Fri.Jun 12, 2020

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The Digital Twin is the Next Big Technology Enabler

Requis

With hindsight, some technologies are revealed as not only promoters of progress, but enablers of other technologies. Think of inventions like the wheel, the Archimedes screw, steel, the assembly line and the internet. Pull out any one of these linchpins, and essential parts of our civilization disappear. The digital twin is going to be one of those technology enablers.

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Freight Broker Business: Increase Shrinking Margins With Better Analytics

Turvo

Maintaining a freight broker business and helping it stand out from the crowd is more difficult than ever. In today’s world, anyone can start a business, grow into a successful broker, and work with the biggest names in shipping. Unfortunately, that does not always amount to spending money reasonably and maintaining control over freight spend. For those operating a freight broker business, the challenges are greater.

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Establish an Agile S&OP Process to Respond and Recover From COVID-19

Vanguard Software

Supply chain planning plays a critical role in managing the current and future supply and demand challenges facing organizations, during and after COVID-19.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Each day through the COVID-19 pandemic, I tune into Anthony Cuomo’s (governor of New York) daily briefings. It is my break in the day. As a multi-tasker, when Governor Cuomo broadcasts, I use the time to work out on my rowing machine. His opening line is, “Let’s start with facts. While we all have opinions, let’s start by reviewing the facts.” When he says this, I smile and row harder.

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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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Collaborate to Win

ivalua

The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. In case anyone was sleeping, the Covid-19 crisis has provided further evidence. As supply chains were disrupted, those organizations that had the closest relationships with suppliers were most likely to gain preferred access to keep goods flowing, and effectively forecast.

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Food Waste: The Hidden Enemy of Streamlined Operations

BlueYonder

In late 2019, Blue Yonder’s shared research found that £144 million ($177 million) in food waste could be prevented by the UK’s top eight grocers each year by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in their supply chains. The COVID-19 crisis has made this number much higher, as consumer habits have drastically shifted in response to unemployment spikes and general fears of the virus.

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What is a Supply Chain Control Tower?

Freight Plus

What is a supply chain control tower? . A supply chain control tower takes a 360 degree view of all your operations - you are planning, executing and measuring everything that is going on within a shipping operation. What is the difference between a control tower and visibility? . Visibility is a piece of your operation - to us it is where the truck/goods are in transit.

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7 take-aways from University of Cambridge’s sustainability course

Provenance

At Provenance, we’re always striving to learn more. We’re constantly pushing to stay on the cutting edge of what’s happening across supply chains, in sustainability and around the technology innovations to support transparency of all of this for citizens. As such, our Partnerships Manager, Emilien Hoet, recently shared with both our team and in a Medium post about what he learned from his latest studies in sustainability… As the Business Sustainability Management course f

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What is a Supply Chain Control Tower?

Freight Plus

What is a supply chain control tower? . A supply chain control tower takes a 360 degree view of all your operations - you are planning, executing and measuring everything that is going on within a shipping operation. What is the difference between a control tower and visibility? . Visibility is a piece of your operation - to us it is where the truck/goods are in transit.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (June 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Artificial intelligence has been applied to just about every supply chain application imaginable, including transportation management and execution, demand planning, supply chain planning, warehouse management, and order management. It has also been embedded in autonomous trucks, robots, and drones for navigation. There are myriad applications outside of the supply chain world as well, but I saw a new one this week: writing a Metallica song.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (June 12, 2020)

Talking Logistics

What traditional supply chain practices or concepts (“the way we’ve always done things”) do you believe companies must unlearn to succeed moving forward? We asked our Indago supply chain research community that question this week. They will receive the results later today. I will also share some of the results this coming Tuesday (June 16.

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Why People Are Concerned About Ethical AI

Enterra Insights

Most people don’t think about ethics when they think about technology. When you place a piece of bread in your toaster, you don’t ask if you’re acting ethically. So why are people so concerned about ethics and artificial intelligence (AI)? The simple answer is that AI is so integrated into our lives we need to know the information AI systems provide us is accurate and fair.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 06/05/20 – 06/11/20

All Things Supply Chain

Ocean shipping shrinks as pandemic pummels retailers Some shipping lines, whose retail customers are being severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, are reducing sailing speeds and taking longer routes around…

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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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Meet the Axway Escalation Group

Axway

The Axway Escalation Group is a mostly internal support team whose role is to provide various experts to help support solving cases and also handles communication with R&D.

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Three Things to Consider When Employees Work From Home

Supply Chain Brain

The landscape of the workforce is inevitably changing, and so must employers and employees if they want to stay relevant.

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WHITE PAPER: SETTLEMENT MANAGEMENT – OVERVIEW AND PROCESS FLOW

Bristlecone

As our business environment continues to get more complex, there’s greater need for holistic and visionary solutions that meet the expectations of various internal and external stakeholders. In many ways, SAP S/4HANA answers the call for a digital core and peripherals that address ever-changing and increasing stakeholder expectations and streamline everyday processes.

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7 ways Ingram Micro prepared for a 10x increase in order volume

6 River Systems

Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services is a global supply chain solution provider with clients across a wide range of industries. Services include direct-to-consumer and B2B fulfillment, dropship and returns management, IT asset disposition, re-marketing, distribution and more. In a recent interview with Collaborative Robotics Trends , Glen Sutton, senior vice president for the Americas at Ingram Micro, shared that manual picking carts had been used in one of Ingram Micro’s B2C operation

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Webinar: Covid19 – Ist ihre Lieferkette noch so vollständig wie vor der Krise? – Dienstag, 30 Juni, 14:00 Uhr MEZ

Bristlecone

Die Covid19 Situation scheint sich zu stabilisieren Ihr Unternehmen ist bereit für einen Neustart Aber sind es ihre Lieferanten?! Während viele Unternehmen ihre Geschäftstätigkeit nach der durch die COVID-19-Pandemie ver-ursachten Pause wieder aufnehmen, sind neue Herausforderungen entstanden. So mussten einige Lieferanten ihre Unternehmen aufgrund der schwachen Nachfrage entweder schließen oder sind zum unsicheren „Wackelkandidaten“ geworden.

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