Wed.Aug 19, 2020

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Virtual Supply Chain Conferences

Talking Logistics

One of our most popular posts every year is our Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend post. A few weeks after publishing this year’s list, the COVID-19 pandemic began. It didn’t take long for every conference after March to either get cancelled or re-imagined as a virtual event. Moving forward, how important will it. Read more Virtual Supply Chain Conferences.

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How Digital Agility Can Help Prepare Your Supply Chain for Anything

Kuebix

Businesses’ ability to successfully navigate unexpected events is a large part of an overall successful supply chain. Many companies have found ways to mitigate the effects of events like hurricanes and blizzards. However, most organizations were not prepared for the implications of a pandemic like Covid-19 and its long-term impact on global supply chains.

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Is the Last Mile Ready to Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccine?

CHAINalytics

All over the world, scientists are closing in on a vaccine for COVID-19. The disease that has plagued the world for the past eight months has at least six vaccines undergoing final phase three trials. It’s been a record-breaking effort so far. But the most complex logistics challenge since World War II still lies ahead … The post Is the Last Mile Ready to Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccine?

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Pandemics, Trade Wars and Warehousing 2: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Real Time Business Networks

The Network Effect

The post Pandemics, Trade Wars and Warehousing 2: Optimizing for Uncertainty with Real Time Business Networks appeared first on The Network Effect.

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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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It’s essential to intimately understand your suppliers – here are 5 ways to achieve this

IT Supply Chain

By Daniel Ball (pictured). Business Development Director, Wax Digital. The post It’s essential to intimately understand your suppliers – here are 5 ways to achieve this appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Top 4 Labor Productivity KPIs Supply Chain Back Office Managers Should Track

MercuryGate

If you aren’t automating processes in your back office, you are wasting your company’s money and becoming less competitive in a fiercely competitive marketplace. According to Supply Chain Brain, “[The supply chain back office] is where one finds a huge swath of white collar employees, none of them touching, making, or moving any goods, yet […].

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How (and When) to Deep Clean and Sanitize Your Warehouse

All Things Supply Chain

In the last few months, Covid-19 has introduced many new challenges into people’s everyday lives.

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5G Is on the Way: What Will It Mean for Supply Chains?

Supply Chain Brain

5G will soon become the new technology standard for cellular networks, and the benefits for business in general, and the supply chain specifically, are immense.

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The U-turn on USPS cuts before the US election may be too little too late

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks MILT (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research. The post The U-turn on USPS cuts before the US election may be too little too late appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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 supply chain management tips for retail for sustained profitability

6 River Systems

Today, anyone can start a retail business with a couple of clicks on a laptop from a café. Companies with billions of dollars in valuation, like Shopify and BigCommerce, help to reduce the barriers of entry to the world of e-commerce. Manufacturing companies have the option of selling directly to consumers without the help of any retail middle men. Whether you are new in the retail space or an established player, what you cannot build with a click of a button is a strong brand or an efficient su

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The Five-Point Route-Map To Effective Warehouse Automation

IT Supply Chain

By Louisa Hosegood (pictured). Digital & Strategy Director at Bis Henderson Consulting. The post The Five-Point Route-Map To Effective Warehouse Automation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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What Exactly is Freight Consolidation?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Do you have a Freight Management Strategy or are you Spinning your Wheels? Freight Consolidation article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Robinson at sonar.freightwaves.com. How can freight forecasting aid consolidation strategies? Supply chains across the U.S. are experiencing the stresses of trying to fill orders and comply with mandates affecting travel, driver hours and person-to-person contact.

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Why Mobile Barcoding is the Foundation of Digital Manufacturing

RFgen

Overview. The manufacturing industry faces a historic fight for its survival. Prior hesitancy to digitize inventory and data collection processes plague an already stressed industry. Automating data collection with mobile barcoding is a crucial step toward digital transformation in manufacturing and pandemic survival. Mobile barcoding serves as the foundation of the modern digital manufacturing operation and helps companies respond to pandemic-related challenges.

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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 Tips When Using Inventory Management Software

ProcurePort

Without inventory management, businesses, economies, and societies would descend into chaos. Inventory management is one of the most crucial elements in developing strong and resilient supply-chains that aren’t affected by the volatile marketplace. Implementing inventory management software has become an industry standard in order to better facilitate the processes and practices involved in inventory management. […].

