Fri.Mar 13, 2020

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How Do We Hasten Supply-Chain Digitization?

Supply Chain Brain

Digitizing the supply chain has huge implications for companies that step forward, and for businesses throughout the world.

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Hybrid Jobs Require Hybrid Skills

Enterra Insights

Most of us have heard the ballad about the legendary John Henry — a powerful African American who worked on the railroad driving holes into rock so dynamite could be inserted allowing railways to blast through mountains. The ballad recalls a race between John Henry and a steam-powered rock drilling machine, a race Henry won only to die of a heart attack with the hammer still in his hand.

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What Is an Inventory Management System & Its Role in Omnichannel Fulfillment?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain leaders often interchangeably refer to both a warehouse management system and an inventory management system as one and the same. However, systems used to manage inventory refer to the combination of technology, including hardware and software, for the following: Product identification Product matching to orders Data analysis Product labeling and management Documentation Reporting The use.read More.

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Covid-19 (Coronavirus): Where do we go from here?

Logility

Everyone is working hard to figure out how to stay safe, what is going on, how to minimize the impact to our personal lives and the companies we work for, and to plan for the future. Over the last few weeks, I have spoken with several of our customers as well as industry analysts from ChainLink Research, Gartner and IDC to gain some additional perspective on how the supply chain is coping with this quickly escalating risk.

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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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When crisis hits: Use real-time visibility to continuously optimize supply

Alloy

Black Swan events are by their nature, impossible to predict, and thus horribly difficult and expensive to defend against. To credibly prepare against every possible scenario, you would need to take a very wide range of precautions. Unfortunately, these “rare occurrences” also seem to be happening with greater frequency, and their impacts much more far-reaching.

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Panic Buying Causes Stockouts and Scarcity

Vanguard Software

There is one industry that seems to be thriving as the novel virus COVID-19, nicknamed coronavirus, spreads across the world, and that is the hygiene industry.

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Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course for Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement – How to Enable Spend Aggregation! . The theory is simple! If you can increase spend levels through centralized spend aggregation across entities then you increase your leverage in negotiations. This leverage should translate to lower costs and better terms and conditions.

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Coronavirus Update: Pandemic’s Effect on the US Logistics Market

Zipline Logistics

The full effect of the coronavirus has not hit the United States; however, the virus is already making waves throughout the country. . Since its arrival, it has created widespread uncertainty throughout virtually all sectors of the domestic economy. . Many industries are p reparing for significant disruption as the World Health Organization has declared the virus to be a pandemic. .

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SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution Certification Awarded to Bristlecone for AribaRDS

Bristlecone

AribaRDS Jump-Starts SAP Ariba Deployments to Accelerate Time-to-Value. SAN JOSE, Calif. – MARCH 14, 2020 – Bristlecone , the trusted partner in supply chain transformation, is pleased to announce that its AribaRDS solution is now an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba. AribaRDS is the latest in Bristlecone’s portfolio of accelerator solutions for SAP platforms to receive this certification.

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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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This Week in Logistics (Coronavirus) News (March 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Coronavirus is certainly making an impact on the world, and more cases continue to pop up in the US every day. Over the past few days, the NBA, NHL, and MLS have suspended their seasons, MLB is postponing spring training and the start of the season, the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments have been canceled, the BAA has postponed the Boston marathon until September, most conferences have been canceled or postponed, multiple states have […].

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Bristlecone AribaRDS is Certified as an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba

Bristlecone

Transform Global Sourcing in Just Six Weeks with Bristlecone AribaRDS. With Bristlecone AribaRDS (Rapid Deployment Solution), mid-market businesses can transform global sourcing, gain visibility, reduce cycle times and start achieving procurement savings with SAP Ariba Sourcing in as little as six weeks with minimal downtime. AribaRDS is available in two fixed-price, fixed-scope deployment packages.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 13, 2020)

Talking Logistics

It’s only March, but we already have a winner for “Word of the Year” for 2020: canceled. Last Friday I wrote about industry conferences getting canceled due to the novel coronavirus, but in just the past few days, almost everything has been canceled or suspended this month: schools, concerts, sports, religious services, and the list. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 13, 2020).

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COVID-19: The Springboard Community’s Response

Resilinc

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on What Actions are Companies Taking to Prepare for Digital Supply Chains

Supply Chain Digest

Big Changes Coming to Suppy Chain Tech over Next Few Years

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Aspiration Life part one: Why we chose Unleashed for our new distribution business

Unleashed

Starting a new venture is an exciting, hectic time. A time when getting the right systems in place can be the difference between soaring and struggling. So when Tim Wright bought Unleashed for his new medical equipment venture, Aspiration Life, we asked him to blog on his experiences. Here’s part one, on how setting up Aspiration Life for its March launch has gone — and why Tim decided to get inventory right from day zero.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 03/06/20 – 03/12/20

All Things Supply Chain

U.S. travel ban is expected to snarl trans-Atlantic airfreight The U.S.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 13, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Toilet Paper Supply Chain Breaks.Truckload Rates Heading Down, Down. Massive Shipments of Empty Containers to West Coast Ports.

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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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MODEX 2020, What would You have Done

Supply Chain Digest

MHI Says Show Must Go On, but it was More of a Half Show for Exhibitors

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