Tue.Sep 29, 2020

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Selecting the Best S&OP Software: 7 Tips for Success

River Logic

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JIT Fulfillment for an Omnichannel Experience: 5 Peak Season Tips

GlobalTranz

Peak season is rapidly approaching once again and always seems to overwhelm supply chains. The upcoming peak season will probably set an all-new bar for future peak seasons to come, especially during uncertainty and the onset of the global pandemic. And ensuring an omnichannel experience for suppliers, businesses, and consumers is paramount for a successful.read More.

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Developing Outstanding Supply Chain Talent and Leadership

PINC

By collaborating with universities and colleges, companies can help develop a new stream of supply chain talent that’s ready to take on the present and the future. Blurring the lines between academia and industry has always been the “Holy Grail” for universities that would love nothing more than to have real-time insights into exactly what companies want and need from their supply chain program graduates.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Rewarded Companies with Foresight

Enterra Insights

Hindsight — understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened — is important; however, foresight — the ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or be needed in the future — is even more important. Companies that had the foresight to embrace online (omnichannel) operations prior to the pandemic have been richly rewarded.

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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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The Supply Chain is under intense pressure to maintain high availability

Prophetic Technology

The new environment demand from organisations innovative approaches to their Supply Chain (SC.) A scheme process to depict difficulty, volatility and ambiguity of the circumstances hard-hitting contemporary SCs performance. These challenges can be achieved when backing professional knowledge, edge-systems and potential-analytical approaches which combined to enhance decision-making transparency improves design solutions and mirror the organisations’ real-life challenges currently facing.

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United Healthcare Services cyber attack: The ceasefire against medical organisations has now eneded

IT Supply Chain

By Anthony Chadd (pictured). SVP of Security Business Development, Neustar. The post United Healthcare Services cyber attack: The ceasefire against medical organisations has now eneded appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Formula for Fast and Sustainable Growth in Life Sciences

QAD

The analysts agree — it’s a good time to be a life science startup. Life science companies have delivered tremendous innovation and seen tremendous growth in recent years — in gene and cell therapy, genetic engineering, immunotherapy and precision medicine. Many organizations have transitioned rapidly from small startups to large industry players with the aim of introducing revolutionary and often life-saving technology to the world.

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Supply Chain Resilience Strategies for Asia in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

CHAINalytics

As companies have figured out how to conduct business during the pandemic, most supply chain leaders have had to adapt to new business realities as they look towards the future. The coronavirus continues to accelerate emerging trends and uncover existing gaps in planning and operation models. Businesses across Asia have spent the past ten months … The post Supply Chain Resilience Strategies for Asia in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Disruptions are Inevitable – Do You Have a 360° View of Your Suppliers?

Jaggaer

Think about how much has changed in the last six months – supply chains halted, delayed orders, even entire business shutting down. Unfortunately, when it comes to macroeconomic disruptions like this, it’s not a matter of if but when. Disruptions are going to strike again – don’t get blindsided. It’s arguably never been more important to have a 360° view of your suppliers than it is right now.

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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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Do You Ever Buy a Single Shoe?

Adexa

- Then Why Spend Money on S&OP Alone? When you acquire S&OP solution by itself, you are getting only half the solution that is needed to plan and execute the plan. That is why so much manual and sub-optimal planning is done with today’s S&OP solutions. S&OP works at a high level of planning performing rough and long term monthly or yearly planning.

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The Dispatch Report | Q3 2020, Issue No. 15

Shipchain

Big things are happening, and we can’t wait to share them with you. We put out the second video in our series focusing on the mobile app, released a new industry white paper, recorded and released our fourth webinar, won first place in the Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards, and last but certainly not least, launched Mainnet! Keep reading for more info about what we’ve been up to and what’s next on the horizon.

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Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Report - The Latest EventWatch Data and Disruptions

Resilinc

On an average week over 100 disruptive events - ranging from natural disasters, factory fires, M&A, government policies, or human health concerns - occur. Some of these will have a direct impact on your supply chain. As companies continue to navigate the impacts of COVID and the extended hurricane season (due to La Nina), it’s more important than ever to have technology-based SCRM solutions, like Resilinc’s EventWatch AI, in place.

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The Value of Integrating Trade Compliance with GTM Software

Supply Chain Brain

During the course of the last two decades a great deal of disruption has taken place in the field of supply chain management. This growth has fostered a diversity of players that ranges from a lone fashion designer in Milan that imports from Asia and sells on Amazon, to well entrenched manufacturers that import and export on every continent. For all of this variety, companies engaged in global business share several common objectives — to increase sales; reduce landed costs; compress cumul

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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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COVID was a surprise. Christmas should not be.

