Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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The Food Supply Chain is at Risk

Logistics Viewpoints

The global food supply chain is complex, vast, and vital to human existence. For that reason, when there are disruptions to the food supply chain, it makes major headlines. These headlines come in all shapes and sizes, including disruptions due to food recalls, natural disasters, disease, and political unrest, among others. Perhaps the biggest threat to the global food supply chain is climate change, as its effects are being felt already in many regions of […].

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AI-enabled Forecast Selection

Vanguard Software

Vanguard Uses Artificial Intelligence to select the forecast method that is most likely to produce the lowest prediction error over the near-term horizon.

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How Cybercriminals Can Initiate Attack Through a Supply-Chain Partner

Supply Chain Brain

At least 59% of organizations have suffered cyberattacks through third-party companies, according to a recent study.

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What is Supply Chain Management and Why is it Important?

River Logic

What many don't realize is that a significant percentage of their total costs are tied up with the supply chain, especially for those businesses that outsource manufacturing.

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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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3 Essential Steps for Setting Supply Chain Digital Transformation Goals

Arkieva

Building the business case for change is crucial to compel transformation at a leadership and organizational level. Before you start any transformation project it is important to understand the why, what, and how and articulate a clear vision and path of the future state. 3 Essential Steps for Setting Supply Chain Digital Transformation Goals was first posted on October 9, 2019 at 10:12 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial us

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How to Navigate the Holiday Shipping Season & Handle the Holiday Rush Like A Pro

Freight Center

Holiday Shipping by the Numbers. According to Adobe Analytics, the 2018 holiday e-commerce season topped $126 billion in online sales. The majority of this revenue came from the Cyber 5 (Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday), further reminding us that online shopping is quickly becoming a preferred way to shop. And if this year’s holiday e-commerce season is anywhere near as good as the previous year, shippers everywhere will be busy meeting the needs of their customers.

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Endless Career Possibilities

BlueYonder

Kerri Schrage, vice president, corporate finance at JDA talks to us today about how exploring different roles in your career can really help you pinpoint your path and being open to taking on new challenges is half the challenge itself. She’s a champion for women supporting women and having a voice at the table and shares why it’s so important to be actively engaged in her kids’ lives, while juggling a busy career.

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Managing Underperforming Suppliers: What You Need to Know

Unleashed

Supply chains are becoming progressively more complex as businesses rely on a large network of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and a growing portfolio of inventory stock varieties to meet consumer demand for more choice. Stocking goods in the right quantities to meet demand maximises inventory turnover rates and will ensure that goods move quickly into and out of the warehouse.

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Top 5 Inventory Management Blogs

Clear Spider

It’s our Blog-aversary! Our first blog post was written on October 9th, 2013. Did you know to this date we’ve written 220 blogs? To celebrate, today’s post highlights 5 of our top inventory management blog posts. Top 5 Inventory Blog Posts: Understanding the importance of change management Supply Chain Management Disasters: Toys “R” Us The […].

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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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Context identifies new AVIVORE threat group behind recent aerospace supply chain cyber attacks

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The Threat Intelligence and Incident Response Team at Context Information Security has identified a new threat group behind a series of incidents targeted at the aerospace and defence industries in the UK and Europe.

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On-demand warehousing 101: Network optimization and on-demand warehousing

FLEXE

How many warehousing and fulfillment centers do you need to create meaningful efficiencies in your supply chain?

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From Inbound to Final Mile, A Unified TMS for Surface Modes Brings Shippers Harmony

GlobalTranz

Final mile continues to change. E-commerce growth and final mile logistics gave rise to an increase of more than $1.35 billion in the final mile logistics space. As shippers look for ways to boost profitability and increase customer service, final mile would seem to become the gold mine. However, the final mile remains the part.read More. The post From Inbound to Final Mile, A Unified TMS for Surface Modes Brings Shippers Harmony appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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How One Company Benefits from an Integration with Microsoft Dynamics & Kuebix

Kuebix

Global Importer, AMMEX, Realizes Significant Time Savings By Leveraging an Integration Between Kuebix and Microsoft Dynamics About AMMEX AMMEX is a global importer of disposable gloves providing retailers and distributors with high-performance, high-margin products. The company sources disposable rubber, latex, and nitrile gloves from vendors across Asia before transporting their goods via direct shipping containers […].

