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A Guide to Supply Chain Software Risk Management

QAD

Understanding Supply Chain Software Risk Management. Every industry faces unpredictability on any given day. Supply chain risk analysis is designed to combat small hiccups leveling up to more dangerous threats, like cybersecurity. A May 2021 Executive Order from U.S. President Biden describes these attacks as “persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people’s security and privacy.

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5 Tough Love Tips to Choosing Best TMS Software

Talking Logistics

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. Read more.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network.

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Using Logistics Software Solutions to Manage Inventory in a Downturn

C3 Solutions

“Winter is coming.” The Federal Reserve has put the brakes on spending in the US in a bid to control inflation, raising the prospect of a recession that could be more prolonged than the painful economic downturn that followed the financial crisis of 2008.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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China’s Heat Wave Is the Biggest Supply Chain Disruption of the Year: So, What’s the Solution? 

Supply Chain Brain

Even though heat waves and natural disasters have been bringing the global supply chain to a grinding halt asynchronously over the years, it doesn’t have to continue this way.

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A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 3

Arkieva

This blog continues the discussion of Jane's safety stock journey, where we'll cover an option when you're unsatisfied with your results. A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 3 was first posted on December 8, 2022 at 8:34 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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2023 can expect to see a continued shift in consumer behaviour

IT Supply Chain

By Shankar Balakrishnan (pictured). Area Vice President, Anaplan. The post 2023 can expect to see a continued shift in consumer behaviour appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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A Journey Through Safety Stock, Part 3

Arkieva

This blog continues the discussion of Jane's safety stock journey, where we'll cover an option when you're unsatisfied with your results. A Journey Through Safety Stock, Part 3 was first posted on December 8, 2022 at 8:34 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Stepping into the future: Equipping public sector buildings with UC solutions

IT Supply Chain

By Mark Jones (pictured). Head of Channel, for UK & Ireland at Sangoma. The post Stepping into the future: Equipping public sector buildings with UC solutions appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Beyond sector transparency – Insights from Textile Exchange Conference

ChainPoint

Supply chain management in the textile industry is evolving rapidly. So are the available tools for textile supply chain mapping and management. At the Textile Exchange Conference in Colorado Spring, Colorado U.S., we met many in textile and apparel to discuss challenges of this industry. Let me walk you through some of the challenges and their solutions.

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Will Two Technology Giants Disrupt the Supply Chain Software Market

Supply Chain Digest

Microsoft and Amazon AWS Announce Very Similar Initiatives

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Natural Language Processing: Learning and Lies

Enterra Insights

Large natural language programming (NLP) systems are making headlines thanks to the remarkable conversations in which they can now engage. Some of those conversations have convinced individuals they are, in fact, talking to a real person. You might have read that Google fired Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at its Responsible AI unit, over his claim that a chatbot system called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications) was sentient.

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Amware CEO appears on eCommerce Odyssey Podcast

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Amware CEO Harry Drajpuch recently appeared on the eCommerce Odyssey Podcast to discuss all things order fulfillment.

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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 Trends Reshaping the Global B2B Payments Sector

Supply Chain Brain

With the coming of the new year, global B2B payments are finally getting the attention they deserve.

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Top 50 Best Sellers Amazon [October 2022]

DocShipper Sourcing

Amazon is a giant marketplace, and you can find almost everything you want on it. But you have to be careful because all products are not good to buy. As a sourcing expert, DocShipper provides you every month with our top 50 bestsellers on Amazon to help you select high-quality products at a good price. … The post Top 50 Best Sellers Amazon [October 2022] appeared first on ?

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Last Boeing 747 Rolls off Line After Half a Century of Production

Supply Chain Brain

Over the past two decades, Boeing and its European rival Airbus have turned to more fuel-efficient and profitable aircraft; widebody planes with two engines instead of the 747’s four.

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[Top 20] Best Christmas Gifts and Decorations on Alibaba

DocShipper Sourcing

Christmas is just around the corner, now that it is officially December. Preparing for the Christmas season involves not only putting up the Christmas tree, but also putting garlands around the mantels and creating cheerful tables. If you're just starting to put together your Christmas gift list, it can seem daunting. We've put together a … The post [Top 20] Best Christmas Gifts and Decorations on Alibaba appeared first on ?

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Watch: Securing the Right Carrier Contract

Supply Chain Brain

How should shippers approach the process of issuing a request for proposal (RFP) for carrier services? Advice from Tim Meester, vice president of business development for the central region of Green Mountain Technology.

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Drive Efficiency and Collaboration with Control Tower Visibility

MercuryGate

Control tower visibility delivers functional awareness to improve customer service and load execution. This blog explores the power of control tower visibility and presents relevant use cases for logistics teams. The post Drive Efficiency and Collaboration with Control Tower Visibility appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Walmart’s Payments Startup PhonePe Seeks to Raise $1 Billion

Supply Chain Brain

To prepare for an initial public offering, which the people said is at least 18 to 24 months away, PhonePe has flipped its headquarters to India from tax-friendly Singapore.

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Maersk celebrates 30 years in the UAE

Logistics Middle East

Maersk, the global provider of integrated logistics solutions marked its 30th year of operations in the UAE.

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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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Car Sales in China Drop as COVID Lockdowns Kept Buyers at Home

Supply Chain Brain

China’s automotive industry, like most others, has been hampered by the country’s COVID Zero approach, which officials only recently started stepping away from.

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Data science is sexy; data engineering is marriage material

3AG Systems

Is Data Scientist still the sexiest job of the 21 st century ? In 2022, Harvard Business Review posted an article by Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil addressing this question, which they first posed in 2012. When the Data Scientist role “was relatively new” in 2012, the authors observed that “as more companies attempted to make sense of big data, they realized they needed people who could combine programming, analytics, and experimentation skills.

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South Korean Truckers End 16-Day Strike Without Gains

Supply Chain Brain

The vote came a day after Seoul ramped up its hardline approach against organized labor by expanding back-to-work orders for up to 10,000 drivers.

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E2open’s 22.4 Technology Update Deepens Network Coverage Across All Supply Chain Ecosystems to Minimize Disruption Risks

E2open

Companies on e2open’s connected platform can make more accurate, efficient, and autonomous decisions and improve execution for operations spanning channel, planning, logistics, global trade, and supply. AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. 8, 2022 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, announces the release of its fourth-quarter technology update, with enhancements across all network ecosystems to help clients improve supp

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Watch: Dealing With Rate Hikes at FedEx

Supply Chain Brain

Data science can help shippers become eligible for the lowest rates from FedEx and others, says Caleb Nelson, chief growth officer at Sifted.

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Inventory Balancing: Research From Dell and Boston Scientific

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Introduction: Why Inventory Balancing? Inventory balancing (also called inventory rebalancing), the periodic transfer of inventory from supply chain locations with too much inventory to locations with too little, is an underutilized supply chain tactic. In an ideal world, where demand is reasonably predictable and supply is reliable, we wouldn’t need to adjust inventory levels across our supply networks.

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Podcast | How Computer Language Models Will Transform the Business World

Supply Chain Brain

If a computer can convincingly replicate human text, where does that leave the human? .

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