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Did the Grinch Use Supply Chain Technologies?

Talking Logistics

This past weekend I was trying to get into the holiday spirit and caught the original animated 1966 version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” on television. While watching the show I was impressed by how the Grinch’s heart grows double in size with the joy the people from Whoville feel on Christmas morning. On. Read more Did the Grinch Use Supply Chain Technologies?

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How to Build a Brigade of Supply Chain Talent

Logility

Supply chain is a dynamic field that demands top talent across a wide breadth of disciplines. Currently, for every three candidates found, eight jobs go unfulfilled, (see Supply & Demand Chain Executive , Training or Development ). It is projected that by 2020 the number of supply chain jobs will grow 26 percent. Thankfully, the supply chain is quickly gaining momentum at the university level around the world.

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‘Tis the Season to Make Sense of Seasonal Demand with Machine Learning

Brookes Supply Chain Planning Blog

Demand forecasting augmented by machine learning helps you better meet customer expectations with reduced inventory investment.

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3 Challenges Facing Supply Chain in the Next 5 Years!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by Ralf Llanasas at heroicsearch.com. It can sometimes feel as though our commercial landscape is in a constant state of flux. Whether due to frequent changes in technology, attitudes of consumers, or shifts in working practices, this can breed both an exciting sense of competition, as well as uncertainty.

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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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SAP and Oracle vs. The Best of Breeds: Lessons from the Supply Chain Planning Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Oracle and SAP are the two largest suppliers of enterprise applications are also leaders in the supply chain planning (SCP) market, but the leadership is being contested. Their arguements for why customers should choose their planning solution go beyond their applications functionality. Interestingly, over time most enterprise applications markets consolidate.

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Podcast: Richard Martin on the Success of Requis and Looking Ahead to 2020

Requis

On this episode of Supply Chain Next, Requis CEO Richard Martin talks with host Richard Donaldson about leading a successful startup, the Requis story, and what’s in store for 2020. Richard Martin is a 25+ year veteran of the tech industry, and has led several successful startups. He also has experience in supply chain from many of his roles throughout his career— he got his start in demand chain when he was working on hardware at Nortel.

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Three Reasons to Make the Move to Electronic Invoicing

Supply Chain Brain

With supply-chain processes becoming more automated, many organizations have a vision of digitizing the order-to-cash cycle.

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DELMIA Quintiq World Tour 2019 — Planning in a Disruptive World

DELMIA Quintiq

We’re living in a period of rapid change. Organizations are racing to deliver products, services and experiences at cheaper costs, faster speeds and simpler processes. Consumers are demanding for more sustainable products, less packaging and customized experiences. Every new demand brings a new challenge and potential disruption. In an increasingly digitalized world, how can you improve value chains to compete with other markets and meet the rising expectations of savvier customers?

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3 Easy Ways to Waste Money When Shipping Freight

Freight Center

Small businesses are no strangers to the fact that every dollar counts. Supply chains everywhere need to be aware of how to save money while still running smoothly. But logistics is a tricky industry and there are easy ways to waste money when shipping freight. We’ve put together the 3 most common ways to waste money when it comes to freight shipping and what your business can do to stay ahead of the game. 3.

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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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5 Best Practices For Drop Shipping Success

Convey

Forrester predicts online retail sales will double over the next five years, with a […]. The post 5 Best Practices For Drop Shipping Success appeared first on Convey.

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How to Boost WMS Productivity Right Now

GlobalTranz

There are countless ways to improve performance and reap higher profitability in your organization. Such measures include investing in a warehouse management system (WMS) and using labor management to improve WMS productivity. Unfortunately, the hype over peak season often overshadows the capabilities available within today’s systems, and some organizations that have recently invested in a.read More.

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The State of Supply Chain Visibility: Is the Industry Improving?

MercuryGate

The post The State of Supply Chain Visibility: Is the Industry Improving? appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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A Supply Chain Christmas Carol 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Ebenezer Gilmore Gets a Visit from the Ghosts of Supply Chains Past, Present and Future

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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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A Brief History of Digital Transformation

The Network Effect

The post A Brief History of Digital Transformation appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Worrisome Data from ISM on the Economy

Supply Chain Digest

Virtually Every Key Metric Showing Contraction

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Ivalua Cited as a ‘Leader’ in Source-to-Contract Technology by Independent Research Firm

ivalua

Report notes top customer reference scores for usability, implementation and ongoing support . Redwood City, CA – December 18, 2019 – Ivalua, a global leader in cloud Spend Management solutions , today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader by Forrester Research Inc. in “ The Forrester Wave™: Source-to-Contract Suites, Q4 2019.” Ivalua is now the only vendor positioned as a Leader in four separate reports — the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Gart

