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Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

Inflation’s effects on inventory management policies are likely far from top of the mind of Logistics Viewpoints readers in today’s challenging times. However, today’s elevated rate of inflation warrants a closer look at optimal inventory policies. Earlier this month my colleagues and I published our 2022 Supply Chain Predications. One of my predictions within that article is that inflation will hinder supply chain resiliency efforts.

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REPOST: Freight Tech Trends with Mike Mulqueen

The Logistics of Logistics

Freight Tech Trends with Mike Mulqueen. Mike Mulqueen and Joe Lynch discuss freight tech trends. Mike is a Partner and Strategy Practice Lead at JBF Consulting a company that integrates a supply chain execution strategy and systems for logistics-intensive companies. About Mike Mulqueen. Mike Mulqueen is a Partner and Strategy Practice Lead at JBF Consulting.

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The Difficulty of Measuring Scope 3 Emissions

Talking Logistics

At its January 20th shareholder meeting, almost 70% of Costco’s shareholders voted yes on a proposal that calls on the company to set “short, medium, and long-term science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets” to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. When the proposal was first introduced, Costco’s board of directors opposed it. In a December 2021.

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2022 Forecast: Supply Chains Become Critical Infrastructure

ToolsGroup

Let’s kick off 2022 with a little thought experiment… What’s a problem affecting every nation on earth? One that many people and organizations are talking about but few are acting upon? One that’s difficult to contemplate yet fundamental to the very progress of civilization? One that isn’t climate change. The problem I’m describing is the urgent need to build a robust, global, end-to-end supply chain infrastructure.

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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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Technology and Improved Customer Experience

Enterra Insights

For millennia, the gold standard of customer experience has been the personal touch. However, when consumers buy more and more products online, providing the personal touch becomes a lot trickier. For most retailers, the key to providing the personal touch online is technology. The editorial team at BusinessMatters Magazine writes, “Customer service technologies are [providing] plenty of new ways that brands can engage with customers in order to offer an optimized service.”[1] Techno

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Inflation is inevitable, retailers must resume service with a smile

IT Supply Chain

By Andre Hordagoda (pictured). CEO & Co-Founder, Go Instore. The post Inflation is inevitable, retailers must resume service with a smile appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How AI is transforming manufacturing Part 2: Inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers have incurred significant financial losses due to supply chain disruptions and the subsequent inventory management challenges. With companies producing more and more products worldwide, the issue of keeping track of enormous amounts of parts and materials used in the manufacturing process has grown increasingly complex. In addition, these parts frequently use several departments or plants within a company.

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Lean Supply Chain Management or Agile? Here's How to Achieve Both

Supply Chain Brain

Can global supply chains be both agile and lean? With the right kind of digital transformation, the answer is yes.

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Fast Shipping: 2022 Consumer Expectations

Ware2Go

Learn how fast shipping promises drive top of funnel purchase decisions and how merchants of all sizes can make fulfillment a competitive advantage. A Look Back. When Amazon Prime launched in 2005, 2-day shipping was a novelty and what Jeff Bezos himself said felt like “an indulgent luxury”. This novelty, however, soon redefined Amazon customers’ understanding of fast shipping, and the convenience of 2-day delivery forever changed consumer shopping habits.

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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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4 Packaging Tips To Transform Your Supply Chain Management

IT Supply Chain

By Christie R. Daniel. Assembly Supervisor. The post 4 Packaging Tips To Transform Your Supply Chain Management appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Ethereum Classic: The “Firstborn” Catching Up with its “Little Brother”!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Ethereum is Gaining in Popularity! Ethereum classic article and permission to publish here provided by Jamie Martinez. In 2016, the Ethereum blockchain platform split, resulting in an altcoin with a January-end capitalization of about $3.2 billion. The Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency emerged as a result of the Ethereum core network’s hardfork on July 20, 2016.

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LogiChem Europe Announces Speaker Lineup and Agenda Europe's Only Chemical Supply Chain Conference

Supply Chain Brain

The organizers of LogiChem Europe (29 - 31 March, 2022) , Europe's only chemical supply chain conference, announced the agenda and speakers for 2022. .