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Why Mobile Barcoding is the Foundation of Digital Manufacturing

RFgen

Overview. The manufacturing industry faces a historic fight for its survival. Prior hesitancy to digitize inventory and data collection processes plague an already stressed industry. Automating data collection with mobile barcoding is a crucial step toward digital transformation in manufacturing and pandemic survival. Mobile barcoding serves as the foundation of the modern digital manufacturing operation and helps companies respond to pandemic-related challenges.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Aug. 20, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Lowes Spending Big to Revamp Distribution Network, Company Finding Success with Reusable Containers for Consumer Goods, US Manufacturing Recovering, Fat Growth in China to Europe Rail Cargo

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The Virtual Twin Experience: Providing a Solid Foundation for Infrastructure

DELMIA Quintiq

In the construction business, and especially when building any type of infrastructure, the costs of physical build can add up. Any mistake can cause the cost of materials to rise along with time and labor, thereby potentially compromising the deadlines and integrity of a project. With the Virtual Twin, however, you will have a virtual representation that helps close the gap between design and production, providing a digital replica—a virtual twin.

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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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Navigating Freight Growth Amid Peak Season Planning

GlobalTranz

Few industries experienced such record-breaking growth like that of e-commerce in 2020. As the world came to terms with the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, a general belief that the pandemic would end abruptly took root. Unfortunately, that was not the case. And as the virus continues to plague the world and results in increased.read More. The post Navigating Freight Growth Amid Peak Season Planning appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Reviving Retail: How to Expand Fulfillment Operations to Meet Holiday Sales Volumes

Tompkins Blog

As discussed in our last post, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to fuel rapid e-commerce growth, with online sales in May up nearly 93% over the previous year, according to a recent Mastercard SpendingPulse report. While many businesses already received the green light to reopen, a recent surge of coronavirus cases is now causing more consumers to turn to online shopping and even prompting some retailers to voluntarily shut down stores again, like Apple recently did in several states.

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PINC Awarded 2020 Great Supply Chain Partner

PINC

UNION CITY, Calif. , Aug. 19, 2020 — PINC, the leader in digital yard™ solutions, has been named by its customers and industry peers as a Great Supply Chain Partner in 2020. “ For 18 years running, SupplyChainBrain has published our much-anticipated list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners — a select group of companies whose customers recognize them for providing outstanding solutions and services,” said Brad Berger , Publisher, SupplyChainBrain. “Our six-month onli

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REPOST: Cold Calling on Steroids with Brad Seaman

The Logistics of Logistics

The post REPOST: Cold Calling on Steroids with Brad Seaman appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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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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4 fundamentals to supercharge procurement teams in the new normal

Xeeva

In what’s become our new normal, category and commodity managers, procurement directors, chief procurement officers, and others in the procurement and sourcing departments joined virtually for ProcureCon Indirect in late July. The theme of the event was “Coping with New Procurement Realities and Applying Lessons from 2020” with many of the sessions focused on procurement’s […].

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What Does it Take to Pivot? Here are 8 Ways to Make Your Business More Agile

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Car manufacturers rolling ventilators off the line. Breweries pumping out hand sanitizer. Laundry and uniform businesses outfitting healthcare workers with PPE. If there’s anything I’ve learned tracking companies through their COVID-19 pivots, it’s this: success means being agile. On one hand, agility supports a good cause, making a real difference in the fight against the pandemic. […].

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How Covid is Affecting the Spot Market and How to Navigate It

Freightview

Covid-19 has impacted just about every facet of our lives, and for many people their livelihoods as well. For those of us in the transportation industry it has greatly impacted business, especially in the spot market.

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Technology and the Changing Nature of Logistics

Enterra Insights

There has been a lot written and spoken about supply chain operations during the coronavirus pandemic. Supply chain operations are complex — encompassing a broad array of processes and operations. The staff at Interlake Mecalux defines supply chain operations this way: “The supply chain encompasses the planning, execution, and control of all the activities related to material and information flows.

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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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Welcome to Our DIVE IN Series

BlueYonder

Welcome to DIVE IN, our new weekly blog focused on diversity, inclusion, value and equality (DIVE) which are core tenants to our culture. As we mentioned in last week’s blog , this blog series is our pledge to explore the topics and issues that will only help breathe more diversity and inclusion into our workplace and bring to light the biases, sensitivities and issues that may inhibit us to reach that truly inclusive culture.

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Welcome to the self-driving factory

3AG Systems

Imagine it’s 2025: You look back on the past half-decade with a complicated mix of relief, surprise and flat-out exhaustion. Is exhaustion the right word? Maybe not? Maybe exhilaration better describes what it was life when life totally changed, beginning in early 2020. But at first, you and everyone else were just heads-down focused on surviving 2020; what happened post-survival couldn’t have been predicted.

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The future of eCommerce in South East Asia

Vinculum

There are 11 Southeast Asian countries, out of which 6 countries have most of the internet users. ASEAN countries make the third-largest population in the world out of which millions of people already shopping online. As per the reports, eCommerce spends in the region in 2018 was 50 billion US dollars. And around 3% of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) depends on the internet economy and will rise to 8% by 2025, according to Google and Temasek reports.

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