How Factory Data, AI Prevent Production Delays
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 7, 2022
Machine downtime is an issue that constantly plagues operations, leading to frustrated workers and a negative impact on the business’s bottom line.
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Filling the Whitespace Between AI and Cognitive Computing
Enterra Insights
JULY 7, 2022
Experts continue to debate whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a real thing or simply a marketing term. And, knowing that many people draw their perceptions of AI from science fiction books and films, IBM looked for some other term to better explain its AI-related offering. As a result, IBM coined the term “cognitive computing” to describe its Watson computing system.
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2022 Trends & Innovations in Warehouse Automation
Locus Robotics
JULY 7, 2022
By Jason Walker. The COVID-19 pandemic made a major impact on supply chain operations, from manufacturing and shipping to distribution and warehousing. When the world shut down, warehouses were faced with a seemingly unsolvable question: How do we continue operating while keeping people home safe? The answer quickly revealed itself: automation. Warehouse automation is not a new concept, and various automated systems have become commonplace around the world.
Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance
QAD
JULY 7, 2022
Can Your Business Answer These Questions Around ESG Issues and CSR? Can you identify all your suppliers in the supply chain? Can you confidently confirm that none of them are engaged in activities such as child or forced labor, or human rights abuses? Are any suppliers on government watchlists or under sanctions? Are all suppliers in compliance with existing due diligence laws?
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
Threat management has always been reactive, but in fact it should be proactive
IT Supply Chain
JULY 7, 2022
By Tzachi Zorenshtain (pictured). Head of Software Supply Chain at Open-Source & Checkmarx. The post Threat management has always been reactive, but in fact it should be proactive appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
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Working capital is essential to the health of every business, but managing it effectively is a delicate balancing act – never more so than now. So as to develop a deeper understanding of the situation, we have interviewed a cross-section of businesses about their evolving concerns and approaches linked to working capital management. These conversations took place at the intersection of three major events in the global market: the gradual re-emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic; the deepening cri
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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report
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CA AB-5 Impact on Logistics and What Shippers Need to Know
Intelligent Audit
JULY 7, 2022
Within the 48 continental states, California has often been in a class of its own. Fuel prices, environmental initiatives, and even fashion choices have set the Golden State apart from its counterparts. However, the latest West Coast quirk is about to take summer freight risks to a new level for Californian shippers. On June 30, 2022, CA AB-5 On June 30, 2022, the California bill, known as AB-5, went into effect.
Added Headwinds for Global PMI Production Indices in June and Q2 2022
Supply Chain Matters
JULY 7, 2022
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. Global Wide Production Activity. The J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Morgan and S&P Global was headlined with global PMI activity again slipping, this time to a 22-month low.
Six steps to more effective spend management
Taulia
JULY 7, 2022
Spend management is the practice of managing supplier relationships and purchasing across an organization to minimize cost and risk. But, despite its importance, it’s not without its challenges. Manual processes, of which spend management is made up, can be both inefficient and create vulnerability to the risk of fraud and human error. However, by taking a more robust, sophisticated, and technological approach to spend management, companies can address these challenges, drive greater visibility,
TMS Implementation Services For an Array of Proactive Solutions
Tai Software - Freight Broker Software Articles
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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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Benchmarking Your Supply Chain | PLS Logistics Services
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JULY 7, 2022
Supply chain benchmarking is necessary to measure performance and improve productivity but can seem like a daunting task. Learn how to start with this guide.
Supply Chain by the Numbers for July 7, 2022
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JULY 7, 2022
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Enabling More Profitable Home Delivery
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After reading Adrian Gonzalez’s post “Delivery: Revisiting The Logistics Of Elevator Rides,” I thought I would help answer his question about how to achieve profitable growth in home delivery. Even in this age of consumers demanding faster and more precise delivery, it’s possible to reduce the average distance traveled per delivery by over 20%, sell.
Why Yodel and C3 Solutions Make a Perfect Partnership
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The collaboration between UK-based Parcel Delivery service, Yodel and Montreal-based Yard Management and Dock Scheduling SaaS solutions provider C3 Solutions is another example of a perfect pairing. In fact, C3’s YMS solution, C3 Yard, was just awarded first place for innovation at Yodel’s CSR Supplier Award ceremony in June 2022.
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ivalua
JULY 7, 2022
The post Touchstone – Specialist in Delivering S2P Value appeared first on Ivalua.
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JULY 7, 2022
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Puremedic Health: 100% Revenue Growth with Unleashed at its Core
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“Our previous inventory management system was basically run on an Excel spreadsheet. And that’s both inventory for raw material for production, and finished goods for distribution.” So says Helen Lyon, CEO of Melbourne-based Puremedic Health. The company is famous for a pregnancy and breastfeeding probiotic supplement called Qiara, which was the first in the world to be isolated directly from breastmilk.
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