Mon.May 15, 2023

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Why Organizational Alignment is Critical to the Supply Chain Response

Supply Chain Shaman

Typing away on a beautiful May morning, with the flowers blooming and the birds nesting in the garden, engages my mind. Mondays are my day to post my Shaman blog and compose a podcast. The Shaman blog is now over eleven years old. I remember my first post like it was yesterday. New then to WordPress, it took me a week to finish the post. (It was a struggle!

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How Shippers Can Uplevel Their Real-time Transportation Procurement Strategies?

Talking Logistics

“We close our eyes and the world has turned around again.” That’s a lyric from one of my favorite Oingo Boingo songs, and I think it perfectly describes the world of supply chain management — and the transportation market in particular, which has taken many turns over the past few years. With each turn, shippers. Read more The post How Shippers Can Uplevel Their Real-time Transportation Procurement Strategies?

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GXO Direct to Use AI To Drive Labor Efficiencies

Logistics Viewpoints

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. Blue Yonder is one of the world’s largest providers of supply chain software solutions. GXO is the world’s largest contract warehousing provider. Afterwards, Mr. Lewis spoke in more detail to industry analysts. Mr. Lewis announced that Blue Yonder’s warehouse management system (WMS) – with the attached modules for labor management, automation, and order mana

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The State of Logistics Podcasting with Blythe Brumleve

The Logistics of Logistics

Blythe Brumleve and Joe Lynch discuss the state of logistics podcasting. They talk about the growing popularity of podcasts in the logistics industry and how podcasting can be a helpful tool for professionals to stay up-to-date on industry trends and insights. Blythe is the Founder of Digital Dispatch and the Host of Cyberly, an influential podcast on the Freightwaves platform.

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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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Breaking up with Spreadsheets in Food & Beverage Supply Chain Planning

DELMIA Quintiq

Exclusive Webinar Series hosted by DELMIA and The Logic Factory Breaking up is always hard to do but sometimes it’s just time to move on! No, I’m not talking about personal relationships but something that’s almost as complex and challenging – Supply Chain Planning! Many companies today are still using spreadsheets as a core planning system for their supply chain planning processes.

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How Supply Chains Can Harness the Power of AI and VR

Supply Chain Brain

Artificial intelligence, along with augmented and virtual reality tools, promises to help ease the strain on supply chains.

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Smart Glasses and Beyond: Harnessing the Full Potential of Augmented and Mixed Reality

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Smart Glasses and Beyond: Harnessing the Full Potential of Augmented and Mixed Reality Feature Article by Sojung Lee , President, TeamViewer, APAC Imagine a world where virtual and physical realities merge, bringing unparalleled efficiency and innovation to businesses and industries across the globe. This is made possible in the -Industrial Metaverse, where information and data are digitalised and are presented using augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) tools to target the needs of busi

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6 Powerful B2B CRM Strategies for Wholesalers & Manufacturers [+ Examples]

Unleashed

Wholesalers and manufacturers need effective B2B strategies to sustain business growth and beat the competition. That’s where a quality CRM system comes in. From targeted email campaigns to inventory management integrations, we’ll outline how you can develop strong B2B CRM strategies to improve business performance and achieve predictable growth. Looking for a complete CRM + inventory management solution?

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The Green Corridor: Eating Into Our Future – Agricultural Emissions – What is Happening? What More Can be Done?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Eating Into Our Future Agricultural Emissions – What is Happening? What More Can be Done? by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio As the global population hits 8 billion people and growing, the age old question continues to be asked – how long can the Earth support humanity? We all need food to survive and for most that takes talking about the emissions associated with food production “off the table”.

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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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Four ways Cloud is changing the ERP channel landscape

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The ERP channel landscape is transforming. While on-premises ERP deployments are still more common than one might think among mid-market manufacturers and distributors, Cloud ERP deployment has rapidly accelerated. According to Panorama Consulting’s ERP Report , in 2019 44% of companies deploying ERP chose the cloud but by 2022 this increased to 65% choosing a cloud model.

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Leveraging Your Bargaining Power in Logistics Service Provider Negotiations

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Leveraging Your Bargaining Power in Logistics Service Provider Negotiations by LSCMS Shippers’ Council The logistics industry is a complex and constantly evolving ecosystem that plays a vital role in the global economy. Shippers, who are responsible for moving goods from one location to another, have traditionally relied on logistics service providers (LSPs) to manage their transportation needs.

