Wed.Dec 09, 2020

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Trane Technologies’ Digital Simulation Journey

DELMIA Quintiq

AME Group Leading the Way. Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King® and our extended portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes, and transportation. Our world is dealing with unprecedented challenges.

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Use Robotic Process Automation to Improve Route Planning Performance

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite all of the advances in route planning technologies, most logistics organizations still see a wide discrepancy in the results that their planners produce. Some planners consistently generate route plans that are lower cost, better utilize resources, and deliver the best customer service. Considering that these planners are using the same route optimization technology, how can this be?

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Why It’s Time to Rethink Supply Chain Consultant Services in 2021

GlobalTranz

Many small and medium-sized businesses make use of supply chain management consulting services in some way. The value of supply chain consultant services is higher right now due to the increased demand for more. Because of the value consultants can bring to the table and their impact on supply chain system networks, consultancy services are likely.read More.

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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

Megatrends, according to Frost & Sullivan analysts, “are transformative, global forces that define the future world with their far reaching impacts on businesses, societies, economies, cultures, and personal lives.”[1] They identify twelve areas in which such megatrends can be found: Urbanization, smart technologies, society, connectivity, retail, climate change, energy, economics, infrastructure, healthcare, mobility, and new business models.

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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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S&OE, More Than Your First Alert and Response in Supply Chain

Adexa

Let’s say you plan your vacation to drive from LA to San Francisco on a certain date, weeks or even months ahead. How accurate is this plan? Especially if you are not looking at all your constraints such as children having school during the planned period, or your boss may ask you to stay in the office on those days or someone in the family getting sick.

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A Quick Guide to Roles in Procurement

Logistics Bureau

ARTICLE SUMMARY. For small companies, it is usually enough to have one person dealing with procurement but in large enterprises teams of people are needed, all with specific roles to play. For instance, the Chief Procurement Officer will lead the sourcing process, develop the procurement strategy, identify potential suppliers, and manage short and long terms goals.

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Inventory Management vs Product Information Management (PIM)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? Get Our EBOOK HERE. The following Product Information Management (PIM) article was written by guest author Alex Borzo, a content contributor at Amber Engine , a software company passionate about eCommerce. The company’s fast and simple PIM software gets sellers, distributors and brands to market in weeks instead of months.

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2021 Predictions: Cybersecurity & Third-Party Risk

IT Supply Chain

By Robert Hannigan (pictured). Chairman, BlueVoyant International. The post 2021 Predictions: Cybersecurity & Third-Party Risk appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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5 Supply Chain Trends to Watch in 2021

Stord

Many of the trends and changes we expect to see in 2021 are largely driven by the supply chain weaknesses and gaps identified in 2020. Today’s supply chains are inherently inflexible, and they’re becoming increasingly more complex. Customer expectations have become more demanding, brands are adding more sales channels into the supply chain, and 2020 showed us that we need to be prepared for sudden changes to supply and demand patterns.

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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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Diversity Among Us

BlueYonder

Teamwork allows us to understand that we are different. You get to know a bit about different points of view, experiences that people face, even a plethora of traditions, likes, and dislikes. That’s something I discovered when I joined Blue Yonder. A year ago, I started to work as a technical analyst in Monterrey. This meant the beginning of a new chapter in my life, starting off by living alone, full of responsibilities and a new job in a different state.

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Fidelity Calls for Urgent Action to Help 400,000 Stranded Seafarers

Supply Chain Brain

Fidelity International is calling for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis and supply-chain risks caused by the more than 400,000 seafarers who are stranded aboard vessels and a similar number who remain ashore with little prospect for work or pay.

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How to Drive Internal Adoption of Your Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform

FourKites

At its core, rolling out a real-time transportation visibility platform – or any enterprise technology, for that matter – is both a change management project and a leadership opportunity. By focusing on the people, process and technology as three critical legs of the solution, a good business leader can overcome just about any challenge that’s thrown their way.

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5 Ways to Optimize Your Distribution Center for 2021

AB&R

Warehouse management and ensuring that it operates at its optimal level is no easy task. Operations are often multi-faceted, with many different tasks, shifting inventory locations, and new challenges with each passing day. Within each bustling distribution center, there are many opportunities for human error and areas for improvement. In fact, warehouses lose 3,000 hours per year due to their inefficiencies [1].

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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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Are you still spending time and money to run a lengthy RFI/RFQ/RFP process for a SaaS platform purchase?

