Mon.Dec 13, 2021

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The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestenbaum Prozan

The Logistics of Logistics

The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestenbaum Prozan. Esther Kestenbaum Prozan and Joe Lynch discuss the pain of picking the wrong 3pl. Esther is President of Ruby Has Fulfillment , a rapidly growing ecommerce fulfillment provider for direct-to-consumer brands and retailers. About Esther Kestenbaum Prozan . Esther Kestenbaum Prozan is President of Ruby Has Fulfillment , a rapidly growing ecommerce fulfillment provider for direct-to-consumer brands and retailers.

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Few Companies Make the Hard Tradeoffs to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Logistics Viewpoints

Reasons Why Firms Commit to Reducing Environmental Impacts More than Regulators Require. The law firm Crowell & Moring recently released a survey-based report that looked at how companies are navigating pressures to improve their environmental performance. The company surveyed 225 executives whose jobs included environmental, social, and governance issues. 56% of respondents said their company does NOT measure its carbon footprint.

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The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestanbaum Prozan

The Logistics of Logistics

The Pain of Picking the Wrong 3PL with Esther Kestanbaum Prozan. Esther Kestanbaum Prozan and Joe Lynch discuss the pain of picking the wrong 3pl. Esther is President of Ruby Has Fulfillment , a rapidly growing ecommerce fulfillment provider for direct-to-consumer brands and retailers. About Esther Kestanbaum Prozan . Esther Kestenbaum Prozan is President of Ruby Has Fulfillment , a rapidly growing ecommerce fulfillment provider for direct-to-consumer brands and retailers.

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Logility Recognized as a Leader in 18 Categories in the 2022 RIS Software LeaderBoard

Logility

Supply Chain Leader Excels in Several Categories of the 2022 RIS Software LeaderBoard. ATLANTA – Dec. 13, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced the company was included in the top 10 of multiple categories in the 2022 RIS Software LeaderBoard. Logility was recognized for helping retail customers by delivering innovative technology and offering exceptional support as they faced unparalleled challenges the past

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Re-imagining inventory management for a new normal

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Inventory management was moving towards a just-in-time approach until the supply disruptions of the last year. Now there are forces arguing for a return to a just-in-case approach. Whatever inventory management methodology is chosen, the realization that supply chains are vulnerable will require a re-assessment of practices and KPIs in order to keep goods flowing in a predictable and manageable way.

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‘Tis the Season for Joyful Returns

3PL Insights

It’s estimated that 30% of products ordered online are returned. According to data gathered by Loop Returns , that number increased by 41% for online orders during the holidays in 2020. Brands and retailers understand the importance of a positive customer experience, especially when consumers are returning products. What do customers want when it comes to returns?

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Watch: Lessons to Be Learned From the Microchip Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

Bill Currence, president and managing partner of Cornerstone Consulting Organization, discusses the factors that are both beyond and within the control of manufacturers suffering through the current supply chain crisis.

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When Should You Outsource Your Subscription Box Fulfillment?

3PL Insights

Starting a subscription box company is a big undertaking. Acquiring the products, procuring shipping materials, finding storage space, and hiring employees to fulfill the orders make a startup very difficult. If you’re able to overcome these challenges and you create a successful subscription box business, you will face the question, when is the right time to outsource services to a fulfillment center?

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The Wheels on the Chassis Go Round and Round … Not

Supply Chain Brain

With the current focus on the tens of thousands of containers stuck on ships outside major U.S. ports, it’s easy to forget a maxim of supply chain management: If it’s not on wheels, it’s not moving.

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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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What is Cross Docking in Supply Chain Management? | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

Cross-docking is a logistics strategy when carrier immediately unloads the cargo from an incoming container and then loads it directly to an outbound carrier. It is a practice that keeps supply chains moving in a productive, effective manner.

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3 Reasons Why You Should Use Proxies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Best Cybersecurity Tips to Secure Your ECommerce Store! Proxies article and permission to publish here provided by Ethan Noble. The role of the internet is to furnish you with any amount of data you need continually. And with over 1. 145 trillion MB of data being generated and added each day , it is certain the internet will always keep delivering on this job.

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Log4Shell – How comprehensive a solution is the Cybereason fix

IT Supply Chain

By Casey Ellis (pictured). CTO of Bugcrowd. The post Log4Shell – How comprehensive a solution is the Cybereason fix appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How Cloud Computing Can Help Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Next Generation Supply Chain is Cloud Computing! How Cloud computing can help article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. The supply chain has been taking a battering over the past year due to the complications of the coronavirus crisis. Nonetheless, there are a series of new technologies that managers have started to adopt due to the many different benefits that they bring.

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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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Logistics Middle East, DHL to launch Fast Forward Start-up Challenge

Logistics Middle East

The challenge aims to recognise and support emerging start-ups with pioneering solutions to key pressing challenges facing the logistics and supply chain sectors.

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Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Transition to AMRs

Supply Chain Brain

Autonomous mobile robots are a perfect fit for today’s uncertain supply chain.

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What Is Vendor Sourcing?

