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Packing for the Future

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Have you seen the video of an innovative way to pack a suit in a rolled-up cardboard tube ([link] rollor.com/) that’s been circling among the logistics crowd on LinkedIn? I must admit, new ideas on how to package anything more efficiently (and better yet, sustainably) is like catnip to me, a self-proclaimed tree-hugging logistics nerd. In this particular video, the company offers a seemingly simple but sturdy method to ship a suit jacket wrinkle-free!

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Thanksgiving 2021

Enterra Insights

For the second straight year, we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday under the pall of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are also confronting supply chain snarls, climate change, rising inflation, global tension, and political bickering. The state of the world might cause some of us to wonder what there is to be thankful for. As it turns out, it is in just these sorts of circumstances that having a thankful heart pays the greatest dividends.

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5 Ways To Spark Supplier Engagement: Making Vendors Into Partners

Kodiak Hub

Some buyers and suppliers have relationships where one party, or both parties, genuinely believe that the other party doesn’t care about their business relationship. ??Responding to a tender last week, the project manager thanked me very graciously for my responsiveness and engagement during the process. I laughed, thanked her as well, and said, “Well, it’s my job to be responsive and engaging”.

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Setting Up A Pension Scheme: What Employers Need To Know

IT Supply Chain

By Jessica Sweet (pictured). Content Writer at makeLifeSweeter.com. The post Setting Up A Pension Scheme: What Employers Need To Know 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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7 Tips for Effective Power Plant Asset Management!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Future of Energy for Manufacturing! Power plant asset management article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. There are power plant management issues that, if not properly prepared for, can cost your business an arm and a leg. That’s the reason why strategizing for the management of your power plant’s assets is crucial to prevent problems like unplanned outages.

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Supply Chain Challenges in the Philippines: How can you overcome them?

Vinculum

What do you think happens when there is no proper management of the inventory in the entire process? The whole process of satisfying consumers will go in vain in following such an unsystematic way of handling things. To maintain e-commerce logistics, one must follow the inventory management, order placement process, storage or warehouse, backend, and front-end management of the e-commerce platform.

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Black Friday: Shoppers want to spend more, but will there be the stock?

IT Supply Chain

By Sachin Jangam (pictured). Partner for Retail, Infosys Consulting. The post Black Friday: Shoppers want to spend more, but will there be the stock? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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o9 Solutions announces a global partnership with Wipro Limited

o9 Solutions

DALLAS, TX – November XX, 2021: o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, announced a global partnership with Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company. . This partnership brings together o9 Solutions’ industry-leading Demand Management, Sales and Operations Planning , and Integrated Business Planning suite of solutions with Wipro’s global reach and client b

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A consistent omnichannel experience has never been more important for brands than it is this Black Friday

IT Supply Chain

By Shellie Vornhagen (pictured). Chief Experience Officer, Emplifi. The post A consistent omnichannel experience has never been more important for brands than it is this Black Friday appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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6 of the Best TED Talks for Shippers and Freight Procurement Leaders

Shipsta

When you’re running a global procurement team, finding time to discover new and innovative strategies can be tough. But it’s the leaders who keep up with the latest ideas and are always learning who come out on top, especially in today’s complex freight procurement market!

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Hackers will be searching for Black Friday steals too this weekend

IT Supply Chain

By Steve Bradford (pictured). Senior Vice President EMEA, SailPoint. The post Hackers will be searching for Black Friday steals too this weekend appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Strategic Sourcing Services for Schools and Universities

ProcurePort

Strategic sourcing involves optimizing a school’s overall spending with few suppliers, going through the process of establishing contracts as a university or as one educational institution, as opposed to every department or school having to go through this process themselves. With strategic sourcing, schools and universities save money, centralize their procurement planning and management processes. […].

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Black Friday – will it signal a much-needed boost for brick & mortar?

IT Supply Chain

By Melissa Minkow (pictured). Director, Retail Strategy at CI&T. The post Black Friday – will it signal a much-needed boost for brick & mortar? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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The Beauty and the Beast: From Analytics to Execution Technology 

Aioneers

With the rise of the age of data abundance, it is natural for technology like data infrastructure, analytics, and AI platforms that process such data to appear. These new technologies enable to access, transform, and analyze the vast reservoirs of data available to us. However, analyzing and processing data provides us with insights in dashboards and more information involving the worst-case, and such information is useless – unless it can be put to good use.

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Give consumers the freedom of choice this Black Friday

IT Supply Chain

By Andre Hordagoda (pictured). CEO & Co-Founder, Go Instore. The post Give consumers the freedom of choice this Black Friday appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The smart factory Part 3: What does the factory of the future look like

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on manufacturing companies, which have been forced to adapt to supply chain interruptions, market shifts and labor shortages. But with these challenges have come opportunities – to reconfigure work, transform operations and emerge with more resiliency and ingenuity than ever before. Manual production lines are switching to automated assemblies and valuable data is being used to discover actionable insights into manufacturing operations.

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Ransomware set to break records this Black Friday 2021

IT Supply Chain

By Dmitriy Ayrapetov (pictured). VP of Platform Architecture, SonicWall. The post Ransomware set to break records this Black Friday 2021 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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Essentials to Remember in 3D Printing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Why is 3D Printing Revolutionary for Supply Chain? (Infographic). 3D printing article and permission to publish here provided by Nancy Miller. Are you stepping into 3D printing business? Well, in this case, there are some basic rules which you must keep in mind. The first step is that you should not take a plunge without any planning.