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Ways to Make Your Supply Chain More Sustainable!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Start Your Business’ Sustainability Journey in 5 Steps! Many companies are looking for ways to add more sustainability in all aspects of their supply chain. It is time to get rid of some of the processes that are now outdated and change them out for innovative techniques that will be good for the environment.

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Editor’s Choice: Last Mile Delivery: Challenges And Solutions For Superior Consumer Experiences

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from FarEye and examines the challenges around last mile delivery. With the continued growth of e-commerce, last mile delivery has become more important than ever for consumers and more complex and challenging for shippers.

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Going ‘Lean’ Brought Us to Diminishing Returns, Resilience Will Serve Us Better

CHAINalytics

Lean supply chain management is all about efficiency, and any excess is seen as waste, which must be removed. The past three years have been an example of the unintended consequences of this practice, and how it may not be the best approach to handle to volatility faced by today’s supply chains. Over-application of lean … The post Going ‘Lean’ Brought Us to Diminishing Returns, Resilience Will Serve Us Better appeared first on Chainalytics.

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The Visible Supply Chain: Adapting to a New Standard of Accountability

Supply Chain Brain

While ESG efforts have long aimed to increase transparency, many leaders are realizing that we’re moving past bare-minimum standards into an era of full visibility.

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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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Healthcare Automation 101: Where to Start and Pitfalls to Avoid

Locus Robotics

By Mary Hart. When the pandemic started, it exposed supply chain issues across all industries, but especially in healthcare. Hospitals and healthcare facilities carried as little inventory as possible, but found they didn’t have the products they needed to keep up with patient and physician demands. On the Tecsys webinar, “ From Dock to Doc: Addressing Patient Needs Through Smarter Automation ”, Guy Courtin, Tecsys Vice President of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Andrew Wang , Locus Robot

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Better Waste Management for the Environment!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Optimizing Waste Management in the Warehouse! It’s a fact that recycling and better waste management are important to the environment. But they’re also important to supply chains. Recycling keeps materials out of landfills, which reduces their size and helps them decompose more quickly.

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A Manufacturing Day Look Into the Future: Sustainable and Digital

QAD

Manufacturing Day is all about paving the way for the next generation to see themselves in our field and sustain manufacturing into the future. Around the US, companies and schools are collaborating to give students a peek into our exciting world of modern manufacturing. Half the battle of getting young people into manufacturing is an exercise in educating them about what our interests are (and in many cases, that they even exist!).

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How COVID-19 Affected the Global Flow of Money & the Benefits of Globalization

IT Supply Chain

By Allen Brown (pictured). Content Writer. The post How COVID-19 Affected the Global Flow of Money & the Benefits of Globalization appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Casino Secrets: How Not to Go Broke!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Music at Casinos Attracts Gamblers! In gambling establishments, ordinary inhabitants are attracted by a mysterious atmosphere, elegant people, and the spirit of luxury offered by casino secrets. Here you can smoke, drink, chat and enjoy delicious food. And also bring home a million stories about how someone guessed the number on the roulette wheel seven times in a row, and someone made a hundred, betting just one dollar.

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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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How can Artificial Intelligence make the Industry More Efficient?

IT Supply Chain

By Dwight J. Lawrence (pictured). Content Writer. The post How can Artificial Intelligence make the Industry More Efficient? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How Many Types of Computer Monitors Do You Know?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Screen Time! Is That Enough To Be Good In Supply Chain? There is no one-size-fits-all display. In fact, there are many different types of computer monitors and each one has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. From the old CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), Plasma, OLED (Organic light-emitting diode) and to LCDs (Liquid Crystal Display) and LEDs (Light-emitting diodes).

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Ready or not, Web 3 is coming and with it comes cybersquatting 2.0

IT Supply Chain

By Tim Brown (pictured). Head of Brand Protection. The post Ready or not, Web 3 is coming and with it comes cybersquatting 2.0 appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Why Manufacturing is the Future!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Industry 4.0 and How Data is Changing Manufacturing! As the world becomes more advanced, and technology becomes a part of day-to-day life, one thing has always stayed the same: manufacturing. Manufacturing is the past and present. Manufacturing is the future! While today, there are many changes in this industry, it remains an important part of our society and economy.

