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3 Supply Chain Management Tips That Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

RFgen

Automated data collection solutions can help companies adhere to inventory management best practices. Are you adhering to supply chain management best practices? If so, you’ll be, at the minimum, using automated data collection tools and following government and industry regulations. But typically the bare minimum isn’t good enough. Take for example Boeing, which faced major supply chain and supplies chain management problems when it was building its to-be glamorous 787 aircraft.

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Global Supply Chain News on In Ominous Development, China Said to Be Considering Laws to Claim Control over Shipping Far Off Its Shore

Supply Chain Digest

Tensions Continue to Get Worse, Posing Huge Supply Chain Risks, as a Map of Claims Shows What a Mess This Is

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3 Supply Chain Management Tips That Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

RFgen

Automated data collection solutions can help companies adhere to inventory management best practices. Are you adhering to supply chain management best practices? If so, you’ll be, at the minimum, using automated data collection tools and following government and industry regulations. But typically the bare minimum isn’t good enough. Take for example Boeing, which faced major supply chain and supplies chain management problems when it was building its to-be glamorous 787 aircraft.

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Supply Chain Newsmakers Video Series on Software Provider E2open is On the Move. CEO Michael Farlekas on Strategy

Supply Chain Digest

After Series of Acquistions in Past Two Years, Where is E2open Headed Next

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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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Presidents’ Day 2017

Enterra Insights

Today in America we celebrate what has come to be known as Presidents’ Day. Officially, however, the holiday is still … Continued. The post Presidents’ Day 2017 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Moore’s Law and supply chain planning systems

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha It was in 1965 that Dr. Gordon Moore made a prediction that changed the pace of tech. His prediction, popularly known as Moore’s law , was with regards to doubling of the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated circuit every 18 months or so. As a result of the innovations attributable to the endurance of Moore’s law over the last 50+ years, we have seen significant accelerations in processing power, storage, and connectivity.

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Precise scheduling: The key to solving the hot charging puzzle

DELMIA Quintiq

About 10 years ago, I wrote my master’s thesis on scheduling steel production. In my research, I read a lot about the steel industry, particularly about steelmaking processes and optimizing steel production schedules. One of the interesting topics I read about was hot charging: Optimizing the path between steel casting and hot rolling so that the cooling of slabs between those two processes is minimized.

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Meeting the Needs of Shippers’ Global Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Meeting the Needs of Shippers’ Global Supply Chains | Transportfolio. I’ve worked in the logistics industry for over 20 years. Lately I’ve been thinking about how C.H. Robinson has had a front row seat to more changes and challenges in international trade than most people can comprehend. We’ve seen the emergence of new markets, the impact of an increasingly connected globe, and the progress brought by a barrage of technological advances.

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Going Green | Green Shipping Practices in the Trucking Industry

GlobalTranz

The over-the-road trucking has recently come under fire with new regulations for carbon emissions. New studies on the effects of climate change over the last decade have prompted authorities to take measures for reducing the carbon footprint in all industries, including the shipping industry. While the new administration has promised to ease back some of this regulation, the trend toward green shipping practices is still a good idea; though the reason is perhaps less to “save the environment” a

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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.