Tue.Jul 23, 2019

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Is Freight Digitalization Still An Existential Threat?

Freightos

This year alone, Maersk has accelerated its direct-to-shipper strategy, digital forwarders have raised massive rounds (like Flexport’s billion-dollar injection), and platforms for forwarders and carriers – big and small – have continued to pop up almost daily, at least that’s how it seems. Logistics professionals have adapted incredibly well to this new age, but some lingering doubts remain.

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Shifting the Focus from B2B to B2B2C

QAD

What’s the future for the business middleman? Will eCommerce render wholesalers and distributors obsolete by letting manufacturers talk directly to their end users? It’s easy to think so when watching a company like Amazon grow, but some industry observers believe the future will be more complex. Rather than moving from a Business-to-business (B2B) and Business-to-consumer (B2C) world to one that’s just B2C, they see a more complex Business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) reali

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How to Tame the Change Management Dragon with Amazing Results

River Logic

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The agribusiness supply chain is highly complex. It’s not limited to managing crops and livestock, but encompasses all equipment, services, and product processing as well as commercialization. Besides the regular challenges expected of such an intricate operation, there are social and environmental concerns, stringent regulations, a labor shortage and rising competition.

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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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[PODCAST] A Comprehensive Discussion on Lean Supply Chain Strategies

GlobalTranz

Listen to “A Comprehensive Discussion on Lean Supply Chain Strategies” on Spreaker. Lean Supply Chain & Supply Chain Optimization Resources Logistics Service Level Agreement and Logistics Key Performance Indicators: A White Paper Download White Paper Why Blockchain will Create Extreme Supply Chain Management Optimization Download White Paper The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact.read More.

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EDI & API: The Changing Connection Technologies Used in TMS

GlobalTranz

As the global supply chain continues through digital transformation, connection technologies used in TMS implementation and integration will evolve as well. While many new system vendors bill application programming interface (API) as the best way to eliminate integration problems, thousands of supply chain entities continue to rely on the use of electronic data interchange (EDI).read More.

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People and Processes Drive Supply Chain Improvements at Honeywell

Logistics Viewpoints

Honeywell leveraged managed transportation services, or a people-plus-technology model, to drive substantial supply chain improvements. The improvement processes included in-depth evaluations and the establishment of freight processes and controls to drive down logistics costs while also improving service to customers. The results and areas of improvement include the following: The post People and Processes Drive Supply Chain Improvements at Honeywell appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Four Solutions to Achieving a More Transparent Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, as businesses juggle multinational suppliers and service providers, constantly shifting regulations, and more informed consumers demanding increased responsiveness and sustainability.

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European canned veg supplier harvests supply chain forecasting

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Bonduelle, the supplier in Europe for canned vegetables and second largest for frozen veg, is close to completion of a supply chain transformation project that has helped the manufacturer reduce wastage and predict with pinpoint accuracy what’s most likely to sell in different parts of the world, following the implementation of demand forecasting software through FuturMaster.

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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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Supplier Management and Sourcing in the Fashion Industry – Under the Spotlight

Jaggaer

More than virtually any other sector, sourcing and supplier management in the fashion industry have been exposed to intense scrutiny in recent years, while the functions have become of increasingly strategic importance to business success. Digital transformation is delivering benefits to many of the world’s leading fashion companies, especially in Italy, where roughly half of the leading fashion concerns have implemented JAGGAER solutions.

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Over a third of supply chain professionals do no monitor for modern slavery convictions

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Over a third (38%) of senior UK supply chain professionals say they do not have processes in place to check if a supplier has been convicted of modern slavery infringements, according to research from national law firm Weightmans.

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Supply Chain Leaders - Are you ready to share leadership?

Cranfield

Make a Google search for images of ‘ leadership ’ and see what the word still implies: there’s one person at the front of the spearhead, at the top of the triangle; one leader fixing the direction and pulling the rest along with them. It’s an idea that been embedded into our thinking of managers since the 1980s - and I should also say, instilled over the years by business schools - as the ideal to aim for.

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Distributed Order Management: Over-Hyped & Under-Served?

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

While today’s supply chain is exceedingly complex, one’s approach to managing it need not be. Unfortunately, as tools and so-called best practices evolve, they often propagate silos, redundancies, and failure points in the supply chain, further complicating it.

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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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The Magic Behind the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Logility

Like many supply chain leaders, you are likely tasked to continuously improve your business processes, and understand how the latest innovations coming to market can help you along this journey. Industry analysts such as ChainLink Research, IDC, Gartner Research and Supply Chain Insights are often asked to share their opinions of the market. Recently, Gartner published the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation.

