Wed.Apr 14, 2021

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Rethinking Your Manufacturing Footprint Optimization Strategy

River Logic

Manufacturers need to continually review their manufacturing footprint strategies to maximize opportunities, minimize risk and optimize their tactics. They need to respond quickly to new concepts and changes in consumer preferences.

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AI/ML, SCM, The Holy Grail, and Helpful Information from Foresight

Arkieva

In this blog, we point the reader to a recent article “Humachine”, which identifies the general challenge of implementing decision technology to improve SCM decision making resulting in improved organizational performance and the importance of experience in the trenches. AI/ML, SCM, The Holy Grail, and Helpful Information from Foresight was first posted on April 14, 2021 at 8:11 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Do Spreadsheets Undermine Your  ERP?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Despite what you may wish to believe the answer is almost certainly, yes. You have invested heavily in brand new ERP software and a similar investment in some smart, young consultancy people to run the implementation. You will have spent some considerable time debating and making these choices as the change to an all-encompassing and integrated ERP is a huge step.

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Enhancing Digital Customer Experience

Enterra Insights

With so much commerce moving online, digital customer experience (CX) is becoming increasingly important. According to a 2018 Gartner survey, “Across all industries, at least 84 percent of consumers say their experiences with using digital tools and services fall short of expectations.”[1] Commenting on the survey, Brad Holmes ( @bholmes3 ), Managing Vice President in Gartner’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Research practice, stated, “Customer focus is a top business pr

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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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AI & IOT: Transforming the Future of Supply Chain Management

IT Supply Chain

By Aarif Habeeb (pictured). Technical Content writer at Digital Marketing Crab. The post AI & IOT: Transforming the Future of Supply Chain Management appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Guy Courtin Joins Tecsys as Vice President and Industry Principal for Retail

Tecsys

Montreal, Canada. April 14, 2021 — Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management… The post Guy Courtin Joins Tecsys as Vice President and Industry Principal for Retail appeared first on Tecsys.

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IBM Uncovers More Attacks Against COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

A hacking campaign that IBM Corp. detected last year against organizations involved in the manufacturing, transportation and storage of COVID-19 vaccines was wider than initially understood and is now found to have targeted more than 40 companies in 14 countries, the company said Wednesday.

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Artificial Intelligence reduces Supply Chain risks

Prophetic Technology

AI-based (Artificial Intelligence) automation and Analytics application keeps escalating, and it is Supply Chain (SC) risk mitigations became an important area of potential improvement. As AI applications spread out in SC management, leaders expect the market to reach billions by 2024.

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Accelerate or Hesitate? Real-World Data on Post-COVID Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Companies around the world are urgently seeking ways to better plan around demand uncertainty and improve supply chain resilience and agility. CSCMP and ToolsGroup will reveal analysis from a crucial new global survey which reveals: What planning challenges are top-of-mind for supply chain leaders. Technologies that are helping them meet organizational goals and what’s hampering their efforts.

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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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Truckers and the Future of Work!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Impacts of Autonomous Trucking on Supply Chain! Truckers and the future of work article and permission to publish here provided by Jeff Wald. There are over 3 million professional truck drivers in the United States today. Moving goods across the highways of the country 24 hours a day, seven days a week, these individuals are a vital part of keeping our economy moving.

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SEKO Logistics Launches New Facilities in Baltimore and Charlotte

Supply Chain Brain

SEKO Logistics, a provider of complete supply chain solutions, has recently opened new regional distribution hubs on the U.S. east coast in Baltimore, Maryland and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Arbitration – Why have an Arbitration clause in your commercial contract?

IT Supply Chain

By Ian Timlin (pictured). Dispute Resolution Specialist, Conexus Law. The post Arbitration – Why have an Arbitration clause in your commercial contract? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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On-Demand Webinar: Reimagining the Supply Chain to Deliver Amazing Customer Experiences

Turvo

As companies look for the next leap in the supply chain, innovation collaboration has become a key focus. Having interoperable digital systems create better experiences for everyone as it eliminates the friction and confusion caused by siloed systems and manual processes. But few companies have been able to make this vision a reality. Turvo — the provider of the leading collaboration application for the supply chain — partnered with Ryder System to help them achieve just that.

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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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Closing Food Safety Gaps: The 3 Challenges of Food Traceability

ITradeNetwork

Food safety is priority number one for the food and beverage industry as recalls have increased over the past decade. While food traceability regulations have been put into place to create efficient responses to outbreaks, most of the technology and processes that exist don’t solve all of the problems.

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Channeling Strength and Resilience

BlueYonder

Stephanie Glanville is a senior recruiter at Blue Yonder. Diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35, Stephanie has used her diagnosis to spread awareness, raise money, and fight for a cure, all while undergoing brutal rounds of chemotherapy. Stephanie is incredibly inspiring, offering a dose of perspective to those around her, reminding all of us to never take your health for granted and to be as proactive as possible when it comes to your health.

