Fri.Aug 20, 2021

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Fulfillment Planning in an Omnichannel World

o9 Solutions

In today’s retail industry, change is the new normal. There are three key factors driving this change including: dramatically changing customer preferences, a major shift towards omnichannel purchases, and an increasing need for retailers to respond quicker to shifting preferences and buying behaviors with more efficient sourcing, transportation and fulfillment. .

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 20, 2021)

Talking Logistics

I was in a fog most of last week. Literally, in a fog. It descended on DownEast Maine like a blanket on Tuesday and lifted itself off slowly, patch by patch, on Thursday afternoon. It was nice, just focusing on the near and now, completely disconnected from what was happening beyond the fog. No email. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 20, 2021).

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What is Autonomous Supply Chain Planning (and Why Does Your Business Need It)?

Logility

Here’s how autonomous supply chain planning helps businesses make faster and more informed decisions than ever before. Supply chain data may be readily available, but there is no guarantee it can help your business. Consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chain planning. We’ve seen many businesses forced to temporarily shut down; other companies have needed to shift their operations on the fly from selling products in brick-and-mortar stores to selling them online. .

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Understanding the Benefits of Thought Field Therapy

IT Supply Chain

By Helen Gonzales (pictured). Chief Technology Officer of Global. The post Understanding the Benefits of Thought Field Therapy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Six Elements Retailers Should Have in Place for Peak Season

Supply Chain Brain

Even with the best intentions, many retailers are finding themselves jammed by ongoing supply chain and logistics constraints.

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How Organizational Resilience Benefits Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

How can supply chain and business leaders successfully introduce resilience into their organizations moving forward?

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How to Find the Perfect Name for Your Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Naming a Product or Company? It’s Not That Easy! Perfect name article and permission to publish here provided by Grant Polachek. Most people used to agree with Julian Quinero that perfection is so far away that it’s only an opinion. But, even for brand names, perfection is no longer so far away.

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Accelogix Named as One of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

Accelogix

Accelogix delivers flexible automation and robotic orchestration solutions for clients through deep industry expertise and the LogistiVIEW warehouse execution platform. Cary, NC. Accelogix, a warehouse automation services firm specializing in software-driven flexible automation, announced that SupplyChainBrain has recognized Accelogix on its 100 Great Supply Chain Partner list in 2021. “For nineteen years running, SupplyChainBrain has published our list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners —

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Port Shutdowns Continue Shipping Delays During Peak…Here’s What Shippers Need to Know

Intelligent Audit

Dealing with supply chain disruption has been the steady drumbeat in the industry for more than a year. As peak season approaches, carriers such as FedEx and UPS are rapidly implementing new peak season surcharges to maintain profit margins as capacity demand continues to outpace supply. Still, new problems are arising following a resurgence of the global pandemic.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Companies Who Focus Strategically on Freight Transportation Improvements Build Resilience and Agility

Turvo

Changes are frequently happening within the freight and shipping industry, and no exception compares, around the nation or the world, to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping up with demands and limitations, overcoming obstacles and challenges, and delivering quality goods and services continue to be the most significant issues facing the logistics industry today.

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Planning for recovery: Supply chain challenges facing discrete manufacturers

o9 Solutions

For many discrete manufacturers, supply chain volatility is becoming the new normal. Manufacturers are facing a plethora of challenges, from raw material shortages to shipping container delays, so the need to create resilient supply chains is imperative. . In a post-Covid economy, manufacturers are trying to find more proactive and robust supply chain solutions that take them out of the “firefighting mode” that they experienced over the past 18 months.

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DELMIA Communities Week in Review for August 16

DELMIA Quintiq

Hello and Welcome to the Week in Review! This is the weekly blog post for a one-look overview of what happened in the DELMIA Communities this past week. But there is a lot more than what is below. Visit the communities to see the exchange of information and ideas between members and DELMIA experts. With eight active communities, you are sure to find at least one to suit your DELMIA interests.

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Handling the Disruptions and Constraints that Impact Multi-tier Supply Chains

o9 Solutions

The industrial sector has faced a multitude of uncertainties across the supply chain network—from Covid to commodities shortages—but still face immense pressure to seamlessly deliver materials and finished goods despite disruptions. During the Supply Constraints: Manage your Multi-tier Supply Chain Effectively webinar, addressing the issues currently impacting industrial manufacturers sparked a lively discussion from: Knut Alicke, Partner at McKinsey.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Probability of Supply Chain ROI

Supply Chain Digest

A Very Different Way of Considering Payback from Technology Investments

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Podcast | Quantum Encryption: The Solution to Cybersecurity?

