Wed.Nov 02, 2022

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The case for a more agile supply chain

Taulia

Even a cursory look at the headlines we’ve seen since 2020 reveals a ‘perfect storm’ of challenges to global supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic directly resulted in unpredictable shifts in demand, labor shortages, and bottlenecks in manufacturing and distribution. More recently, the war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia have placed limitations on both the overland rail and air freight routes from China to Europe and increased the strain on Northern European ports that were already congest

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Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q3 2022)

Talking Logistics

We’re in the final stretch of 2022. Many of you are busy developing your strategies, plans, and budgets for 2023. What will happen next year? The honest truth is that nobody really knows for sure. And this is especially true when it comes to the transportation market. If we have learned anything the past two. Read more Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q3 2022).

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Balance Resilience and Intelligent Decision-Making with Network Design and Optimization

Logility

The traditional formula of minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency is no longer enough – instead, tradeoffs need to be made. Higher costs are an unfortunate reality in the current supply chain environment, and they’re likely to persist despite attempts to contain costs in areas that can be controlled. This realization for supply chain leaders creates new questions about which strategies can genuinely optimize their operations while offsetting changing demand and supply disruption.

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Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

Ann Holm and Joe Lynch discuss how to reclaim your energy, passion, and time. Ann is a Professional Certified Coach specializing in executive, leadership, and personal development. About Ann Holm. Ann Holm is a Professional Certified Coach specializing in executive, leadership, and personal development. She is an MBTI Master Practitioner and is known as a thought leader in integrating psychological type theory with other coaching models.

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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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How Risk Management Software is Transforming 3 Industries!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Risk Management is a Cirque Du Soleil Calibre Act! In today’s world, supply chains are more important than ever. They’re a key part of any business’s operations, but they can also be one of the most vulnerable areas. From a business perspective, it’s no longer enough to simply produce and distribute your products.

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Royal Mail strikes on Black Friday, how can retailers best prepare?

IT Supply Chain

By Nadeem Malik (pictured). Head of Software AG, UK and Ireland. The post Royal Mail strikes on Black Friday, how can retailers best prepare? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Information Architecture Tips and Best Practices!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? If you’re not a software developer, you probably think of information architecture (IA) as nothing more than the structure of a website or app. You might not even give it a second thought. But if you take a closer look, you’ll see that IA is actually one of the most important aspects of web and app design.

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OpenSSL vulnerability

IT Supply Chain

By Tod Beardsley (pictured). Director of Research at Rapid7. The post OpenSSL vulnerability appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Collaboration in action. The Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark

Proxima

Over the last 12 months or so, we (Proxima), and I (me), have been fortunate enough to get involved in a large number of conversations on supply chain decarbonization. These might have been at events, in collaboration forums, with solution partners, or one-to-one with procurement and sustainability professionals and their teams. Whilst it’s important to recognize the world beyond your network, I’d like to think that this has given me a broad perspective on the state of play.

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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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Black Friday Royal Mail strikes – how retailers can beat them

IT Supply Chain

By Santiago Garcia-Poveda (pictured). VP Retail, o9 Solutions. The post Black Friday Royal Mail strikes – how retailers can beat them appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Ford and VW Q2-2022 Financial Reporting- Tenets of Digital Transformation Realization

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters blog commentary, we reflect on some history of technology driven business model transformation for industrial companies, contrasted to recent financial reporting from Ford Motor and Volkswagen AG. The history of classic industrial focused companies venturing into this new era of digital based business market opportunities, software development and Cloud technology provides a mix bag of results and learnings.

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How Janeiro Digital wants to ‘fix the Web’ – CEO and CTO interview

Janeiro Digital

How Janeiro Digital wants to ‘fix the Web’ – CEO and CTO interview. Fixing the Web is a bold aim for any venture, after three decades of citizens handing their personal data to corporations, and getting little in return except tracking and advertising – plus permission to use a cloud platform, of course. On many of those platforms (and in many a walled garden), the public are a multinational’s main product, as privileged data about us is syphoned to hundreds of invisible partners, in most

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Nov. 2, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

Foxconn Workers Locked in to iPhone Factories. More Predictions for Reshoring to US. US Purchasing Manufacturing Index almost in Contraction.