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Dip a Toe in TMS – Engage UltraShipTMS for “Expedite Only” Pilot

Supply Chain Collaborator

TMS Success Tip. Making the decision to engage a new TMS platform is a heavy lift requiring buy-in and sign-off from numerous internal stakeholders beyond the logistics department (Legal, Procurement, IT, C-suite, etc.). Learn How to: Avoid the struggle of gaining capital approval for a full-blown TMS implementation. Instead, consider dipping a toe into the water by starting with an “expedite only” pilot program to automate ONLY your expedited/spot market freight movements.

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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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The Trends which Shaped 2019

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In an age of disruption, the business landscape has changed forever. The rise of new technologies has led to a new digital ecosystem, but it is an exciting time to venture beyond the digital frontier. Technological advancements, like machine learning (ML), the cloud, analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed businesses and industries […].

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How APIs helped this bank rapidly increase new accounts in three years

Axway

PermataBank , one of Indonesia’s leading banks, needed to meet the growing demands of its customers’ expectations with better tech solutions. Enter APIs !

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How to Adapt to Current Workforce Trends

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There has been a great deal of discussion surrounding the supposedly differing attitudes to work found in each generation. What is sometimes forgotten is that people and generations age – and each ‘latest generation’ is succeeded by the next demographic cohort as workforce trends shift. Baby boomers (many of whom are now retired, or approaching retirement […].

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KANE’s Best-Read Blogs of 2019

Consumer Goods Logistics

Each month we write several articles on some aspect of logistics management. It’s always interesting to look back at the end of the year and see which ones had the highest readership. This year, a cost-saving blog topped the list (no surprise), but it was followed by two blogs focused on talent recruitment, illustrating what a key challenge this is for logistics organizations.

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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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Top Kanban Logistics Posts of 2019

Kanban Logistics

Kanban’s blog covers a wide range of topics. So, it’s always interesting to see the ones that resonated most with our readers. In this post, we’ll look back at our best-read blog posts of 2019. 7 ways 3PLs can reduce your logistics costs. If you’re considering partnering with a third-party logistics (3PL) company for your logistics operations, you may have trepidation related to the price tag.

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E-marketplace: Choosing Custom Solutions for Building Your Brand

ProcurePort

People gathering to buy and sell goods was the very foundation of the first cities and civilization as we know it today. However, going to the marketplace was a logistic endeavor. It meant leaving the area of production and traveling distances. Nowadays, people don’t have to leave the production or the comfort of their homes. […]. The post E-marketplace: Choosing Custom Solutions for Building Your Brand appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Shipping Household Goods Overseas, Duty-Free

I.C.E. Transport

If you’re moving overseas, you already have a ton on your mind—packing up your household, arranging transportation, maybe nailing down details about a job, or where you’ll live—and on and on. So you’ll be glad to know there’s at least one thing you won’t have to do when you move: pay duties on your personal effects. At least, not if you follow the rules and present all the necessary documents.

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Next-Gen Pricing, Next-Level Profits [Video]

BlueYonder

While past pricing solutions were focused on execution, today’s next-generation pricing solutions from JDA are more strategic in nature — considering both internal constraints and external factors, such as weather, that can affect demand. Discover how you can leverage these next-gen solutions to take your financial results to the next level in this video with Cary Thelan and Nicole Phillips.

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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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The 3 Biggest Business Challenges of Digital Transformation

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Jamie Hinton, CEO at Razor Ltd The world has gone digital, there’s no denying this. Everyone has a smartphone these days, and they use them for everything, from making decisions to finding brands to buy from or learn more about a product or service.

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RFgen Recognized as a Top Software and Technology Provider by Food Logistics Magazine

RFgen

RFgen has been named one of Food Logistics’ top 100 Software and Technology Providers for 2019, recognizing its unique contribution to ensuring safe, efficient and reliable food and beverage supply chains worldwide. The award, along with a detailed profile, will be broadcast to Food Logistics’ 24,000 print subscribers in its November/December issue of the magazine.

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What to watch out for in e-commerce in 2020: Key trends for the next 12 months according to Arno Ham, CTO at Sana Commerce

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The B2B e-commerce sector is forecast to hit a whopping £5.2 billion by 2020, reports find. This ever-changing market has led many businesses to trade in their traditional ways of operating in exchange for innovative online methods in order to maintain their competitive edge.