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Covid-19 and the Supply Chain; Complicating an Already Complex Entity

DynaSys

One of the most complicated processes in any manufacturing business is the supply chain. Regardless of industry; automotive, high tech, life science, or consumer packaged goods, the supply chain (even before Covid-19) was a complicated entity. On any given day, one of the links in that chain could break. Come to think of it, should it even be called a chain?

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The potential cost saving benefits of a sustainable supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

According to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average 5.5 times higher than the direct emissions produced by a corporation. But not only is a supply chain’s impact on the environment severe, but it can also lead to financial issues for companies who don’t take action to be more sustainable.

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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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Fragility of Suez Infrastructure Exposes Vulnerability of Global Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Covid-19 and the Ever Given incident show the significance of the impact on supply chains. These examples make crystal clear that supply chains depend on stable and secure physical infrastructure. Without stable and secure infrastructure, extended (global) supply chains invite unnecessary risk. Infrastructure is the great enabler making international commerce possible.

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Integrating Warehouse Robotics: SVT Robotics Demo

Logistics Viewpoints

I am interested in seeing how the warehouse robotics landscape evolves. It is becoming clear to me that heterogenous environments will c0ntinue to be a reality, and likely expand along with robot adoption. SVT Robotics is one of the first names I heard in this niche. And finally this week I learned more. During the Winter of 2020, I attended the Logistics and Warehousing Executive Briefing organized by MassRobotics.

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Third-Party Logistics Provider Optimizes Their Network Despite Business Constraints

CHAINalytics

Chainalytics helped a 3PL optimize its transportation network by evaluating the optimal fleet size with existing weight tonnage. The result? Improved utilization today and a five-year roadmap for anticipated weight tonnage increases in the future. Our customer was a third-party logistics provider operating their own hubs, distribution centers, and a fleet of 350 trucks across … The post Third-Party Logistics Provider Optimizes Their Network Despite Business Constraints appeared first on C

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A Fulfillment Startup Embraces WMS in the Cloud — Just in Time for COVID-19

Supply Chain Brain

Resurge, a new provider of warehousing and order-fulfillment services, needed a WMS that would allow it to grow quickly — but it couldn’t have anticipated how fast growth would come with the arrival of the pandemic.

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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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Parade unlocks capacity with Haulistix optimized carrier

Parade

Parade partners with the most innovative leaders reshaping the trucking landscape. Today, we’re excited to announce our partnership with , Haulistix and its carrier arm LaGrange Express. LaGrange Express is a digital-first carrier for owner-operator capacity. Its proprietary platform helps LaGrange express to solve challenging problems around operational cost efficiency and real-time visibility to deliver competitive capacity and service that brokers expect.

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The Importance Of A Balanced Inventory Management System

All Things Supply Chain

Operating a warehouse requires knowing where inventory is at all times. Warehouse workers receive products, take orders and retrieve them from the shelves every day.

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Parade unlocks capacity with Haulistix optimized carrier

Parade

Parade partners with the most innovative leaders reshaping the trucking landscape. Today, we’re excited to announce our partnership with , Haulistix and its carrier arm LaGrange Express. LaGrange Express is a digital-first carrier for owner-operator capacity. Its proprietary platform helps LaGrange express to solve challenging problems around operational cost efficiency and real-time visibility to deliver competitive capacity and service that brokers expect.

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Leveling up at Axway Summit 2021. Time to get technical.

Axway

Axway Summit is where you come to learn about the enterprise integration solutions that will best advance your goals. The nuts and bolts. The show me, don’t tell me.

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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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RMA’s Can Get Very Complicated

My Office Apps

RMA’s Can Get Very Complicated. A Strong ERP Software Can Help Automate RMAs and Make This Process a Lot Simpler. Suppose a customer asks you for a Return Material Authorization (RMA) for an item they want to return. Many transactions need to be made in ERP software to make sure it happens correctly. Many ERP systems may not have all the necessary capabilities to smoothly automate RMAs, which necessitates manual processing for you and your staff.

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Amplify Whiteboard Series: An open API Management Plane

Axway

Layers of digital=transformation. Although I’m the new guy at Axway, I’ve been involved with API management and security for many years. During this time, I witnessed organizations passing through generations of modernization and digital transformation initiatives.

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Cognira Recognized As One Of The Fastest-Growing Companies For The 2nd Year In A Row

Cognira

Cognira Recognized As One Of The Fastest-Growing Companies For The 2nd Year In A Row. Cognira recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in 2021. Visit ft.com to see the full list of winners and read their in-depth report on Thursday, April 29. LONDON, April 14, 2021 —The Financial Times (FT), a world-leading news organization, announced today that Cognira is one of the fastest-growing companies of 2021 in the Americas.

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