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How DJI created and took over the drone world

TradeGecko

Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co, best known as DJI, took the global drone landscape and airscape by storm in only a handful of years. We explore how DJI achieved success through its tight supply chain management and extensive R&D.

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The state of S&OP according to 7 thought leaders

Supply Chain Movement

S&OP continuous to be a popular topic that remains high on the agenda of executives. To assess the current state of S&OP, I interviewed 7 S&OP thought leaders at the end of 2016 for my blog supply chain trend. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. A group, eligible to comment on the current state of S&OP.

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Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry

TMC

Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry | Transportfolio. Relationships: you spend a lot of time building and tending to them in your personal life, and they are just as important—and take just as much effort—in your professional life. And, although relationships with your family and friends may vastly differ from those you have with your colleagues and across your network, I think it’s safe to say that professional relationships matter.

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Learn from the Vikings

Supply Chain Movement

When the phone rings at my company Plus 7, it’s usually for one of two reasons: either the caller wants to establish a business venture with a Chinese partner and has no idea how or where to begin, or the caller is extremely frustrated about the nature of a current partnership and wants it fixed – right now. By Heidi Larsen. Even though we spend our time helping both types of callers, let me start by saying there are no quick fixes.

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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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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

When it comes to supply chain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

Inventory management improvements can lead to operational gains across multiple lines of business. Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. Organizations that want to optimize processes must consider how strategic investments in one area of the business impact others.

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Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry

TMC

Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry | Transportfolio. Relationships: you spend a lot of time building and tending to them in your personal life, and they are just as important—and take just as much effort—in your professional life. And, although relationships with your family and friends may vastly differ from those you have with your colleagues and across your network, I think it’s safe to say that professional relationships matter.

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3 Areas of Your Business that Benefit from Supply Chain Innovation

RFgen

Inventory management improvements can lead to operational gains across multiple lines of business. Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supply chain, and vice versa. Organizations that want to optimize processes must consider how strategic investments in one area of the business impact others.

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Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry

TMC

Why Strong Relationships are Vital in the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry | Transportfolio. Relationships: you spend a lot of time building and tending to them in your personal life, and they are just as important—and take just as much effort—in your professional life. And, although relationships with your family and friends may vastly differ from those you have with your colleagues and across your network, I think it’s safe to say that professional relationships matter.

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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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Blockchain has real potential to reduce ‘old school’ procure to pay transactions

NC State SCRC

IBM’s new white paper “Making Blockchain Ready for Business”, in which they conducted a roundtable with a number of executives provides some important clues as to how the technology will unfold in the next few years. There is increasing evidence that blockchain (or Distributed Ledger Technology ) is not a standalone solution, but will emerge more as an open source utility, much like the Internet.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of June 29, 2017

Supply Chain Digest

A Week of Supply Chain Cyber Attacks, New Study Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Reducing Total Worker Pay, Fracking Driving Petrochemical Factory Boom in US, Tax on Freigth Bills to Fund Infrastructure

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The 5 Key Reasons Why Data Quality Is So Important

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: Today's blog comes from Katie Cruze at considerdigital.com who give us the top 5 reasons why data quality is important. Data, for most companies, is often collected for record-keeping purposes. Data is collected when an inspection is completed, an employee’s performance is reviewed, and maintenance is recorded, or even when a safety meeting is conducted.

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Retail Vendor Performance Management News Round Up for June, 2017

Supply Chain Digest

Just Three Retailers Make Garnter Top 25 Supply Chains for 2017, Ultrafast Fashon Probably not Real, RSR Research Says, TJX Companies Questioned over Sourcing Practices

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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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Best Online Freight Marketplace by Transport News INTL

Freightera

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! Transcript of the article: Freightera is an award winning online freight marketplace automating freight shipping and increasing operating margins for carriers and B2B freight shippers.

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Highlights of the Gartner and SCDigest Supply Chain Study 2017

Supply Chain Digest

Companies Again Overrate Supply Chain Performance, Where Companies Spend Supply Chain IT Dollars by Maturity Level and More

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Using Robots, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence to Augment Jobs

Enterra Insights

The world suddenly seems a bit gloomier place with many countries turning inward and taking a narrow, national view of … Continued. The post Using Robots, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence to Augment Jobs appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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SCDigest to Launch Second Retail and Vendor Survey in July

Supply Chain Digest

Research will Cover Collaboration, Barriers To Improved Supply Chain Efficiency, Vendor Compliance and More

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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.

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Drinking from the Transportation Market Fire Hose – Part 2

CHAINalytics

By Matt Harding | Vice President, Freight Market Intelligence Consortium | Chainalytics In my last blog, we talked about the abundance of information in transportation markets and that more data is not always better. Buyers of transportation services face difficulties in converting data into relevant insights because market conditions constantly change behind the daily grind of … The post Drinking from the Transportation Market Fire Hose – Part 2 appeared first on Chainalyt

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Weekon Which US States are Best for Manufacturing

Supply Chain Digest

Indiana Tops the List, as SCDigest Turns Letter Grades into Numeric Score from Ball State Data

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From Sales & Operations Planning to Integrated Business Leadershi

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Richard Watkins, managing director, Delos Partnership. I was talking to a planning manager from a company the other day, who said to me "We have an SOP process, but I have read all these articles about Integrated Business Planning, and was wondering what the difference was, and should we be doing something different?

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Amber Road Expands Free Trade Agreement Solution

Supply Chain 24/7

Amber Road has significantly increased the global coverage of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Management solution, with the addition of 89 global trade agreements, bringing the total to over 120.

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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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'Building the Store of the Future' – exclusive free report written by Store X Summit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Traditional bricks and mortar retailers are under siege as consumers warmly embrace the Internet shopping experience. Learn more here.

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The Global Risks Report 2017

Supply Chain 24/7

This 12th edition of The Global Risks Report is published at a time of heightened political uncertainty, following a year of unexpected electoral results, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, deepening generational and cultural divisions are amplifying the risks associated with sluggish economic recovery and accelerating technological changes.

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Happy SesquiCentennial Canada!

Tailwind

Okay let’s get this out of the way first. Justin Bieber. Nickelback. And. Royal Commissions. If we get those things out of the way, there are so many other things that make us proud to be Canadian. Here is a partial list… The hockey goalie mask. Sergeant Preston and his dog King. Poutine. Maple Syrup. William Shatner & James Doohan. Drake.

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Compliance Networks Corner on Decisions, Assumptions, and Retail Vendor Performance

Supply Chain Digest

Good Assumptions are just as Important as the Decision Itself, As ASN Data Shows

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Why Your Delivery Promise Matters

FLEXE

<p>In May, we launched FLEXE Next-Day Fulfillment, our on-demand fulfillment solution that enables retailers to reach 98% of the U.S. with next-day ground delivery.</p> <p>As part of the launch, we created a calculator that surveys retailers on their current demand pattern and percentage of the market they can currently reach with next-day delivery.

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JDA TV – Does Speed of Planning Trump Everything Else in the Digital World?

BlueYonder

In this JDA TV video, Doug Kimball, Senior Product Marketing Director at JDA, and Puneet Saxena, Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions Strategy at JDA, discuss the impact big data will have on the future of manufacturing planning, the importance of delivering both better and faster plan decisions, as well as how companies can discern between hype and reality in today’s digital world.

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Wanted: A Trillion Dollar Transportation Plan

MIT Supply Chain

President Trump has called for a $1 trillion investment in America’s crumbling infrastructure. There is common agreement that the country’s transportation systems are in dire need of attention, but before we start pouring investment dollars into construction projects, can we figure out what infrastructure the country will actually need over the next several decades?