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Do You Really Understand What’s Driving Your Demand Planning Processes?

Logility

Descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics should be combined to optimize your demand planning processes. Some years ago, a 40-year-old Midwest process manufacturer with 40,000 SKUs finally completed implementing a new ERP system and quickly worked to combine all the new data with an array of other operational software, producing tons of new data daily.

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FMI Convenes Timely Supply Chain Forum

Supply Chain Brain

FMI – The Food Industry Association today announces FMI’s first-ever Supply Chain Forum April 6-7, designed for mid-senior level supply chain professionals willing to learn and engage on a range of critical and timely topics across the industry.

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Use Your Small Business Credit Card Wisely

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Top Considerations in Credit Card Consolidation. GET our EBOOK HERE. Small business credit card article and permission to publish here provided by Roel Mahalin. For small- to medium-sized (SMB) businesses, taking out a loan doesn’t always come easy. Since the recession in 2008, traditional lenders don’t usually grant loans to small businesses that easily.

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5 Supply Chain Technology Trends to Watch for In 2021 | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

Companies can't stay away from using supply chain technology to enhance their digital supply chain management and business performance.

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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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What is the Importance of Cryptocurrency?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Tips on Cryptocurrency Trading! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Importance of cryptocurrency article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. Following are several of the explanations why cryptocurrencies are so important. Bitcoin is amongst the most reliable and safer digital currency currently available.

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LEGO and Legislation

IT Supply Chain

By Cris Pikes (pictured). CEO of Image Analyzer. The post LEGO and Legislation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Best Practices for Optimal Inventory Replenishment

Vanguard Software

Inventory replenishment involves purchasing and moving inventory, both finished goods and raw materials, from reserve storage to primary storage and eventually to the selling location. The Importance of Inventory Replenishment. Having a clear inventory replenishment strategy is essential for organizations to avoid critical supply chain issues that result in high costs, such as having out-of-stock products, spoilage, or excessive stock.

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Supply Chain Preparedness Lessons Learned: The Gulf Coast Refineries and the Texas Storm

NC State SCRC

I interviewed some individuals who work in the Houston area and learned more about what happened. One supply chain executive shared with me some of the challenges they experienced during the Texas Winter Storm that hit last week. “It was hell. All of the incoming gases that came through pipelined were being “ force majeured ”, (a contractual term that reflects to disruption of supply due to an act of God.).

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Episode 113 - SCU30: Supply Chain under 30 with Andrew Cox at FreightWaves

Freight Plus

#SCU30 is where we talk with professionals under the age of thirty currently working the supply chain. In this episode, Andrew Cox, Sr. Retail Analyst and Retail Community Leader for FreightWaves, joins the show to talk about his experience in the supply chain. In this conversation Andrew shares: The importance of getting experience. Studying abroad in Amsterdam.

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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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Exchange email attack compromises UK firms

IT Supply Chain

By Matthew Hodgson (pictured). CEO of Element. The post Exchange email attack compromises UK firms appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 12, 2021)

Talking Logistics

It’s only March, but we already have a winner for “Word of the Year” for 2020: canceled. Last Friday I wrote about industry conferences getting canceled due to the novel coronavirus, but in just the past few days, almost everything has been canceled or suspended this month: schools, concerts, sports, religious services, and the list. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 12, 2021).

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DELMIA Communities Week in Review

DELMIA Quintiq

Hello and Welcome to the Week in Review! This is the weekly blog post that will give a one-look overview of what happened in the DELMIA Communities this past week. But there is a lot more than what you will see below. Visit the communities to see the exchange of information and ideas between members and DELMIA experts. With eight active communities, you are sure to find one to suit your DELMIA interests.

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Taking a Look at Supply Chain Stocks

Supply Chain Digest

Insights from Our Relaunched Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Index

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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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Industry Insights: Minimum Wage Increases Among Major Retailers

EnVista

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for Jan. 27, 2021 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

See who took home the prize

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Complex ERP Landscape? A Dual Platform Strategy May be the Answer

The Network Effect

The post Complex ERP Landscape? A Dual Platform Strategy May be the Answer appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Smart Cities Begin with People not Technology

Enterra Insights

For any organization to be successful, people, processes, and technology must be aligned and optimized. Smart cities are no different. Smart Cities Begin with People not Technology. Stephen DeAngelis. March 12, 2021. For any organization to be successful, people, processes, and technology must be aligned and optimized. Smart cities are no different.

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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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The Emerge Story with Andrew Leto

The Logistics of Logistics

The Emerge Story with Andrew Leto. Joe Lynch and Andrew Leto discuss Andrews’s entrepreneurial journey and the Emerge story. Joe and Andrew also discuss Andrew’s earlier business ventures, Globaltranz and 10-4 Systems. About Andrew Leto. Andrew Leto , is the Founder and CEO of Emerge , which is a digital freight marketplace. Andrew has been in the logistics industry since 2003 when he founded GlobalTranz after serving five honorable years in the U.S.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending March 12, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

See who was up and who was down

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Re-Inventing the High Tech Supply Chain to Meet Growing Consumer Demand

ivalua

The post Re-Inventing the High Tech Supply Chain to Meet Growing Consumer Demand appeared first on Ivalua.

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Sugar Cane Lego Blocks? No More Plastic Fantastic as Toymaker Goes Green

Supply Chain Brain

Lego has a team of 100 people dedicated to developing its green toys, and they need to make sure the company has an environmentally friendly product it can put on store shelves by 2030.

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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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Supplier Risk & Performance Datasheet

ivalua

The post Supplier Risk & Performance Datasheet appeared first on Ivalua.

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How Cloud ERP can Help Manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

“The future is no longer what it used to be” is a quote attributed to Paul Valéry describing the dramatically changed worldviews and new emerging mindsets that arose after the First World War. Many businesses are now facing a situation where their old assumptions are being challenged, and the rules of the old game are […]. The post How Cloud ERP can Help Manufacturers appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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Invoice to Pay Datasheet

ivalua

The post Invoice to Pay Datasheet appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 03/05/2021 – 03/11/2021

All Things Supply Chain

Moderna and IBM to team up on COVID-19 vaccine tracking Pharmaceutical company Moderna is teaming up with IBM to explore how technology such as AI, blockchain and hybrid cloud could…

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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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eProcurement Datasheet

ivalua

The post eProcurement Datasheet appeared first on Ivalua.

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How Fleets Are Adapting to Late-Stage Pandemic Trends

Supply Chain Brain

Regional reopening patterns will affect truck acquisitions, mileage, financing and more.

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Why Your Strategies Fail. Execution Matters!

Aioneers

Even though it's hard to pin down an exact percentage, research has shown that on average, about half of strategic initiatives fail to be executed successfully. For those conceptualizing strategies, this is, of course, a sobering statistic: this means half the strategic work you're doing is not leading to the desired results. In this article, we'll look at some of the reasons why strategic measures aren't executed, and help you ask the right questions to increase the impact of your strategies.