EnVista
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
We have plenty of data, now what? In the age of interconnectedness, more and more people are finding themselves asking that question. Technology companies and research firms alike estimate the number of connected devices to be 20-50 billion by 2020. There has been a rapid increase in mobile computing, consumerization of IT and sensor technologies and bid data analytics that all work together to push IoT adoption.
Unleashed
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
A well-functioning supply chain is not only effective, but also efficient. In this article, we explain the differences between efficiency and effectiveness, and how you can ensure your business model produces both. Efficiency versus effectiveness. Efficiency generally refers to the extent to which a process uses resources in the best way possible to ensure the fast, smooth running of systems.
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Kinaxis
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
by Alison Crawford Valentine’s Day will be less romantic this year. Due to financial troubles, corporate acquisitions, time constraints, and a lack of supply chain planning we won’t be able to tell the ones we love things like “Be Mine”, “Kiss Me”, “Call Me”, “Let’s Get Busy”, or “Miss You” in sweet, chalky letters.
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Most often when people discuss artificial intelligence (AI), they are discussing a subset of that field known as machine learning. Louis Columbus ( @LouisColumbus ) explains, “Enterprises are striving to find greater meaning in the massive amounts of data they generate and save every day. Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding
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
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
When I ask shippers what they look for in a logistics or transportation management partner, technology capabilities — and the data and insights those technologies provide — is always near the top of the list. Of course, the technology landscape is very different today compared to 5-10 years ago, with blockchain, machine learning, real-time freight visibility, and other emerging technologies dominating the headlines.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Subscribe Here! Email Address. What is Mentoring? Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam White at Argentus. Business acumen! It doesn’t really matter what industry, it’s the biggest thing that executives tell us they’re looking for when hiring at the sole contributor level and above. For many executives, it’s even more important than relevant experience.
JDA software
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
How do you go about exploring new responsibilities in your role and company? Zoey Walters, vice president, sales operations and finance at JDA, knows. Her career journey is filled with inspiration on how to refresh, and in some cases, reinvent your career. Having done this several times during her career, Zoey offers great insight into why it’s important to seek out life’s ‘what if’ moments that can crystalize your path more than ever.
Pivot88
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
1. Never again. Nobody wants another tragedy like Rana Plaza in Bangladesh to happen. On April 24th 2013, the eight-storey building collapse caused the death of over 1,100 people, giving the world, and the fashion industry in particular, a very rude awakening. “…Global apparel and footwear companies or brands that order products manufactured in factories also have a responsibility to ensure that the rights of workers are respected throughout their supply chain.” writes Aruna Kashyap, Senior Coun
EazyStock
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
What are the primary supply chain management trends for 2019? Buzzwords like digitization and globalization are still transforming the world, and concepts like AI , IoT and eCommerce are as relevant as ever – but you already knew that. In this post we will present recent trends you may not have heard of – yet – but ought to keep an eye on as they develop.
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.
Supply Chain 24/7
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Urban populations in emerging economies often buy their nutritional food supplies, called food deserts, from small, mom-and-pop retailers called nanostores, a nanostore is defined as a small, family-owned outlet operated by fewer than five people located in a densely populated neighborhood.
BlueYonder
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
How do you go about exploring new responsibilities in your role and company? Zoey Walters, vice president, sales operations and finance at JDA, knows. Her career journey is filled with inspiration on how to refresh, and in some cases, reinvent your career. Having done this several times during her career, Zoey offers great insight into why it’s important to seek out life’s ‘what if’ moments that can crystalize your path more than ever.
Sourcemap
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The First Step to Traceability: Stenciling Batch Numbers on Bags of Cocoa at a Depot in Ghana. There’s a lot of hype around using blockchain to trace supply chains. How does it stand up in the real world? The most widely publicized blockchain pilots involve shippers and retailers - the ‘last leg’ of a global supply chain. What happens when you want to trace a product from the source, and that source is halfway around the world?
Convey
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
If you’ve not been introduced to Delivery Experience Management (DEM), let me give you […]. The post Delivery Experience Management Is Retail’s Last Mile Advantage appeared first on Convey.