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Why supply chains should work on carbon footprint reduction

All Things Supply Chain

The worldwide concern on environmental sustainability is rising like never before. The IPCC climate change report for 2021 has rung alarm bells for businesses, consumers and governments.

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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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The Impact of Accelerating Digital Transformation

LevaData

Over the last year and a half, numerous organizations have been forced to carry out business transformations that would have otherwise taken years to complete. But now that they've emerged from crisis mode, what kinds of problems are being created by this lightning-fast digital transformation ? What new or accelerated hazards populate the enterprise risk management matrix's "urgent/critical" quadrant?

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Why incompatible reporting leads to greenwashing/misleading practices

IT Supply Chain

By Stephan Wolf (pictured). CEO, Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF). The post Why incompatible reporting leads to greenwashing/misleading practices appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Delivery as a Service (DaaS) Explained

ShipBob

Many DTC brands offer great products and have revolutionary ideas to disrupt their respective industries. But they often fall short when it comes to providing exceptional delivery experiences, especially now that there’s a shift to omnichannel ecommerce. Fortunately, logistics innovations such as delivery as a service (DaaS) are here to change that and help ecommerce businesses transform their customer experience.

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Impact of COVID-19 on the Supply Chain

IT Supply Chain

By Jessica McGoverne (pictured). Director of Policy & Corporate Affairs, Sedex. The post Impact of COVID-19 on the Supply Chain appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Feb. 3, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

NRF Says US Economy to Stay Strong in 2022. US PMI for January also Shows Strength Again. Wall Street Betting on Huge ESG Reporting Growth.

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Improving the UK-Tech Industry with Complete Pathways

IT Supply Chain

By Dr Paul Rivers (pictured). CEO, Guidance Automation. The post Improving the UK-Tech Industry with Complete Pathways appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Sufficiency, a new Supply Chain strategy

Prophetic Technology

Sufficiency - a new Supply Chain strategy?

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Resources and Capabilities to Navigate the New Normal: The Need for Versatile Leadership

American Global Logistics

Supply chain risks, threats, and obstacles abound. Whether 2022 will resemble 2021 remains an open question. After 2021, the hope was that things could not get worse, and that markets had turned the corner. With January behind us, it appears supply chains still face many obstacles. Supply chains operations are not yet out of the […]. The post Resources and Capabilities to Navigate the New Normal: The Need for Versatile Leadership appeared first on AGL.

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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 News on More Positive News for Autonomous Trucks

Supply Chain Digest

GE Appliances Starts First Autonomous, Electric Truck Test in US, while TuSimple Partners on Terminal Design

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Watch: Are Businesses Living Up to ESG Requirements?

Supply Chain Brain

A review of how good a job companies are doing in adhering to their promises in the areas of environmental, social and governance (ESG), with two attorneys from Crowell & Moring LLP.

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting Feb. 2, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

Show us your Supply Chain Wit

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8 Steps to Continuous Improvement

TrackVia

Process Improvement with TrackVia. You are likely familiar with the expression “the right tool for the right job”. This phrase implies a synergy between jobs and tools. Paired with the right tool, the job can be completed faster and safer. Paired with the right job, the tool can perform optimally, last longer, and avoid unintended risk. As a process improvement professional who has used TrackVia for over 10 years, I’ve concluded that: (1) My processes perform better with TrackVia, and (2) TrackV

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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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5 Things You Need To Know About Chinese New Year

BlueYonder

1. Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year (CNY) — also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year — is the grandest festival in China, with a seven-day-long holiday. As the most colorful annual event, the more traditional CNY celebrations can last even longer, up to two weeks, peaking around the Lunar New Year’s Eve.

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Commerzbank enables truly customer-centric services powered by Axway

Axway

Commerzbank is a leading German bank with an international presence, serving private and small business customers as well as corporates, multinationals, financial service providers, and institutional clients.

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Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2022

Taulia

Drawn from the global marketplace and curated by Ardent Partners’ market-leading research team, ‘Metrics that Matter’ is a powerful and comprehensive compilation of the industry’s best and most widely-used accounts payable benchmarks. Some of the key metrics examined and themes explored in this eBook include: How AP is moving past Covid and thriving in a new business environment A look into future of the AP function AP’s growing impact The rise of invoice and payment fraud The digital transforma

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