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Mindmap for Order Management 2018

Supply Chain Movement

Global competition is forcing companies to optimally manage the orders they have scored. Supply chain execution software can coordinate the necessary alignment process between the various systems within the network. Together with MPO, supplier of supply chain software, Supply Chain Media has created a mindmap for innovative order management, including a handy description of the route and with road signs indicating potential hazards along the way.

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6 Major Delivery Logistics Trends!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish provided by, Raanan Cohen at [link]. Check out Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? 2017 was an important year for delivery logistics. With ecommerce sales reaching $23 trillion in annual sales worldwide, customers are relying on better and faster deliveries for all sort of goods and services.

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Supply Chain: Your Brexit Competitive Advantage

Supply Chain 24/7

As the official notification for Brexit gets closer, there are many unknowns for businesses in terms of how changes may affect them as well as many impacts that are becoming clearer.

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KFC Ran Out of Chicken! What Supply Chain Lessons Can We Learn?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Argentus at, and permission to publish here provided by, [link]. Check out McDonald’s Supply Chain Challenge: Switching from Frozen to Fresh Burgers! There’s another unfortunate entry in the annals of Supply Chain failures that burst into the wider world of business and pop culture: More than half of the UK’s Kentucky Fried Chicken stores recently closed because they ran out of chicken!

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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 Brexit Storm - Results from the CIPS Brexit Surveys

Supply Chain 24/7

With Brexit negotiations underway, CIPS has taken a view of areas of impact that are affecting the day to day operations of Procurement and Supply chain specialists.

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Selling in online marketplaces: Your ticket to growth

TradeGecko

We’re all familiar with the startup phase of any business: You have an idea. Then, you test assumptions against market demand, acquire customers, iterate, scale and hope to achieve growth. Among these steps, acquiring customers and keeping them can certainly be challenging.

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Technologies Reshaping the Global Digital Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally created by, and permission to publish here provided by, Michael Gaughan and published at [link]. Check out 5 Seismic Shifts in Supply Chain Technology! In our ongoing technology series, we have concentrated on the Informational and analytical innovation applications which are reshaping supply chain technology as we know it.

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The Difficulties of Managing Multiple Warehouses

Unleashed

Managing a warehouse is a complex and multi-faceted job. There are many factors affecting inventory management that need to be considered when you’re looking after a warehouse: stock levels need to be kept at healthy levels and shipments need to go out on time; staff schedules and training need to be organised; overhead costs need to be paid. Keep in mind, this is just for one warehouse.

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Managing Risk in Your S&OP/Integrated Business Planning Process

Supply Chain 24/7

In this report, Aberdeen examines risk management from the demand side, the supply side, and the known areas of expected change resulting from the impact of Brexit and U.S. tax and trade policies.

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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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Can circular supply chains help solve our global waste problem?

DELMIA Quintiq

This the first part of a two-part blog series that analyzes waste reduction in circular economies through a systems thinking lens, taking into consideration product design and supply chain operations. First, let’s take a moment to explain why waste is an enormous worldwide issue and how it’s becoming a more pressing concern for our planet each day. From trash gyres in our oceans to microplastics contaminating our drinking water , waste is impacting our daily lives in subtle, yet concerning wa

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Etsy Order, Purchase & Inventory Management for Creators, Makers and Doers

EMERGE App

Introduction. As a creative entrepreneur, there are various ways to get a handle on managing the orders, purchases, and inventory of your hand-made goods. Some involve re-looking your business processes and workflows. Other use hardware and software technology. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t waste precious time to build your own solution when ready-made software is available.

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Which Industries are Reaping the Benefits of Cloud-based Software?

Unleashed

With so many benefits of cloud software , no wonder industries around the world are adopting cloud-based software. The opportunities with the cloud are vast and can apply to a wide variety of needs. Here are just a few of the industries that are experiencing the benefits of cloud-based software. Healthcare. The healthcare industry is bombarded with sensitive data daily.

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The Importance of Worker Productivity Improvement

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Worker productivity is an important factor in understanding the economy in the United States (and for other economies). Worker productivity is the output per hour for workers in nonfarm businesses. It has a major impact on the need for workers as the economy grows. For example, if the economy grows at 2% and worker productivity does not grow, then theoretically 2% more workers are needed.

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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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Gartner’s 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List! Is it Still Relevant?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out 5 Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. I always find it interesting to see the list, to see who came out on top, and to hear what their views are on prevailing trends. But as I review the list, compare it to prior years, and consider the scoring methodology I do wonder whether the list in its current form continues to be relevant for identifying the best of the Suppl

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GovShop a new way to buy for government supply managers

NC State SCRC

For many years, government contract officers working at the local, state, and federal level, relied on a variety of different networks to search for qualified suppliers. In many cases, they went back to “the usual suspects”, which often involved suppliers that had been used in the past, or whoever happens to have submitted the lowest bid on the last RFQ.

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Pain Points – An Opportunity to Innovate and Expand!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at [link] . Permission to publish provided by Karl Crisostomo at tenfold.com. Check out Ground Rules for Creating a Game Changing High Performance Organization (HPO)! Pain points are a part of business. They create opportunities to innovate , diversify and grow. Without customer pain points, there is no reason to be in business.

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RFID, AIDC and IoT New Round Up for Nov. 26, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

MIT Using RFID to Identify Contaminated Foods. Number of RFID Implanters Continues to Grow.

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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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Change Decision Making for Businesses!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at [link] by tenfold.com. Permission to publish provided by Abigail Rabi at tenfold.com. From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again.

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Peeling Back The Orange Juice Supply Chain! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Orange juice is the most popular fruit juice in the world, and one of the most popular of all drinks globally. Depending on the country you live in you may consume on average several gallons of Orange juice annually. When you go into a grocery store or supermarket you are likely to see a large pile of oranges.

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What are the Supply Chain Impacts of Amazon’s Whole Foods Acquisition?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Amazon and Uber’s Impact on Logistics! (Infographic). Big news out of the grocery retail world as Amazon has announced its acquisition of major organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market – for an eye-popping $13.7 billion sale price that doesn’t look so massive given Amazon’s $136 billion sales volume in 2016.

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Inventory Turnover Breakthrough … Go Back To The Basics!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out World Class Inventory Turnover Breakthrough Elements! (Infographic). I had accepted a career changing challenge … how to change the company’s Inventory Turnover performance from being perennially worst in the Industry to being one of the best. And I had to do it all within 1 year! I had seen many very smart people tackle this problem over the years.

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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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Seasoned Leadership in Action™! An Interview with Neil Hampshire, CIO at ModusLink!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out The Digital Supply Chain – Supply Chain 4.0! (Infographic). At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Inside 4 Cutting Edge Warehouses! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at [link] and permission to publish here provided by, Raanan Cohen. Check out Streamline your Entire Distribution Centre or Warehouse at One Time! Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2017 total spending on logistics in the US rose to a record $1.5 trillion, up 6.2% from the year before.