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What is 5G? And What Does it Mean for Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is the Digital Supply Chain? There was a time not that long ago when there were no cell phones or smart phones. Now they are literally billions of smartphones and cell phones. This doesn’t even include the number of desktops, laptops, tablets, and all other internet enabled electronic devices.

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Optimization and Execution: How Manufacturing can lead the Industry Renaissance

DELMIA Quintiq

Global manufacturing today faces significant operational challenges. Companies that were unable to meet these challenges have been left behind (for example, in High Tech think Blackberry and Compaq). The Industry Renaissance has transformed invention and production for the needs of today’s customers. How should manufacturers adapt to meet the challenges and shift from product-centric to customer-centric operations?

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Last Mile Strategic Value: How a TMS Empowers Last Mile Success

GlobalTranz

The face of shipping continues to change as e-commerce logistics grow more aligned with what customers want. It’s difficult to imagine modern retail or any supply chain without the last mile, but its costs continue to result in higher freight spend and delays. Shippers clearly need last mile strategic value—a way to connect the final.read More. The post Last Mile Strategic Value: How a TMS Empowers Last Mile Success appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Planting the Seeds for Blockchain in the Food & Beverage Supply Chain

Logility

Blockchain is a hot topic across the supply chain industry and often accompanied by more questions than answers. With all of this hype you might think that every midsize and large company has some level of an operational blockchain capability in place. The reality is, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Yes, there are a few companies experimenting with blockchain pilots, but very few companies have committed to standardizing parts of their supply chain operations using blockchain.

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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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Editor’s Choice: How Voice Picking Stacks Up Against Paper, RF Scanning, and Pick-to-Light

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This week’s blog comes from HighJump – now Körber, and examines various warehouse picking technologies and how they compare to voice picking. Warehouse order picking describes the process of selecting and pulling an item from inventory to fulfill a customer’s order.

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To 'Future Proof' Your Supply Chain, Answer These Four Questions

Supply Chain Brain

Faith in existing enterprise systems, protocols and technology has been severely tested during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. How should we adapt?

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Optimization and Effective Use of Space – COVID-19 Challenges

Arkieva

For most involved in Supply Chain Management, optimization is viewed as one of the three primary methods to create a supply or central plan that matches or balances assets with demand. Historically effective use of space involved minimizing unused space or maximizing revenue from a fixed amount of space. COVID-19 has upset the social order. Optimization and Effective Use of Space – COVID-19 Challenges was first posted on June 9, 2020 at 7:37 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva

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Demand Planning Against COVID-19: Introduction

DynaSys

Due to the emergence of COVID – 19 all company processes have been impacted; especially the supply chain and the flow of materials within it. This article is an introduction to a series of three articles intended to help demand planners manage the impact of COVID – 19 on their demand planning process. The emergence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 in our lives has seriously affected our products’ demand and their volatility has become more significant than ever.

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The Benefits of Private Label Brands

SupplyPike

Learn all about: What private label brands are How Walmart uses them Why private label brands should be used. Private label brands (or own-label brands) constitute the merchandise that retailers sell with their own packaging but are manufactured by a third party. In other words, private label brands are products that are manufactured for a specific retailer and branded with the retailer’s attributes.

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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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Tim’s Hardware: Social Distancing in the Warehouse with Honeywell Voice Technology

RFgen

Overview. Voice technology supports warehouse safety measures such as social distancing and reducing touching of shared surfaces. Consider assigning one headset to each worker to reduce risk of transmission. If wearing masks, consider retraining the voice technology and conducting periodic quality control checks. Voice technology and masks can go hand in hand, with a few modifications.

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Does Access Matting Hurt the Environment?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Access matting article and permission to publish here provided by Skyler Malley at diamondtservices.com. Access matting is a process of using mats to create a barrier between the earth and a job site. Often access matting is used during oil drilling or other large construction projects.

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How does Digital Twin fit into the context of COVID-19?

Prophetic Technology

The Digital Twin technology allows operators to have a virtual model of a physical asset, to forecast behaviours of assets, design probable adaptation, and suggest actions. It adds excellent panoramas about asset development, their interaction, the core for cooperation throughout the Supply Chain (SC) processes.

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Tim’s Hardware: Social Distancing in the Warehouse with Honeywell Voice Technology

RFgen

Overview. Voice technology supports warehouse safety measures such as social distancing and reducing touching of shared surfaces. Consider assigning one headset to each worker to reduce risk of transmission. If wearing masks, consider retraining the voice technology and conducting periodic quality control checks. Voice technology and masks can go hand in hand, with a few modifications.

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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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Free Supply Chain Education Online! – No Catch

Logistics Bureau

We got an exciting news for you! We have opened our online Supply Chain Education Program, FREE! We are also adding a couple of things to it which will be really interesting! To learn more, kindly watch the video below: Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307.