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Companies tend to engage in request for information (RFI), request for quote (RFQ) and request for proposal (RFP) processes to make sure they end up choosing the right software that meets their business and IT requirements. However, I believe there is a major drawback in this traditional process that ignores today’s fundamental improvements in technology and the need for higher speed in business decisions. .

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Benefits of 3PL warehouse management system

Vinculum

There are few industries where a high-quality warehouse management system (WMS) is as vital as the 3PL (third party logistics) vacillate trade. As fashionable shoppers, we tend to expect food on our native supermarkets’ shelves and our on-line purchases to arrive promptly, typically but twenty-four hours when the order was placed. Few can consider the rigorously planned, skillfully accomplished altering operations that permit the USA to fancy these home comforts.

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Best Practices of Top Performing Truckload and Less than Truckload Shippers

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Supply chains have faced unprecedented volatility, making it increasingly difficult for shippers to successfully navigate the marketplace. The transportation industry has faced volatility over the last handful of years, but nothing like the disruptions of recent months. From capacity shortages and missed customer requirements to a shift in shipping smaller, more frequent orders—truckload and less than truckload (LTL) shippers need ways to navigate the changing marketplace.

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CCC Report – Driving sustainability in the supply chain

IT Supply Chain

By Ryan Purcell (pictured). Director, Global Impact at LLamasoft, a Coupa company. The post CCC Report – Driving sustainability in the supply chain appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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 by the Numbers for Dec. 10, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

US Restaurants Closing in Record Numbers, Retailers Pushing Up Christmas Order Deadlines, Chinese Exports to US Soar Despite Tariffs, MODEX 2022 Trade Show Almost Sells Out in One Day

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How Small Freight Brokers Can Level the Playing Field

Talking Logistics

We all know the David and Goliath story — how the much smaller David defeated the giant Goliath with just a stone and a slingshot. In the logistics realm today, you also have big players and small players competing against each other, but instead of slingshots, it’s digital technologies that are helping to level the. Read more How Small Freight Brokers Can Level the Playing Field.

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The Year in Logistics: Most Popular Articles from 2020

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s the last few weeks of the year which means it is time to look back at the year in logistics. And 2020 was certainly quite the year in logistics. As always, it was a busy year covering the latest supply chain and logistics trends, emerging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, major news announcements, and more. We want to take this opportunity to reflect on the Top 15 most popular logistics articles written this year and […].

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Supply Chain News on Some Retailers Pushing Slow Parcel Shipping but for Costs, not Yet Sustainability

Supply Chain Digest

Even Amazon Improves and Streamlines Incentives, while Gartner Analyst Tom Enright Says Growing Share of Consumers Want more Sustainable Options

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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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The Year in Logistics: Most Popular Articles from 2020

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s the last few weeks of the year which means it is time to look back at the year in logistics. And 2020 was certainly quite the year in logistics. As always, it was a busy year covering the latest supply chain and logistics trends, emerging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, major news announcements, and more. We want to take this opportunity to reflect on the Top 15 most popular logistics articles written this year and see what our readers found to be the most interesting.

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Flatbed markets cool near end of year

DAT Solutions

Some recent news on the manufacturing front indicated new orders and production both fell in November, but both were still at high and healthy levels.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week o nSupply Chain Cost Reduction vs Optimization

Supply Chain Digest

There is a Difference, Gartner Analyst Says, with Cost Optimization taking a Longer View

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Make System Integrations Great Again with Michael Sternberg

The Logistics of Logistics

Make System Integrations Great Again with Michael Sternberg. Michael Sternberg and Joe Lynch discuss how to make system integrations great again. System integration is an IT process or phase concerned with joining different subsystems or components as one large system. About Michael Sternberg. Michael Sternberg is the Director of Sales at 3PL Systems , a TMS provider based in Signal Hill, California.

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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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Dry van markets tighten after Thanksgiving

DAT Solutions

The latest release of the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index reported a decrease of 6.3% in October after gaining 5.7% in September.

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Three Lessons for the Food Industry in 2021

Supply Chain Brain

COVID-19 has taught the food industry some important lessons about modernizing quality, safety and vendor management.

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Reefer demand dips with lower produce volumes

DAT Solutions

Reefer volumes are down year-over-year driven largely by the decrease in produce volumes, which according to last week’s USDA data are down 18% y/y for domestic loads of produce.