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How to Deploy Reverse Logistics Automation in 5 Simple Steps

GlobalTranz

Managing reverse logistics presents new challenges in the post COVID-19 world. Instead of simply managing returns and isolating defects, supply chain executives must now consider how returned products could lead to higher safety risks. And the need for efficient returns continues to grow in tandem. The supply chain coronavirus (COVID-19) impact also undermines efficiency in.read More.

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COVID-19 hindering sustainability initiatives, reveals research

ivalua

A lack of digital maturity and a focus on supplier cost and quality are also limiting green practices. 16th July 2020, London – Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of spend management cloud solutions, has shown that six-in-ten (60%) UK businesses have decreased their investment in sustainability initiatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the study, almost all (95%) UK businesses have plans in place to address environmental concerns in the supply chain over the next 12 months; h

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How Did the Digital Supply Chain Evolve?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Digital Supply Chain Overview! (Video). Digital Supply Chain evolve article and permission to publish here provided by Megan R. Nichols. People often position the digital supply chain as essential for helping today’s businesses succeed. What a digitized supply chain entails, though, changed over the years due to the evolution of technologies and how people use them.

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Do We Need Just-In-Case Supply Chains?

Enterra Insights

Pundits have been talking about supply chain transformation for years. The coronavirus pandemic reinvigorated these discussions. For example, Jim Vinoski ( @JimVinoski ), a former CPG executive, writes, “There has been a lot of discussion as the novel coronavirus crisis progressed about the need to make drastic changes to the U.S. industrial supply chain.

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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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Doing Business in India

QAD

India was the center of one of the earliest civilizations on earth, thriving throughout the second and third millennia B.C. Various cultures rose and fell during the intervening centuries until invaders from Europe arrived in the 16 th century. By the 19 th century, India became the “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. Mahatma Gandhi led a non-violent resistance to British rule, and India became an independent nation in 1947.

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Rearchitecting IT to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

Bristlecone

Giriraj (GK) Sharma, Associate Vice President, Bristlecone . In medical research, a lot of time and money has been spent on non-communicable diseases over the past three to four decades. In the last few years, as the industry caught up with AI/ML waves, possible scenarios from diagnosis to remote surgery with fewer human interventions were being widely explored.

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FirstMark leads $12M Funding Round for expansion of Crisp's Data Platform

crisp

As supply chains struggle through the pandemic to produce, ship and stock critical food products, companies are racing to deploy technology that can leverage big data, create visibility across partners, and better match supply with demand. To maximize on the market opportunity, Crisp announced today, as reported in TechCrunch , the close of our $ 12 M Series A round of funding led by FirstMark Capital , with participation from investors including Spring Capital and Swell Partners.

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How to Make the Best of Your Supply Chain Right Now

Supply Chain Brain

Keeping our supply chains safe is just as important as keeping them lean. Here are three opportunities you can leverage today.

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Doing Business in India

QAD

India was the center of one of the earliest civilizations on earth, thriving throughout the second and third millennia B.C. Various cultures rose and fell during the intervening centuries until invaders from Europe arrived in the 16 th century. By the 19 th century, India became the “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. Mahatma Gandhi led a non-violent resistance to British rule, and India became an independent nation in 1947.

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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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Freight Procurement Tips with Trent Morris

Logistics Bureau

WHAT ROLE CAN PROCUREMENT PLAY ON FREIGHT EXPENDITURE? “A better way, in my opinion, of approaching it is to simply define what you actually want them to give you” – Trent Morris. Let us listen to our favorite purchasing and procurement consultant, Trent Morris, as he gives tips on freight procurement. Watch the video below: Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our websites, why not check them out?

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Supply chain & logistics webinar

Proxima

Building a Modern Playbook for Supply Chain and Logistics Stardom. At our recent webinar, held with Supply Chain and Logistics consultancy Hatmill, Proxima’s Simon Geale welcomed Joe Metcalf, Johnathan Foster, Neil Jordan, and Simon Dixon to discuss their advice on the tools needed now to achieve supply chain and logistics success across: warehousing, automation, freight, and reverse logistics.

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Enhancing the RFP Process for a Stronger Supplier Relationship

ProcurePort

The supply chain is a vital aspect to any organization in any industry. Developing a book of suppliers and vendors that are trustworthy, reliable, and actively respond to RFPs is a challenge for every procurement team. Enhancing the RFP process can help organizations in building a library of suppliers and vendors that they can turn […]. The post Enhancing the RFP Process for a Stronger Supplier Relationship appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Barcode Labeling Makes You Better

AB&R

Doing more with less is today’s standard. Worldwide, people have settled into new routines. Some of these routines and processes will last longer than others. Even as our workforces shrink, we are expected to accomplish the same amount as we were pre-pandemic. Some solutions can make today’s work more accessible, more efficient, more accurate, and traceable.

