Tue.May 03, 2016

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The View from Finance: Freeing Up Cash with Inventory Optimization

ToolsGroup

If you (or your boss) are measured by your company's Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) or a similar metric, then you want to turn assets into cash. Whether the message comes down from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or even private equity investors, either way it's pretty much the same thing: free up cash from the business. Inventory optimization is one proven way to do it.

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Digital Enterprise Transformation: Changing or Adapting to the Business Landscape?

Enterra Insights

The business landscape has been ever changing since the first marketplace was established. Craftsman who may have enjoyed a monopoly … Continued. The post Digital Enterprise Transformation: Changing or Adapting to the Business Landscape? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Is Your Supply Base Employing Slaves?

Logistics Viewpoints

Multinational companies can have thousands of Tier 1 suppliers, and in the extended multi-tier supply chain it could be hundreds to thousands of upstream suppliers. How can companies insure that companies they source from are not engaged in slave labor?

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New to International Shipping? Here’s how to make it simple!

4WL Consulting

Domestic and international shipping are very different. Managing transportation within the US can be complex and volatile – no one is saying it isn’t difficult – but the details of coordinating the average truckload or LTL shipment don’t compare to the complexities of shipping internationally. The main reason for the differences are that every cross-border shipment is subject to laws, regulations, duties, and paperwork requirements that take country and mode-specific expertise to understan

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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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Modular Refrigeration Units Could Reduce Cold Chain Costs in India

MIT Supply Chain

A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize this month for an idea to make India’s temperature-controlled supply chain for food — or cold chain — more affordable. The team, GoMango, is developing smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that can be rented out individually to cut costs […].

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How to Boost Your Supply Chain Knowledge Beyond Certification

Logistics Bureau

Whatever career you pursue, whatever your speciality, role, or discipline, whatever industry you work in, whatever degrees or certificates you hold, it’s an undeniable truth that you never, ever stop learning. However there can come a point where you’ve attended so many training courses, gained a fistful of certificates, perhaps even acquired a string of letters after your name and suddenly, the thought of another series of structured workshops leaves you cold.

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Innovation Leadership in the Middle of Organization Change at Biogen

NC State SCRC

I spent the day at Biogen’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA today, with a group of executives sharing ideas on how to drive innovation. Biogen is already a highly innovative company, as they have continued to drive new treatments in MS, and in 2014, the first major treatment advances in nearly two decades for people living with hemophilia. This has propelled their stock to crazy high’s, with a return to more normal P/E levels recently.

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Supply Chain News on JDA 2016 Focus User Conference Video Review and Comment

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in Nashville

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The Current State of the Driver Shortage in 2016

GlobalTranz

The truck driver shortage represents one of the greatest threats to the shipping and logistics estimations for the number of truck drivers missing range from 48,000 to 1 million, but the actual shortage has been centered around 30,000 drivers annually for the past few years. According to an industry analyst, Noel Perry, reports Frank Morris , the truck driver shortage will probably settle around 100,000.

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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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Supply Chain News on JDA Focus User Conference 2016 Day 2 Video Review and Comment

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in Nashville

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Math Underpins Humanity’s Achievements…Why Not Your Business?

River Logic

The most significant human achievements in science and exploration have one thing in common. Whether it’s pyramids in Egypt, sailboats that enabled commerce throughout history, the printing press, the first flight to or landing on the Moon, mathematics have made these innovations possible and played a key role in making them efficient.

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Build Your Own Corner Office

Arkieva

In my recent post on going places, I put forward some of my thoughts on how a young college graduate should approach their career. Here is a different take on the same topic. Let me indulge the civil engineer in me (or what is left of what I learnt in my college days). Let us think of your journey to the corner office in terms of the construction of the building which contains that corner office.

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Is Logistics Outsourcing Right for Your Company?

Supply Chain Movement

More shippers today appear to be outsourcing some or all of their logistics. How does a company decide that outsourcing logistics is the right choice? This C.H. Robinson whitepaper can help companies decide, set reasonable expectations for what outsourcing can contribute to their organisation, and how much of a role a company will need to play to achieve the successful business outcome they seek.

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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.