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Top 5 Trends to Know to Compete with Amazon’s Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Aside from the new administration, Amazon’s supply chain continued push deeper into new and existing markets will define additional trends in the supply chain throughout the coming year. While supply chain entities struggle to stay competitive with the e-commerce giant, more organizations will look for ways to eliminate inefficiencies and boost operations.

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Xilinx: Fight the urge to be precise – How supply chain technology is helping Xilinx

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow For Xilinx Inc., a supplier of programmable logic devices, the focus is more on speed than optimization, says Alex Brown, vice president of supply chain. That’s not to say the latter is unimportant. After all, Brown was trained in the area of optimization, but he says data, always uncertain, changes every day. “We want to make decisions quickly, we want to be able to run things quickly, we want to know as fast as we can the sensitivity of a problem and what the key parameters are

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Common Sales and Operations Myths Part 4 – Spreadsheets are King

Logility

This is the fourth in a series of posts that investigates some of the myths or mistruths I have heard over the last 20+ years concerning Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). The topic of today’s post is one we hear often and industry research shows it is not going away fast enough. The reliance on spreadsheets and other less sophisticated solutions to manage the S&OP process.

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Editor’s Pick: Why Supply Chain Talent Management Needs to Be a Top Priority

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. Today’s post is by Angie Freeman, Chief Human Resources Officer at C.H. Robinson , where she shares five reasons why supply chain professionals at all levels need to be diligent talent managers.

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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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Artificial Intelligence Looming Large

Enterra Insights

For decades, artificial intelligence (AI) was primarily confined to research projects in academia. That is no longer the case. “Artificial … Continued. The post Artificial Intelligence Looming Large appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Red Flags that Every Supplier Business Development Team Knows to Look For

NC State SCRC

One of the most important elements suppliers seek to avoid involves participation in an RFP when there is a low probability of success. Procurement people think that every supplier will go after every RFP they put out. Think again. Request for proposals require a business development team to expend resources. An RFP can be just to gather ideas and do nothing.

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6 Supply Chain Skills Every Manager Needs to Know

All Things Supply Chain

Supply chain is a part of almost every business. Managing it effectively is not a simple task.

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Supply Chain News onLots of eFulfillment News Last Week

Supply Chain Digest

Walmart Ends Prime Copycat, UPS Earnings Hit by Too Much eCommerce Business, Amazon Building Hug Air Hub, Amazon Continues to See Fast Revenue Growth

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6 Supply Chain Skills Every Manager Needs to Know

All Things Supply Chain

Supply chain is a part of. read more >>.

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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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Supply Chain News on Cognitive Procurement Systems Advancing

Supply Chain Digest

A Close Cousin of Artificual Intelligence, Cognitive System Now Adressing Spend Management, Risk Mitigation and More

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Retail Seeks to Redefine Itself

Supply Chain 24/7

Retailers and their suppliers need to find new ways to deliver value and unique services to consumers.

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“Can I Still Play?”

Tailwind

This is the scariest line you hear as a minor hockey coach. It’s asked by one of the young hockey players in the dressing room before the game. It comes right after this line. “Oh no… I forgot my supporter cup.”. A little while ago I learned that the company that supplies the majority of hockey equipment to the world – Bauer/ Easton – is now under court protection as it tries to restructure its finances.

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Thank you for your 5 Star Reviews

Freightera

We’re so thankful for your 5 star reviews Jay Whiting of h2o Innovation, Michael Kane of Prestige Refrigeration, Kyla Woynarski of Minuteman Press, and Colin Sprake from Make Your Mark! Thank you so much, we truly appreciate it ♥. Facebook 5 star reviews – January 2017: The post Thank you for your 5 Star Reviews appeared first on Freightera Blog.

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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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How Should Supply Chains Handle the New US Administration?

River Logic

The new U.S. administration has signaled an intention to reverse the trend towards globalization due to a belief that these policies have hurt the U.S. economy. In particular, there's a view that low import duties allowed under various trade agreements directly harm the U.S.

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