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Managing Cash Across The Supply Chain in Times of Crisis

Maine Pointe

Eight strategies to implement now. Global governmental responses to the current pandemic have put private equity investors and portfolio company management under enormous pressure to quickly formulate a strategy which limits short-term disruption and supports recovery in the mid term.

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Consumer Survey: A Guide To Post-Purchase Communication During COVID-19

Convey

The COVID-19 outbreak has turned retail on its head. As rest-in-place orders cause store […]. The post Consumer Survey: A Guide To Post-Purchase Communication During COVID-19 appeared first on Convey.

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Don’t Get Left Behind (Again) by Advanced Technology

QAD

Ever feel as if you’ve been left behind when it comes to technology? I have eight grandkids, and they often act as my ‘help line’ to bring me forward to today’s technological advancements as I struggle to stay in my comfort zone. It can feel a bit overwhelming, so let me tell you about my own experience as I wade into the age of digital transformation.

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Corona Damages Mechanical Engineering Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

The mechanical engineering industry is feeling the consequences of the corona pandemic with increasing force. A very recent survey by VDMA, the German association for the mechanical engineering industry, was answered by 965 member companies and clearly shows this. The share of companies whose operations are affected rose from 60 to 84 percent within two weeks.

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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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How to Get Started with Value-add Forecasting (Part 2)

Logility

So, the promise of using statistical algorithms, forecasting and predictive analytics is now added to the list of a company’s number one priorities. There is a sense of urgency surrounding this new high-profile initiative. One may ask, “What’s next?” Here are a few steps that you will need to take to deploy your forecasts successfully. 1. Define the project.

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Podcast: Supply Chain Strategist Lora Cecere on Supply Chain Transformation in Response to COVID-19

Requis

Enterprise strategist and analyst Lora Cecere has over 35 years of experience in a variety of roles in supply chain. On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Lora talks with host Richard Donaldson about the fallout in the marketplace from COVID-19, how it’s affecting supply chains, and what businesses can do to recover. ?. Highlights from the podcast. The direction of global supply chain before and after COVID-19.

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How a TMS Optimizes Multimodal Shipping

MercuryGate

Successful supply chain management lies in achieving a balance between operational excellence, profitability, service, and speed. One shipping strategy, relying on multiple modes throughout the journey with a specific carrier, is multimodal shipping. Unfortunately, multimodal shipping remains an often-underfunded aspect of supply chain management. As reported by Jeff Berman of Logistics Management: “Multimodal freight networks […].

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How the supply chain might look after COVID-19

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

While it is very difficult to predict exactly how life will look once normality has resumed, it is inevitable that neither business nor society as a whole will return to exactly how it was prior to the coronavirus pandemic. But where is the supply chain likely to see change?

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Visibility, Analytics & Intelligence: Get full transparency on your supply chain, not just in times of crisis!

SupplyOn

SupplyOn Analytics links internal and external information – thus ensuring visibility and a robust, crisis-proof supply chain Planning, purchasing, logistics and transport management are traditionally separate processes, typically located in different departments. The material planners determine how many parts production requires and order these from the supplier, considering safety stocks.

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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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Procurement & Supply Chain Experts lined up for Ivalua NOW Virtual 2020 on May 5th!

ivalua

Do you remember the days when we used to attend these things called “conferences”? In a big room, with hundreds of other people, none of them wearing masks. Crazy, wasn’t it! . Like every industry Procurement & Supply Chain software vendors are having to find new approaches in the pandemic world, and firms are coming up with ways of holding events virtually, some of which work better than others.

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Last Mile Delivery Service: The Renewed Focus on the Last Mile During Disruption

GlobalTranz

What is the most important step in logistics? Is it the first moment when order goes through to a warehouse, resulting in the tech from a warehouse worker? Or, does it involve the tendering of a shipment to get the customer order to the final destination on time? These questions reflect the importance of last.read More. The post Last Mile Delivery Service: The Renewed Focus on the Last Mile During Disruption appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Pandemic Reminds Businesses Bots and Robots Don’t Get Sick

Enterra Insights

As the global Covid-19 outbreak spread, many businesses ground to a halt as workers were ordered to stay (or work from) home in an effort to halt the virus’ spread. The impact on company bottom lines, as well as national and global economies, has been devastating. Although I haven’t seen any data, my gut tells me companies leveraging automated processes are faring better than those that aren’t.

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What does a freight broker do to add value for shippers?