EC Sourcing Group

What Is Vendor Sourcing? Generally speaking, vendor sourcing is when you choose vendors to supply you with either goods or services. In years past, vendor sourcing could be an intricate and lengthy process. There would be phone calls, faxing, and filing, but today, eSourcing software has streamlined that process to make procuring auction vendors much more efficient.

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What Happens When I Buy Tradewater Carbon Credits on Requis?

Requis

In this article: FAQ about purchasing carbon credits on Requis. How you can prove you’ve purchased bona fide carbon offsets. How Tradewater carries out its projects. Dramatically improving the sustainability of our supply chains is essential to the health of our planet and our own survival. With that goal in mind, Requis now offers Tradewater carbon offset credits on its platform.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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When Should You Outsource Fulfillment for Your Subscription Box?

3PL Insights

Starting a subscription box company is a big undertaking. Acquiring the products, procuring shipping materials, finding storage space, and hiring employees to fulfill the orders make a startup very difficult. If you’re able to overcome these challenges and you create a successful subscription box business, you will face the question, when is the right time to outsource services to a fulfillment center?

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

This year, as in the past five years, our supply chain index contributed to the overall ranking of firms in the top 250 best managed companies , as ranked by the Drucker Institute. The top companies in 2011 included the following: Microsoft. Amazon. Apple. IBM. Intel. NVidia. Johnson and Johnson. Cisco Systems. Procter and Gamble. HP. In an earlier blog , I explained how the SCRC supply chain index was formed, and how it provides meaningful insights into the Innovation and Sustainability categor

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How to Avoid Stockouts with Better Inventory Management

EazyStock

The Current Causes of Stockouts. Since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, businesses across the globe have faced stock availability challenges. Delays at manufacturing sites, container shortages and a lack of raw material have all led to stockouts. These issues have arguably been compounded by container and truck driver shortages as well as global shipping delays.

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Shipping Costs in 2022: How Shippers Will Account for Congestion and Stay Strategic

Intelligent Audit

The global pandemic has changed the transportation and shipping industry in many ways, some of which will linger for years to come. Issues with logistics and shipping capacity continue to haunt supply chain management as experts predict that the shipping bottlenecks and backlogs at big U.S. ports will continue well into 2022. General rate increases are expected to be higher than in the past as shippers and carriers attempt to balance costs and expenses during ongoing recovery as we saw just last

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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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November Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

How was November 2021? In November, shippers were feeling the impact of proactive holiday shopping due to the restricted supply chain. Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment fell by.4 percentage points, which added an additional 542,000 formerly unemployed persons to the workforce. While the unemployment rate still teeters at 4.2 percent, employment in transportation and warehousing increased by 50,000 in November and is 210,000 above its early pandemic days in February 2020.

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Adopting Lean Principles

DELMIA Quintiq

Lean was born out of simple necessities and a desire to work in more effective ways. In today’s environment of change and disruption nothing seems simple nor efficient and yet there are still amazing opportunities to apply basic principles in our organizations to help us develop more resilient cultures and build sustainable business. Earlier this year, I was privileged to speak with three professionals who have decades of combined experience in Lean: Anurag Rai : Business Transformation Lead Dir

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Innovation and Problem-Solving

Enterra Insights

We’ve all heard the old proverb: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” The television show McGyver was built around that premise. The proverb has been a truism for over two millennia. Nicole Lotz, a Senior Lecturer in Design at the Open University, explains, “In the Socratic dialogue ‘Republic’, Plato famously wrote: ‘our need will be the real creator’ which was molded over time into the English proverb ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’.”[1] She g

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Supply Chain News on Amazon Warehouse Deaths Raise Questions for Some, as Company Announces Plan to Rebuild

Supply Chain Digest

Union Says Amazon Put Profits before Safety, but Does not Say Exactly How

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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How TMS Helps Companies Manage Their Transportation Operations More Intelligently and Efficiently

Talking Logistics

Today’s transportation challenges and opportunities are much different than they were just a few years ago, requiring shippers and carriers to innovate the way they work together. Fortunately, Transportation Management Systems (TMS) have evolved rapidly to aid shippers in addressing these new challenges. How are these evolving TMS solutions helping companies manage their transportation operations.

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Logility Statement on Apache Log4j / Log4Shell / CVE-2021-44228 Vulnerability

Logility

Summary. An exploit for the open source “Log4j” logging service emerged on the morning of Friday December 10th, 2021, which can be trivially exploited. This vulnerability, also known as “Log4Shell”, is due to a feature introduced in Log4j 2.x versions where a specially crafted string embedded in messages logged by Log4j could be interpreted causing Log4j to connect to remote systems or directly execute arbitrary code.

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Embrace a paperless accounts payable process

Taulia

It’s no secret that paper-based processes are associated with numerous drawbacks. They require significant resources, are time-consuming, and are prone to loss or failure. The latter point can be particularly egregious with paper invoices which, when misplaced or lost, require both parties (the buyer and the supplier) to spend time resolving the issue or reissuing the invoice.

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