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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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Four Compelling Reasons to Integrate Diversity Into The Rethink of Your Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting Nov. 2, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

Show us your Supply Chain Wit

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Introducing OCR for faster and improved invoice processing

Precoro

We're pleased to reveal that optical character recognition (OCR) technology is now available on our platform. With it, you can leave exhausting manual data entry and long-lasting invoice processing in the past. You'll be able to focus on strategic planning while OCR in Precoro takes over labor-intensive tasks for you. This feature relays recognized mistake-free data and gives you the ability to get an automatically pre-filled invoice that you can edit later.

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Digitization: Procurement’s Secret Weapon to Weathering the Economic Storm

Supply Chain Brain

While digital transformation of the procurement function has been on the agenda for some time, it’s now the top priority.

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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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Bayer Crop Science Tackles Shipment Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

At the end of September, I attended FourKites Visibility 2022 in Chicago, IL. As the tagline said, I was there to learn, connect, and be inspired. Those were certainly three things that happened. I was also fortunate to moderate a panel that explored a partnership approach to supply chain optimization. In that panel, I spoke with Johnny Ivanyi, Global Director of Distribution Excellence at Bayer Crop Science and Julie Tokars, Logistics Planner at Nestle USA.

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East Coast Gasoline Pinch Worsens With Inventories at Eight-Year Low

Supply Chain Brain

National supplies of trucking fuel have remained flat heading into winter, which could mean higher prices across the country in the coming weeks.

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The story of the Axway Open Banking pilot in Brazil

Axway

Open Banking platforms grew worldwide at 381% in 2020 and Brazil was eager to embrace the wave of innovation.

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Watch: Is Vision Picking Ready for Prime Time?

Supply Chain Brain

Seth Patin, chief executive officer and founder of LogistiVIEW, describes the current state and future of vision picking technology in warehouses.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on State of Distribution Technologies 2022 Infographic

Supply Chain Digest

Softeon Out with Interesting New Report

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How Growing Warehouses Can Responsibly Scale Fulfillment and Parcel Shipping During Uncertainty

Supply Chain Brain

Please join Mike Graves, Vice President of Product Management at Pierbridge, and Martin Hespeler, VP Americas at Microlistics, on Thursday, December 8 at 2 pm EST as they provide tips for the warehouse floor and the shipping dock to scale operations efficiently and flexibly without overextending staff, space, or capital.

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An Election that Saved the Internet

Enterra Insights

Earlier this year, I wrote about an election that was to be held in October at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).[1] Concerning that election, Tom Wheeler ( @tewheels ), a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, explained, “The International Telecommunication Union has been described as ‘The most important UN agency you have never heard of.

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Chip Maker Qualcomm Sees Smartphone Slump Worsening

Supply Chain Brain

Two major chip manufacturers just slashed their outlooks for the near term, warning of waning demand for consumer products and lighter shipments from plants.

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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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Voice Heard From the Inside of an Election Booth

BlueYonder

My mother was born in 1937 in the South. Although she was an American citizen, she did not have the right to vote. It wasn’t until 1976 that she cast her first ballot. I remember going with her, as a little girl, into the voting booth. Then, it was simply a curtain that you pulled shut. I watched as she pulled the levers down, lending her voice, in this democratic process, for the very first time.

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Post-Brexit I.T. System Error Causes Disruption for U.K. Importers

Supply Chain Brain

The issue arose November 1, when U.K. customs introduced an overnight change to the tariff code required to qualify for duty-free imports from the EU.

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Fresh Influx of Private Equity for Project44

Supply Chain Brain

A new round of strategic funding totaling $80 million was led by Generation Investment Management and A.P. Moller Holding.

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