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Technology and Transparency: How the Pharma Supply Chain Must Adapt

Supply Chain Brain

The pharmaceutical sector has come under ever-greater scrutiny in recent years, as more and more counterfeit products infiltrate legitimate supply chains.

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LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – May 2023

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Negotiating from Strength - The tools that you need for a winning contract with LSPs Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine In this edition we have several news updates, interesting & enlightening articles and contributions on people & management – topics which are most crucial to the development of the Supply Chain Industry across regions as well as globally.

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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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Watch: How to Address Changing Demand in the Food Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Oliver Hedgepeth, supply chain logistics professor at American Public University System, discusses how consumer tastes and purchasing patterns have changed, and how food suppliers must respond.

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How the public sector can embrace Zero Trust

IT Supply Chain

By Matt Poulton (pictured) General Manager & Vice President EMEA & APJ at Forescout Technologies The post How the public sector can embrace Zero Trust appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Can AI Help Warehouses Reduce the Impact of Labor Shortages?

All Things Supply Chain

The ongoing warehouse labor shortage is one of the biggest challenges facing the logistics industry today.

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Electoral Commission’s warning on deepfakes – proactive security measures are needed

IT Supply Chain

By Eduardo Azanza (pictured) Eduardo Azanza, CEO at Veridas The post Electoral Commission’s warning on deepfakes – proactive security measures are needed 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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Press release: Achieving the promise of Industry 4.0

Procurement Academy

Lack of core technical skills is stifling procurement and supply chain teams in the race to Industry 4.0 While nearly all supply chain and procurement leaders are making major investments in digital technologies to drive efficiency, one in four are yet to see any improvements London, 15.05.23: As digital transformation continues to reshape industries, supply chain, and procurement teams are feeling the pressure to compete in the race to Industry 4.0.

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What Is a Mail Shot? Top 4 Trending Digital Marketing Ideas to Boost Your Business

IT Supply Chain

By Allen Brown (pictured) Content Writer The post What Is a Mail Shot? Top 4 Trending Digital Marketing Ideas to Boost Your Business appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Not All UX are Created Equal

Adexa

Not All UX are Created Equal Traditional software applications use UX to give control to the users to navigate through the issues and problems that they are alerted to. Consider a typical automobile, the windshield allows you to sense the dangers ahead and the steering wheel, brakes, gas pedal etc. help you to avoid potential issues. Very little intelligence is built into the user interface until recently, when the user interface warns you about cars on the side or getting too close to the car i

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The Risk of IT Business as Usual

IT Supply Chain

By Steve Hollingsworth (pictured) Director, Covenco The post The Risk of IT Business as Usual appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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 Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency: A Failproof Framework by ThroughPut

ThroughPut

An uncertain market continues to upend supply chains. Escalating costs are becoming a growing concern for most companies. No wonder then that most businesses continue to obsess over supply chain efficiency even in 2023, three years after the outbreak of COVID-19. So much so that the CFOs’ focus on supply chain-related cost reduction nearly doubled in less than six months last year, from 20% to 39%.

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Benefits of Big Data in the Supply Chain

IT Supply Chain

By Rob Jackson (pictured) Content Writer The post Benefits of Big Data in the Supply Chain appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Last-mile Dialogues: Make Your D2c Strategy a Winner With an Intelligent SCM Solution

Locus

The direct-to-consumer (D2C) model has been gaining popularity among customers for some time now as manufacturers get a lot more room to provide customized brand experiences that bring a lot more delight to consumers, which in turn strengthen brand loyalty. According to a study, 55% of consumers prefer to buy directly from brands, and a further 40% of shoppers say they will purchase from a D2C brand in the next five years.

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Supply Chain News on Five Types of Warehouse Management System Vendors

Supply Chain Digest

From ERP Vendors to WMS Specialists to MHE Providers, Gartner Says

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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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How Laser Marking Can Streamline and Help Secure the Robotics Industry

The Network Effect

The post How Laser Marking Can Streamline and Help Secure the Robotics Industry appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain News on Real Lean versus Fake Lean

Supply Chain Digest

What to Think about Lean Consultants

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The Speed-to-Market Vortex: Don’t Fall Into This Packaging Trap

CHAINalytics

The pressure to get your product to market quickly is real and ever-present. But are you sacrificing optimized packaging, productivity gains, and the opportunity to present your product to its best effect on the altar of speed? These days, product innovations, new product introductions, and getting those products manufactured and in consumers’ hands is vital … The post The Speed-to-Market Vortex: Don’t Fall Into This Packaging Trap appeared first on Chainalytics.

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