Supply Chain Brain

Quantum physics is a mystery to most everyone, but that doesn’t stop innovators from attempting to apply quantum technologies at a practical level -- in this case, cybersecurity.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Building a Logistics Control Tower

Supply Chain Digest

It is All about Integration

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Toyota Cuts Shows Covid Ravaging Even Best Supply Planners

Supply Chain Brain

Toyota’s efforts to stockpile enough chips and other key components to ride out supply disruptions only protected the company so long before it too succumbed to the shortages eviscerating automakers.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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SYSPRO gives employees a well-deserved 8000-hour break

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

With burnout, anxiety, and ongoing pandemic-related stress on the rise, SYSPRO has encouraged staff members to take a well-deserved break by offering a free leave opportunity. With 500 global employees across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, this will amount to an 8000-hour break in total. Research shows that fatigue, burnout, and employee anxiety have been […].

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Demand for Jet Paint Is Booming as More Aircraft Change Hands

Supply Chain Brain

A bumpy recovery among global airlines has given an unexpected early boost to one corner of the market: demand for aircraft paint.

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The Drawback to Duty Drawback: Getting the Attention of the CFO

3rdwave

One of the responsibilities of a CFO is to find new sources of revenue. Yet many financial executives are unfamiliar with the international trade practice known as duty drawback.

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What is Backorder Shipping? | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

Backorders occur when a product is unavailable for immediate purchase, but there is an upcoming restock date for it making it available in the future.

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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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Here’s How to Measure Inventory Health

ToolsGroup

Looking for a relatively quick way to measure inventory health? “It all starts with a demand-driven approach,” says Gerrott Faulkingham, director of solution engineering at ToolsGroup. “Even though we’re talking about inventory, we first have to understand customer buying behavior—and how that then translates into inventory requirements.” As a reminder, the key to measuring inventory health is to assess inventory holdings relative to expected future customer demand according to service level (pr

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Best Practices for Ecommerce Payment Reconciliation

Vinculum

In the past year, businesses of all kinds have been forced to change their operations and adopt e-commerce shopping platforms drastically. With online shopping becoming more popular, the number of payment processors accepting contactless and online payments has risen. Aside from this, consumers have also changed their shopping habits, preferring to shop online and receive deliveries rather than going to stores.

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Episode 133 - Understanding the Implications of the LTL Driver Shortage

Freight Plus

Throughout 2021, driver (and other workers) shortage has been the main concern for Less-Than-Truckload and all transportation modes. As carriers create programs to recruit and retainer drivers, there has been a concern about the quality of workers. In this episode of Consulting Logistics, Chris Gula, director of LTL operations at FreightPlus, joins the show to share his knowledge on what LTL carriers are doing and how a company's transportation teams should be proactively responding.

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Top 3 Constraints Shippers Face Heading into Peak Season

FLEXE

Ongoing labor shortages, parcel surcharges, and capacity constraints won’t make things easy for retailers and brands.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Integrated Shipping

Saleswarp

[link]. Over 96% of surveyed ecommerce customers cited speed of delivery as a major purchasing factor, with next day shipping being their number one choice. In this video, I cover how SalesWarp’s fully integrated shipping management technology reduces shipping costs and delays, provides the fast fulfillment experience that customers expect. The post Integrated Shipping appeared first on SalesWarp.

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Honesty and Integrity in Content Marketing

Enterra Insights

Consumers are weary of marketers and the campaigns they create. Who can blame them? From the salesmen claiming their snake oil was a cure for most ills, to tobacco companies using physicians to push their products, to health supplements touting dubious results from using their products, consumers have endured a lifetime of non-factual, even untruthful, claims about products.

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Tackling Plastics and Packaging in Supply Chains

SupplyShift

Plastic waste has a staggering impact on our environment. Roughly 40% of all produced plastic is for single-use plastic packaging, and 5.25 trillion plastic and microplastic pieces float around in global waters. By 2050, the volume of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish. Plastic pollution is a global issue that affects everyone, and no organization wants to be the one who’s responsible for sending single-use plastics into our oceans.