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Five Things You Can Do This Week to Reduce Inventory: Part IV

Demand Solutions

First of all, thank you for reading these articles. We’ve already covered a lot of ground on the topic of inventory reduction. I’ve explained the importance of setting a goal , fine-tuning your safety stock strategy , and reducing your high-side forecast bias. For my next tip, we’ll shift our focus from the strategic to the physical.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

1,183 — that is how many miles I have cycled since the start of the summer, including 82 hilly miles I cycled this past Wednesday, which took me 5 hours and 22 minutes to complete. All of these miles are in preparation for the 102.7 miles I will ride next Saturday with my Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure teammates at the JDRF Death Valley Ride in California. $41,997 — that is how much money our team has raised so far for T1D research in our quest to help turn Type 1 into T

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Five Things You Can Do This Week to Reduce Inventory: Part IV

Demand Solutions

First of all, thank you for reading these articles. We’ve already covered a lot of ground on the topic of inventory reduction. I’ve explained the importance of setting a goal , fine-tuning your safety stock strategy , and reducing your high-side forecast bias. For my next tip, we’ll shift our focus from the strategic to the physical.

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We're On the Eve of Disruption

Material Handling & Logistics

E-commerce is here and it's not going away. How is your supply chain going to deal with the growing demands of omni-channel? read more.

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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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Hurricane Matthew: What You Need to Know

Elementum

Hurricane Matthew has wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean and along Florida’s coast. Today, the Category-3 is headed for Jacksonville, Georgia, South and North Carolina. The Flooding, high winds, and serious rainfall have killed over 280 people in Haiti, and one in Florida. 600,000 residences and businesses in Florida have lost power. Intense traffic has been reported across evacuation areas, limiting access to ports and airports.

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The High Cost of Cheap Minerals

APICS

Last Friday’s cover story in The Washington Post, “The Cobalt Pipeline,” carefully examines how the valuable mineral travels via supply chains from Congo into consumers’ phones, laptops, and electric cars. Congo is home to a wealth of minerals and natural resources, but its population is very poor. Corruption along with human rights abuses and child labor in cobalt mining run rampant.

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[Infographic] What You Need to Know about a Career in Trucking

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: Today's blog is by our good friend Jake Tully with Truck Driving Jobs where he talks about everything you need to know before starting your career in trucking. Find him on Twitter , Linkedin , Facebook , and Gravatar. If you’re planning to become a trucker, you’re making a good choice because the trucking industry is one of the most lucrative in America.

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Quantum Computing: Stopping the World’s Fastest Particle could Lead to the World’s Fastest Computer

Enterra Insights

Light particles are the ultimate measure of speed. We were all raised with the notion that nothing in the universe … Continued. The post Quantum Computing: Stopping the World’s Fastest Particle could Lead to the World’s Fastest Computer appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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5 Powerful Tools for Finding Capacity

DAT Solutions

If you use the DAT Power load board, but have never clicked on the toolbox icon in the upper right-hand corner, you're missing out. Sometimes overlooked by users, the toolbox contains powerful features that can help you find capacity, vet carriers, and learn more about the latest rate trends. WHAT'S IN THE TOOLBOX? The toolbox in DAT Power contains LaneMakers , Hot Market Maps , Trendlines , DAT Directory , and DAT CarrierWatch.

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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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Fishing for Supply Chain: How Red’s Best is Transforming Supply Chain Management

Kinaxis

by Kevin McGowan A recent New York Times article demonstrated that supply chain management innovations can come from some unexpected places. In response to some challenges with provenance on their product, Boston-based seafood distributor Red’s Best created its own software to track where they get their fish, and where it goes once it leaves the warehouse.

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Contact Centers: Can I Have Ten Minutes of Your Time?

ModusLink Corporation

In a recent article, the Belgian Metrotime magazine claimed that on a weekly basis, a person spends around 10 minutes in contact with a contact center. While that is the average amount of time, it is much higher than I initially expected. That was until I broke the ten minutes down to all the different […]. The post Contact Centers: Can I Have Ten Minutes of Your Time?

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MFG Day: How Manufacturing Drives The Economy

Supply Chain 24/7

Expert panel discusses value of Manufacturing Day, including the downstream sales chain, and how manufacturing accounts for an estimated 33% of GDP and 33% of employment.

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Back in Black

Tailwind

Your drivers want to be paid every two weeks. Your Owner Operators want some fuel advances to run your trips. Everyone you pay wants to be paid more quickly so they can make it through another month – to pay that lease on their truck, to make a mortgage payment. But your customers – well, they want to drag it out for as long as they can paying you in 30, or perhaps 60 days.

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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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Countdown to Black Friday: From across Oceans to Store Shelves

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Countdown to Black Friday: From across Oceans to Store Shelves.Transportfolio. Black Friday: a shopping bonanza for bargain-hungry consumers and a day of record-breaking sales for retailers. It’s also the ultimate test of preparedness for supply chain professionals. Planning for the holiday surge starts months in advance—a step that’s even more critical when your freight needs to cross oceans.