All Things Supply Chain

JUNE 24, 2020

The need for real-time tracking, accurate and timely delivery systems makes supply chain management ripe for technological innovation.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 24, 2020

Years before the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down economies, analysts were writing about the retail apocalypse and what it would take for brick-and-mortar retailers to survive. Analysts generally cite three contributing factors for the retail apocalypse: overbuilding, too much debt, and e-commerce (aka the Amazon Effect). Suzanne Kapner and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) insist the pandemic is finishing what Amazon started.[1] Sarah Wyeth, lead analyst for retail and restaurants at S&

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 24, 2020

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy. Sustainable Packaging article and permission to publish here provided by Erich Lawson. Do you know what all big brands have in common? Eco-friendly packaging! Well-known brands all over the globe have made slight modifications to their packaging to cater to conscious and educated consumer needs.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2020

The rise of the consumer and immense power in the hands of buyers represents a significant change to standard supply chain management. It’s not enough to simply offer a fantastic product. Instead, companies need the most affordable rates possible to stay competitive, and in today’s world, any unnecessary expense pushes your customers closer to the.read More.

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Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 24, 2020

In March 2011, I wrote a post making the case that, like in baseball, the supply chain and logistics industry needed a farm system to attract and develop the next generation of leaders. As I wrote at the time: Sure, there are a number of universities (but certainly not enough) with supply chain and logistics. Read more Supply Chain in High School. The post Supply Chain in High School appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Arkieva

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the past few years, the chatter about the role of AI to “optimize” supply chain has been almost endless. Some of the material is great, other is hype, some conjecture, and in most cases, we will not know the impact. Supply Chain Management – Autonomous is Far Away and Resiliency is Needed Now was first posted on June 24, 2020 at 9:35 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Americold

JUNE 24, 2020

Business as usual. COVID-19 put this cliché on ice and has introduced us to unprecedented times and new normals, rocking business models to their core and forcing change where none was wanted. As retail, healthcare, education, travel, banking, and other sectors struggle to adapt, we’re seeing new trends, new challenges, and new opportunities emerge.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 24, 2020

Swati Malik joined Blue Yonder six months ago and found the fit to be perfect for her IT skills. She lives in Bengaluru, India. Starting her career in finance, Swati made the move to IT and has not looked back. She admits to being a very quiet person who has learned to be more extroverted. She shared that when she reflects back on the decisions she made to get to where she is today, ‘ these are things that give you a good balance of who you are at the end of the day.’.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 24, 2020

Learn about: The categories of analytics How they relate to retail and supply chain What suppliers can do with that data. Well-balanced business development depends on descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics data. . Analytics Continuum. Categories of Retail Analytics. There are different categories of retail analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive.

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Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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MercuryGate

JUNE 24, 2020

Traditionally, shippers use supply chain optimization studies for several reasons. In this example, a customer commissioned Schneider to complete a strategic engineering study. The study would identify the best location and number of additional warehouses to support their growth. This multi-phase project began with a current baseline which was created and validated for each of […].

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EazyStock

JUNE 24, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted many weaknesses in supply chains across the globe. Common challenges include unpredictable customer behavior, unreliable inventory supplies, rising logistical costs and internal capacity constraints. It’s already apparent that those supply chain management (SCM) teams that can adapt their operations and respond quickly to these issues will be one step ahead of their competition.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 24, 2020

Growth has Jumped to 25Percent per Quarter Year over Year

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EC Sourcing Group

JUNE 24, 2020

How Firms Use eSourcing to Optimize Their Supply Chain Networks. One of the most important things that a business needs to do is keep its supply chain healthy. If there’s a break in the chain, this can negatively affect business in several ways. A good example is when the big box store Target had to suspend operations in Canada when they began to experience supply chain problems. eSourcing in the supply chain is a great way to mitigate and optimize networks and to keep them seamlessly flowing wi

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Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.

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Provenance

JUNE 24, 2020

Provenance is using tech to power the transparency movement – helping brands bring their supply chain and impact behind products to shoppers that care, enabling a more conscious, fair, and low-impact consumption. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Product and Engineering team to help us build the leading B2B2C SaaS product in supply chain and impact transparency.

