Tue.Nov 24, 2020

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Supply Chain Digital Twin software: Time to Correct Your Definition

River Logic

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The Complexity of Cold Chain Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Compared to classic logistics with normal temperatures, cold chain logistics are challenging, expensive and complex at the same time. It is one of the most difficult types of logistics in the supply chain industry. The rapidly increasing demand for frozen foods and the requirement of maintaining an uninterrupted cold chain make logistics considerably more complicated.

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Perfect Storm of Supply Chain Disruption Underscores Importance of Spot Market Utilization

Talking Logistics

Are we in a perfect storm of supply chain disruption? It sure looks that way when you look at these recent headlines from various industry publications: “Reefer outpacing van growth in second half of 2020” (FreightWaves) “Import Spike Expected to Continue Through January” (Journal of Commerce) “Will We Really Need 8,000 Jumbo Jets to Transport.

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Paris 2021 – FR – Intro

ivalua

Comme l’a démontré la COVID-19, les organisations ne peuvent pas fonctionner sans chaînes d’approvisionnement efficaces – et à la suite de la pandémie, la fonction d’approvisionnement a été reconsidérée comme jamais auparavant. Dans tous les secteurs et dans le monde, les responsables des achats des organisations gagnantes ont gagné une place dans l’agenda de la salle de conférence.

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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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Transforming Supply Chains During the Pandemic and Beyond

Enterra Insights

The pandemic has forced many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies. However, Shanton Wilcox ( @ShantonW ), U.S. manufacturing lead at PA Consulting, cautions, “Too many companies jump from appetite for change to action without fully evaluating the many ‘whys’ in between. Fully redesigning the supply chain starts with envisioning what it needs to become.

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Unique Distribution Challenges of COVID-19 Vaccine Call for Unique Monitoring Approach

Roambee

Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine will be unlike previous vaccine distribution efforts due to its scale and urgency. The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine will leverage new distribution approaches, so monitoring its physical integrity through the supply chain from manufacturing to point of use will also require fresh thinking. With a lot at stake for all parties involved such as states, regulators, pharmaceutical companies and the general population, the margins for error in delivering a va

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Supply Chain Gone Viral! The Pandemic Diaries (Ebook)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. GET our EBOOK HERE. 2020 will be remembered for one thing, if nothing else, the Covid-19 Coronavirus global pandemic. While you previously would have occasionally heard about the potential of a pandemic most of us could not have comprehended how disruptive and catastrophic a full-blown pandemic could be.

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Can you imagine your business’s new normal? Learn from Chinese experience

Prophetic Technology

Business-as-usual is yet months away to come back, if not years. Now, we are experiencing a “second way” of the pandemic, and many countries are retaking lockdowns to prevent the escalating cases of contagious people. Current circumstances forced essential changes. Will they stay for the opportunity of innovation?

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Data Science Tools of the Trade: Monte Carlo Computer Simulation

Arkieva

Monte Carlo Discrete Event Computer Simulation is a particularly powerful and flexible “tool of the trade” for a wide range of challenges in supply chain and operations management. This blog provides some basics on MCDECS, the next blog will use MCDECS to explain why limiting the size of a gathering helps reduce the spread of COVID-19. Data Science Tools of the Trade: Monte Carlo Computer Simulation was first posted on November 24, 2020 at 7:39 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkie

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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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Consumers Tighten their Belts, but US Shipping Remains Busy Meeting Demand for Essentials

IT Supply Chain

By Vivek Vaid (pictured). Chief Technology Officer, FourKites. The post Consumers Tighten their Belts, but US Shipping Remains Busy Meeting Demand for Essentials appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Healthcare Inventory Management: Three Ways to Address Supply Hoarding

Tecsys

The challenge for supply chain leaders is to build trust among clinicians. Here are three ways to leverage technology and automated processes to improve healthcare inventory management and gain clinician confidence. The post Healthcare Inventory Management: Three Ways to Address Supply Hoarding appeared first on Tecsys.

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Ending Inventory Explained: How to Calculate and Its Importance

Unleashed

Calculating how much ending inventory you have on hand at the end of a financial year can often be a stressful challenge. You’re likely juggling between creating inventory reports and fulfilling end of year sales. We’ll shed some light on: What is ending inventory. Why it is one of the essential figures in your inventory reports. Who is responsible for calculating ending inventory.

