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The Big Supply Chain Analytics Failure

Supply Chain Shaman

New forms of analytics abound. Embracing them is a different story. Data abounds while insights are low. Supply chain leaders struggle with the adoption and use of new forms of analytics. Only one in two are satisfied with their success in using analytics. Here we postulate why based on recent research. Analytics Success by Business Leaders. Reason #1.

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GlobalTranz Secures 4th Consecutive Inclusion in FreightTech 100 2022 Awards

GlobalTranz

The FreightTech 100 2022 award recipients have officially been released. As an industry leader in 3PL solutions, including managed services, GlobalTranz is proud and honored to secure a spot in the 2022 FreightWaves FreightTech 100 , marking the fourth consecutive year of inclusion. What Are the FreightTech 100 Awards? The FreightWaves FreightTech 100 awards honor companies that have demonstrated prowess in business over the past year and established innovation and disruption in the freight ind

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The Big Supply Chain Analytics Failure

Supply Chain Shaman

New forms of analytics abound. Embracing them is a different story. Data abounds while insights are low. Supply chain leaders struggle with the adoption and use of new forms of analytics. Only one in two are satisfied with their success in using analytics. Here we postulate why based on recent research. Analytics Success by Business Leaders. Reason #1.

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Blume Global Talks Supply Chain Trends, Digital Twins, and Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Pervinder Johar, CEO of Blume Global. During our conversation, Pervinder and I spoke abut the changing nature of supply chain management, especially in the face of the ongoing Covid pandemic. I asked Pervinder to give his insights on a few key points. First, what is the current state of supply chain technology?

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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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The Big Supply Chain Analytics Failure

Supply Chain Shaman

New forms of analytics abound. Embracing them is a different story. Data abounds while insights are low. Supply chain leaders struggle with the adoption and use of new forms of analytics. Only one in two are satisfied with their success in using analytics. Here we postulate why based on recent research. Analytics Success by Business Leaders. Reason #1.

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DTC Frozen Food with Richard Gray

The Logistics of Logistics

DTC Frozen Food with Richard Gray. Richard Gray and Joe Lynch discuss DTC frozen food. Richard is the founder and CEO of Gray Growth Strategies , a consulting company that provides custom-tailored solutions for refrigerated or frozen food fulfillment needs. About Richard Gray. Richard Gray is a leading strategist in global direct-to-consumer marketing and business model development.

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Procurement Digital Transformation Sets the Stage for Delivering Game-Changing Benefits for Ahlsell

ivalua

Ahlsell, a prominent international retail solutions provider, has led a complete digital transformation overhaul with a central focus on trading goods supplier management. A leading B2B wholesaler of installation and plumbing products, tools, and machinery, the company of 5,700 employees and over 240 stores operates in all Nordic countries and the Baltic States, generating over $3.9 billion in annual sales.

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Life Sciences Companies Moving to the Cloud See Sunny Days Ahead

Logility

The cloud is arguably one of the most value-creating technologies of our time. It is the foundation for the digital transformation driving massive changes in how businesses operate, compete and create value for stakeholders. Cloud technology for life sciences companies offers myriad possibilities. It’s Not Just About Money For life sciences companies, the cloud’s value is not just about lowering costs.

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Ransomware Part One: A Growing Threat

Enterra Insights

If data breaches aren’t frightening enough to keep CIOs awake at night, ransomware attacks must surely do the trick. “In an analysis of publicly reported ransomware attacks against health-care providers, municipalities and schools, The Washington Post found that ransomware attacks in the United States more than doubled from 2019 to 2020.”[1] Drew Adamek ( @Drew_Adamek ), Senior Editor at Financial Management magazine, observes, “Ransomware is on the rise.

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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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Top 7 Pitfalls to AVOID in S&OP

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one-stop shop for all of the elements you need to achieve supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chains Need $100 Trillion to Hit Climate Goal

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains will need an estimated $100 trillion in investment to achieve the planet’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions over the next three decades, according to new research that pins as much as half of that price tag on small- to medium-size businesses.

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KPIs to assist manufacturers and distributors with supply chain challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors experienced huge supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic which exposed many vulnerabilities and tested the resilience of supply chain leaders globally. In fact, SYSPRO research revealed that 60% of businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. Industries experienced severe operational and financial consequences with issues like supply shortages, supply and demand surges, inventory shortfalls and reduced productivity.

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What are Dark Stores, and How do they Work? [+ case studies]

Unleashed

On-demand delivery is booming, and at the centre of this so-called quick commerce is the dark store – the customer-free store where online orders are packed for fulfilment in as short a time as possible. If you think it’s just a trend for huge grocery companies, think again: retailers like Nordstrom have leapt aboard, and delivery start-ups have raised billions in funding in recent years.

