Wed.Jun 07, 2017

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[Video] Digital Technology and Strategies for Effective Knowledge Sharing

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow This blog is part of a video interview series. Check out the video below as well as links to other supply chain practitioner and Kinaxis executive interviews. Even though some traditional forms of learning continue, companies are turning more and more to digital technology and learning tools to collect, analyze and share knowledge, says Sarah Sedgman, Kinaxis chief knowledge officer.

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The Two Levers of Inventory Optimization

Logility

When I hear the term “Lever” my mechanical engineering side comes out and I think of the Physics and Mechanical Design courses I took some 30+ years ago. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time, my engineering education laid a strong foundation that has helped me be as successful as possible in whatever I did. More than anything, I learned how to analyze and solve problems.

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Managing Supply Chain Risks: The Role of Digitalization and Cloud Technology

Talking Logistics

Philip Lavin, Development Consultant IT at Siemens addresses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What are the biggest supply chain risks companies face today? Where are companies falling short? How is technology helping companies better to manage supply chain risks? How do you measure and quantify the value of these solutions from a risk management perspective.

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River Logic Named in Gartner's Market Guide for Corporate Planning Applications

River Logic

The Corporate Planning and Performance Management technology market space is quickly growing, with many niche players and newcomers continuing to develop solutions in the space. Unlike Supply Chain solutions, which are still largely dominated by a few major players (despite their often inferior solution offerings), the corporate planning software market is not dominated by the typical large software vendors like SAP, Oracle and IBM.

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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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The Digital Path to Purchase Often Involves Brick-and-Mortar Stores

Enterra Insights

To say it’s been a bad year for traditional brick-and-mortar stores is to understate the situation. Suzanne Kapner (@SuzanneKapner) reports, … Continued. The post The Digital Path to Purchase Often Involves Brick-and-Mortar Stores appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How to Be the Perfect Link in a Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Companies should narrow their focus to one or two key customers, use 3PLs and join a supplier council, among other things. read more.

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The “New” Safe Approach to Mission Criticality: Cloud for Warehousing, Distribution and Logistics

BlueYonder

Spend five minutes perusing blogs like this, or traipsing about the corporate headquarters of nearly any company (in nearly any industry, country, or department), and you’ll hear repeated mention of terms such as “Cloud,” “SaaS (software as a service),” “PaaS (platform as a service),” and “IaaS (infrastructure as a service).” Spend five minutes more, and you’ll learn that if there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that “moving to Cloud/SaaS/IaaS/PaaS/[insert silly acronym here] is cri

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain for the Circular Economy

Material Handling & Logistics

Sudipta Ghosh and Harry Morrison. Companies that go beyond basic recycling in favor of strategic sustainability approaches are achieving significant business value. read more.

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The “New” Safe Approach to Mission Criticality: Cloud for Warehousing, Distribution and Logistics

BlueYonder

Spend five minutes perusing blogs like this, or traipsing about the corporate headquarters of nearly any company (in nearly any industry, country, or department), and you’ll hear repeated mention of terms such as “Cloud,” “SaaS (software as a service),” “PaaS (platform as a service),” and “IaaS (infrastructure as a service).” Spend five minutes more, and you’ll learn that if there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that “moving to Cloud/SaaS/IaaS/PaaS/[insert silly acronym here] is cri

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of June 8, 2017

Supply Chain Digest

How Much Do Procurement Professional Earn, US Warehouse Market Remains Red Hot, Will Investors be Interested in US Infrastructure Deals, Retail Execs Do not Expect to to See Shipping Revenue

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Ocean Carrier Alliances: What You Need to Know

Talking Logistics

While the changing atmosphere of ocean carrier alliances for containerized cargo isn’t something new, it’s certainly top of mind for many shippers and carriers alike thanks to a tumultuous last few years. This is especially true today, as what used to be four primary ocean carrier alliances transformed into three different ocean carrier alliances – taking effect on April 1, 2017.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Is Peak Oil Demand Coming Soon

Supply Chain Digest

Some Oil Companies Say Peak Demand Could Come in Less than 10 Years, While Others Say the Future of Oil Remains Bright for Decades

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9 Key signs that it's time to move to a robust inventory management system

TradeGecko

Heather Smith, author of "Xero for Dummies" is back with a guest blog post that highlights nine key signs that it's time for a business to start thinking about moving to a bigger and better inventory management solution.

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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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Supply Chain News on Market for Warehouse Space Continues to be Red Hot, as Rates Headed Still Higher

Supply Chain Digest

Expect Sticker Shock on Lease Renewals, JLL Says

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How email marketing strategies can help wholesalers grow their profits

TradeGecko

Many business owners and wholesalers overlook email marketing, and dismiss it as something that isn’t applicable to their industry. The truth? Email marketing strategies can be utilized by a wholesale business, and if done properly, you might just find your customer doubling or tripling in size.

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Product Information Management for the Modern Supply Chain

Oracle SCM

Some say a supply chain is only as good as its data, but that’s only half true. If the people who need it to make timely decisions can’t get to it, the best data in the world won’t help. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of data from disparate sources that are maintained in myriad applications, one of the biggest challenges facing business leaders today is inaccessible, inaccurate, or missing data.

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Returns Are the New Normal

Supply Chain 24/7

With the number of online shoppers expected to reach 270 million by 2020—driven largely by the popularity of mobile devices—retailers need to rethink their ecommerce strategies in order to keep up.

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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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Sorting It Out on DC Capacity Planning

Supply Chain Digest

Properly Sizing a DC for Future Shipping Capacity can be Problematic

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IoT Technology: Using Analytics and Machine Learning to Combat the Risks

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: Today's blog is the final part in a mini blog series from Fergus O'Sullivan with C loudwards.net. In it, Fergus shows us how the use of IoT technology provides the analytics and machine learning capabilities that allow us to avoid potential risks. IoT Technology, Analytics and Machine Learning. As you can imagine, being wired up all the time an IoT device is at risk of experiencing a serious informational overload.