Mon.Nov 14, 2022

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

The entire world is gearing up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup , held in Qatar from Nov. 20 through Dec. 18, 2022. Over the course of four weeks, 32 teams and over 1.7 million fans will descend on Qatar for this event — which marks the first time an Arab country has hosted the World Cup. In all, 3 million spectators are expected to attend 64 World Cup games spread across eight separate stadiums.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility. When it comes to driving supply chain agility there are several solutions that are important, but the key solution is a Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Network (MSCN). A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and/or advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics.

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Improving Supply Chain Resilience: How A Digital Supply Chain Orchestration Platform Can Help

Talking Logistics

As we near the end of 2022, supply chain and logistics executives are busy preparing their strategies, plans, and budgets to deal with the inflation, uncertainty, and risks that are clouding the year ahead. One key objective for dealing with these challenges is improving supply chain resilience, which includes improving supply chain visibility capabilities and.

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Inflation is Affecting Grocery Shopping and Holiday Meals

Enterra Insights

Grocers, like other retailers, are seeing the impact of inflation on consumer behavior. Emily Moquin ( @emilybmoquin ), a food and beverage analyst, reports, “Persistently high inflation in the grocery category has led to persistently high consumer concerns. The share of U.S. adults who say they are ‘very concerned’ about grocery inflation has remained high, even outpacing concern over inflation in general.”[1] Since food expenditures rank second, housing being first, and

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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The New Supply Chain Mindset: From Just-in-Time to Just-In Case

Supply Chain Brain

The new generation of consumers is changing demand patterns, making them more unpredictable than ever before.Succeeding under these conditions begins with three simple changes.

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Four benefits of using AI in supply chains

IT Supply Chain

By Jean-Baptiste Clouard (pictured). CEO at Flowlity. The post Four benefits of using AI in supply chains appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Will Impact Energy Management in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The reach of the recently signed $740-billion Inflation Reduction Act is broad, but without question its biggest impact will be on the energy sector.

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Why Analytics is Changing Peak Season for Digitally Savvy Retailers

IT Supply Chain

By Andrew Bithell (pictured). Senior Account Manager, CTS. The post Why Analytics is Changing Peak Season for Digitally Savvy Retailers appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Watch: American Eagle Outfitters' Supply Chain Innovation Award Competition Case Study

Supply Chain Brain

Shekar Natarajan of American Eagle Outfitters, a finalist in the 2022 Supply Chain Innovator of the Year Award, describes building a successful fulfillment and transportation edge network.

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Supply Chain Resilience Checklist

Strengthen your operations with the Supply Chain Resilience Checklist. This practical, easy-to-use tool helps your organization prepare for disruptions and ensure long-term continuity in an unpredictable world. Why Download: Identify and assess critical supply chain risks Ask the right questions to evaluate vendor preparedness Implement effective strategies to reduce vulnerabilities Improve communication, transparency, and coordination across your network What You’ll Learn: How to evaluate and m

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Full fibre alternatives: all you need to know

IT Supply Chain

By Kristian Torode (pictured). Co-Founder & Director, Crystaline. The post Full fibre alternatives: all you need to know appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Basics Essential to an IT Career!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How to Build a Career in the VR Industry! Information Technology is the use of machines to help store, process, and transmit information. The term IT is most often used to refer to the computers and peripheral equipment necessary to run an organization’s data processing operations.

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Planning for Consumable vs. Repairable Parts

The Smart Software

When deciding on the right stocking parameters for spare and replacement parts, it is important to distinguish between consumable and repairable parts. These differences are often overlooked by inventory planning software and can result in incorrect estimates of what to stock. Different approaches are required when planning for consumables vs. repairables.

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What are the Best Building Materials?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Managing Infrastructure Construction Projects Tips! The construction sector employs various building materials for construction projects. Every building material has strengths and weaknesses that you should take into account. When balancing factors like cost, aesthetics, structural integrity, and longevity, engineers and architects frequently use a combination of these materials.

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The AI Race Isn’t Just About Tech Superiority – Its the Supply Chain, Stupid!

The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall. Our latest white paper reveals the six critical supply chain elements that are increasingly separating AI leaders from the rest.