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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 to Select the Best Employee Recognition Program!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Unleash Your Employees’ Ideas to Truly Change the Game! Employee recognition program article and permission to publish here provided by Sarah Dawson. It’s really fulfilling to get recognition for something that you did. It makes a person really happy about their work and efforts when they get recognized for it.

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Post-pandemic bounce – delivery experience is vital for competitive differentiation

IT Supply Chain

By Andrew Tavener (pictured). Head of Marketing, Descartes Systems Group. The post Post-pandemic bounce – delivery experience is vital for competitive differentiation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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8 Ways to Use Technology in Your Small Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Small Business Cost Cutting: A Short Guide! Ways to Use Technology article and permission to publish here provided by Gabe Nelson. You must learn to use technology in your small business! Utilizing various technologies allows your company to save resources and make better use of time.

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Supply chain attack on Labour Party shows bad actors have a new favourite tactic

IT Supply Chain

By Mike Campfield (pictured). VP of EMEA Operations of ExtraHop. The post Supply chain attack on Labour Party shows bad actors have a new favourite tactic appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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6 Tips to Maintain Quality in Aerospace Manufacturing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A Tale of Two Companies: Different Quality Management Beliefs! Aerospace manufacturing article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. While the aerospace industry may employ the same equipment and techniques as other manufacturing operations in producing parts for spacecraft and aircraft, it requires a significantly higher level of quality standards.

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Series: Discover What It Means to Identify, Track and Manage

AB&R

Take a Deep Dive into Our Tagline. If you’re familiar with what we do here at AB&R, you’ll likely see us use the words “identify,” “track,” and “manage” often. In fact, they are our tagline! We realized that while they encompass much of what we do, we’ve never out-right explained why they’re vital to our brand identity. Let’s change that! The Origin of Identify.

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Inventory Days on Hand: How to Calculate It and Optimize Your Inventory

Ware2Go

Learn how to calculate inventory days on hand and how it can help improve cash flow and the overall efficiency of your business. What Is Inventory Days on Hand? Inventory Days on Hand is a measurement of how many days it takes a business to sell through their average stock of inventory. It is primarily used by financial analysts and investors to determine how efficiently a business uses inventory dollars.

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A Guide to Freight Payment Types, Solutions & Why Shippers Use These Services

Intelligent Audit

Large shipping companies that average at least $1 billion in annual revenue can report processing costs that come in 70 percent lower than smaller shippers in the market. The implications of reduced cost in just this one area of processing and freight payment management can have a significant impact on profits. But freight payment remains a very complex and often error-prone process.

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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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EC Sourcing Group ranks as a ‘Value’ & ‘Customer’ Leader in Latest eSourcing Benchmarking Study

EC Sourcing Group

EC Sourcing Group ranks as a ‘Value’ & ‘Customer’ Leader in Latest eSourcing Benchmarking Study. Spend Matters’ newly released Fall 2021 SolutionMap report names EC Sourcing Group a Customer & Value Leader across multiple organization types. MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, November 3, 2021 / EINPresswire.com / — For the fifth consecutive year, EC Sourcing Group has ranked as a ‘Customer’ and ‘Value’ leader for sourcing by leading procurement tec

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Associated Grocers of New England Selects HIMPACT

Herlitz Inventory Management

In September 2021, Associated Grocers of New England signed with Herlitz Inventory Management to improve upon its existing purchasing system and to further advance its goal of serving the needs of independent retail grocers of every store size and format. October XX , 2021, Cambridge, MA – Herlitz Inventory Management , leading innovator in scientific demand forecasting, replenishment and optimization, announced that Associated Grocers of New England (AGNE) has selected HIMPACT as its new

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Celebrating Diwali at Blue Yonder

BlueYonder

It’s that time of the year when the holiday season creeps in a bit early for everyone in India. For many, we hear children running around or sounds of the Laxmi Bomb (or firecracker) distantly over Zoom calls, which is well received with, “Oh, its Diwali time! Happy Diwali!” Indeed, what an ecstasy! Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we celebrate at Blue Yonder, but we can’t stop thinking about the fun and frolic we’ll experience when we can once-again celebrate i

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5 Essential Contract Creation Tools

ProcurePort

Creating, negotiating, managing, and settling contracts is an essential part of any business. Contract management is also a critically underpinning element of sourcing in the supply chain. However, each step is tedious and time-consuming and is prone to standard types of data errors. So, what are Contract Lifecycle Management CLM or simply contract creation tools?

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Nov. 4, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Carriers Seeing Record Profits.Prologis Cannot Build Warehouses Fast Enough for Demand, US PMI for October down a Bit but Still Strong.

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Watch: Can Supplier Relationships Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?

Supply Chain Brain

Duncan Jones, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research, Inc., shares insights from the firm’s recent research into efforts by global brands to achieve corporate social responsibility goals.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Gartner Hype Cycle on Supply Chain Planning Technologies

Supply Chain Digest

Always an Interesting Look at What Technologies are Delivering Consistent Value