Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Black Friday Logistics: Brought To You By Ocean Freight. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. @zschreiber. What’s working for ocean freight (and what isn’t). Ocean freight has had a complicated year so far. Beyond speed, one of air freight’s primary advantages over ocean has always been reliability. But improved data forecasting and more predictable supply chains have become a boon for ocean freight, leading to an increase in ocean shipments at the expense of their more expensiv

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For a long time, C-level executives viewed supply chain management, especially the logistics function, as a cost center. As a result, cutting and controlling costs became the top priority for supply chain executives. Today, however, cost management is a given — it’s what every supply chain executive is expected to do. Therefore, how do you differentiate and make a larger impact on the organization?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

“Globalization’s opponents in the emerging markets and developing countries have been joined by tens of millions in the advanced countries,” … Continued. The post Globalization Still Needed to Bring Millions out of Poverty appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Climbing the Ladder of Analytics Value. Amid the general buzz in the supply chain planning field regarding optimization solutions and algorithmic planning, a diagram of value vs. difficulty lays out four stages of analytics by their difficulty and potential value. In the quest to do more with less, drive costs out of the supply chain, and provide higher levels of customer service, optimization and algorithmic planning are subject to a company’s analytics abilities and level of sophisticati

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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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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As 2016 draws to a close, it’s clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry. Considering that the industry has largely concentrated on becoming cost-effective rather than lean, this means manufacturers must be prepared for change. It became apparent at J DA FocusConnect 2016 that industry heavyweights, including Stanley Black & Decker, Philips and Nestlé Purina, are ready for battle.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Currency in India: Current State of Disruption, Confusion, and Economic Slowdown.Transportfolio. Two of India’s major currency denominations have been withdrawn since November 8. As of midnight that day, the India Rupee (INR) 500 and INR 1000—which constitute 86% of the currency in circulation in India —are no longer legal tender. This drove individuals to get the same exchanged or deposited back into the bank.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Case Europris: Leadership and Technology – A Supply Chain Transformation journey. Insights » Case Studies. Introduction. Europris is Norway’s largest discount variety retailer. Its low-cost model relies on optimized sourcing, logistics and distribution. Europris offers competitively-priced private-label and brand-name merchandise across 12 product categories including home, DIY and gardening.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Cutting costs and maximizing value are hallmarks of an efficient transportation management system (TMS) solution. Unfortunately, the modern era has given rise to dozens, if not hundreds, of lightning-fast systems, and many of them do improve efficiency. In fact, using a TMS solution decreases freight costs for more than 60 percent of companies surveyed, reports ARC Insights.

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Supply Chain Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Efulfillment is Upending Logistics, Making for Challenges but Exciting Times, Panelists Agree, though Some Companies Define the Problem too Narrowly

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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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Supply Chain 24/7

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Tokyo - An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck Tuesday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, a tsunami warning for waves of up to 10 feet has been issued.

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Supply Chain Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Interesting Activities from the Carriers and Fleets in the Annual List from Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine

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Consumer Goods Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Let’s say you’re a homeowner and you’re considering replacing all the windows in your house. They’re not the worst windows, but there are definitely gaps that allow heat to escape, and your energy bills to rise. You read up on the ROI of replacement windows and learn that you can recoup around 70% of the investment when you resell the home and the rest in yearly energy cost savings.

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Supply Chain Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As Always, Survey Respondents Receive Complimentary Gartner Research, a 300 to 500 Dollar Value

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Tailwind

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Tailwind company has launched a web-based trucking software and freight broker software, to further build on its enterprise-grade transportation management systems (TMS) for smaller companies. With a starting price of $69 a month and the first 30 days free, Tailwind says its all-in-one Trucking & Freight Broker Software is built to help small- to medium-size trucking companies and freight brokerages compete more effectively in a rapidly growing, increasingly competitive and regulated ind

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Supply Chain Digest

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Company Testing Technology in US and China to Improve Product Recall Process in Food

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Jay Wright Forrester was “an electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of things as specific as a corporation and as broad as global growth”, as the New York Times writes in an obituary. Forrester was a pioneer of systems dynamics, which “deals with how things change through time, which includes most of what most people find important”, as he once wro

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Bloomberg. With the blockchain, Wal-Mart will be able to obtain crucial data from a single receipt, including suppliers, details on how and where food was grown and who inspected it. The database extends information from the pallet to the individual package. read more.

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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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Freightera

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

On the morning of November 9, when the US Election results shocked and surprised almost everyone, I was at COP22, the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech. COP22 is the epicenter of negotiations on clean energy and climate change issues, the very concept that president-elect Donald Trump promised to completely remove from his agenda. Scientists, non government organizations, politicians and business leaders dedicated to staving off catastrophic climate change had serious reason to worry.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Bloomberg. With the blockchain, Wal-Mart will be able to obtain crucial data from a single receipt, including suppliers, details on how and where food was grown and who inspected it. The database extends information from the pallet to the individual package. read more.

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