Tue.Jan 24, 2017

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Five Ways Machine Learning Can Improve Demand Forecasting

ToolsGroup

Machine learning is being incorporated into solutions in every walk of life - home thermostats, health monitoring systems, equipment maintenance, marketing software, etc. In the latest generation of products, machine learning is adding intelligence pretty much everywhere you look. Data is driving this trend. More data is available than ever before, but tools are needed to take advantage of it.

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Editor’s Pick: Is it Time to Operationalize Ship From Store?

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our new “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. Today’s post is from Manhattan Associates highlighting four methods for operationalizing scalable, labor-efficient and associate-friendly ship-from-store processes.

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Ten Best Supply Chain Blogs in 2016

River Logic

If you make and keep just one resolution in 2017, we recommend you choose to read and learn more from industry experts. To help you achieve this, we’ve collected a list of our top ten best supply chain blogs from 2016, along with a few recommendations of posts you should have read but might have missed.

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Trends & Predictions 2017: Grocery Shopping

Enterra Insights

Grocery shopping has been an activity in which humans have engaged since the first marketplaces were set up millennia ago. … Continued. The post Trends & Predictions 2017: Grocery Shopping appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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The Future of Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain 24/7

Predicting the future of supply chain management is a fool’s game, but new findings from CAPS Research gives a glimpse into how supply managers are preparing for tomorrow.

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2017 Dedicated Transportation Outlook

NFI Industries

Bob Costello, chief economist for American Trucking Association, put it best “Forecasting has gotten more difficult. [But] things are pointing in the right direction 1.” The transportation industry is in a unique place where various political and economic factors could have an immense effect on the industry at any time. Drivers, hours of service, and service.

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Trucking Startups Have Got it Wrong.

Parade

There’s been a flood of “Uber for Trucking” startups or more accurately “freight platforms” since 2012. Some have raised millions in venture capital from some of the top names in the tech industry. With Uber becoming the de facto taxi choice for millennials and AirBnb reshaping the hotel experience, supply chain workers and executives are now wondering if their days are numbered.

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How to Minimize the Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase in Your Supply Chain

RFgen

An increase in minimum wage will likely affect many companies supply chains. How will your company adjust its supply chain management strategies to address rising minimum wages? The answer to this question could determine not only the changes you make to your supply chain management process, but the types of systems you use to accomplish these goals.

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Trucking Startups Have Got it Wrong.

Parade

There’s been a flood of “Uber for Trucking” startups or more accurately “freight platforms” since 2012. Some have raised millions in venture capital from some of the top names in the tech industry. With Uber becoming the de facto taxi choice for millennials and AirBnb reshaping the hotel experience, supply chain workers and executives are now wondering if their days are numbered.

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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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How to Minimize the Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase in Your Supply Chain

RFgen

An increase in minimum wage will likely affect many companies supply chains. How will your company adjust its supply chain management strategies to address rising minimum wages? The answer to this question could determine not only the changes you make to your supply chain management process, but the types of systems you use to accomplish these goals.

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Biggest Challenges Being Faced In Procurement Today

CormSquare

Nobody said controlling indirect spend was easy. There is plenty to worry about. But the question is, what are the other main challenges in procurement being faced today? Let’s look at a Global CPO Survey from Deloitte and Odgers Berndtson. This survey was done on 324 senior procurement lea ders fr om 33 countries offering a deep insight into current procurement preoccupations.

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The Future of Supply Chain Management: Top Trends for the Next Decade

Supply Chain 24/7

This white paper investigates the business process, technology, and the associated implications for the future of supply chain management, it also recommends a business and technology architecture for bridging to the future.

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Fascinating Dog Tech That Can Help Your K-9

BlueYonder

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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Getting Sales and Procurement onto the Same Team

NC State SCRC

The relationship between sales and procurement has always been a contentious one. The issue at the core of this tension is the concept of value recognition. Sales account managers accuse procurement of being purely price focused, and not recognizing the components of value. Procurement executives on the other hand complain that sales account managers are always trying to “work around them”, and to make the commercial sale to engineering, operations, clinicians, or other business stakeholders.

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Some People Excel At Tech And Some Don’t – Which One Are You?

BlueYonder

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Supply Chain by Design on Why Driverless Trucks May Create the Need for More Drivers

Supply Chain Digest

Less Expensive Transportation may Lead to More Local Warehouses That Offer Same day Delivery and More Direct Customer Delivery

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Little Known Ways To Rid Yourself Of Tech

BlueYonder

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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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Green Supply Chain News onThere is Increasing Decoupling of Economic Growth and C02 Emissions, but Degree Varies Significantly by State

Supply Chain Digest

New Analysis from Brookings Institute Finds World, US Growing Economies While Reducing CO2, but Calls for States to Take Stronger Role in Effort

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Interesting Facts I Bet You Never Knew About Photography

BlueYonder

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RELEX and Stockmann Agree to Extend Their Collaboration

RELEX Solutions

Read PDF. Stockmann is to renew its supply chain management by implementing RELEX’s supply chain planning solution to improve replenishment processes for fashion, cosmetics and home products. By bringing these additional product categories onto the RELEX-system, Stockmann aims to cover its entire range at all its Finnish department stores during 2017.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Global Trade Share of World GDP Dropping After Decades of Growth

Supply Chain Digest

Trade Rose from 35 Percent of GDP in 1975 to 60 Percent in 2010, but is Trending Down Since Then

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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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How to Get the Most Out of Your Retail Shelf Space

CHAINalytics

By Bob Fiedler | Principal Associate, Packaging Optimization | Chainalytics | Retail consumer food product and consumer packaged goods (CPG) stores design their shelf space to maximize space profitability for their quick-selling, relatively low-cost, high-margin products. They locate higher-margin products with high-velocity turns at or around a standard shopper’s eye-level and factor in store traffic … The post How to Get the Most Out of Your Retail Shelf Space appeared fir

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Global Supply Chain News on Mergers, Capacity Reduction Strong in Container Shipping Sector in 2016, will Continue in 2017

Supply Chain Digest

From 20 Carriers to 17 in One Year, and Several More will be Merged Away Soon

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Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

Supply Chain 24/7

US President Donald Trump dealt a death blow to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal being negotiated between 12 nations who represent more 40% of the global economy.

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[Infographic] How did Reshoring and 3rd Party Logistics Operations fare in 2016?

GlobalTranz

Third-party logistics operations (3PLs) saw additional gains and enhancements throughout 2016, as predicted earlier in the year. The level of visibility across entire supply chains grew as collaboration became the new normal. Reshoring was set to become a major trend as well, but at the close of the year, actual reshoring and nearshoring efforts did not surpass most logistics trends.

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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.