Bulk Connection

From working with a carrier directly to using online load boards, there are more options than ever to help shippers put their freight in motion. Yet, the advantages of using one of the most tried and true of these options, the freight broker, may be largely unknown to some shippers. So, to set the record straight, we sat down with a real-life freight broker – Bulk Connection’s own Truckload Division Manager for 30 years, Scott Wilson – to answer the question: what does a freight broker do to add

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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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Watch on demand: Re-thinking inventories to mitigate supply chain risk

DiManEx

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with our partners at Logistyx Technologies. Logistyx is the leader in transportation management for parcel shipping, providing a SaaS-based solution with state-of-the-art business intelligence and an integrated global carrier network of more than 8,500 carrier services. Last year, we integrated Logistyx’s transport management solution (TMS) into our platform to provide multi-carrier parcel deliveries for customers.

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Embracing Robots to Bridge the Labor Gap

Supply Chain Brain

Manual operation is still the norm for 80% of distribution centers, but the model is quickly becoming unsustainable.

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Sales Literature Management: 5 Reports to ‘Spring Clean’ Your Inventory

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

As we all continue to adjust to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’re finding new ways to work and connect with each other. For most of us, that means working from home, canceling events like trade shows, and foregoing most in-person contact.

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Project Engineer, NY 1

ivalua

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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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How Steel Manufacturers Can Thrive in a Changing Environment

DELMIA Quintiq

The metals industry has always been competitive and difficult, but the recent COVID-19 crisis has made the business climate even more challenging. The industry is looking at current developments with great concern as important customer sectors have already begun to stop or significantly reduce production. During this time, it’s even more crucial to improve internal planning to make better decisions more quickly.

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Project Engineer CA 2

ivalua

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How to Support Small Businesses During COVID-19

Freight Center

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy, and because of COVID-19, they need support now more than ever. Facing new challenges and dealing with a lot of uncertainty, small businesses have had to adapt at the blink of an eye. How can we all do our part to protect ourselves, our physical health and help the economic health of small businesses and the people who rely on them to make a living?

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Project Engineer, PA

ivalua

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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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A Guide to Shipping Personal Items Overseas

I.C.E. Transport

If you’re moving overseas, you already have a ton on your mind—packing up your household, arranging transportation, maybe nailing down details about a job, or where you’ll live—and on and on. You also have to figure out how to move all your stuff. Shipping personal items overseas in a shipping container is much more complicated than sending them, say, from Boston to Arizona in a moving van.

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How to Speedily Adapt your Business for Online Order Delivery

Logistics Bureau

How to Adapt Your Business for Online Order Delivery—Quickly. According to research, the COVID-19 pandemic will make a substantial percentage of consumers turn to online shopping. For example, in South Korea, 70 percent of consumers say they plan to shop online. The figures for other countries are also impressive—42 percent in Spain, 41 percent in German, 39 percent in Russia, and 36 percent in France, as revealed by a recent study.

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A Guide to Personal Effects Shipping

I.C.E. Transport

If you’re moving overseas, you already have a ton on your mind—packing up your household, arranging transportation, maybe nailing down details about a job, or where you’ll live—and on and on. You also have to figure out how to move all your stuff. Shipping personal effects overseas in a shipping container is much more complicated than sending them, say, from Boston to Arizona in a moving van.

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[Watch] On-Demand Recording: Sustainability in Manufacturing Virtual Summit Keynote

Dragon Innovation

Dragon Innovation CEO & Co-Founder, Scott N. Miller kicked off the Earth Day event : 'Sustainability in Manufacturing Virtual Summit' with a keynote presentation on the topic of sustainability and manufacturing. Learn at a high level how the topic of sustainability impacts the process of manufacturing, while bringing a connected hardware product to market.

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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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MANAGING SUPPLIER COMPLIANCE AND OVERALL RELATIONSHIP

Eyvo

Supplier Relationship and Compliance – Importance. Eyvo are happy to announce the publication of our latest optional module, our Vendor Compliance and Supplier relationship module. Lets say you have purchased a new eProcurement system, now what? Are you just going to use it for tracking your expenses and managing the audit and approvals process?

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Lessons Learned from the Covid Epidemic Part 2: Stockpiling!

NC State SCRC

In Part 2 of this series on pandemic planning, I am again “dusting off” portions of a study I wrote for the IBM Business of Government in 2011, titled “ Planning for the Inevitable: The Role of the Federal Supply Chain in in Preparing for National Emergencies ” that laid out important trends that were apparent as a result of the avian and H1N1 flu viruses that occurred in the global economy.

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Manufacturing Toolbox for Next Level Productivity

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Industry 4.0 Ecosystem! Manufacturing Toolbox article and permission to publish here provided by Grant Kamperschroer at straightnorth.com. The story of the manufacturing industry has been one of progress. Few manufacturers continue to produce the same products as they did in their infancy years.