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5 MRO Supply Chain Challenges Aviation Companies Need To Prepare For

The Network Effect

Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) businesses are set to witness stunning growth over the next few years. However, the aviation. The post 5 MRO Supply Chain Challenges Aviation Companies Need To Prepare For appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Webinar: Data-Driven Decisions in S&OP—Bring Reliability and Speed to Optimized Scenario Analysis

River Logic

River Logic and Supply Chain Consulting Partner Spinnaker Management will be hosting a webinar on March 7, 2018 entitled "Data-Driven Decisions in S&OP—Bring Reliability and Speed to Optimized Scenario Analysis.".

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Blockchain and the Global Food Chain

Enterra Insights

Blockchain is one of the newest buzzwords making a splash in the tech world. Most famously, blockchain is associated with so-called crypto-currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It turns out, however blockchain technology can prove useful in many fields of endeavor. The food sector may be one area where blockchain technology will prove to be extremely beneficial.

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Part Two – Give People a Reason to Make a Change

CHAINalytics

| By Patrick Boyle | Principal, Supply Chain Operations | Chainalytics | Previously in this series, I discussed the need to “Make people aware that change is coming.” Lesson one emphasized the importance of broadly communicating changes before they happen and providing key points clearly so that folks understand.

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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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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

Let’s stop buying products where labor abuse exists in the supply chain. How many years has it been since we first heard about those tragic Foxconn workers who preferred to jump to their deaths from the factory dorms where they lived, rather than continue to work in hazardous conditions? The answer is eight. In 2010, 18 workers threw themselves from the top of the Chinese company’s building, resulting in 14 deaths.

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Freight Management Logistics for Lean Capacity Times

Consumer Goods Logistics

In light of the current freight capacity crunch, the freight management logistics operations of many companies have devolved into scrambling to find trucks for pending loads. While that may be a very real and necessary approach at the moment, “scrambling” is not a great long-term strategy. Shippers need to change the way they work with carriers in this seller’s market.

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Blockchain is poised to convert the supply chain

Bristlecone

Blockchain is poised to convert the supply chain into a competitive advantage if used judiciously with other advanced technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data/Analytics technologies. Key detriments like lack of visibility in the Supply Chain, improper lifecycle value assessment/performance improvement of assets, and mistakes in establishing ROI of investments will become a thing of the past

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Fearing Tourist Drought, Cape Town Charts a New Relationship With Water

Supply Chain Brain

With the city facing an unprecedented water shortage, airport authorities had turned off all the sink taps but one, leaving visitors to wait in line to wash their hands, under the watchful eye of a bathroom attendant. “In Johannesburg, there were a lot of jokes about the situation. People were saying to each other: ‘Let’s go to Cape Town for a dirty weekend’,” said Rohner, who visited both cities recently for his job as a sales and marketing director for a Swiss machinery manufacturer.

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ONE Blockchain Platform to Provide Enhanced Transparency and Security for Supply Chains

Supply Chain 24/7

One Network Enterprises new blockchain platform solution mitigates threats in pharmaceutical authentication & serialization, food safety, and recall management.

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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 Comment on Trip Report from the Tompkins Emerging Technology Center

Supply Chain Digest

New MonarchFx Company Hopes to Provide Amazon Like Capabilities, and will Feature New Age Mobile Tilt Tray Robots

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[WHITE PAPER] The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018

GlobalTranz

Cerasis is excited to announce the release of an all new, exclusive, & educational resource “The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018” white paper! This is a must read for those in the transportation & freight industries to stay on top of their games! Get a free copy of the white paper by filling out the form to the right.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Uber Says Autonomous Trucks will Increase Driver Jobs

Supply Chain Digest

Reduced Logistics Costs will Drive more Demand for Goods, as Local Driver Jobs to Explode in Transfer Hub Model

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Post Your Truck to Find Better-Paying Loads

DAT Solutions

Chad Boblett is the owner and driver of Boblett Brothers Trucking of Lexington, KY. Chad also founded the Rate Per Mile Masters group on Facebook, a communications hub for more than 18,000 members, including owner-operators, truck drivers, and other transportation and logistics pros. It might seem counterintuitive, but I always make sure to post my truck on the load board when there's plenty of freight to choose from.

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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 Cartoon Caption Winners for Jan. 17, 2018 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Lawrence Dozier of Sparks, NV and Bill Loebbaka of CH Hanson Take Home the Prize with Great Captions

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Why chemical companies need prescriptive analytics for S&OP

AIMMS

The chemical industry is facing some powerful changes that are directly impacting revenues and margins. It’s also highly competitive. Everyone is trying to dominate their niche. This means chemical companies need to be adept at managing costs and profitability. But doing this ad hoc is too difficult. Having the right technology is key. Spreadsheets and legacy tools are no longer enough.

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Vendor-managed inventory and distribution planning in the food and beverage industry – here’s something to chew on

Kinaxis

by Jeswin Philip The Food Packaging Trends and Advances report from PMMI forecasts that the US Food and Beverage industry will experience a 2.9 % CAGR through 2022. The report also mentions that the global growth rate is almost double that of the US food industry. It’s a prediction that shouldn’t be ignored. Food for thought: Time for a different kind of supply chain.

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3 Ways a 3PL Can Help You Save on Shipping

Saddle Creek Logistic Services

The majority of American shoppers (62.2 percent) say free online shipping is “very important,” according to a consumer survey by the National Retail Federation. Naturally, retailers and ecommerce companies want to satisfy their customers, but demand for low-cost shipping puts pressure on their transportation departments. In fact, the cost of shipping is the biggest challenge facing 63 percent of smaller.

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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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Mandata to demonstrate new TMS Go! solution at CV Show

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Specialist transport management software provider Mandata Ltd will be showcasing its new cloud and subscription-based transport management system along with other innovations at the CV Show.

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How to Start an Alcohol Subscription Box Company

3PL Insights

Subscription boxes offer companies a unique experience: a special collection of items, curated carefully, that can introduce a customer to new products that they might just love. The alcohol subscription box model has been around for quite some time—in the 1970’s, a liquor store owner in California began delivering his popular wine selections by mail.

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One Network Earns Top Billing in Nucleus Research’s Annual Control Tower Value Matrix

Supply Chain 24/7

Complimentary report from Nucleus Research recognizes One Network's real-time value network for control tower capabilities and for helping companies gain end-to-end visibility.

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5 Reasons to Synchronize Your WMS and TMS

BlueYonder

Leveraging the capabilities from your Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS), while synchronizing pre-built adaptable workflows can help reduce costs, improve throughput and enhance the customer experience. Customers see many benefits beyond delivery of the inherent best-of-breed (BoB) optimization, which include enhanced labor planning and utilization, improved cycle time and throughput, enhanced responsiveness and agility and decreased transportation costs

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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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Why chemical companies need prescriptive analytics for S&OP

AIMMS

The chemical industry is facing some powerful changes that are directly impacting revenues and margins. It’s also highly competitive. Everyone is trying to dominate their niche. This means chemical companies need to be adept at managing costs and profitability. But doing this ad hoc is too difficult. Having the right technology is key. Spreadsheets and legacy tools are no longer enough for chemical companies.

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5 Reasons to Synchronize Your WMS and TMS

BlueYonder

Leveraging the capabilities from your Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS), while synchronizing pre-built adaptable workflows can help reduce costs, improve throughput and enhance the customer experience. Customers see many benefits beyond delivery of the inherent best-of-breed (BoB) optimization, which include enhanced labor planning and utilization, improved cycle time and throughput, enhanced responsiveness and agility and decreased transportation costs