you … Continued. The post Supply Chain Risk Management: You Can’t Outsource Responsibility appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Brexit: Supply Chain Risk or Opportunity?

Logility

The surprising outcome of the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) Membership for the United Kingdom (UK) has led to a complex process of withdrawal that is estimated to take two years. This vote to leave the EU will cause political and economic changes and impact free trade agreements, regulatory frameworks, workforce availability, currencies, and investments.

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Accounting for System and Subsystem Interactions in Sparing Decisions

APICS

This is the second in a series of posts about operations and support for complex systems (or systems of systems), such as an electrical grid, railroad line, or assembly line. Such systems are nearly ubiquitous in business today, but we rarely consider their supply chain requirements until there is a problem.

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3 Online Fulfillment Strategies Giving Retailers an Advantage

FLEXE

In 2004, Blockbuster was valued at $6 billion. The blue and yellow glowing stores were a staple in nearly every suburban city, and a typical Friday night for an American family wasn’t complete without a trip to the video store. Six years later, Blockbuster was bankrupt, every store shut down and families were ordering videos online from Netflix, only traveling as far as the mailbox before settling in for the night.

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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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Women Make their Way into the Supply Chain

RFgen

Supply chains need to bring more women into this industry. Women have fought for gender equality for decades, yet there is still room for improvement in the U.S. Consider the gender pay gap. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in 2015, women made an average of 80 cents for every dollar earned by men despite the fact that females make up half the workforce and receive more college education.

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Women Make their Way into the Supply Chain

RFgen

Supply chains need to bring more women into this industry. Women have fought for gender equality for decades, yet there is still room for improvement in the U.S. Consider the gender pay gap. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in 2015, women made an average of 80 cents for every dollar earned by men despite the fact that females make up half the workforce and receive more college education.

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Dude, Where’s My Tesla? A look at the Amazing Automotive Supply Chain

All Things Supply Chain

There are many people waiting for the Tesla Model 3; over 400,000 to be exact.

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3 Fulfillment Strategies Giving Retailers an Advantage

FLEXE

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Creating Green Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities From Scratch

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Mahan's Thermal Products. They discuss what it takes to create green industrial and manufacturing facilities from scratch. Creating Green Industrial and Manufacturing Facilities From Scratch. Whether you’re looking to create an industrial facility for refining raw materials or you want to build a manufacturing plant, there are going to be a lot of environmental and health factors to consider.

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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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Explosion in eCommerce Leads to New Shipping Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

While robust parcel solutions offer workflow designed to prevent paying too much for a particular shipment, the workflows in the retail multicarrier solutions can be both more extensive and much more interesting. The Descartes Systems Group acquired a company called Oz DEVELOPMENT that is designed for small and medium sized retailers. Ken Wood, the Executive Vice President of Product Management at Descartes, explained that small and medium sized business may need to “touch multiple ecommerce [&#

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RFID, AIDC and IoT News on Does SCDigest 2008 RFID Application Framework Still Hold Up

Supply Chain Digest

From Basic Bar Code Replacement to Creating Truly New Supply Chain Processes

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3 Online Fulfillment Strategies Giving Retailers an Advantage

FLEXE

In 2004, Blockbuster was valued at $6 billion. The blue and yellow glowing stores were a staple in nearly every suburban city, and a typical Friday night for an American family wasn’t complete without a trip to the video store. Six years later, Blockbuster was bankrupt, every store shut down and families were ordering videos online from Netflix, only traveling as far as the mailbox before settling in for the night.

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Supply Chain News on As more Remote Shoppers Up OnLine Purchases, More Pressure on Transport Costs, Bottom Line

Supply Chain Digest

How Can eCommerce Possibly Make Financial Sense when Shipping Staple Items to Non Urban Areas

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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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What’s Next After Electronic Logging Devices?

Talking Logistics

Regulations have dominated transportation discussions in recent years, whether it’s Hours of Service (HOS) and the 34-hour restart rule , CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability ) program , and in the spotlight today, Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs). What impact will ELDs have on trucking capacity and productivity? Will the mandate cause drivers to exit the market?

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Part 1: Do’s and Don’ts for a Successful TMS Implementation

3GTMS

I’ve been in the TMS industry for more than 30 years, and today’s environment is more complex than ever. In this series on the do’s and don’ts for a successful TMS implementation, I’ll discuss some of the best practices – and pitfalls – that commonly effect TMS projects. The TMS was initially created to address a few fundamental business issues: Route and rate the orders.

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Amazon, FedEx and Adjacent Innovation

Techgistics

Bloomberg Businessweek recently released a report by Devin Leonard, entitled “Will Amazon Kill FedEx?”. Fred Smith, CEO FedEx from the report: Concerns about industry disruption continue to be fueled by fantastical -- and I chose this word carefully -- articles and reports,” Smith said on a conference call with analysts and investors. “In all likelihood, the primary deliverers of e-commerce shipments for the foreseeable future will be UPS, the U.S.

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What Will Nokia's Comeback Look Like?

Elementum

Nokia was one of the most popular mobile phone companies in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. The company used to be ubiquitous, doing business in more than 150 countries, employing 61,656 people, and taking in revenues of around US $14.28B. Enter the smartphone era. Nokia slowly began to fade away from the limelight. It was dubbed the most famous casualty of iOS and Android’s rise to prominence.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Distributors Gain Less in the Long Run From Scaling Back

Supply Chain 24/7

Distributors gain market share by going on the offensive, even in challenging economic times.

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Truck Like a Pirate

Tailwind

Arrr maties, today be th’ best tide o’ th’ voyage. Talk Like A Pirate Day. Th’ open road an’ th’ high seas be havin’ a lot in common. Long stints away from homeport and compliance wi’ rules an’ regulations boggin’ down yer business an’ th’ joy o’ th’ high open road. Today’s wee an’ mid-sized truckin’ companies an’ freight brokerages have a leg up on th’ seafarin’ heartys in th’ form of Transportation Capta

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3 Transport Topics Headlines Validate the UltraShipTMS Approach

Supply Chain Collaborator

When UltraShipTMS set out to develop a solution for logistics IT in 2001, leadership imbued its directives to the talented developers, coders and transportation logistics professionals with a specific philosophy. Simply put, the team behind the UltraShipTMS platform was told to think about transportation logistics as an activity that affects stakeholders far beyond the confines of the transportation department.

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Master Your Master Data

RELEX Solutions

In almost every supply chain project we’ve been involved in it has been necessary to improve master data. It’s almost a cliché these days but any system is only as good as the data you put into it. As they say, a perfect analysis of useless data is a perfectly useless piece of analysis. When we sit down with new customers one of the first things we hear is almost always; ‘our company has quite a lot of problems with its data so this might be a challenge …’.

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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.