Enterra Insights

JUNE 29, 2018

When (if ever) most people think about agriculture, Old MacDonald’s farm or Grant Wood’s America Gothic are more likely images to come to mind than the Jetsons. But farming is moving into the Digital Age. It’s an Age when discussions about paperless offices and robotic factory floors are far more likely to be heard than digital transformation on the farm. “The world talks a lot about the digital revolution,” write World Bank analysts Heinz Strubenhoff ( @HStrubenhof

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SCM Research

JUNE 29, 2018

More than many other management disciplines, SCM has been very successful to professionalize and reinvent itself. A good indication for this development are the 2017 JCR journal impact factors , which have just been released. The only SCM journal with an impact factor above 6 is Journal of Supply Chain Management (6.105). Three SCM journals have impact factors between 4 and 5: Journal of Operations Management (4.899), International Journal of Production Economics (4.407) and International Journa

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2018

by All By: APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE. This article was originally published on apics.org, and is repubished with permission. Blockchain has been touted as the cure-all for everything from financial fraud to voting, but Wired magazine ’s Maryn McKenna suggested that blockchain could help prevent E. coli. How? Consider that in mid-April, the earliest signs of an outbreak of the disease surfaced in New Jersey.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 29, 2018

In the increasingly competitive landscape of e-commerce and omni-channel delivery execution, the last mile has emerged as a critical source of opportunity for cost efficiency. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have historically been utilized for military applications, but they are quickly gaining traction as a viable option for driving improvements in commercial last-mile operations.

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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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RELEX Solutions

JUNE 29, 2018

Read PDF. RELEX wraps up a successful two-year project to reduce spoilage in food retail supply chains. RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, has taken part in The European Commission’s research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 in which it was granted a €1.4 million funding for its NexGenFSCM project (The Next Generation Supply Chain Management Software in the European Food Industry).

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 29, 2018

Companies large and small are susceptible to data breaches. In fact, it’s highly likely that your organization will suffer one at some point in time. So how should you respond? Should you follow the example of a company like Equifax , which did everything wrong in a wake of a cybersecurity breach and incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in costs, not to mention a stain on its reputation?

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The Network Effect

JUNE 29, 2018

The folks at Exporta Global must have had some time on their hands. They decided to go for a new. The post Video: When Pallets Fall… Like Dominoes appeared first on The Network Effect.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 29, 2018

Hundreds of industry leaders gathered in the Emerald City of Seattle for Future Stores 2018. And in line with the event’s theme, “Retail. Reimagined.” – a topic where JDA has plenty of expertise – the attendees we heard from are eager to create engaging customer experiences that are differentiated from the competition. The challenge, as always, is moving from idea to execution – and those are the areas where we heard retailers’ voices the loudest.

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APICS

JUNE 29, 2018

Unemployment in the United States is below 4 percent, leading manufacturers to seriously consider automation because of the lack of skilled labor for positions.

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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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Exapro Hub

JUNE 29, 2018

According to the IDC and its prospective study “ FutureScape 2018 “, the global industry will experience an installation of 2.6 million industrial robots by 2019. In other words, 60% of the largest companies in the world will be equipped with robots. The growth rates of robotics are not expected to weaken in the coming years. This is what IDC analysts think and this growth will be driven by industry, a traditional market for robotics.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 29, 2018

Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week due to the US holiday. Push-driven supply chains have been around forever. Pull-driven have become increasingly popular and in most cases arguably better. But what about employing push and pull for different products in a single supply chain or distribution network? The mobile phone retail supply chain presents such a case of simultaneously maintaining both strategies.

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CHAINalytics

JUNE 29, 2018

| By Karthik Ravikumar | Senior Manager, Supply Chain Design | and | Vikas Argod | Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations | Chainalytics | Exactly one year ago, on 1st July 2017, India entered into “one country, one tax” world. Overnight, the country transformed into a single marketplace with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) … The post Happy Birthday, GST!

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 29, 2018

Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week due to the US holiday. Push-driven supply chains have been around forever. Pull-driven have become increasingly popular and in most cases arguably better. But what about employing push and pull for different products in a single supply chain or distribution network? The mobile phone retail supply chain presents such a case of simultaneously maintaining both strategies.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2018

Nothing gets my heart pumping like cycling to help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. I’ve started to ramp up my training for our Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure team ride in support of JDRF, which will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 3, 2018. Our team members are also hitting the road, including Ralph Cisneros (Intel) and Joe Tillman (TSquared Logistics): It’s not too late to sponsor or join our team.

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