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The Changing Paradigm of Supply Chain Design

AIMMS

The post The Changing Paradigm of Supply Chain Design appeared first on AIMMS.

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CPG Going D2C: 3 Ways to Win the Race to Consumers

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 written by Atakan Kantar & Doğa Kurt from Solvoyo, and examines the ongoing trend CPG companies going direct-to-consumer (D2C). The trend of CPG companies going direct-to-consumer (D2C) is on the rise.

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Supply Chain And Logistics Conferences To Attend In 2023

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the year ahead. This year’s list remains a work in progress; therefore, please check the event websites for the latest updates. Also, if you have a favorite industry conference not. Read more. The post Supply Chain And Logistics Conferences To Attend In 2023 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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The Green Corridor: Predictions Are In The Green!

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Predictions Are In The Green! by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio. Last year at this time, I sat down with my crystal ball to try and sort out some indicators for people to see that a “green” future is in the works. One year seemed like something doable in terms of prognostication. It is that time of year for me to see how my predictions panned out and make some new ones!

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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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Janus Should Be the God of Data

Enterra Insights

Welcome to the New Year! Readers interested in history and mythology are probably aware that the month of January is named after the Roman god Janus. Janus was an interesting deity. As Wikipedia notes, “In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings.

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FedEx Benefits from Efficiency Improvements & Surcharge Increases as Volumes Fall

Intelligent Audit

Declining demand is nudging FedEx to continue its cost-cutting and rate-raising strategies as the global environment settles into a new normal amid uncertainties. For fiscal Q2 2023 ended Nov. 30, 2022, FedEx reported overall revenue down 3% year over year to $21.63 billion and operating income down 26.2% YoY at $1.17 billion. All three divisions—Express, Ground, and Freight—reported year-over-year volume declines.

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Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. According to the UAE’s Ministry of Economy, the first quarter of 2021 saw the highest amount of quarterly funding raised in the logistics industry in the MENA region over the past 4 years, rising year-on-year by 179 per cent.

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7 Ways to Improve Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

As a manufacturer, a lot of businesses and customers rely on you to get things done on time. But when your cash is locked wages, managing inventory , lines of credit, and other costs, it can slow down productivity – even bring it to a standstill. And if you’ve got no way to pay the bills or order new parts, you might have to shut up shop for good. So, let’s break down how to improve cash flow in a manufacturing business and look at the various cash flow challenges faced by manufacturers around t

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LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – December-January 2023

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine. In this edition we have several news updates, interesting & enlightening articles and contributions on people & management – topics which are most crucial to the development of the Supply Chain Industry across regions as well as globally. Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine now!

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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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Welcome to the New Normal

Supply Chain Brain

The pandemic brought supply chain management into the global consciousness in a way it’s never been before. Welcome to 2023.

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Supply Chain Resilience: Three Lessons from the Leaders

BlueYonder

After almost three exhausting years of back-to-back supply chain disruptions, it would be nice to think that someday we’ll return to a “normal” state where demand patterns were easily predictable, supply conditions were consistent and consumer expectations were stable. But the truth is that supply chains were never as certain or reliable as we imagined.

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How the manufacturing sector can evolve in 2023 while keeping costs low

IT Supply Chain

By Mike Dwyer (pictured) & Graham Upton of Capgemini. The post How the manufacturing sector can evolve in 2023 while keeping costs low appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Flipping the Switch on the CPG & Retail Supply Chains — Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Supply Chain Brain

Advances in data science, artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), 5G networks and more are being used to turn challenges into opportunities.

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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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Understanding Supply Chains Part 1- Physical Processes

Logistics Bureau

Starting a new job in Supply Chain? Or maybe joining a new company is a Supply Chain role? Maybe this will help you ‘get up to speed’? . Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our website, check them out: You and Your Supply Chain Career. Supply Chain Q&A Sessions. The Most Important Thing in Supply Chain Management.

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6 Do’s and Don’ts for Spare Parts Planning

The Smart Software

Managing spare parts inventories can feel impossible. You don’t know what will break and when. Feedback from mechanical departments and maintenance teams is often inaccurate. Planned maintenance schedules are often shifted around, making them anything but “planned.” Usage (i.e., demand) patterns are most often extremely intermittent, i.e., demand jumps randomly between zero and something else, often a surprisingly big number.

