Wed.Jan 31, 2018

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FMCG Supply Chain dates to remember: Advanced Planning

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

February is here but blink and you will miss it as it is not a leap year. You cannot change January performance and February should be quite firm by now, so you need to be looking further ahead in your S&OP. Much further ahead.

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Q&A with Bill Remy and Ken Koenemann of TBM Consulting Group, Inc

River Logic

Background. This is a Q&A with Bill Remy, Chairman and CEO, and Ken Koenemann, Vice President of Technology and Supply Chain for TBM Consulting Group, Inc.

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Analytics pave the way for supply chain organizations

TradeGecko

In a recent study by The Hackett Group on the digital transformation of the supply chain , the overall consensus is that data analytics will be a major catalyst for change in 2018.

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Blockchain & Packaging: How Can Technology Improve a Supply Chain’s Packaging Strategy?

CHAINalytics

| By Eric Carlson | Senior Packaging Consultant | Chainalytics | There has been a lot of ‘buzz’ in the media lately around “blockchain” or “blockchain technology,” and so I thought I would share my perspective on how this new technology will impact packaging and some specific supply chains. First, a primer on blockchain … The post Blockchain & Packaging: How Can Technology Improve a Supply Chain’s Packaging Strategy?

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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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Join my S&OP Mindset Survey

Supply Chain Trend

S&OP is an enterprise wide business planning process that can only be effective and sustainable when it is supported by the right mindset and behaviours. Individuals and teams with a superior mindset will increase S&OP effectiveness and are proven to perform better and show increased well-being. This short 5 minute survey will assess your organisation’s mindset.

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Navigating the Reverse Supply Chain for Connected Devices

CHAINalytics

By Irv Grossman and James Kilkelly | January 31, 2018 Unless you were an early adopter of one of those clunky analog true cellular phones that were only available with per-minute calling plans, you probably don’t have to look back beyond 15 years to remember your first mobile phone. The sales proposition was pretty universal … The post Navigating the Reverse Supply Chain for Connected Devices appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Unexpected Lessons

BlueYonder

What have you learned today? Who did you learn it from? Sometimes lessons are right in front of us, if we would only open our eyes to them. I was recently reminded of that by Mary, the woman who, twice a month, cleans my house. I am usually at work when she arrives, but one day a few months ago, I happened to be home. That gave us the opportunity to catch-up on our kids and what was happening in our lives.

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Blockchain: So Much Bigger Than Bitcoin

Supply Chain Brain

Voting. A blockchain allows the authentication of transactions without them needing to be administered or guaranteed by a central authority. Ballot boxes and current online voting platforms are vulnerable to manipulation; now a startup called Follow My Vote is developing a blockchain-based system to ensure security, transparency and mathematically accurate election results.

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Four Reasons Why You Should Be Using Transportation Management Software

GTG Technology Group

Stop Holding Your Company Back! Adopt Transportation Management Software Today. Transporting goods seems straightforward, but to the experienced professional, it’s a complicated balance of success, unforeseen circumstances, and problem management. Keeping track of the entire system requires a small army, unless a company installs transportation management software (TMS).

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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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12 Distribution Center Best Practices You Need to Implement Today

GlobalTranz

You know better than anybody that the layman would probably never believe how complicated distribution center management can be. Excelling in this sector requires an eye for details as well as the ability to balance business needs with the needs of the human element within your organization. Below are 12 distribution center best practices and other ideas to help you look for ways to make your operations and work environment sing like the well-oiled machines they are. .

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ModusLink Builds on Digital Commerce Momentum with Services and Customer Wins for Contact Center Solutions

ModusLink Corporation

As ModusLink continues to experience growth in its digital commerce sector, the contact center has served as the backbone for a number of recent business enhancements and expansions. Most notably, ModusLink has recently signed and deployed two major customers — Whisker Labs in the U.S. and T3 Micro in the U.K. By partnering with ModusLink, […].

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Unexpected Lessons

BlueYonder

What have you learned today? Who did you learn it from? Sometimes lessons are right in front of us, if we would only open our eyes to them. I was recently reminded of that by Mary, the woman who, twice a month, cleans my house. I am usually at work when she arrives, but one day a few months ago, I happened to be home. That gave us the opportunity to catch-up on our kids and what was happening in our lives.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and why cash flow is at its center

Taulia

Whether we recognize it or not we are now living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What was first coined in Germany in 2006 as a manufacturing initiative, is now a global technology-led revolution. But what exactly is Industry 4.0, how is it impacting business and why is it driving a renewed focus on cash? What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

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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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Amazon vs. Flipkart: The Race to Dominate Indian E-Commerce

Elementum

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart is in fierce rivalry with Amazon over the country's online retail market. Both have unique advantages, but the true test will be which company can best tailor its offerings to the Indian consumer’s palate. Amazon has comfortably dominated America’s e-commerce market for years, but the Indian market is still uncertain ground.

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Thoughts on Supply Chain Impacts (After Listening to Trump’s State of the Union)

NC State SCRC

I listened to all one and a half hours of Trump’s State of the Union address last night, and while it was certainly very positive in terms of the economy, it also left me with some unanswered questions about the relationship of the different policy and funding initiatives he proposed for the next few years. Here’s a few of the random thoughts that went through my head, (albeit from a supply chain guy’s point of view).