IT Supply Chain

By Ian Hall (pictured). COO, Atheon Analytics. The post COVID was a surprise. Christmas should not be. appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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COVID and the Case for Digital Standards

Supply Chain Brain

The path forward for global container shipping. Container shipping has a paper problem, and it’s never been more obvious than in 2020. COVID-19 has put unprecedented strain on the world’s supply chains. The pandemic has exposed the shipping industry’s continuing dependence on printed documentation. Cargo has been stuck in ports waiting for physical paperwork to be delivered by flights that have been delayed.

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Is automated technology really a viable option for small & medium size 3PLs

IT Supply Chain

By Charlie Walker (pictured). Marketing Director of Walker Logistics. The post Is automated technology really a viable option for small & medium size 3PLs appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Our Customers on How Automation Accelerates Their Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies

6 River Systems

It’s no secret that the face of retail is changing at an accelerated pace. Online shopping has rapidly evolved from a convenience to a necessity. Consumers are demanding fast, flexible order fulfillment, anytime, anywhere. these omnichannel trends put an unprecedented strain on retailers’ worldwide supply chains, not only in terms of increased consumer demand, but execution speed and flexibility.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Universal Healthcare Services cyber attack: The ceasefire against medical organisations has now eneded

IT Supply Chain

By Anthony Chadd (pictured). SVP of Security Business Development, Neustar. The post Universal Healthcare Services cyber attack: The ceasefire against medical organisations has now eneded appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Unilever is using geolocation data and satellite imagery to check for deforestation in its supply chain – CNBC

Provenance

In this piece highlighting the technologies that support first-mile transparency and impact, CNBC discusses our partnership with the Princes Group and their Napolina brand to bring this to the shoppers at the point of sale. “Napolina wanted to communicate information and reassure shoppers about its canned tomatoes, especially in light of investigations into exploitation of migrant agriculture workers in Italy.

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The Long Drive to Remote Working – Part 1

DynaSys

The Long Journey. 30 years of possibilities and resistance. 30 years ago, the large UK Multi-site food company I was working for asked me to introduce Video conferencing as part of a company-wide communication initiative that included the introduction of E-mail. Yes, a lifetime ago for many of you. Knowing little about Video conferencing, I looked it up in the Yellow Pages (This was like a printed version of the internet on yellow paper, but without all the stuff that gets in the way of the Ads)

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Telling the story of a part

IT Supply Chain

By Karl Lauri (pictured). Managing Team Member at MRPeasy. The post Telling the story of a part appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Global Supply Chain News on Feeling Pricing Power, Container Carriers Likely Looking for Big Rate Increases in Looming Contract Negotiations

Supply Chain Digest

Soaring Spot Rates will Set the Table for Big Jumps in Contract Rates in coming Months

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Is ROS the future?

IT Supply Chain

By Neil Ballinger (pictured). Head of EMEA at EU Automation. The post Is ROS the future? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Time to Transform Transportation Procurement?

Talking Logistics

Earlier this year, in a presentation at the Manhattan Momentum Connect conference, Dr. Chris Caplice from MIT argued that “the dominant design in transportation procurement is now outdated and it’s time to transform the process.” I encourage you to read my brief summary of his presentation for more details, but here’s a key quote from. Read more Time to Transform Transportation Procurement?

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Parcel Carriers Unwrap Yearly Gift: Peak Season Surcharges

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Parcel carriers have begun alerting customers that they will be raising costs or adding a peak season surcharge during the holidays. This article will review what we know about the size and timing of these increases, as well as things online sellers can do to lessen the cost impact on you and your customers.

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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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Amazon Workers Hurt More Often Than Industry Rate, Report Says

Supply Chain Brain

The rate of injuries contradicts more rosy assertions the company has made to lawmakers and the public, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Watch: How to Embed Manufacturing Process Expertise into Artificial Intelligence

Seebo

For Industrial Artificial Intelligence to have a real impact in solving production problems, the algorithms must have a deep understanding […]. The post Watch: How to Embed Manufacturing Process Expertise into Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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Holiday Sales Predictions You Need to Know

Freight Center

As expected, the pandemic has caused business owners and consumers to adapt, and as the 2020 holiday season approaches, business owners and managers need to be prepared for the shift in the retail landscape. Now more than ever, consumers are turning to eCommerce to find and purchase their goods. Knowing what you can expect for your business this holiday season will help you identify and mitigate potential issues as well as keep your products moving and your customers happy.

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