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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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Why an AI-based CX platform should be at the heart of brand strategy

IT Supply Chain

By Shellie Vornhagen (pictured). CXO, Emplifi. The post Why an AI-based CX platform should be at the heart of brand strategy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Semiconductor Fabrication!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Baby Formula! I am a proponent of dual sourcing. Some people believe in outsourcing or insourcing, offshoring or onshoring. I believe in all of the above. The vulnerabilities with sole sourcing are very real. And you need look no further than the pandemic and semiconductor fabrication.

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Driving supplier accountability to boost social value across your supply chain

IT Supply Chain

By Tony Harris (pictured). SVP & Chief Marketing & Solutions Officer, SAP Business Network. The post Driving supplier accountability to boost social value across your supply chain appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Is Cloud-based Planning the Right Move Today for the Supply Chain?

John Galt

We explore questions you should ask, whether you are already invested in the cloud or beginning the transition from an on-premise solution.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Operational Resilience Through Supply Chain & Business Process Mapping

IT Supply Chain

By Safi Raza (pictured). Director of Cybersecurity, Fusion Risk Management. The post Operational Resilience Through Supply Chain & Business Process Mapping appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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An Inside Look at the BR Williams Logistics Division

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

BR Williams began their trucking division as a logistics company service provider in 1958 and expanded into warehousing/distribution in 1992. Today, the supply chain experts have six distribution centers in the Southeast U.S., including Mobile AL , Piedmont, AL , Tallahassee, FL , Eastaboga, AL , and two facilities in Anniston, AL that provide a variety of customers with quality logistics services.

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What is the Role of Suppliers in Supply Chain Management?

ProcurePort

• Efficient and well-ordered suppliers are worth their weight in gold. In an increasingly competitive world, establishing favorable relationships with such high-caliber suppliers is imperative for good business. • But who or what are suppliers? And why are they so important? • In this post, we are going to answer two major questions: What are […].

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A Supply-Chain Tech Startup Nets $100 Million

Supply Chain Brain

New York-based startup Altana Technologies now shares a burgeoning field that includes big operators like project44 and FourKites.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Great bullwhip video from WSJ

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Many U.S. retailers find themselves caught in a classic supply-chain bullwhip effect. A WSJ Video report walks through a phenomenon that’s become common during times of economic stress, and can leave companies facing big stockpiles and potential margin-crushing discounting. This fall, companies that were struggling to meet overwhelming demand just a year ago find themselves swamped by goods and weighing a range of costly solutions.

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New Amware eBook examines outsourcing marketing fulfillment services

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

The do-it-yourself approach works for many things in the business world, but fulfillment of sales and marketing materials isn’t one of them.

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Mississippi River Drought Imperils Trade on Vital U.S. Waterway

Supply Chain Brain

Drought has depleted river water levels so much that in some spots barges are getting stuck, and low water levels are causing severe impacts to navigation not seen since 1988.

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Up Your Warehouse Productivity with These New Communication Trends

All Things Supply Chain

Every warehouse manager understands how important communication is to the daily activities of the institution.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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U.S. Imports Headed to Lowest Level Since Early 2021 But Retailers Are Well Stocked for Holidays

Supply Chain Brain

The National Retail Federation forecasts that 2022 retail sales will grow between 6% and 8% over 2021. Sales were up 7.5% during the first eight months of the year.

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Revolutionizing the customer experience

Axway

With an ever-evolving tech landscape, stiff competition and an undeniably changing world, marketers seem to have more to contend with today than ever before.

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U.S.’s Top Ports Face Calls to Go Green After “Unmitigated Growth”

Supply Chain Brain

The San Pedro port complex is facing calls to lower its carbon footprint from Southern California communities plagued by the health and environmental impacts, said Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia.