Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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Is the Coronavirus threatening your Supply Chain?

Prophetic Technology

The Chinese government confirmed on January 7, 2020 that they had identified a new virus “Coronavirus,” now called COVID-19. It proliferated across a vast region in China; nowadays, it is worldwide. Given that it is a viral disease and that there is an exponential factor, it has gone uncontrollable; antibiotics are NOT advised, and there is no vaccine found so far ; we are talking about months to get through it.

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How the COVID-19 Crisis Will Continue to Affect Retail Supply Chain Thinking

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. . Exaggerated remarks have been a theme over the last few years.

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3 Questions CPG Companies Need to Ask Their Logistics Provider Now

Zipline Logistics

The effects of COVID-19 have moved beyond the public health risk presented by the pandemic. Now, the outbreak is hitting businesses, taxing every sector of the United States’ economy in the process. . Even those organizations that have seen positive demand surges over the past few weeks are now exposed to new risks within their operations, supply chains, and distribution channels.?

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McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Businesses around the world are learning to adapt as best they can to the COVID-19 supply chain impact. Unpredictable consumer behavior in response to macro events creates demand volatility in every link of global supply chains. The number-one defense against this radical uncertainty is a resilient supply chain that’s ready for anything. McDonald’s Mesoamérica, like restaurant operations around the world, experienced a significant change in demand as the Coronavirus supply chain effects spread t

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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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Will COVID-19 Lead to More U.S. Manufacturing?

Talking Logistics

Will the COVID-19 crisis lead more companies to manufacture and source their products and materials from the United States instead of China and other countries? I’ve been getting asked that question a lot these days. Overall, I believe this pandemic will cause companies to reevaluate their supply chains in light of whatever reality we find. Read more Will COVID-19 Lead to More U.S.

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Marketing during Crisis and Recession, Part 1

Enterra Insights

With millions of people furloughed as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, brands understand consumer purchasing power has diminished dramatically. This drop in purchasing power begs the question: Why market? It’s a tougher question to answer than you might think. The current situation has doubled-over companies with a one-two punch of crisis plus recession.

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Singapore small business support through Covid-19

TradeGecko

Declining growth, rising uncertainty. Just two of the ways that COVID-19 is impacting supply chains and consumer demand the world over. For SMEs in Singapore, help’s at hand.

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Let Adexa Genie Plan Your Supply Chain

Adexa

I am, Genie, Adexa Intelligent Agent. I can autonomously perform dedicated functions in the supply chain and beyond. We are kind of like white collar robots. Each one of us is trained to perform certain tasks such as inventory monitoring, inventory planning and optimization, checking on suppliers or changes in customer behavior, checking on weather patterns where deliveries are to be made, monitoring the web traffic to see what products are popular, making sure that the equipment are being utili

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Eating big data for breakfast: A “Supply Chain Now” interview

Alloy

Since its start in 2017, Supply Chain Now Radio has become the leading channel for supply chain news and thought leadership. Alloy Regional Sales Director Tom Jones recently sat down with hosts Greg White and Scott W. Luton for an episode of its flagship “Supply Chain Now” podcast.

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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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COVID-19: Impact on Global Supply Chains

Bristlecone

COVID-19 has triggered widespread disruption on a scale that hasn’t been seen by most people alive today. No one saw it coming, and those who saw leading indicators by December 30, 2019 couldn’t have predicted a pandemic of this magnitude. This is a classic Black Swan. COVID-19 has caused catastrophic damage to the global economy. It has quickly disrupted all industries.

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Why IoT Is Key to a Seamless Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

As more people stay home and shop online, customer expectations for on-time delivery are higher than ever.

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Vertical integration expediates Waddington Europe’s turnaround for essential NHS PPE visor production

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

European thermoforming packaging company Waddington Europe has joined forces with longstanding customer and partner Ricoh 3D to help bolster the national manufacturing and supply chain effort to provide supplies of personal protective equipment for the NHS.

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Is Supply Chain central to the success of your business?

Prophetic Technology

No doubt Supply Chain ( SC ) is a significant determiner of competitive advantage; however, SC is the place where corporations frequently cope with primary incompetence, as it encompasses many processes from raw materials to deliveries on consumers’ hands.