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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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Simplifying the Burden of Hazmat Returns

Logistics Viewpoints

Most companies are familiar with the federal, state and local rules and regulations established by departments of transportation for outbound HAZMAT shipments. HAZMAT returns, on the other hand, introduce a new and much less reliable player into the game: the consumer. When a consumer needs to return items that qualify as HAZMAT, they must follow the same established rules and regulations – and those rules and regulations must be provided by the retailer accepting the return shipment.

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PINC Named 2020 Food Logistics’ Top Green Provider

PINC

UNION CITY, CA —July 16, 2020 — Food Logistics , the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named PINC to the Top Green Providers list for 2020. Food Logistics’ annual Top Green Providers recognizes companies whose products, services, or exemplary leadership is enhancing sustainability within the food and beverage industry.

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US food supply chain: Disruptions and implications from COVID-19 | McKinsey

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Once Again, the Virus Drives All the Supply Chain News

Supply Chain Digest

Are We Really In for an Even Worse Second Wave

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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 supply chains are adapting to the COVID-19 lockdowns

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Top 10 3PL companies in the world 2020

TradeGecko

Regardless of what your business might be, chances are excellent that your business model has nothing to do with warehousing, shipping or logistics.

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How to Promote from Within: Featuring Renee Baker

3PL Insights

Renee Baker joined the Evans family in 1992. She was hired as a Customer Service Representative (CSR) at Evans’ Artesian building in Detroit, Michigan. Throughout her career at Evans, Renee has worked in almost every operation—from a CSR in the office to a helping hand on the warehouse floor to even a truck dispatcher when needed. In addition, Renee has worked at numerous locations, including Artesian, CDW, Joy Road, Highland Park, Glendale, DPS, and Mt.

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Gartner-owned software review companies recognise Unleashed

Unleashed

Unleashed has been recognised as among the world’s top Inventory Management software solutions by two different Gartner owned companies, Capterra and Software Advice. Software Advice Inventory Management Front Runners. In Software Advice’s Guide to Top Inventory Management Software, June 2020, Unleashed was ranked as one of the top 20 “Front Runners”.

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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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How E-Commerce Became Crucial to Retail Survival

Supply Chain Brain

While overall retail sales are expected to drop more than 10% this year, e-commerce will jump an unprecedented 18%.

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5 Tricks for Getting the Best Shipping Rates

Freight Center

One of the biggest expenses for small to medium businesses is shipping costs. How can you find ways to trim costs, or at the least, make sure you are getting the best shipping rates? Are you relying exclusively on one carrier? Are you shipping more frequently than you really need to? We’ve put together 5 tricks for getting the best shipping rates to help save money, control your costs and ship more efficiently.

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Ready, set, go – Gamification in the warehouse

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Alex MacPherson – Director of Solution Consultancy & Account Management, Manhattan Associates. Employee engagement in warehouse settings has received well-deserved attention in recent months.

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4 Factors that Make Up Truckload Pricing

Freight Plus

4 Factors that Make Up Truckload Pricing. Jill Clifford, freight expert, breaks down the 4 factors that makeup truckload pricing. Jill also explains how to negotiate TL pricing. Lanes. : Have a good understanding of your full truckload lanes. Not just where they are from and where they are going but also the volume in those lanes. You want to be thinking how many loads do you ship per your lane - for example, Boston MA to Cincinnati OH.

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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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5 Ways Automating Back-Office Processes Make 3PLs & Brokers More Productive & Profitable

MercuryGate

Few advancements have the potential to increase productivity and profitability for 3PLs and freight brokers like automating repeatable, error-prone back-office processes. Automating back-office processes allows your team to focus on securing more customers, while proactively managing strategic issues rather than trying to manage post-fulfillment processes, hope the invoicing matches, and ensure all contracts are fulfilled. […].

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4 Factors that Make Up Truckload Pricing

Freight Plus

4 Factors that Make Up Truckload Pricing. Jill Clifford, freight expert, breaks down the 4 factors that makeup truckload pricing. Jill also explains how to negotiate TL pricing. Lanes. : Have a good understanding of your full truckload lanes. Not just where they are from and where they are going but also the volume in those lanes. You want to be thinking how many loads do you ship per your lane - for example, Boston MA to Cincinnati OH.

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6 Benefits of Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Shipping

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Shipping can be expensive. The high cost of shipping is motivating many companies to switch from their current method of shipping to less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. Is your business looking to save money while streamlining your logistics services ? Read on to learn more about LTL shipping and its many benefits. What is LTL Shipping? Less-than-truckload, or LTL, shipping is a method of transporting a relatively small amount (typically, from 500 to 10,000 pounds) of freight using an LTL carrie