Kinaxis
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
by Dr. Madhav Durbha I love talking to customers and prospects! Each of these interactions provide me with an opportunity to meet someone new, learn about their business, their challenges, dreams, and aspirations. The topic that often comes up in these conversations is Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). While S&OP as a discipline has been around for over two decades, it has been generating great interest recently.
Enterra Insights
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Pundits toss around a lot of names for times in which we live — the Computer Age, the Information Age, … Continued. The post Digital Supply Chains Can Make the World Less Frightening appeared first on Enterra Solutions.
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River Logic
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Optimization and Operations Research have been around for the past 60-70 years, with their origin in World War II. However, in the past optimization has always been in the realm of specialist knowledge with a niche focus. It is only in the past few years that it has taken up a new avatar in the form of Prescriptive Analytics and started being taken seriously as a business user tool.
MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
An area where the Internet of Things (IoT) can live up its hype is the post-sales or service supply chain. Sensors and product log files can be used to track and analyze the performance of installed products ranging from computer equipment and storage devices to production machinery. IoT-enabled product monitoring provides much greater precision and […].
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.
RFgen
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Understanding shifting consumer preferences is critical to success in the food supply chain. Grocery stores are seen as a regular staple of life, a retailer visited more frequently than most others by a wide variety of consumers spanning many age groups, income levels and other demographics. However, recent market trends, frequently tied to the emergence of millennials as independent consumers, indicate that many aspects of supermarket operations need to change to create more effective, value-ge
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RFgen
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Understanding shifting consumer preferences is critical to success in the food supply chain. Grocery stores are seen as a regular staple of life, a retailer visited more frequently than most others by a wide variety of consumers spanning many age groups, income levels and other demographics. However, recent market trends, frequently tied to the emergence of millennials as independent consumers, indicate that many aspects of supermarket operations need to change to create more effective, value-ge
Material Handling & Logistics
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Bloomberg. Despite efforts by companies including Apple and GM, experts say illegal gold slips through the system. read more.
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
What are some of the factors that are driving the need for innovation in transportation management systems (TMS)? “It’s all about customer satisfaction,” said Mike Dieter, Chief Technology Officer at Transplace in a recent episode of Talking Logistics. “Making sure, for example, that a truckload of sugar gets to the factory on time…We have to satisfy our customers and they have to satisfy their customers, and a transportation management system (TMS) is at the heart of accomplishing that go
GlobalTranz
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Supply chain leaders are enthralled with the idea of using big data, but they tend to fail to understand how to disseminate big data in their organization properly. True, they may know how to roll out big data in a single warehouse, or they may have heard their competitors used branded systems for implementing this new technology. However, the fundamental problem remains.
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APICS
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
In my previous blog I introduced the perpetual problem plaguing most businesses in their efforts to integrate the sales forecast and production scheduling. The root of the problem was identified as residing in the discontinuity of many of the basic functions performed by demand and supply management.
ModusLink Corporation
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Implementing ACI Red SHIELD® Anyone active in the E-commerce or payment industries can tell you fraud is constantly on the prowl. Just when your company has taken care of one possible occurrence of fraud, the next one pops up. Fraudsters never seem to sleep – and they are constantly evolving their approach. Is this challenging […]. The post Minimize Risks, Prevent Fraud appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.
Supply Chain 24/7
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Oracle and SAP have long dominated the enterprise software space, but a significant investment by Koch Equity Development in Infor will have them looking over their shoulders.
Marianne Hudson
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Regarding valuations, Berkus says the odds of using financials to predict a startups success are low, because, as he adds, “There is a universal truth: fewer than one in a thousand start-ups meet or exceed their projected revenues in the periods planned.” Therefore, angels need to be flexible.
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Supply Chain 24/7
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
HR and talent management professionals can make a positive contribution to their workplaces by rooting out and minimizing the unconscious biases that can undermine diversity efforts and recruiting and retention programs.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Countdown to Black Friday: Shoppers are Ready. Are You? Transportfolio. There has been talk among retail analysts that Black Friday crowds aren’t arriving in the same massive, frenzied fashion they once did, and sales numbers aren’t tallying up to the record-breaking amounts of years past. It makes sense: what was once a single, concentrated day of bargains on Black Friday now competes with Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, and a myriad of sales and specials that run throughout the holiday shopping
PINC
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
We are delighted to share with you our new and revised solution brief. PINC’s yard management solution provides insight, value, and scalability that adapts to your operational needs. It easily scales from a single location to enterprise wide. Learn how our customers achieve, on average, 30% overall operational savings and 6-9 months payback.
Supply Chain Collaborator
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Wherever you stand on the results of the recent Presidential election, one thing is absolutely clear – there are likely to be many changes holding great potential to affect your transportation management strategies in unpredictable ways. Are you confident your current program’s processes and practices are flexible and dynamic enough to handle whatever may come?
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