Fri.Aug 16, 2019

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The Official Planning System of Record, Differentiation, and Innovation

Vanguard Software

Supply chain performance relies on forward-thinking SCP and business forecasting, a coveted place where executives can solve for future problems – today.

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What is the Future of eCommerce in Asia?

TradeGecko

APAC. The place where six in ten people call home. And the region of choice for many retail businesses looking to expand into new markets.

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ICE Raids Should Be Employers’ Wake-Up Call

Material Handling & Logistics

The current crackdown is only an extension of what the agency has been doing for quite a while.

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As Retailers Eye Final Mile Strategies, They Launch BOPIS to Neutralize Costs

GlobalTranz

Many retailers have implemented buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) strategies without realizing it. Although the name invokes the fears of coding and advanced systems, it refers to the process of buying a product online and picking it up in the store, i.e., BOPIS. This concept gives supply chains a non-traditional means of fulfilling.read More. The post As Retailers Eye Final Mile Strategies, They Launch BOPIS to Neutralize Costs appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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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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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 16, 2019)

Talking Logistics

“Papi, why don’t you have a six pack,” my oldest daughter asked me last week while we were on vacation. I had just returned from a 72-mile bike ride and had taken my jersey off. “What do you mean?” I replied. “Well, you cycle so much, for so many hours, I’m just wondering why you. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 16, 2019).

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5 Ways Ecommerce Stores Can Earn the Loyalty of Generation Z Shoppers

ShipBob

Generation Z consists of people born from the mid-90s to mid-2000s, meaning that over the last few years the generation has been leaving college and entering the workforce. They are the first generation to have grown up in a world of smartphones, internet and online shopping. As a result, they have greater expectations from ecommerce stores when it comes to communication, customer experience and business values.

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Let’s Talk About Delivery In Full and On Time

Unleashed

If you’re involved in the manufacturing or distribution business, you’ll know how important it is to deliver to your customers on time. When a product lands into a customer’s hands on time, this leads to greater customer satisfaction. On the other hand, if a product is late, a customer can become disgruntled and brand loyalty can diminish. When it comes to late delivery, a fundamental reason why products are late is because of poor supplier performance.

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Time for Supply Chain Ecosystem Resource Planning

Supply Chain Digest

Guest First Thoughts Columnist Rich Sherman Says Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies are Turning Up the Heat

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The Sensory Pleasures of Food

Enterra Insights

More often than not, discussions about food focus on how things taste. A lot of people use the terms “taste” and “flavor” interchangeably — and that is unlikely to change; however, tastes have a biologic basis. The current scientific inquiry is into whether humans have the ability to identify five or six specific categories of taste. Scientists first believed there were only four tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, and salty.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on an Interesting Look at Truckload Capacity

Supply Chain Digest

Capacity has been Heading Up in 2018, Meaning Carriers are Somehow Finding Drivers

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How to spot good loads in bad markets

DAT Solutions

I have been a spot market pirate for almost nine years. As a pirate, you want to get in and get the good stuff. This means I use lots of tools to know where the most demand is for the trailer I pull.

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7 Back-to-School Safety Tips for Truck Drivers

Kuebix

Schools will be back in session in a few short weeks, and for some, classes have already started! As kids cram an array of notebooks into their backpacks and parents rush to assemble lunches so their kids are ready to hop on the bus, it’s important to remember that this change in season has a […]. The post 7 Back-to-School Safety Tips for Truck Drivers appeared first on Kuebix.

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Revenues retreat for freight brokers in Q2 compared to 2018

DAT Solutions

During the second quarter of 2019, freight brokers enjoyed their highest margins in two years. That extra margin helped offset a decline in load counts and revenues, compared to Q2 2018.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Dynamic Pricing Strategy: The Good and the Bad

Unleashed

Product pricing strategy is a crucial aspect of a business that directly affects inventory, sales and profitability. If a business sets prices too high, customers might choose to buy your competitors products, while low prices may lead to other implications including less revenue. A dynamic pricing strategy is a type of price discrimination that tries to find the optimum price point at any time.

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Enterprise AI Offers Solutions to Steel Industry Disruption

Supply Chain Brain

With advances in technology driven by artificial intelligence and the creation of data lakes, organizations are coming to recognize their value to industrial production.

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UPS Drops Holiday Residential Surcharges

Intelligent Audit

UPS has announced what can be seen as a monumental change to their holiday pricing: No residential surcharges will be applied during the 2019 holiday shopping season. (except when contractually required). In the press release accompanying the announcement, UPS Chairman and CEO David Abney stated: “This announcement enables UPS customers to plan now for a great holiday shopping season and to satisfy their customers by utilizing UPS’s industry-leading on-time delivery service, once again this year

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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing – the Power and the Risk Mitigation- Part 1

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As a Chief Financial Officer specializing in manufacturing, I enjoy working to mitigate a wide variety of risks. Mitigating risk is a data-driven exercise, which is the kind of exercise I enjoy, especially when my efforts are augmented (along with my eyestrain), by increasingly intelligent AI machines empowered with cognitive technologies. The key, of course, is data, the […].

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Tidbit from Russ Aborn - The Sunset of the ICC

Freight Plus

Part 1 of what caused the demise of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Here is a partial list of carriers that have shut down operations but were going strong in 1980, which was the start of the “sunsetting” of the ICC. APA Transport. St. Johnsbury. McLean. Consolidated Freightways. East Texas Motor Freight. TIME-DC. Associated. Nelson. Holmes. Sanborn.

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Santos Australia Surplus Inventory Auction August 26 – August 29

Requis

Santos is one of Australia’s largest natural gas producers, and Requis is proud to host an auction of their surplus and used assets. Over 3,000 individual assets are up for bidding – over 300,000 kg – including OCTG, over 13,000m of assorted cable, completion and drilling tools, subsea and wellhead equipment, seals and gaskets, and miscellaneous hardware.

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Tidbit from Russ Aborn - The Sunset of the ICC

Freight Plus

In part one of the "sunsetting" on the Interstate Commerce Commission, Russ explains the modus operandi of the ICC prior to 1980.

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FLEXE Hub: Does sustainability sell?

FLEXE

A roundup of the latest news on logistics, retail, and industry trends

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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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This Week in Logistics News (August 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

Sustainability is an initiative that thankfully more companies are taking on. One area of concern for a lot of people is around single-use coffee pods. These pods are one of the best (or worst) examples of unnecessary single-use plastics that are polluting our planet. Coffee pods can wind up in rivers where they wash into lakes and oceans. Over time, the plastic breaks down into smaller pieces that choke and kill wildlife.

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