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Integrated Assortment Planning: A Vital Capability for Retailers

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

In today’s changing market dynamics, the retail business is getting more competitive by the day. Increasing competition by online marketplaces, along with evolving consumer expectations and shopping patterns are making the category management decisions more complex. As customers’ options increase, so do their expectations. Category management and merchandise planning are at the core of retailing.

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Navigating COVID-19: Mid-term Procurement Strategies for a Managing the Crisis

Jaggaer

As the COVID-19 virus begins to subside in many parts of the world, supply chains are stabilizing. Some remain unpredictable, but many companies are trying to navigate the reopening process. Once they’ve taken immediate action , how can organizations ensure stability moving forward? What mid-term steps can they take to minimize their risk and maximize value?

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Ways 2020 Will Accelerate Supply Chain Evolution

NFI

Guest Blog Post: Aaron Brown SVP NFI Industries / California Cartage In 2019, amidst a strong economy, shippers were facing supply chain challenges such as tight truck capacity, near full employment, and a developing trade war with China. These factors caused companies to focus their supply chain efforts on capturing efficiencies and mitigating rising costs.

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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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How Robotics Process Automation in TMS | Save Keystrokes, Reduce Errors, and Speed The Supply Chain

MercuryGate

Robotics process automation (RPA) is among the most forward-thinking technologies available in the supply chain. According to Supply Chain Dive, “the overall RPA market is expected to reach $1.7 billion in revenue this year, according to Forrester projections. Integration with analytics, chatbots and Internet of Things (IoT) applications will drive this increased demand for RPA.” […].

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Assortment Planning: A Vital Capability for Retaining Sector Competitiveness

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

In today’s changing dynamics, industries and businesses are getting more competitive by the day. Retailing is no exception. In fact, the retailing sector is getting even more complex since consumers’ expectations are evolving and the shopping patterns are constantly changing. As customers’ options increase, so do their expectations. The decisions around category management can no longer be supported by manual analysis based on broad assumptions and averages.

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Do You Need To Weather-Proof Your Supply Chain?

Gravity Supply Chain

COVID-19 – The tragic loss of lives and jobs, ill health, disruptions, and global supply chain strains. Now typhoon and hurricane season is upon us too!

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Are You Ready for Tomorrow’s Increased Supply Chain Risks?

American Global Logistics

It’s a new world for global supply chains. It’s called the New Normal. Global supply chains are reacting or responding to new trade agreements. They’re reacting or responding to the aftereffects of Covid-19. And they’re reacting and responding to recession. There’s a big difference between reacting and responding. A reaction is passive, whereas a response […].

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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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Supply Chain News ib Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck Maker Nikola Stock Surges on Wall Street Debut

Supply Chain Digest

Merger with Shell Company Takes It Public Overnight, Jumps 104 Percent with News Soon Takin PreOrders

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Do These 5 Things Now to Strengthen the FMCG Route to Market

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

COVID is rapidly changing the FMCG/retail environment, but these changes are vastly different from market to market and sector to sector.

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Supply Chain News on US Factories Struggle to Get Back in Gear Amid Demand, Supply and Infection Protection Challenges

Supply Chain Digest

US PMI Shows Major Contraction, but Stabilizes, as Fears Many Manufacturers will not Make it

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Extending Your ERP in a Low-Code / No-Code Environment

QAD

Global manufacturers are facing ever-increasing disruption and turbulence in the markets they serve. Automotive manufacturers, for example, are dealing with industry changes brought on by autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, electric vehicles and ride-sharing (known as ACES ). In order to survive and thrive in this changing world of manufacturing, manufacturers must be able to innovate, adapt and change their business models at unprecedented rates of speed.

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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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Winning the LTL Pricing Games

CHAINalytics

For shippers in the U.S., competing for reasonable LTL pricing can feel like “The Hunger Games” — a fight against overwhelming odds. To come out on top, you must be able to separate fact from fiction and successfully navigate the system. Before I dig any further into this pop-culture metaphor, here’s a quick synopsis for … The post Winning the LTL Pricing Games appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Extending Your ERP in a Low-Code / No-Code Environment

QAD

Global manufacturers are facing ever-increasing disruption and turbulence in the markets they serve. Automotive manufacturers, for example, are dealing with industry changes brought on by autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, electric vehicles and ride-sharing (known as ACES ). In order to survive and thrive in this changing world of manufacturing, manufacturers must be able to innovate, adapt and change their business models at unprecedented rates of speed.

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Seven Essential Requirements For Nutraceutical Fulfillment

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Some companies think they face unusually rigorous fulfillment challenges. Others, like nutraceutical firms, truly do. As evidence, consider these seven essential ingredients that we often see in most nutraceutical fulfillment RFPs – along with our take on why.

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