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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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COVID-19: Five things Procurement Leaders need to be ready for post-pandemic

Proxima

Observations from EVP of North America – Dan Colling s, April 13th. The last few weeks have been extraordinary. Certainly, in living memory, there has not been an economic contraction as swift as the one we are seeing unfold. During this time, Procurement teams have played a critical role in helping businesses manage these extremely challenging conditions – in some cases, they have enabled businesses to meet vast levels of demand.

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WHITE PAPER: COVID-19: Impact on Global Supply Chains

Bristlecone

The coronavirus pandemic has redefined disruption. Nothing in recent history rivals what we’re experiencing today. The impact on consumers, companies and communities is unprecedented. Supply chains have been hit hard – their weaknesses exposed – and from dining rooms to board rooms to mainstream media, people are talking about the problems with current supply chain models.

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5G Promises Radical Overhaul for Supply Chains – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. 5G Promises Radical Overhaul for Supply Chains. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Social Distancing: Are the Costs of Shutting Down the Economy Worth It?

Logistics Viewpoints

Because of social distancing, and the requirement for most Americans to stay home, we will have far fewer deaths from COVID-19. But our economy is also now in recession. Are the benefits from lives saved worth the costs in terms of jobs lost and the economy shrinking? Cost-benefit models say this was the right tradeoff. The post Social Distancing: Are the Costs of Shutting Down the Economy Worth It?

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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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Emergency System Relief for Supply Chain Orchestration

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

As projected in a recent CNBC article, we’re currently facing a “ massive shuffling of supply chains globally after coronavirus shutdowns.” Due to major closures in China, Europe, and North America, companies find themselves in a difficult position: How will they deal with unparalleled uncertainties in demand, supply, inventory, and transport? In today’s coronavirus crisis, the companies that continue to thrive are those that can best leverage dynamic business networks.

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How to Build a Better Shipping Mousetrap With a SaaS TMS Functions

GlobalTranz

The value of retail shipping efficiency has never been more important. According to Entrepreneur.com, the value of worldwide e-commerce sales will grow 246% by 2021, amassing a financial gain of more than $3.2 trillion. In conjunction, demand for a better, more effective way to differentiate a business from its competitors will swell, and shippers continue.read More.

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Van freight volume and rates slide as economy stalls

DAT Solutions

"April is the cruelest month," said renowned poet T.S. Eliot, and those words resonate in this season of coronavirus-fueled woes. March was a good month for spot market providers, but April is looking bleak. This crisis is temporary, but we don't know how long it will last. For now, van spot freight volumes lost 20% in the past two weeks, and national average rates lost 8¢ per mile, to $1.78, reflecting declines all over the country.

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Supply Chain News on The Long Term Impact of the Coronavirus on Manufacturing

Supply Chain Digest

New Designs to Space Workers Out, more Robots Coming

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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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Now, a Different Kind of Epidemic: Force Majeure Claims

Supply Chain Brain

The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to supplier-buyer relations the world round, resulting in widescale invoking of the contract-breaking clause known as force majeure.

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Supply Chain News on Virus Crisis Likely to have Varying Impact on Demand for Distribution

Supply Chain Digest

Space for Food, eCommerce Remains Hot, but Overall Demand Likely to Fall Sharply, OnDemand Warehousing Seeing a Bump

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Tips to keep in mind when choosing an eLearning outsourcing partner

Procurement Academy

The Covid19 pandemic has taken the world by storm and has changed every dynamics in the corporate world. Many companies have gone online and remote working is now key for business continuity in this time of crisis. Employers are struggling to ensure business growth in the wake of the ongoing health and economic crisis. One… The post Tips to keep in mind when choosing an eLearning outsourcing partner appeared first on Procurement Academy.

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Merging Technology with Employee Wellbeing to Reimagine the Future of Work

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has been a catalyst for change. As social distancing becomes the new normal, entire workforces have needed to connect as well as collaborate remotely. Throughout this sudden metamorphosis, two organizational components have played a critical role – technology and people. On one side of the coin, businesses have needed […].

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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A Letter from C3's President

C3 Solutions

A Letter from C3's President.

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Understanding Product Information Management

Vinculum

Companies that deal with their products on platforms like Excel relinquish a lot of time, quality data and productivity by opting to manage their product information in this way. Customers’ interactions with a brand vary from person to person, however, most of them would like to have a product’s complete and detailed information available during these interactions to make informed choices.

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Seeing your warehouse operations through military eyes

SnapFulfil

I say this because ‘COVID-19’ is without doubt the most fearsome enemy and foe we’ve faced in modern times!