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Supplier Development Framework

Kodiak Hub

In this episode we’ll be talking about: How covid was a blessing in disguise for Supply Chain & Procurement Teams. The importance of having a mentor in your career. How Supplier Development can be leveraged to improve Supplier Performance. How the Enhanced Supplier Development Framework works. Reactive vs Strategic Supplier Development. Here's the interview: Today, we have the pleasure of hosting the Supply Chain Maven, PhD, Speaker, Educator, Blogger Vlogger, hosts of the Supply Chain Show

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Maximizing EBITDA, Profits, Cash Flow, and Growth from Supply Chain Integration

Maine Pointe

How to Focus Your Integrated Supply Chain on Your Most Important Organizational Goals. In an integrated plan-buy-make-move supply chain, each link from procurement to distribution and from sourcing to customer satisfaction affects every other link. However, because the supply chain is so closely interconnected, any communication, capacity, or capability gap in one area jeopardizes all the others.

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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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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 21: Decision Intelligence- The Next Frontier in Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Matters

We are pleased to announce to our Supply Chain Matters readership readers the availability of our latest podcast episode titled- Decision Intelligence- The Next Frontier in Supply Chain Digital Transformation. Our invited thought leader guest is Fred Laluyaux, an entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, whom this supply chain technology industry analyst has known for several years.

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Supply Chain News onNew ATRI Report looks at Infrastructure Challenges of Battery Cars and Trucks

Supply Chain Digest

As Consumers and Carriers move Down BEV Path, will Key Infrastucture be Ready

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California Braces for Its Next Deluge as Pacific Storms Line Up

Supply Chain Brain

A powerful stream of densely moist air flowing off the Pacific Ocean is forecast to bring 3 to 6 inches of rain to a wide area from Eureka to San Francisco January 4 into January 5.

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Supply Chain News on Predictions from Prologis on Direction in Market for Warehouse Space in 2023

Supply Chain Digest

New Construction will Drop Significantly, but Lease Rate Hikes will Stay Strong

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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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2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. by John Lash , Group Vice President, Product Marketing, E2open. 2022 was, undoubtedly, another tough year with many disruptions happening outside the four walls of enterprise – extreme weather, natural disasters blocking access to resources, port or border congestion delaying transit, panic buying artificially inflating demand, suppliers going out of business.

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Watch: The Five 'Cs' of the Parcel Business

Supply Chain Brain

Jason Smith, relationship manager with U.S. Bank, lists the "Five Cs" of the parcel business, and tells which one is the most important to carriers today.

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TMS Implementation Stalled? Restart Your TMS Project

MercuryGate

This blog presents a step-by-step TMS implementation guide for getting a project back on track. Keep reading for tips on building a business case, identifying essential TMS features, and managing vendor selection. The post TMS Implementation Stalled? Restart Your TMS Project appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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2023: The Year to Overhaul Electricity Grids for a Better Future 

Supply Chain Brain

Major grid upgrades are expensive, and utilities are under pressure to get the best “bang for the buck” for their investors and customers — scenarios that are not, normally, considered to be mutually compatible.

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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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Multiexperience vs. omniexperience: how the two differ

Axway

Multiexperience and omniexperience are often used interchangeably, but there is a clear divide between them. While multiexperience is centered around devices and interaction models, omniexperience relates to the human behavior of the end user.

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Amazon Leasing Air Cargo Space, Delivering by Drone

Multichannel Merchant

Amazon, facing a continued slowdown in its ecommerce business and under pressure to boost flagging sales, is looking to sell excess capacity on its commercial cargo jetliners used to move goods among its network of warehouses here and in Europe, Bloomberg reports. In unrelated aerial news from Amazon, the company has begun making drone deliveries in Texas and Washington state, as has (no coincidence) Walmart, in Texas, Florida and Arizona , according to various media.

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C.H. Robinson Ousts CEO Bob Biesterfeld

Supply Chain Brain

Earnings fell sharply in the second half of 2022, and its international freight-forwarding arm is exposed to competition from big global operators.

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