Wed.Sep 21, 2016

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Why Quintiq employees are donating their time to the World Food Programme

DELMIA Quintiq

Here’s what you expect a CEO to say upon the announcement of a corporate social responsibility initiative. As CEO of Quintiq, it’s a great honor to partner with the World Food Programme (WFP). Quintiq aims to make people’s lives better with the technology we create, but rarely do we get the chance to do so in such a meaningful way. This is more than just another CSR initiative for Quintiq.

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Pokemon Go is coming to a warehouse near you!

Techgistics

The Pokemon Go phenomenon, which has exceeded 500 million downloads worldwide , highlights the possibilities of augmented reality (AR) not just for gaming, but also for use in the supply chain. AR is a technology that superimposes a computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics, or GPS data into a user’s real view of the world. A good starting point for augmented reality in the supply chain, is in warehouses, and DHL recently announced that they will expand testing of augmented

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Wells Fargo: The Importance of Culture and the Dangers of Perverse Incentives

Talking Logistics

John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo, was grilled by senators yesterday over the company’s “ pressure cooker sales culture ” that led employees to create millions of unwanted or fictitious customer accounts in order to meet sales goals. Although the story is in the headlines today, the bank’s practices were first reported by the Los Angeles Times back in December 2013.

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Supply Chain Movement 22 – Logistics Outsourcing

Supply Chain Movement

Contents Supply Chain Movement 22 – 2016 Q3. Publishing date: 16 September 2016. 6 | News & Background. ‘It’s all about Customer Segmentation’. Winner of last quarter: Unilever. Loser of last quarter: Volkswagen. Unilever wants to improve its planning and differentiation. Strategic moves among logistics providers. 8 | Snapshots: Launch Supply Chain Executive Club. 12 | 3PL Subway Map.

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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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US Election Business Outlook: Retail Cause for Concern around Protectionism & Tariffs

Supply Chain 24/7

Tariffs and protectionism, like Brexit and any other manmade or natural disruption, are just another form of supply chain risk that requires technology to connect partners and deliver complete supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Sept. 22, 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon Assault on the Apparel Market, Truckload and Intermodal Rates Continue to Fall, XPO Logistics Facing Multiple Union Drives, Telsa Car Hacked on Highway

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AstraZeneca selects LLamasoft as supply chain design partner of choice

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

LLamasoft, the supply chain design software and solutions provider, has announced that following a number of successful projects, AstraZeneca has selected LLamasoft's Supply Chain Guru and Data Guru as tools of choice for supply chain modelling.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on US Manufacturing Growth is Simply Fla

Supply Chain Digest

Almost No Change for Past Year, as Annual Growth has been Less than 1 Percent Since 2012

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ByBox unveils Metro campaign for London

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

International technology company, ByBox, is unveiling its latest solution to tackling demanding supply-chains, ByBox Metro.

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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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Supply Chain Software in the Cloud and Other Key Trends

Supply Chain Digest

Excellent New Report from SCDigest Covers Wide Range of Supply Chain Software Issues

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Takeaways from 2016 MercuryGate Dominate

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended MercuryGate’s annual user conference at the Royal Sonesta in New Orleans, LA. The conference’s theme was “Dominate.” To do this, MercuryGate is striving to make their customers smarter, stronger, faster, and better, and the presentations that I attended all hit on this. Over the course of the last year, MercuryGate has released new products and made upgrades to existing products to make managing your transportation easier.

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Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Buzz

Enterra Insights

“[Artificial Intelligence] is hot,” writes Om Malik (@om), founder of GigaOm, “and every company worth its stock price is talking … Continued. The post Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the Buzz appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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What is “push” and “pull” distribution?” – Part 22

APICS

Despite the added control offered by DRP and centralized “push” channel planning, there are often occasions when distribution centers possess insufficient stock to fill the inventory needs of the distribution network. Such an event could occur because of the normal lag time in channel information and material flows or because of unplanned demand or supplier stock out.

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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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Retail Executives Fear Impact of Tariffs, Protectionism as Election Nears

Supply Chain 24/7

A wave of protectionism, anti-trade and anti-globalization sentiment continues to cross the globe, and as opposition to free trade grows, GT Nexus set out to determine the business impact on an industry that directly touches the wallets of consumers: retail.

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Manhattan Exchange EMEA 2016 to shine spotlight on delivering a fulfilling customer experience

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Manhattan Associates, Inc. has announced a powerful line-up of keynote speakers for its Exchange EMEA conference to take place October 5-6 at Hotel du Collectionneur in Paris, France.

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Managing Customs and PGAs - A Total Perspective for Importers

3rdwave

There is a complex relationship that exists between traditional full service customs brokers and their customers (the importer), and technology is beginning to dramatically impact this relationship.

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BEC secures one of its largest hardware deals in its company history with Malcolm Logistics

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

BEC (Systems Integration) Ltd has recently secured one of its largest hardware deals in its company history, thanks to a recent contract win with long-term business partner Malcolm Logistics, one of the UK's leading providers of logistics services.

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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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The Written Weird

Tailwind

I am working on writing a Press Release for our new upcoming application. It‘s a very confidential thing and we don’t want to leak it like some CIA document or emails from Presidential candidates. Refrain from writing things about it – or making innuendo that people can pounce upon. God forbid it ends up in some blog. The mitigating element about that though is no one actually reads these ‘blah, blah’, blogs anymore.

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The Impact of the Open Compute Project in the Data Center Supply Chain

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Yu Chen, Pratik Gupta, Xiang Han, Lucerna Huayanay Velasco, Alex Kim, and Felipe Caro. In 2009, Facebook designed one of the world’s most energy efficient data centers, one that could handle unprecedented scale at the lowest possible cost. In 2011, Facebook shared its data center’s design with the public and launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) to create a movement in the hardware space that would bring about the same kind of creativity and collaboration we see in open source software.

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The Marketplace Model: A Proven Model for Success & Why the Shipping Industry Should Adopt It

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: Today's blog is a guest blog from our friend Max Lock , President and Founder of Fleet Logistics. In this blog, Max discusses everything you need to know about the marketplace model and why shippers should adopt it. The Marketplace Model: A Proven Model for Success & Why the Shipping Industry Should Adopt It. Marketplace, a means by which the exchange of goods and services takes place as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another , either directly or thro