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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.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
According to new research released from Gravity Supply Chain Solutions, 86 percent of UK retailers haven’t completed the digitisation processes (using a cloud based platform with real time visibility, and automation capabilities) required to give them full control of their supply chain.
Supply Chain Digest
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Perhaps New Record for Bar Code Label Switching Theft, Smart Glasses Starting to Get Some Supply Chain Traction, Clothes with RFID Chips that Report on How You Wear Them
ivalua
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Growth driven by new customer acquisition, regional expansion and continued customer success. REDWOOD CITY, Feb. 12, 2019 — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced another record year. Success was driven by accelerating customer acquisition, continued industry-leading customer retention rates, geographic expansion and dynamic solution innovations.
GlobalTranz
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The right set of freight claims management practices can mean the difference between saving money and unnecessary expenses. Shippers should understand the top trending best practices to succeed in freight claims management to stay competitive throughout 2019. More Organizations, Including Governments, Will Demand Auditing in All Operations One of the most effective ways to ensure.read More.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Supply Chain Digest
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Most Companies Still See themselves Very Low in Terms of Maturity
River Logic
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
For its target audience of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), last fall’s MIT Sloan CFO Summit capitalized on the keyword “bold.” No doubt, the CFO has moved from accounting for the company results as the numbers person to a bold , strategic leader in defining the company's future.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Omar Nadi, Director, Supplier Product Management at Elemica , discusses how companies can streamline and automate the procure-to-pay (P2P) process. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Streamlining and Automating the Procure-to-Pay Process appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Omar Nadi, Director, Supplier Product Management at Elemica, discusses how companies can streamline and automate the procure-to-pay (P2P) process.
DAT Solutions
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Has money been a little tighter for your business lately? If you're a small carrier or owner-operator, you're not alone. Freight rates have been in decline since the calendar flipped to 2019.
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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.
TradeGecko
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Despite eCommerce having been around for over 20 years , last mile logistics continues to grow in complexity and involves many challenges, including cost minimization, transparency and efficiency. For typical online shoppers, fast and free delivery has become the norm. Next-day delivery is expected from big retail. But not every customer expects instant gratification.
DAT Solutions
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Has money been a little tighter for your business lately? If you're a small carrier or owner-operator, you're not alone. Freight rates have been in decline since the calendar flipped to 2019. Prices are typically down during this part of winter, but there are signs that rates could thaw soon. The good news is that volumes have been firming up this month.
6 River Systems
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
6 River Systems, Inc., the provider of the world’s first and only fully collaborative mobile robotics solution, is pleased to announce general availability in Europe just two years after the company’s U.S. debut. Their announcement is timed with the first European deployments of their solution. “We’re very excited to offer our warehouse automation solutions to the European market,” Chris Lingamfelter, 6 River Systems (6RS) Vice President of Sales said.
DAT Solutions
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Has money been a little tighter for your business lately? If you're a small carrier or owner-operator, you're not alone. Freight rates have been in decline since the calendar flipped to 2019. Prices are typically down during this part of winter, but there are signs that rates could thaw soon. The good news is that volumes have been firming up this month.
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.
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Royal Canin, the pet food manufacturer owned by Mars Inc., has started to roll-out FuturMaster’s cloud-based demand planning software as part of a supply chain initiative to standardise processes across the globe and improve efficiencies. The new technology, which has so far been deployed in the US, is expected to help manage the growing complexity of supplying the right products at the right time to over a hundred markets around the world.
Clear Spider
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Welcome to our new blog series! In these next couple posts we will be talking about: augmented reality (AR) virtual reality (VR) You will learn the difference between them, what their uses are, and how they help with inventory management. Almost everyone now has heard of AR, and VR. The most common use for these […]. The post New Technology Changing The Supply Chain appeared first on [link].
Manufacturing & Logistics IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
By Matthew Robertson, Co-CEO, NetDespatch. “Britain is a nation of shopkeepers,” is the famous phrase coined by economist Adam Smith to explain the desire of a commercial nation to secure ever-expanding markets for its wares.
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