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Driving flexibility & efficiency in materials handling

IT Supply Chain

By Alexander Baal (pictured). Director of Sales Operations, Jungheinrich UK. The post Driving flexibility & efficiency in materials handling appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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 Education and Qualifications

Logistics Bureau

In the previous episodes, Sarah Barnes-Humphrey , Supply Chain Expert, shared her thoughts on the 3PL Industry and the Technology in Supply Chain nowadays. In this video, she will be giving pieces of advice to people thinking of getting into Supply Chain. Watch this: Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our websites, why not check them out?

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How E-Commerce Is Reinventing the Humble Warehouse

MIT Supply Chain

Temporary storefronts called “pop-up” shops are an established feature of the retail landscape, but how about “pop-up” fulfillment centers? Walmart is reportedly adopting the latter as part of its efforts to cope with the holiday surge in e-commerce traffic and maintain high service levels for its fast deliveries. The transient fulfillment center is symptomatic of more profound changes in last-mile supply chains inspired by e-commerce demands.

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Top 4 Procurement Software Trends

EC Sourcing Group

Using software in procurement management is an excellent way to help maximize proficiency and streamline your operations so that you not only increase production, you build better relationships with your suppliers, increase collaboration within your organization, and improve the entire supply chain process. However, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on procurement software trends , which can further boost productivity.

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FedEx & UPS 2021 GRIs to See High Percentage Increases: What to Do Now

Intelligent Audit

The major carriers have announced significant rate increases for 2021. The rate increases for the coming year are anything but ordinary. Yes, both carriers tend to raise rates at the start of any year. Yet, FedEx and UPS 2021 GRIs, or general rate increases, come at a tumultuous time. And here’s the kicker. Those increases were announced before the announcement of a possible viable Covid-19 vaccine.

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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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Campaign launches to encourage more women into supply chain and logistics roles

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Recruitment platform, Monster, is appealing for more women to consider roles in the logistics, transportation and supply chain industry following a surge in the number of job vacancies available in the sector.

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Lessons Learned: How the Pandemic Changed Supply-Chain Practices

Supply Chain Brain

Here are six things we’ve learned so far.

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It’s Time To Celebrate Thanksgiving And The Turkey Supply Chain

Gravity Supply Chain

Thanksgiving is a time for food, drink, family, relaxation, and shopping, so supply chains must become outward-facing to keep up with customer expectations. Leave a Reply [contact-form-7].

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Dancing the Supply Chain

SCM Research

Rarely have I put as much passion into an article as in the case of my new one, entitled Dancing the Supply Chain: Toward Transformative Supply Chain Management (JSCM, 2021). Herein, I argue that “[i]t is time to replace the modernist tropes of designing, planning, and managing the supply chain with a new metaphor that accounts for the transformative power of management: that of dancing the supply chain “ The article starts by challenging the conventional static and reductionist assu

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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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The 4-Step Maturity Transformation Model for Operations

DELMIA Quintiq

DELMIA Podcast Series on the Transformation Journey. This is the second blog on a series of podcasts that discuss enterprise transformation called the “ Transformation Journey: Research Note Series.”. Note #1| The 7 Components to Transforming Operation s kicked off the series with critical information on the 7 core digital technology components needed to deliver flexibility, resiliency, and improved performance in manufacturing and operations.

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Supply Chain News on Leaked Amazon Documents May Show Company was Spying on Fulfillment Center Workers over Potential Unionization Activities

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon Spokesperson Strongly Disputes Many of the Allegations, but Says It is Using Pinkertn only for High Value Shipments

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Paris 2021 – FR – Why

ivalua

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Supply Chain News on Manufacturing CEO Says Lack of Workers at Crisis Levels

Supply Chain Digest

Need to Improve the Attractiveness of Manufacturinig Jobs, including Higher Pay

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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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Compliance and Third Party Risk Management: How to turn the burden of compliance with financial regulation into a competitive advantage?

ivalua

The post Compliance and Third Party Risk Management: How to turn the burden of compliance with financial regulation into a competitive advantage? appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain News on The Fourth Industrial Revolution is Upon Us

Supply Chain Digest

Data is Going to Transform the World

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Paris 2021 – FR – Contact – FAQ

ivalua

Pourquoi l’événement est-il virtuel ? Avec le contexte sanitaire dans le monde lié à la COVID-19, nous souhaitons être sûrs de préserver la santé de chacun de vous. Bien sûr, un événement physique aurait été idéal pour se voir, échanger et partager mais nous sommes sûrs que ce sera très agréable de discuter ensemble et entre pairs en virtuel. Nous ferons de notre mieux pour vous offrir une expérience immersive incroyable à nos côtés.