Thu.Jun 01, 2017

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Companies in Asia Pacific Eager to Innovate with Supply Chain Optimization

AIMMS

The adoption of advanced analytics has moved at a much slower pace in Asia Pacific compared to Europe or North America. There are innovative firms that are setting the standard for innovation and successful analytics adoption, but as Actionable Intelligence expert Keith B. Carter explained in an interview with us last year, large businesses in the region are still lagging behind.

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Why Do We Forget to Define Supply Chain Excellence?

Supply Chain Insights

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. Throughout the great discussions within these courses, I couldn’t help but notice a general theme – people are forgetting to define (or ask) what supply chain excellence looks like for their companies!

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Last-Mile Delivery: The Next Battleground in Transportation

Talking Logistics

Jeremy Becker, Senior Manager Supply Chain Consulting at Transplace addresses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What is last-mile delivery? What does it encompass? Why so much buzz about last-mile delivery today? What factors are driving it? How is this segment of the transportation market different from the others?

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Promotion Optimization: Artificially Speaking

Supply Chain Insights

“Danger, Will Robinson!” For those of my non-millennial colleagues who have seen reruns or even us Baby-Boomers who actually saw the show, the 1965-68 TV series Lost in Space produced some rather kooky, if not downright weird images. The now famous “B9” robot character would sound out this monotoned warning when it sensed a potential threat to his small companion, played by Billy Mumy.

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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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Editor’s Pick: Dedicated Fleets – To Use or Not to Use

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Pick ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. In this post, Brian Fish, Account Manager at LLamasoft , shares some factors to consider when determining whether or not to use dedicated fleets.

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SafetyChain Software to participate in Food Safety Supply Chain Conference in Rockville, MD

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

SafetyChain Software, the developer of real-time food safety & quality management solutions that help companies reduce risk, control costs, and ensure compliance, is participating the Food Safety Supply Chain Conference, taking place June 5-6 in Rockville, MD at US Pharmacopeial Convention.

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JDA TV – Powering the Digital Supply Chain for Manufacturing

BlueYonder

In this JDA TV video, Doug Kimball, Senior Product Marketing Director at JDA, talks about what’s driving the shift to the digital supply chain and how manufacturers can leverage digital signals to reduce risk throughout the supply chain. For more interesting, educational, and insightful videos, browse through the JDA TV library.

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Connectedness and the supply chain at the heart of business success

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As businesses increasingly look to establish a foothold in the European market, the ability to have fast, efficient and reliable access to Europe's more than 500 million consumers is seen as critical to a business's commercial success.

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A New Look at the Supply Chain Start-Up Landscape

Supply Chain 24/7

The supply chain market encompasses more than one trillion dollars and is an exciting, difficult market for start-ups.

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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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JDA TV – Powering the Digital Supply Chain for Manufacturing

BlueYonder

In this JDA TV video, Doug Kimball, Senior Product Marketing Director at JDA, talks about what’s driving the shift to the digital supply chain and how manufacturers can leverage digital signals to reduce risk throughout the supply chain. For more interesting, educational, and insightful videos, browse through the JDA TV library. The post JDA TV – Powering the Digital Supply Chain for Manufacturing appeared first on Supply Chain Nation Blog.

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Capturing the Business Benefits of Student-Industry Collaboration

MIT Supply Chain

There are many ways in which companies can collaborate with supply chain research centers. One that we have found to be especially rewarding is collaborating on graduate program thesis research projects. Across the MIT Global SCALE Network, the MIT Center for Transportation &Logistics (MIT CTL), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), the Malaysia Institute for Supply […].

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The Benefits of Adopting RFID in Supply Chain Planning

RELEX Solutions

The industry has been talking about RFID for 20 years, but it still hasn’t come into common use or delivered significant value to retailers. The biggest issue hasn’t been the technology itself, but rather the hype and promise around RFID before it was in the right place to deliver. The price of RFID tags has been an inhibitor to mass adoption, initially costing $10 or more, making them an unrealistic application for a retail operation.

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5 Ingenious Ways for Improving Manufacturing Productivity with Repurposed PCs

GlobalTranz

Computer downtime is the ‘Darth Vader’ of the shop floor, and as the film would say, ‘the saga continues.’ The quest for improving manufacturing floor productivity constantly hits the buffers because of failing IT equipment. If you want the ‘force to be with you’, here are 5 ways to re-purpose office PCs for industrial use…. Computer downtime is a plague on the manufacturing floor, responsible for costing firms hours of lost production time, man hours, customers and revenue.

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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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Understanding the 2017 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings

Supply Chain Digest

Dissecting the new 2017 List, as Now Amazon Joins the Hall of Fame

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Are the Clouds on the Jobs Sustainability Horizon Dark or Billowy?

Enterra Insights

“We need to discuss how smart computers might affect the workplace and ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits,” writes Peter … Continued. The post Are the Clouds on the Jobs Sustainability Horizon Dark or Billowy? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Ideal Shopping Direct deploys Route Genie to drive growth and boost customer experience

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Ideal Shopping Direct, the multi-channel home shopping retailer, has signed a five-year contract to deploy Route Genie, the advanced carrier management software, to help facilitate the next stage of its growth across the UK and overseas.

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KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report

Supply Chain 24/7

Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers puts together a fascinating and influential presentation each year on the state of the Internet, the report, full of insights and stats, delves into the biggest trends in digital.

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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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Support for domestic supply chains critical to manufacturing post-Brexit

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

A key part of the government's industrial strategy should be a fund to support UK manufacturing supply chains to offset the impact of any new trade barriers that arise from leaving the single market, a new Civitas report argues.

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Technology Companies React to Trump’s Decision to Withdraw From Paris Climate Agreement

Supply Chain 24/7

'Bad for the environment, bad for the economy:' Facebook, Google, Amazon, and many other company executives all made it very clear that they view Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement as a grave mistake.

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