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Dropshipping in Omnichannel: The Secret Sauce for Success

GlobalTranz

Dropshipping is one of the newest e-commerce shipping strategies and the application of dropshipping in omnichannel presents numerous opportunities for today’s shippers. Dropshipping effectively eliminates the burden of maintaining inventory and opens the door to less risk within an organization. Supply chain leaders, however, need to understand that dropshipping in omnichannel does come with challenges,read More.

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3 Times Social Media Upended the Food & Beverage Supply Chain

Kuebix

Social media has changed every industry and the supply chain hasn’t escaped unscathed. In fact, social media has been behind some of the biggest, and most well-publicized, disruptions in the supply chain over recent years. It’s a question of supply and demand. In the past, forecasters were able to rely on historical data to approximate […]. The post 3 Times Social Media Upended the Food & Beverage Supply Chain appeared first on Kuebix.

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How Trace.ai Enhances Supply Chain Visibility

Bristlecone

If you are a supplier catering to the food value chain, you know how difficult it is to deliver perishable goods to their ultimate destination in the right quality, quantity and condition, at the right time and place. And unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for goods to arrive at their destination damaged due to a deviation in temperature, or other mishap, during shipping.

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Three Good Arguments for a Flexible Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Flexibility and simplification are critical to keeping pace with technological advances in supply-chain management.

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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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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

The last few months have been nothing short of busy. In fact, we’ve been swamped. We partnered with GTX Corp, ParceLive, and a few others that will be announced soon, began working on case studies, aired our first webinar with major industry executives, graduated from the Plug and Play Spring 2019 Food and Beverage Accelerator Program, joined forces with the World Economic Forum to build the Blockchain Toolkit, and a lot more.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 10/18/2019 -10/24/2019

All Things Supply Chain

Wings teams up with FedEx for Drone delivery Wings, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has partnered up with FedEx Express to use drones instead of trucks for last…

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Automated Decision-Making in Supply Chain Planning

Vanguard Software

Can we trust AI-enabled automation to handle business decisions in highly complex supply chain environments?

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The Scariest Supply Chain Worries for Halloween 2019

Supply Chain Digest

From Troubles Across the Globe to the Impact of Robotics, Here are the Top Supply Chain Goblins

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 25, 2019)

Talking Logistics

As expected, Death Valley was hot and windy last Saturday. My Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure teammates and I set off on our bikes as the sun was rising, and when we crossed the finish line hours later, we did so with smiles on our faces. I’ll let these photos from the 102.7 mile ride. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 25, 2019).

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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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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for Sept. 11, 2019 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Stuart Smith and Michael Stark Take Home the Prize with a Great Captions

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This Week in Logistics News (October 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

As the old adage goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But what happens when that imitation comes from the person they are imitating? And what happens when that form of imitation is seen as copyright infringement on a band’s song? Well, in 1988, John Fogerty faced a very rare court case in which he was accused of plagiarizing himself. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Can I Build a Winning FMCG Route to Market Strategy on Limited Resources?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

I am in the middle of writing a blog series on Route to Market (RtM) success in emerging markets, with a specific focus on Africa. I have been receiving some excellent feedback throughout (many thanks!). One topic has come up several times and I will now address it in this blog.

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Debating the Purpose of Education

Enterra Insights

Two interesting articles were recently published focusing on the relationship between education and work. In the first article, Brandon Busteed ( @brandonbusteed ), President of Kaplan University Partners, argues that education needs to be more closely aligned to the working world. He writes, “School currently focuses too exclusively on knowledge and not enough on skills.”[1] In the other article, Caitlin Zaloom ( @caitlinzaloom ), an Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analys

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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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Protected: PINC YMS Demo. Welcome.

PINC

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: PINC YMS Demo. Welcome. appeared first on PINC.

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Using UGC on Your eCommerce Store’s Social Media + 3 Examples

TradeGecko

Guest post by G2 Making use of user-generated content (UGC) for your store makes sense. After all, your paying customers are providing you with free content. As with everything, there’s a right way to do it and there are obvious mistakes to avoid. You’ve put hard work into your eCommerce store and your products, so let’s make sure that you’re sharing your customers’ content the right way.

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Collaboration Heroes: Axway Ireland takes part in Volunteer Day

Axway

Back in July, our Collaboration Heroes at Axway Ireland took part in a volunteering day to support our community and to help paint and refurbish a prefab for the Aisling project.

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Understanding More About Cycle Time

Unleashed

Understanding cycle time is critical when you have a manufacturing or production component in your business. If you’re managing inventory stock and you have goods coming off the production line, cycle times will play an important role in your production schedule and inventory reporting. What is cycle time? A cycle time is the amount of time it takes to finish a task from beginning to end.

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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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Aborn Viewpoint on Old Dominion revenue drop

Freight Plus

Aborn experts weigh in on the recent news that Old Dominion's revenue dropped for the first time in three years.

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FLEXE Hub: Retail & logistics in the next 20 years

FLEXE

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

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