Wed.Oct 20, 2021

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The Benefits of What-If Analysis for Durable Goods Companies

Logility

Make better inventory management decisions and gain a deeper understanding of your customers by solving for “what if?”. For durable goods companies, what-if analysis is a valuable tool helping to meet service goals while staying on budget or even improving the financial picture overall. By studying both historical and near-real-time data, companies can identify and mitigate potential demand and supply risks and improve decision-making as well as forecasting.

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Logistyx Technologies Talks Parcel Shipping, Holidays, and Returns

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Ken Fleming , President at Logistyx Technologies. In our conversation, Ken spoke about some of the findings from a recent survey Logistyx conducted on cross-border holiday spending, as well as some larger trends around the state of parcel shipping. I asked Ken to give me some deeper insights on a few key points.

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q3 2021)

Talking Logistics

The good news is that everyone is talking about supply chains today. The bad news is that it’s mostly bad news: congestion at ocean ports, shortage of drivers and warehouse workers, delayed deliveries, rising oil and gasoline prices, and the list goes on. When will it get better? Nobody really knows, except that it won’t. Read more Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q3 2021).

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Owning The Customer Experience with Larry Gordon

The Logistics of Logistics

Owning The Customer Experience with Larry Gordon. Larry Gordon and Joe Lynch discuss owning the customer experience. Larry is is the Managing Director, GTM, Emtec Digital , a global technology services company that provides digital software engineering and transformation solutions to clients across multiple industries. About Larry Gordon . Larry Gordon is the Managing Director, GTM, Emtec Digital.

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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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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. Transitioning from manual operations and implementing automated solutions enhances processes and improves performance monitoring and decision making, avoiding rework, downtime, defects, and bottlenecks and ultimately improve customer service and increase profitability.

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Improving supply chain efficiency

Taulia

Global supply chains are more complex than ever. In today’s challenging market, companies face multiple challenges, from shortages of crucial components to port congestion, high shipping costs, logistics delays and uneven customer demand. At the same time, companies are paying more attention to the importance of ESG and sustainability objectives in supply chain management, and the role that automation and efficiency can play in minimizing the need for time and resource intensive processes.

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Five Ways to Manage Cyber Risks Throughout the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain cyber attacks have been on the rise, with a 42% increase in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2021.

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Startups & supply chain data: How cosmetics startups can outmanouver big brands with shared data

IT Supply Chain

By Adam Lower (pictured). Product Lifecycle Management expert, Centric Software. The post Startups & supply chain data: How cosmetics startups can outmanouver big brands with shared data appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Opportunities in supplier relationships

Prophetic Technology

The events of 2020 evidence the reliance large enterprises have on their Supply Chain and its fragility. The global pandemic put on pressing challenges for organisations about visibility, agility, and risk. And it brought us to rethink areas such as partnership, becoming a customer of choice (one that suppliers consider a preferred customer,) and increasing resilience.

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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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The customer experience can be dramatically improved by implementing new technology

IT Supply Chain

By Oliver Guy (pictured). Senior Director, Industry Solutions, Software AG. The post The customer experience can be dramatically improved by implementing new technology appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How to be a Successful Woman in Tech

BlueYonder

Today’s DIVE In blog is all about success and how a diversified team can contribute to that. With 20+ years of experience in the retail industry, Esther Moolenaar, Head of Merchandise Planning and Supply Chain at HEMA is a successful female leader in the supply chain field. Her team’s success and development are especially important to her and today she shares her insights with us, including why you don’t need to act like a man to be successful.

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Taxing online shoppers to pay for the cost of Covid is a false economy

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research. The post Taxing online shoppers to pay for the cost of Covid is a false economy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

Have you ever seen an image of the modern airliner’s flight deck? If you have, you know that even with the large multi-function displays located in front of the pilots, many other gauges and instruments seemingly demand attention—enough to make you wonder how the crew can monitor them all. In reality, though, most of those instruments are there for reference in case of exceptions to normal flight conditions.