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How to Close the Planning & Execution Automation Gap

Supply Chain Trend

There was a lot of interest and commentary on my last post on the Automating of Routine Collaborative Decisions in S&OE. So much that I decided to do a webinar with my colleguae Ruan Van Vuuren. Especially the below schematic got a lot of reactions. It shows for a large global beverage business, what decisions could be automated in the S&OE horizon.

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DP World: Inflation and geopolitics to constrain global supply chains over the next 5 years

Logistics Middle East

DP World surveyed tens of freight forwarders to shed light on the key challenges facing the industry and how they continue to impact their operations.

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Resilinc study: fire risks grow while easy mitigations are often ignored

Resilinc

Early in the pandemic, we saw a major increase in the number of factory fires as reported by Resilinc’s EventWatch AI risk monitoring platform. While some of the increase was due to growth in our customer base and the number of suppliers monitored (more factories = more potential for factory fires) the trend line was rising at a much faster clip than business metrics would account for.

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Powerlist: Top ports in the Middle East

Logistics Middle East

In this list, we cast light on the Middle East's foremost cargo ports, based on their cargo storage and handling capacity and overall contribution to the global supply chain operations.

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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Supply Chain News on Amazon Introduces New Sparrow Piece Handling Robot

Supply Chain Digest

Can Handle 65 Percent of PrePackaged Amazon SKUs

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The Business Continuity Emergency

IT Supply Chain

By Johnny Carpenter (pictured). VP of Sales EMEA, 11:11 Systems. The post The Business Continuity Emergency appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain News on US Freight Volumes Continue to be Decent, but will Fall Soon, Cass Say

Supply Chain Digest

Truckload Rates Up 11 Prcnt from 2021, but Incease is Falling

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Don’t Settle on a TMS. 5 Tough Love Tips to Choosing the Best Software

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Having spent many years in business development and sales, I’ve spoken to many supply chain and logistics executives from a range of industries. More and more organizations these days see how their competitors are digitally transforming and they don’t want to be left behind. Everyone wants to be leading their industry, but leading an industry requires taking risks and thinking differently about technology strategy.

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Conquering Tail Spend in 2025: New AI-Powered Tools and Strategies for Success

Tail spend — often unmanaged, fragmented and costly — can account for as much as 80% of total transaction volume. Without the right strategy, enterprises face hidden risks and unnecessary spend. It’s time to shift from fragmented, ad hoc purchasing to a strategic, technology-driven approach. Download this GEP-sponsored Everest Group research for insights on how your competitors are upping their tail spend management game.

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Watch: Companies Respond to Changes in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Heightened customer expectation, constrained resources and generational differences in purchasing are among the changes in the supply chain that companies must respond to, says Wonil Gregg, vice president of customer engagement at DCPerform.

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Breaking News- Amazon to Initiate Layoffs of Thousands of Staff

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights today’s breaking news reports indicating that Amazon will initiate staff level layoffs as early as this week. Citing informed but unnamed sources, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that online retail and Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon will initiate job cuts as early as this week.

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Microsoft Introduces Open-Approach Microsoft Supply Chain Platform

Supply Chain Brain

The platform provides the building blocks across Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams and Power Platform for customers to develop or independently adopt capabilities for their supply chain needs.

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Celebrating the Rich Food Culture of New Zealand

Americold

The great New Zealand food revolution continues, fueled by demand from consumers, for foods that are not only healthy and cost effective, but also influenced by different cultures with authentic tastes. New Zealand food producers and consumers are looking for more innovative and sustainable ways to highlight the rich fresh meat, dairy and fishing industries in New Zealand.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Microsoft Software Tackles Customer Supply-Chain Disruptions

Supply Chain Brain

The software is intended to offer a central view of information from customers’ existing applications, from Microsoft and other vendors.

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Electric Vehicles Require Lots of Scarce Parts. Is the Supply Chain Up to It? – WSJ

Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Ivalua Receives ISO 27001 Certification for its Management System Supporting the Commercial Cloud

ivalua

Redwood, CA, 15 November, 2022. Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that it has received the ISO 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS) supporting the commercial cloud service. ISO 27001 is one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. It identifies requirements for a comprehensive ISMS, and defines how organizations should manage and handle information in a secure manner, including appr

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