Fri.Mar 17, 2017

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[Video] Keysight Technologies: Improving production planning efficiency

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow This blog is part of a video interview series. Check out the video below as well as links to other supply chain practitioner and Kinaxis executive interviews. Speed and accuracy are everything to a company, says Jenny Balderrama, production planner at Keysight Technologies. All too often, however, speed is associated with orders arriving rather the ability to meet them.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Who will wear the jersey this year? Last year I organized our first Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure cycling team (LL4T1DCure) to raise money for JDRF , the leading non-profit organization focused on T1D research. Thanks to the generous support of sponsors and many individual contributors, we raised over $43,000 for the cause! Check out the team website for photos and a recap of last year’s ride (we’ll be updating the site soon with this year’s team information).

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St. Patrick’s Day 2017

Enterra Insights

Retailers love holidays. Holidays provide a focal point for promotions and sales. St. Patrick’s Day is no different. Kristen Cloud … Continued. The post St. Patrick’s Day 2017 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How E2open’s Scalable DSR Platform Delivers a Competitive Advantage for CPG Companies

E2open

How E2open’s Scalable DSR Platform Delivers a Competitive Advantage for CPG Companies. alyssa. Friday 17 March 2017. Will Thomas, VP of Sales, E2open. In late 2016, E2open acquired Orchestro, a leading provider of demand signal repository (DSR) technology and preemptive analytics for retail and omnichannel fulfillment. Orchestro’s data, visibility and analytics solutions strategically complement E2open Demand Sensing and have enabled a truly demand-driven supply chain for many leading consumer g

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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 Talk: 4 Effective Strategies for Creating a Robust Scheduling Process

Arkieva

Creating a robust scheduling process that adheres to the overall S&OP plan is essential to reducing inventory costs and excess waste. In this week’s, Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh, outlines four effective strategies for creating a robust scheduling process. The goal with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is to ensure that tactical plans are efficient and effective.

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Are You Prepared to Take Advantage of Disruptive Technologies?

BlueYonder

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This quick roundup of industry news includes a look at some of the latest tech advancements such as Internet of Things (IOT), augmented reality (AR) technology, wearables, robots and more, and how these technologies have the potential to change the fortune of those companies that adopt them.

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Procurement Leaders Blog Post: Cross-Functional Teaming is Easier Said Then Done

NC State SCRC

Continuing my reporting of the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami, I sat in on a very interesting session that included three professionals from very different walks of life: Captain Harry Thetford – Defense Logistics Agency. Robin Shahani – CPO, TD Ameritreade. Cynthia Dautrich, CPO from Kimberly Clark. Each of these individuals had an excellent perspective on what cross-functional teaming really means.

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Are You Prepared to Take Advantage of Disruptive Technologies?

BlueYonder

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This quick roundup of industry news includes a look at some of the latest tech advancements such as Internet of Things (IOT), augmented reality (AR) technology, wearables, robots and more, and how these technologies have the potential to change the fortune of those companies that adopt them.

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SXSW: An Unconventional Place to Find the Future of Supply Chain

CH Robinson Transportfolio

SXSW: An Unconventional Place to Find the Future of Supply Chain | Transportfolio. Austin, Texas. Home to the University of Texas. A place they like to keep weird. And the host city for South by Southwest (SXSW). Revered as the greatest place to discover the next big innovation, it welcomes thousands of people with common goals: share ideas; pitch their innovation; seek insights and learn the latest in content, products, and technology.

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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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Freight Driver Shortage Update: Will 2017 Come to a Head & Cause Issues for Shippers?

GlobalTranz

Growing woes over a forthcoming capacity crunch are not going away anytime soon. But, the capacity crunch may have a major impact on the freight driver shortage and vice versa. In a sense, fewer drivers mean that capacity will grow tighter. Yet, as capacity shrinks, the incentive for drivers increases. As 2017 moves forward, it may be a year that the driver shortage comes to a head, but it might not be as dismal as some shippers have been led to believe.

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Raising the Bar of Trade Compliance: Function, Process, and Usability

3rdwave

Today, there is every reason that software should be designed with the user in mind. It must deliver the functionality needed to support the work it is designed for – that's table stakes.

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Say it Ain’t So Marc! Say it Ain’t So!

Tailwind

It was a busy Friday afternoon. Our SaaS business is taking off. And with a number of my sales staff taking off on Spring Break with their families, I was working deep, deep in the engine of the business – working the phones, taking calls, following up on leads, reaching out to customers of our new online trucking software , thanking them for their business.

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Guest Post by Mike Challman: How to Measure & Improve Freight Management Performance: 6 Critical Key Performance Indicators

NC State SCRC

This week I’m adding a guest post from Mike Challman, VP, North American Operations for CLX Logistics. Supply chain management is defined as the active streamlining of a business’ supply-side activities to maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace [1]. Yet, as supply chain industry professionals can attest, there’s a plethora of strategies you can employ to maximize value and efficiency.

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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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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Tailwind

May the Road Rise Before You. May all your Traffic Lights be Green. May all your Loads Make your even more ‘Green’! . Happy St. Patrick’s Day. From Your Friends. at. Tailwind Transportation Software. The post Happy St. Patrick’s Day appeared first on Tailwind Transportation Software.