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Supporting Supply Chain Agility: Simple Concepts, Complex Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain control towers have come of age. The concepts that allow modern control towers to support agility are easy to describe. The technology that empowers these concepts are quite complex. The post Supporting Supply Chain Agility: Simple Concepts, Complex Technology appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Tips for Transporting & Disposing Medical Waste

GlobalTranz

Medical waste is a growing issue for many hospitals and medical waste producers, which may sometimes struggle to keep up with sudden growth in produced medical waste. The combination of regulations that organizations need to follow — along with the increased volume of waste — make efficient and cost-effective disposal a challenge. Fortunately, there are.read More.

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Resilience Post COVID-19: Planning to Win the ‘New Normal’

BlueYonder

This blog was co-authored by George Fowler, GVP at Spinnaker. Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights.

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Investments in Supply Chain Operating Networks Continue

Talking Logistics

Four years ago tomorrow, I wrote about how investments in Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCON) were rising. The post was triggered by Thoma Bravo’s acquisition of Elemica at the time (which it later sold to Eurazeo in 2019), as well as previous deals like Infor’s acquisition of GT Nexus, Insight Venture Partners’ acquisition of E2open, Read more Investments in Supply Chain Operating Networks Continue.

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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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What Is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Is It Important?

River Logic

When these events are analyzed, it’s not unusual to discover that companies were caught off guard because of poor supply chain visibility. In some instances, companies didn’t know where suppliers and sub-suppliers were located, while in others they were unaware of critical dependencies in their extended supply chains. These same issues are still apparent as businesses attempt to restart production in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Why Continuous Improvement Is as Important as Ever

USC Consulting Group

If within the last couple of months you’ve found yourself longing for what life used to be like, you’re most definitely not alone. March ushered in a very strange new world, as the spread of the novel coronavirus forced businesses to make massive changes to operations as usual, evidenced by social distancing, face coverings, more strenuous cleaning regimens, and staff working remotely where possible.

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Building Supply Chain resiliency to disruptions

Prophetic Technology

The Supply Chain ( SC ) is becoming crucial to the increase of corporations competitiveness. The current-increasingly-global economic environment demonstrates that businesses could better compete if they act in collaborative Supply chains ( SCs ).

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Covid-19 and small suppliers: Doing the right thing

Taulia

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought major challenges for businesses around the world – and for small suppliers, one of the most pressing is an increase in late payment by customers. This issue was explored in a recent Working Capital Forum webinar , Supporting smaller suppliers in a time of crisis , in which an audience poll revealed that 46% believe large corporations are reacting to the crisis by paying their suppliers later.

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Supply Chain Planning a real Cloud Pleaser

Valogix

Recently, Valogix and business partner DSI Global announced their 2020 expert Series Webinar program. The goal is to provide companies with specific information from leading industry experts to help improve their supply chain performance.

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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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Resilinc and Intalere Partner to Help Hospitals Collaborate, Locate and Trade Critical Medical Devices and Supplies

Resilinc

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What Is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Is It Important?

River Logic

When these events are analyzed, it’s not unusual to discover that companies were caught off guard because of poor supply chain visibility. In some instances, companies didn’t know where suppliers and sub-suppliers were located, while in others they were unaware of critical dependencies in their extended supply chains. These same issues are still apparent as businesses attempt to restart production in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Global Supply Chain News on As Companies Leave China, Work may Go to India

Supply Chain Digest

India Increasingly moving Upscale, has Many Advantages

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U.S. Exporters Complain of Being 'Blanked' by Ocean Carriers

Supply Chain Brain

As if the global economic downturn weren’t bad enough, U.S. exporters are confronted by a raft of vessel cancellations that hinder their ability to fulfill what overseas sales they’re still able to make.

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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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SCDigest Weekly Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending June 5, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

See who is up and who is down

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Adexa Users Spend More Time with Their Family!

Adexa

Adexa Users Spend More Time with Their Family! In one of our global deployments of Adexa supply chain planning applications, it was decided that for the first phase of the project, the main subset of their product lines was to be implemented in phase 1. When it was completed, and the planners started using the system, it was noticed by the management that the users were going home a lot sooner than other planners especially towards the end of the quarter.

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Autonomous vehicles in logistics part 2: Current developments

All Things Supply Chain

Flying cars have not been invented yet, which, if it were for “Back to the Future”, they would have appeared in 2015.

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CSOS: A Business Case for APIs and Microservices

Axway

To the detriment of those around me, I often point out technology failures. Quite often, those failures relate to the inability to easily “break down the application silo.

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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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?How to find a good product to sell?

DocShipper Sourcing

You do not know what to import from Asia? This article is made for you. Lately, we have received several emails asking us what kind of profitable product you can import from Asia. That is to say, products with demand and a good potential margin. As you can imagine, the answer is not that simple. … The post ?How to find a good product to sell? appeared first on ?

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Order Streaming: How it Works (Video)

SCJunction

E-commerce warehouses need to be able to handle individual orders quickly and efficiently and often deal with VIP customers as well.

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Driverless Trucks, China, COVID and the Future of the Supply Chain

Turvo

The moment was memorable, certainly one you look back at and laugh. My husband and I, desperate to reclaim any small portion of our lives post 3 children had booked a summer getaway to CO. Predictably, and last-minute, childcare for our 6-month-old fell through. Although not ideal, we packed her up and planned to enjoy a post-baby getaway.with our new baby.

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Retail Industry have been completely transformed during the past few decades due to the emerging trends and updated models. Thanks to the unprecedented distribution of the Internet and evolution of technology for making this successful over the World Wide Web. The Changing Landscape. During the last few months, the world pandemic has taken over the global market and affected the global economy.

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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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BI in Manufacturing: 3 Realistic Steps to Data Mastery in 2020

Unleashed

Industry 4.0 may sound exciting for manufacturers – with its IoT-enabled factories, all-singing all-dancing ERP software, and AI-powered insights – but frankly this is fantasy land for the vast majority of manufacturers. Most of the technology to power smart (or even just smart er ) factories is prohibitively expensive for most SMEs. Getting actionable insights from data, on the other hand, is a transformational upgrade that’s available today – and for next to nothing.

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IMAGINE SUMMIT 2020 is going virtual

Axway

Because timely, pertinent knowledge cannot wait till next year. If you’ve attended Axway’s IMAGINE SUMMIT in previous years, you already know we strive to deliver informative and inspiring content for our annual live events.

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It’s DELMIA’s 20 Year Anniversary!

DELMIA Quintiq

Our journey is one that is 20 years in the making—and continues! As DELMIA continuously evolves, let’s pause and take a look back to where it all began. The year 2000 marked the beginning of a new millennium. The world was abuzz with Y2K, the movie “Gladiator” reigned supreme on the big screen, cake pops were a new dessert, and what was to be known as “the decade of technology” was just beginning.

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Digital Transformation Leads to Digital Enlightenment

Enterra Insights

At some point in your education, you probably learned about the period known as the Age of Enlightenment (sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason). Most scholars place the Age of Enlightenment during the 17th to 19th centuries. It was a period of remarkable advancement in the West. Some scholars mark the beginning the Age with the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (1687).

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.