Fri.Feb 24, 2017

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Supply chain risk management in 2017

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois Financial crisis. Check. Environmental catastrophes. Check. What’s next? Is this the year of political disruption? Working in supply chain is like starring in a Rocky movie. You keep getting knocked down and you have to keep getting back up. You don’t need to go back any further than a decade to understand the many challenges supply chains have endured over the years.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 20-24, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The kids had off from school this week, so we snuck off for a few days of skiing in VT. How was the skiing? Any ski day that doesn’t end with me in the hospital is a good ski day. Yesterday was 60 degrees at the mountain; spring-like skiing conditions in February, something I had never experienced before, but apparently the warmth brings out a different kind of crowd to the slopes, like the college girl who rushed passed me on the downhill wearing just a swimsuit.

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Shoes of Prey Presents Prescriptive Analytics at Retail Supply Chain Summit

River Logic

At this year's Annual Online Retail Supply Chain Summit, held in Melbourne, Australia, River Logic's customer Shoes of Prey gave a keynote entitled "Overcoming key supply chain challenges to meet customer fulfillment.

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Supply & Demand Chain Executive Names Three Chainalytics Experts 2017 Pros to Know

CHAINalytics

Atlanta, GA (February 24, 2017) – Chainalytics, a global leader in supply chain consulting, analytics and market intelligence, today announced that Kerry Rosenhagen, Steve Thirft and Jonathan Whitaker have been recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as 2017 Pros to Know, a listing of top supply and demand chain industry professionals.

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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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Supply Chain Talk: Do Numbers Tell the Full Story?

Arkieva

At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. Look again! There might be more to the story. Between 2009 and 2010 during the economic downturn, it was difficult to make sense of the unemployment numbers. The unadjusted unemployment rate in the US was at 9.8 percent, and it was trending down.

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On the Road to Driver-Less Cars

BlueYonder

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Here’s a quick roundup of some industry news, including a look at how automakers are investing in autonomous cars, the types of digital technologies being used to speed up production processes, and how carriers are adapting their business models as online shopping grows in popularity. .

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3 Ways Mobile Applications Can Help You Build a Smarter Warehouse

RFgen

Mobile apps can help warehouses run more efficiently. Take a look around your warehouse. Do employees quickly and efficiently move products from bins to trucks to be shipped to customers? Are you able to track and trace your products efficiently and accurately through your supply chain? Are managers able to make quick, accurate decisions about how best to maximize their employees’ job skill sets and responsibilities?

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How Your Organization Can Help Bridge the Gap in Supply Chain Talent

TMC

Creating a Pipeline of Future Logistics Experts through Internship Programs. Finding qualified young people who are motivated to pursue a career in logistics, and who have the aptitude and mindset to excel in this global profession, is one of the most pressing problems facing logistics today. Many solutions are being pursued, but one that should not be overlooked is offering an effective internship program.

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Supply Chain News on The Six Use Cases of Distributed Order Management

Supply Chain Digest

DOM is Perhaps the Most Interesting Supply Chain Related Software Application There is Right now and Increasingly One of the Most Important

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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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How Your Organization Can Help Bridge the Gap in Supply Chain Talent

TMC

Creating a Pipeline of Future Logistics Experts through Internship Programs. Finding qualified young people who are motivated to pursue a career in logistics, and who have the aptitude and mindset to excel in this global profession, is one of the most pressing problems facing logistics today. Many solutions are being pursued, but one that should not be overlooked is offering an effective internship program.

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RELEX Solutions to Join Panel Discussion at Retail Week Live 2017

RELEX Solutions

Achieving a seamless multi-channel retail experience for the customer is a key goal for all business leaders in the sector today. But, when it comes to multi-channel strategies, most retailers seem to struggle. On 8th March 2017, Andrew Blatherwick , Chairman, RELEX Solutions, will be taking part in the charting the path to multi-channel excellence panel discussion at Retail Week Live.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winner for Jan. 19, 2017 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Rich Rikers of Wilmington, DE Takes Home the Prize with Great Caption

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Which is the right weighing scale is right to weigh pallets?

Supply Chains Rock

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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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STEM Education and the Future of Work

Enterra Insights

The inevitable advance of automation and the maturation of artificial intelligence (AI) have many analysts predicting the human race will … Continued. The post STEM Education and the Future of Work appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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California's Weather Impacts Truckload Capacity

DAT Solutions

California's weather—good or bad—has a major impact on truckload capacity. California supplies nearly 50% of the nation’s produce. The central valley of California has been called "the nation's bread basket," as a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, nuts, rice and dairy products are shipped to all corners of North America. Mark Montague's recent blog post Top Ten Freight Markets for Contract and Spot Freight , revealed that the key market areas of Ontario and Fresno, California

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Your TMS Sucks! Here’s Why and What You Can DO About it

Supply Chain Collaborator

We hate to be the harbinger of bad news but we’re pretty sure your current TMS solution sucks and it is having negative ramifications for your entire organization. You’re probably saying to yourself, “I don’t feel like my TMS is horrible.” The truth though, is that you may not think so kindly of your solution once you’ve compared it to better options.

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A Very Omni-Channel Holiday Season

ModusLink Corporation

By most accounts, it was another successful holiday season for both physical and online retailers, as consumers spent 16 percent more on holiday purchases in 2016. While overall spending continued to rise, there was an interesting statistic showing up in the post-holiday season analysis that retailers of all sorts should pay attention to: “almost 70 […].

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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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Amazon Has Still to Conquer the Chinese Market

Supply Chain 24/7

Amazon has become near-synonymous with online shopping in the US, but it’s barely a blip in the Chinese market, and according to a recent report, Amazon’s China site holds less than 1% of the country’s $378 billion e-commerce business in terms of market share.

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Warts n’ All

Tailwind

“That just about does it”. My podiatrist had just scraped the last remnants of a big plantar wart that had somehow winnowed its way into the inner workings of the big toe on my left foot. It was a three month odyssey that put the ‘odd’ in odyssey. Five trips to the doctor and $200 later, I was able to get the stupid wart excised from my toe and put full pressure on my foot.

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Free Trade: Why U.S. Trade With Mexico and China Could Not Be More Different

GlobalTranz

Depending on who you ask, it’s either the best of times or the worst of times for global trade. Protectionists villainize trade as damaging to U.S. workers, while on the other side of the coin pure laissez-faire traders consider free trade as a pure positive for the United States. . Mexico and China frequently are labeled as scapegoats for U.S. manufacturing decline.

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