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Distributed Order Management: Over-Hyped & Under-Served?

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

While today’s supply chain is exceedingly complex, one’s approach to managing it need not be. Unfortunately, as tools and so-called best practices evolve, they often propagate silos, redundancies, and failure points in the supply chain, further complicating it.

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Supply Chain News on Which US States are Best for Manufacturing 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Indiana Again Tops the List, as SCDigest Turns Letter Grades into Numeric Score from Ball State Data

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The Quality of Your Insights, not the Size of Your Data, is What Really Matters

Enterra Insights

The phrase “size matters” occasionally enters casual conversations — often accompanied by a wink and a smirky smile. When discussing the size of datasets, however, winks and smiles are often difficult to find. How to handle big data is serious challenge. The term “big” data seems almost quaint when talking about the amount of data currently being generated every second of every day.

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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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Supply Chain News on Sorting through the Options for Software Support of Automated DC Systems

Supply Chain Digest

Gartner Framework Runs across Alphabet Soup of WMS, WCS, MFC, and WES, but there are Many Options

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How to Automate Purchase Orders in 10 Minutes with TradeGecko

TradeGecko

Business is booming in the new year! There’s a greater demand for your products and services, and you’re swimming in new orders. Informal agreements and handshake deals worked when you first started. But tracking and managing them will be harder to manage over time. How will you be able to reconcile receipts with your budget or protect your company without any formal documentation?

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10 things to know about the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax

DAT Solutions

Heavy Vehicle Use Tax season is upon us. Below are answers to 10 of the most common questions we get about the HVUT.

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Last Mile Distribution News: July 24, 2019

Stord

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 WMS Glitches Reduce Asos E-Commerce Inventory Glitches in new warehouse management systems along with “supplier issues” reduced the amount of Asos inventory available to online shoppers in the U.S. and Europe. Asos sales and margins have been significantly affected, and the issue isn’t expected to be resolved until September.

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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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Kaplan Professional: Straight Talk About Digitizing Processes

TrackVia

It’s not every day we get to capture a spontaneous interview with one of our customers. Luckily, Sarah Dohnalik, Director of Operations and Value Stream Management at Kaplan Professional, was more than happy to hop on stage at the 7 Rivers Lean Symposium and share her experience implementing TrackVia. Before TrackVia, Kaplan Professional’s Value Stream Team relied on manual processes to manage their educational material development and production lifecycle.

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The top 5 smart warehouse technologies you should be using today

SCJunction

Technology in all sectors of the economy is progressing at a rapid pace. To keep up, warehouses need to be equipped with the technologies that allow them to keep up with manufacture, production, and consumer demand. A smart warehouse is automated for improved productivity, efficiency, and accuracy, and the solutions that are implemented give flexibility and capability to the employees and their processes.

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Two Major Consequences of Poor Data on Inventory Management

Unleashed

As a business grows, ensuring sales data is accurate can become more and more of a challenge. And when businesses are still small, owners can easily overlook the importance of maintaining oversight of data. But the reality is that accurate data is extremely important to the long term success of a business, and inaccurate data can have catastrophic consequences on inventory management.

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APIdays San Francisco: Future API Stack for New Product Experiences

Axway

This July 16-17th, the Axway team once again spent some days, API days that is, in the company of cutting edge partners and API practitioners.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Apparel Industry Growing Pessimistic About Future Due to Trade Issues

Material Handling & Logistics

Sourcing executives are more cautious today and less optimistic about the five-year outlook for the U.S. fashion industry.

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Alloy is hiring!

Alloy

Our team grew rapidly in the first half of 2019, fueled by strong customer growth and investor confidence. For the second half of the year, we’re planning to further accelerate that growth and have some major hiring goals! To help lead our recruiting efforts, we’re pleased to welcome Amanda Williams as Alloy’s first Director of Operations. Amanda joins us from Apple, where she was most recently Senior Program and Planning Manager for Apple Retail.

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Bristlecone Flash – July 2019

Bristlecone

LIMITLESS: DESIGNING A DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE FUTURE. The supply chain of the future is dynamic and without limit. During Bristlecone Pulse at MIT, Sept. 9-11, the industry’s most brilliant minds will share their perspective on what’s shaping the future of supply chain today. Our speaker lineup includes MIT professors and authors Thomas Malone and George Westerman, among others.

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