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The Customer-Focused Supply Chain: Why an Omni-Channel Supply Chain Approach Keeps the Customer Happy

GlobalTranz

The role of the customer experience in growing your business cannot be overstated. Amazon and other retail giants have managed to create unique, customer-focused supply chains , ensuring customers have real-time status updates and options in case of returns. Meanwhile, managing customer-focused supply chains can be complicated, eroding profit margins.

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Gartner's Six Levels of Supply Chain Planning Autonomy

ToolsGroup

Source: Andrew Downard, Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, May 2017. Business is moving fast and there is so much new data now speeding through the pipes that Gartner says it’s not possible to plan a supply chain without some level of automation. So they now offer a scale (a maturity curve) to measure the level of automation in your supply chain planning.

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Gartner Announces the Top 25 Supply Chains

River Logic

The past decade has seen a sea change in the way supply chains are organized and instituted in the best companies. While most companies recognize the need to improve their supply chain infrastructure, the best ones realize that optimizing this portion of their business is one of the easiest and most effective ways to increase the bottom line. Here is a quick rundown on how the best companies that truly “get” the message properly manage their supply chains.

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Disruption and Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

The term “disruption” has been used so often over the past couple of decades many pundits are now calling for … Continued. The post Disruption and Supply Chain Management appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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Stopping Shipping Shenanigans – The Value of Good Reporting in Your TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

How well does your TMS drive process improvement and efficiency in transportation logistics? Any decent TMS solution helps shippers standardize workflows and automate things like rating, routing, tendering and carrier management functions. Yet, to really juice savings and operational efficiency using a TMS, a shipper has to be able to view and analyze the data a TMS collects.

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Six Technologies that Life Sciences Supply Chains Need for Success

Material Handling & Logistics

"For those companies who leverage the power of technologically advanced supply chains, there will be a clear competitive advantage that could ultimately prove the difference between surviving or prospering," said Bill Meahl, COO, DHL. read more.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of June 22, 2017

Supply Chain Digest

Drayage Drivers at Port of Los Angeles being Abuse, Chinese Manufacturers Cannott Buy Robots Fast Enough, Which US Regions Adding Most Manufacturing Jobs, Drones and Weather Forecasts

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5 best B2B lead generation ideas for entrepreneurs

TradeGecko

B2B lead generation isn’t as easy as it first appears. It’s different enough from B2C lead generation that it can feel like you’re starting all over. We want to share five ways that we at Adficient generate B2B leads, but before we do let’s have a look at why they’re good.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for May 15, 2017 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Carl Betterton of The Citadeland and Jerry Rankin of Lima, OH Take Home the Prize with Great Captions

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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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Insights for Procuring a TMS in a Large Company

TMC

Investing in a transportation management system (TMS) can be more complicated for large organizations that have to reconcile the needs of multiple business units in different geographies. The business models and associated markets can vary widely as well; for example, if the company has grown through acquisitions. Enterprises that devote enough forethought and planning to the decision can resolve these differences and turn the process into a rich learning experience.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Wee on Will Long Stretch of Flat Truckload Rates in US End Soon

Supply Chain Digest

Rates Now Below Where They Were in 2015, but Strengthening Spot Market Could Augur Coming Hikes

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DynaSys Best Practices Webinars

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

DynaSys Webinars with the Experts Manufacturers of consumer goods deliver the right product, in good quantity, at the right cost, in the right place, at the right time.

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Insights for Procuring a TMS in a Large Company

TMC

Investing in a transportation management system (TMS) can be more complicated for large organizations that have to reconcile the needs of multiple business units in different geographies. The business models and associated markets can vary widely as well; for example, if the company has grown through acquisitions. Enterprises that devote enough forethought and planning to the decision can resolve these differences and turn the process into a rich learning experience.

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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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5 Must-Have Steps in Your Active Shooter Drill

AFFLINK

As active shooters in workplaces have become more and more common, it comes as no surprise that week 3 of the National Safety Month is focused on preparing for active shooters. While no one wants to believe an active shooter could come into his or her workplace, every healthcare facility still needs to create an active shooter drill in case of an emergency.

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Insights for Procuring a TMS in a Large Company

TMC

Investing in a transportation management system (TMS) can be more complicated for large organizations that have to reconcile the needs of multiple business units in different geographies. The business models and associated markets can vary widely as well; for example, if the company has grown through acquisitions. Enterprises that devote enough forethought and planning to the decision can resolve these differences and turn the process into a rich learning experience.

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ELD Mandate: Impact on Carriers and Shippers

Consumer Goods Logistics

The looming requirement on the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) by truck drivers took another interesting turn last week when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the ELD Mandate. The petition was brought by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the lobbying group for smaller truckers, who claim the mandate is unconstitutional and places an onerous financial burden on smaller truckers.

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State of the Logistics Union 2017

Supply Chain Digest

Logistics Costs as Percent of GDP Down Again in 2016, Falling in Relative and Absolute Terms

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Free Shipping is Costing More (As Small Packages Flood Delivery Networks)

Talking Logistics

Nothing in life is free — and this includes free shipping, which has become an albatross around the necks of most retailers and parcel carriers. Parcel shipping is the fastest-growing logistics sector. According to CSCMP’s Annual State of Logistics Report published this week, “while overall transportation costs fell 0.7 percent last year, spending on package delivery services jumped 10 percent [to $86.3 billion].

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The 5 R's of Reverse Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

UPS. When it comes to maintaining loyalty, helping customers ship products back to you can matter as much as getting the products to them in the first place. Check out this infographic and learn how smart logistics can generate a better bottom line. read more.

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Why Your Delivery Promise Matters

FLEXE

In May, we launched FLEXE Next-Day Fulfillment, our on-demand fulfillment solution that enables retailers to reach 98% of the U.S. with next-day ground delivery. As part of the launch, we created a calculator that surveys retailers on their current demand pattern and percentage of the market they can currently reach with next-day delivery. The output is a report that details how many fulfillment centers it would take to reach 98% of customers with faster, more affordable delivery.