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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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The 5 processes that improve your yearly warehouse stocktake

SCJunction

A yearly stocktake helps you to maintain your inventory levels and minimise your losses in retail or wholesale environments. However, your process can always be improved to minimise the risks that your business and your bottom-line face. We look at the common hurdles, their causes, and how you can fix them.

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2019 Supply Chain Peak Season Outlook

Veridian Solutions

With 2018 setting new records for the average peak season expansion, it comes as a surprise to supply chain leaders that the season may fall slightly short. As explained by Jeff Berman of Logistics Management , shippers were extremely optimistic for the 2019 supply chain peak season. Strong GDP growth, strong economic undertones, and a belief in success in Brexit hinted at broad growth.

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Endless Career Possibilities

BlueYonder

Kerri Schrage, vice president, corporate finance at JDA talks to us today about how exploring different roles in your career can really help you pinpoint your path and being open to taking on new challenges is half the challenge itself. She’s a champion for women supporting women and having a voice at the table and shares why it’s so important to be actively engaged in her kids’ lives, while juggling a busy career.

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Supply chain challenges in delivering the next generation of Military hardware

SupplyOn

New technologies and current digital supply chain challenges were among the top topics at AIA The Fall AIA Supplier Management Council Meeting took place from September 24-26th at the Omni Hotel in Ft. Worth, TX. There were over 200 attendees including some of the biggest names in Aerospace and Defense. A new wave of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles There’s a lot of new use cases being evaluated for aerial vehicles.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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PARTIAL ePROCUREMENT – IS IT WORTH IT?

Eyvo

Can Your Organization Benefit from Partial eProcurement? By Bhargavi Nake. An increasing number of companies are looking to reduce unnecessary spending and get a hold of these expenses. To make these changes, organizations look to implement an eProcurement solution, the benefits of which can be redeemed to bring efficiency and control in your organization.

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How to Upgrade from QuickBooks to an Inventory Management Software

My Office Apps

How to Upgrade from QuickBooks to an Inventory Management Software. A step by step guide on upgrading your inventory management solution. If you’d like to upgrade your business management system to something more capable than Quickbooks, but have hesitated due to the time and effort to make a change, we have news for you. It really is not as difficult as you think.

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6 Data Quality Issues Stopping You From Achieving Perfect Data (and how to fix them)

HICX Solutions

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re experiencing data quality issues at this very moment in time. We can be fairly confident about this presumption because, the truth is, many organisations have problems with their data that are preventing them from reaching their goals. Just look at some of the figures below from ZoomInfo that show how widespread the ‘dirty data’ issue is: 33% of businesses have over 100,000 records in their database. 62% of organi

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Oct. 10, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

US Loses Top Spot in Competitiveness, UPS Investing Big in Nat Gas Trucks, Rent the Runway Supply Chain Disaster, Study Says Shoppers will Avoid Fast Shipping to Reduce CO2

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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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Resilinc Partners with Flex to Accelerate Next-Gen Supply Chain Intelligence Solutions

Resilinc

Read full Resilinc and Flex news release >>

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on ATRI Again Finds Top Concerns of US Carriers

Supply Chain Digest

No Surprise, Driver Shortage Tops List Again, but Raising Pay not a Popular Solution

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Consumers still economic bright spot but Europe can’t avoid effects of global trade tensions, says Stenn

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

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How One Company Benefits from an Integration with Microsoft Dynamics & Kuebix

Kuebix

Global Importer, AMMEX, Realizes Significant Time Savings By Leveraging an Integration Between Kuebix and Microsoft Dynamics About AMMEX AMMEX is a global importer of disposable gloves providing retailers and distributors with high-performance, high-margin products. The company sources disposable rubber, latex, and nitrile gloves from vendors across Asia before transporting their goods via direct shipping containers […].

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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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What does it mean to be a leader in Gartner 2019 Full Life Cycle API Management?

Axway

APIs and microservices connect today’s modern enterprises and applications. However, IT is struggling to keep up with the pace of digital transformation that requires connectivity to an overwhelming number of APIs, applications, data and services.

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The Difference between Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

Many articles written about artificial intelligence (AI) actually focus on machine learning (ML) and authors often use the two terms interchangeably. Chris Meserole ( @chrismeserole ), a fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, takes no umbrage with the practice. He believes AI and ML are so interconnected that trying to separate them is a distinction without a difference.

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Webinar: API Design to power your digital transformation

Axway

On September 26th, Axway and our partner, Stoplight held an enlightening webinar showcasing the power of API Design as part of full lifecycle management.

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