Wed.Jan 10, 2018

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Your FMCG Supply Chain in 2018: 5 Problematic Predictions

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Chris Rea has finally found the correct turn off, a lot of people in Africa still don’t know its Christmas and the novelty Santa toilet seat cover is back in the box. Oh, and chocolate Easter eggs are in the shops 4 months in advance. Christmas and the New Year holidays are well and truly over, and the clock is already ticking down on the month of January.

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Modernizing Fulfillment Centers: Why Fulfillment & Distribution Centers Must Correspond With E-Commerce & Supply Chain Technology

GlobalTranz

Last year, online shoppers spent more time purchasing items through online retailers than any other channel, and the 2016 holiday shopping season broke most online and mobile records. According to Champaign Williams of BisNow, the spike in online shopping leads to a 10.7% increase in the leasing of industrial space, including warehousing space. On average, e-commerce sales are growing five-times faster than brick-and-mortar retail, but today’s fulfillment distribution centers face significant

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions for 2018? If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations that I first made in 2014 but still apply today: 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives. And if you didn’t stop doing these four things in 2017, you should definitely stop doing them this year: Supply Chain and Logistics Resolutions for 2017: 4 Things to STOP Doing This Year.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

A look at the supply chain trends and technology that will come into play in 2018. While predicting the future is never an easy task, in order to be competitive all businesses need to be able to accurately anticipate what trends will affect them in the coming year. Here is a look at how some companies in the supply chain sector are preparing themselves for the months to come.

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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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Transportation Management Systems (TMS) in the Food Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

JP Wiggins, Co-Founder & Vice President of Logistics at 3Gtms addresses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What are some key factors or trends that are making transportation management systems (TMS) more important than ever today for companies in the food industry? Why are many food companies still not using a TMS?

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What is Supply Chain Visibility?

C3 Solutions

This is an excerpt from C3's White Paper: " Supply chain visibility: Illuminating the path to responsive, agile operations " by Gregory Braun Senior, vice-president, C3 Solutions.

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Re-Imagining the Retail Supply Chain is all about Converging Technologies

Supply Chain Network

In the past we’ve tended to evaluate each new technology on its’ own merit as they emerged and then best determined how to implement them. By the very ubiquitous nature of the technologies now emerging, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of course the Blockchain it appears that a more holistic or converged approach is required in order for supply chain professionals to be successful.

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Supply chain trends and tech opportunities explored at Multimodal 2018

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The latest supply chain trends, the effects of disruptive new technologies in logistics, and developments arising from modal shift are just three of the topics to be explored at Multimodal 2018.

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Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Projections for 2018

Supply Chain 24/7

I get a kick reading “prediction” articles both prior to the year start and then again after the year is complete.when it comes to predicting the very dynamic supply chain management industry, those after year reviews can be quite amusing.

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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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Taking the Leap

BlueYonder

Dawn Heep may have grown up on a small farm in rural Michigan, but she’s a city girl at heart. She loves the vibrancy of an urban setting and being right in the middle of things. After living in Los Angeles and Seattle, she recently moved to Munich to take a role as CFO of JDA’s EMEA region. Having a native speaker in the household – her husband is a German citizen – has made the transition easier, but it’s probably safe to say that she would have taken the leap no matter what.

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'It Can’t Be True': Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

Supply Chain Brain

Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher Anders Fogh had posted a blog suggesting a possible way to hack into chips powering most of the world’s computers, and the friends spent part of the evening trying to make sense of it. The idea nagged at Prescher, so when he got home he fired up his desktop computer and set about putting the theory into practice.

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Join JDA at NRF and Learn Why the Future of Retail is Now

BlueYonder

What will the future of retail look like? What sets disruptive retailers apart from others? And how will your brand adapt to win in a fast-changing marketplace? Join JDA at NRF 2018, Retail’s Big Show , in New York City and you’ll find answers to those questions as well as inspiration to guide your brand’s digital transformation. Visit JDA at booth #2817 on the Javits Center expo floor from January 14-16 and see why the coming year will be both exciting and challenging for retailers, as rapid ch

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Jan. 11, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Fake Goods are the Bane of eCommerce, Cool New Tool to Track Chinese Textile Pollution, Direct Thermal Bar Code Label Prices Headed Higher, Chinese Company being Prosecuted for IP Theft

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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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Join JDA at NRF and Learn Why the Future of Retail is Now

BlueYonder

What will the future of retail look like? What sets disruptive retailers apart from others? And how will your brand adapt to win in a fast-changing marketplace? Join JDA at NRF 2018, Retail’s Big Show , in New York City and you’ll find answers to those questions as well as inspiration to guide your brand’s digital transformation. Visit JDA at booth #2817 on the Javits Center expo floor from January 14-16 and see why the coming year will be both exciting and challenging for retailers, as rapid ch

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Grocery Retail in 2018

RELEX Solutions

In 2017, the grocery industry experienced the convergence of online and offline channels. Simultaneously grocers increased speed-to-market, supply chain transparency and prioritized shopping experience over price. It’s fair to say the grocery sector experienced a rapid evolvement during the past year and retailers have not been late to look for new ways to keep up with the changes.

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The Importance of Packaging

ModusLink Corporation

Imagine your customer has been waiting for the delivery of a long-awaited product and it’s finally on their doorstep. They rush out to get it, only to notice that the package it shipped in is damaged and looks sloppy. Not a big deal, until they open it up and realize that the product packaging is […]. The post The Importance of Packaging appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Have Van Rates Hit Their Peak?

DAT Solutions

The national average van rate has soared in the new year, hitting a whopping $2.30/mile on January 6th. That's a new record high, breaking the one that was set just a week prior, and rates on a majority of the top 100 van lanes continued to climb last week. As expected, the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate has made trucks harder to find, while winter storms and truckers taking time off for New Year's Day made capacity even tighter last week.

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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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2018 Retail and Logistics Trends

FLEXE

<p>2017 was a big year for retail and logistics. This year, one thing is clear: businesses that want to survive the “Retail Apocalypse” must make changes to meet increasing customer demands. 2018 will be about improving strategies for eCommerce sales, fulfillment operations, and embracing the world of on-demand commerce.</p> <p>Get the white paper and find out what trends to keep in mind as you create your 2018 strategy.

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Reefer Freight Adjusts to Post-Holidays, Post-ELD

DAT Solutions

The demand for refrigerated trailers peaked at year-end, but the extra-cold weather in many parts of the country has kept prices at record-setting levels in many areas, since those trailers are being used to keep freight from freezing. Reefer capacity is still tight, as the industry continues to adjust to the ELD mandate. The combination of the new regulation, bad weather, high demand, and truckers taking time off around the New Year's holiday pushed the national load-to-truck ratio to 25.2 reef

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Taking the Leap

BlueYonder

Dawn Heep may have grown up on a small farm in rural Michigan, but she’s a city girl at heart. She loves the vibrancy of an urban setting and being right in the middle of things. After living in Los Angeles and Seattle, she recently moved to Munich to take a role as CFO of JDA’s EMEA region. Having a native speaker in the household – her husband is a German citizen – has made the transition easier, but it’s probably safe to say that she would have taken the leap no matter what.

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Supply Chain Collaboration Shouldn’t Be Complicated

Supply Chain 24/7

Your executives need data to make the right decisions, your workers need data to take the right actions, your trading partners need data to deliver the right inventory to the right place at the right time, and you can’t afford a single communications delay or disconnected data transmission.

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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.