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Social Distancing and Making Sales: Tips for B2B companies

Unleashed

With quarantines, self-isolation and social distancing measures rolled out across the globe, we’re feeling the social and economic effects of the current pandemic. Here are three tips on how your B2B company can survive by doing business through the cloud. Tip 1: Let regular customers self-service. During the Covid-19 outbreak your suppliers might take longer to deliver stock or you might be inundated with customer questions, orders and even cancellations.

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Some Tips to Keep Your Warehouse Free from COVID-19

Logistics Bureau

A worker in an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, this week tested positive for Coronavirus, prompting the closure of the facility. This is the last thing that you want happening in your warehouse—the disruption and fallout could be devastating. It would mean deep-cleaning the entire warehouse and possibly ordering fellow workers to self-isolate for a period—all of which would come at enormous cost to your supply chain.

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DATASHEET: SAP® ARIBA® Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC)

Bristlecone

Taps into real-time collaboration to increase automation, reduce manual touches, improve control and enhance end-to-end visibility for all partners. DOWNLOAD. The post DATASHEET: SAP® ARIBA® Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) appeared first on Bristlecone.

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[Video] What Does Great Look Like in Logistics?

Talking Logistics

Bill Madden, VP of Logistics-as-a-Service at BluJay Solutions, discusses how shippers can leverage benchmarking data to gauge their performance and drive continuous improvement. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] What Does Great Look Like in Logistics? appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Bill Madden, VP of Logistics-as-a-Service at BluJay Solutions, discusses how shippers can leverage benchmarking data to gauge their performance and drive continuous improveme

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

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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Automation Hero March 2020: Lena Johansson from Väderstad AB

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Lena Johansson, Aftermarket P urchaser at Väderstad AB, has lowered inventory levels and streamlined her workload by using automation. That’s why she’s March’s Automation Hero. . Name: Lena Johansson. Title: Aftermarket Purchaser. Company: Väderstad AB. Congratulations on winning the award, Lena! Please can you tell us a little about yourself, where you work and what your role is?

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Blog Sean Culey: Welcome to the Transition Point

Supply Chain Movement

The current coronavirus pandemic is set to change many of our existing paradigms, both socially, economically and technologically, and will end up completely defining the 2020’s. Many countries have just introduced state-supported living on a huge scale, paving the way to the implementation of a Universal Basic Income, and in doing so have broken the rules of capitalism, incurring debt levels not seen since WWII.

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

An interviewer asked a FEMA representative on CNN this evening a simple question: How many N95 masks will be delivered to hospitals, and when will they arrive? The representative managed to pivot and dodge the question, with a common response being heard a lot on the news: “It’s a fluid situation” President Trump may yet use his authority under the Defense Protection Act to mobilize industry to manufacture scarce goods like N95 masks.