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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 rising impact of smaller-scale ransomware operators

IT Supply Chain

By John Fokker (pictured). Head of Cyber Investigations at McAfee. The post The rising impact of smaller-scale ransomware operators appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Thrives in these Challenging Times!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Compensation is on the Rise! Supply Chain thrives article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have supply chain professionals working harder than ever – but compensation is rising significantly to match.

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Checkout-free stores will shake up the high street & are needed to keep up with the times

IT Supply Chain

By Melissa Minkow (pictured). Retail Industry Lead, CI&T. The post Checkout-free stores will shake up the high street & are needed to keep up with the times appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch

Supply Chain Brain

There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.

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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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Walk out stores are a natural progression of the retail sector, but technology investment is required

IT Supply Chain

By Sachin Jangam (pictured). Partner for Retail, Infosys Consulting. The post Walk out stores are a natural progression of the retail sector, but technology investment is required appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Gaining a Competitive Advantage With Supply Chain Network Design

Maine Pointe

As companies struggle to keep pace in today‘s turbulent supply chain and operations environment, they recognize that the new path forward requires faster and better decision-making and improved accuracy and visibility. Maine Pointe‘s Bill Forster and Collin Ziemerink discuss how Supply Chain Network Design takes a systematic approach to supply chain and operations optimization.

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Cloud, AI, SDx, digitalisation: where does IT monitoring fit in and what does it actually do?

IT Supply Chain

By Martin Hodgson, (pictured). Country Manager, Paessler AG. The post Cloud, AI, SDx, digitalisation: where does IT monitoring fit in and what does it actually do? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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P&O Ferries Launches Comprehensive Customs Clearance Service to Solve Supply Chain Challenges

Logistics Middle East

The new service is equipped to assist customers with empty declaration requirements from this month, providing tailored support throughout the last quarter of 2021. The post P&O Ferries Launches Comprehensive Customs Clearance Service to Solve Supply Chain Challenges appeared first on Logistics Middle East.

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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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LaserShip Buys OnTrac: What Parcel Shippers Should Know

Intelligent Audit

Standards and opportunities in logistics appear to be changing as LaserShip has now purchased OnTrac, notes Jennifer Smith of The Wall Street Journal , to expand operations with plans on creating a national parcel carrier that will help the two companies grow and stay competitive. In shipping management, there are massive opportunities for efficiency gains.

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How to win the food fight: The need for the digital transformation of grocery retailers

o9 Solutions

Though covid-related disruptions resulted in a temporary growth windfall for grocers due to consumers dining out less and shopping in supermarkets more, it remains unclear how consumer behavior will respond as schools, restaurants, and businesses open up again. Meanwhile, changing consumer preferences and shopping channels will continue to challenge grocers’ supply chains.

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5 Books Every Supply Chain Manager Should Read

Loginext

5 Books Every Supply Chain Manager Should Read Technology has made it easy for us to find resources to stay informed and educated. However, sifting through the enormous amount of resources available to us can be overwhelming. While the internet is a good place to read and learn, let’s not discount the power of books […].

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CNBC: Panic ordering by retailers is making the supply chain crisis ‘even worse’

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Panic ordering by retailers is making the supply chain crisis ‘even worse’ Sent from the CNBC app. Available on the App Store. – Bob.

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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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Global Supply Chain News on Ocean Container Shipping will Finally Swing Back in Favor of Shippers in 2022, Drewry Says

Supply Chain Digest

Average Container Shipping Rates Forecast to be Up 126 percent in 2021

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What the 2021 Nobel Prize Means to SCM Research

SCM Research

This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics goes to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics” and Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences writes in a comprehensive article about the scientific background of this prize (PDF): “Taken together, […] the Laureates’ contributions have played a central role in establishing the so-called design-based approach in

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Harness the Best in FMCG Distributor Execution - Joint Business Plans

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Over the last few months, I have shared the proven and successful Enchange approach, to find and develop FMCG Distributor Partners (DPs). We call this the Distributor Partner (DP) Development Programme. We use this Programme to source new DPs, to implement a new FMCG company approach with DPs, to drive and improve their performance and/or, to train our DPs, FMCG RtM and/or Distributor Managers.