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My Office Apps

JUNE 24, 2020

Save Money by Optimizing Your ERP System with a Shipment Management Software. You’ve worked hard to create, promote, and source a product and all that effort has turned into purchase orders. But the celebration can be short lived if shipping costs eat into your profit margins. Is it cost effective to invest more administrative resources to figure out the best way of getting your hard earned orders shipped?

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Bristlecone

JUNE 24, 2020

SAP S/4HANA enhances business performance by improving sales productivity and reducing supply chain pain-points. Its unique architecture and data model enable a single source of truth to drive data consistency and accelerate the speed of business. In this Executive Briefing session, SAP’s Head of North America Partner Solution Center, Nic Vervoort, and Bristlecone’s VP of Global Practices, Prashant Kamat, deliver valuable insight into how and why organizations are making the move to SAP S/4HANA.

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Cognira

JUNE 24, 2020

Brochure: Promotion Forecasting. With decades of retail and data science experience, intelligent retail forecasting is Cognira’s core expertise. We help retailers realize the full potential of their advanced planning technologies by applying the latest in AI, machine learning and cloud computing, providing access to ever-more granular levels of internal and external data.

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The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Bristlecone

JUNE 24, 2020

Analytics are key to enabling data-driven decisions that enhance supply chain performance. Managing demand volatility, controlling spend, achieving end-to-end visibility, optimizing inventory – these are all made possible through advanced analytics. In this Bristlecone Live! session, Bristlecone’s VP of Global Practices, Prashant Kamat, and Head of Insights and Analytics, Pankaj Rastogi, give you a glimpse into how supply chain data analytics can empower businesses with rapid, KPI-driven 360° in

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Proxima

JUNE 24, 2020

No longer can retailers rely on their product offering alone. The demise of the high street portrayed in the news is all too often attributed to the rise of the internet, a cash-poor society, political uncertainty in the wake of Brexit, and now Covid-19. Undeniably, these have a considerable part to play – Generation Z has never known a non-digital world – but what if there’s a bigger force?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 24, 2020

Warehouse robotics are truly reshaping the way organizations are handling materials within the four walls of their warehouse. Leveraging digital technologies that are connected to physical assets, but managed by a central software application, delivers the level of visibility required to sense and respond more effectively than you can if you’re operating in silos.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 24, 2020

I was recently involved in a research discussion with Chris Yukins of George WAshington University’s Law School’s Government Procurement Program, and Thomas Kull from Arizona State University, exploring the impact of the rise of electronic marketplaces in government procurement. In the Thomson Reuters publication “ The Government Contractor “, we review some key changes coming to government acquisition.

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Advertiser: GEP

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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ivalua

JUNE 24, 2020

Best practice financial services procurement capabilities now available for rapid deployment. Redwood City, CA June 25, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged suite of solutions for financial services. The new packages span the full source-to-pay process and enable financial services customers to become more agile with regulatory compliance and accelerate cost optimization to deliver further value to

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 24, 2020

Chinese Kiva System Knock Off Raises Big Money, Wave of Retail Store Closures Continue, Amazon Makes Amends with New Climate Fund, More Infections at Meat Packing Plants

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EnVista

JUNE 24, 2020

Business Model Rifts and Modal Shifts. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have struggled to pinpoint the “right” way to handle change that is stretching far beyond the stay-at-home orders that many are facing today. In this climate, it is nearly impossible for companies to maintain operations as usual.

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Tailwind

JUNE 24, 2020

$1-a-load shipment-tracking and trailer tracking from $71 a year now available through Tailwind TMS. June 24, 2020 – Tailwind Transportation Software is pleased to announce a new partnership and technology integration with e4score. Through this partnership, Tailwind has secured special pricing on two break-through tracking capabilities: EZCheck-In and EZTrack.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 24, 2020

Accident Awards of Over 10 Million Dollars Rising Rapidly

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ivalua

JUNE 24, 2020

The post Ivalua Sourcing Datasheet appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2020

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) promises to be a bright light for many businesses struggling to find their path to recovery.

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