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Retrofitting B2B for B2C and D2C Warehousing

SnapFulfil

The face of stores and shopping malls has changed for good as we’ve seen a rapid and accelerated transition to e-commerce purchasing and delivery to homes – and in particular direct-to-consumer (D2C).

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The Green Corridor – Why You Should Care About Biodiversity

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It happens that I am writing this month’s column on Earth Day (celebrated on April 22 every year!), so I’m going to talk about a topic that’s close to my heart — biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth. Those who know me know I am a big nature lover and always have been since my days as a boy scout. I was fortunate to have grown up in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Tennessee, where I could enjoy fresh air, clean water, and beautiful mountain countryside.

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Now and Then. Stuck in the Now.

Supply Chain Shaman

Anne looked at Paul, and asked, “Where are we on Lora’s request?” Paul squirmed and gave a non-answer. Jim looked me in the eye, and said, “Lora I missed that meeting, can you explain the concept again?” I smiled. Paul, Jim, and Anne work together at a supply chain planning technology company. My client for two decades, I am proud of Anne.

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Cardinal Health Invests in Visibility to Improve Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Sean Halligan, Senior Vice President Pharmaceutical Operations, Cardinal Health. With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cardinal Health made the decision they needed enhanced visibility into PPE shipments as demand for these products surged. Since then, FourKites has become a key steppingstone in their journey to build a next generation control tower.

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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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How Vulnerable Is Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

On February 24, 2021 President Biden issued the “Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains.” It requires key industries to review potential vulnerabilities in their U.S. supply chains to prevent future shortages like we experienced during the coronavirus pandemic. But how are supply chain vulnerabilities defined? And what tools and capabilities are available to help companies.

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Tata Technologies and Logility Partner to Provide Digital Transformation Solutions for the Global Supply Chain

Logility

Tata Technologies will collaborate with Logility to offer digital supply chain transformation solutions to its customers across Automotive, Industrial Heavy Machinery, Aerospace, Industrial, and Medical devices verticals to help them achieve agility and improved resilience in the new normal. ATLANTA – May 24, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, has partnered with Tata Technologies, a leading global engineering, and product

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The Changing Face of Retail

Enterra Insights

When you hear the term “changing face,” what springs to mind? Putting on make-up? Dawning a mask? A metaphorical alteration of circumstances? The term generally refers to changes, transformations, modifications or the evolution of something. And the retail sector has certainly been changing, transforming, and evolving over the past few years. I was surprised to learn there is another definition for the term “change face.

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Watch: The Future of Supply Chain Education

Supply Chain Brain

Nick Vyas, academic director of the Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management program at the USC Marshall School of Business, tells how higher education in supply chain has been affected by the pandemic, both in terms of subject matter and how it’s taught.

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How to Get Your Products to Your Customers Faster with Outsourced Fulfillment

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

If you need help bringing your product to market faster, outsourced fulfillment may be the solution for you. Growing your business can be exciting and fun, that is until you hit unforeseen stumbling blocks. From skyrocketing costs to the inability to meet buyer demand, there’s a lot that can go wrong during your fulfillment and shipping process.

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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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Inventory Optimisation: How Much Stock is Right for Your Company?

Logistics Bureau

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. Not that it was ever an easy question to answer, but the Coronavirus crisis has perhaps turned it on its head, or at least, helped to do so. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”.

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Driving Operational Excellence Through Digital Transformation

IT Supply Chain

By Halil Aksu (pictured). Co-Founder of Digitopia. The post Driving Operational Excellence Through Digital Transformation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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balancing convenience and sustainability in retail supply chains.

Repl Group

Once a major point of difference, sustainability is now a retail watchword. Thanks to increasing public interest in environmental issues, retailers have been prompted to place ethical and environmental concerns above shareholder returns.

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How Maximizing Efficiencies Can Minimize Supply Chain Disruption

USC Consulting Group

The majority of businesses, especially manufacturers, have been experiencing among the worst supply chain disruptions they’ve seen in a long time, courtesy of COVID-19. It seems that nobody has been immune to disruption whether you’re getting your supply from China or just down the street. When your supply chain slows down, your production slows down, and that means product doesn’t get to your customers on time.

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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 Planning and Edge Computing

Adexa

Edge computing is an open architecture that decentralizes computing and empowers processing of data locally by a device or sensor rather than being sent to a central system. Sensors are becoming more intelligent and have adequate computing power to detect and process data as they receive it and respond accordingly. In a way this is not that different from shock absorbers that detect bumps on the road and prevent the shock from reaching the passengers.

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We’re hiring a Managing Director!

Provenance

Provenance is using tech to power the transparency movement – helping brands bring their supply chain and the social and environmental impact behind products to shoppers. We believe that every great product should come with Provenance: accessible, trustworthy information about origin, journey and impact. Our customers are leading global enterprises and fast-growing independent brands and retailers in food, drink, beauty and fashion – where we believe we can drive the greatest change.

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Managing the Tourism Supply Chain after the crisis

Prophetic Technology

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The Green Corridor – Why You Should Care About Biodiversity

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It happens that I am writing this month’s column on Earth Day (celebrated on April 22 every year!), so I’m going to talk about a topic that’s close to my heart — biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth. Those who know me know I am a big nature lover and always have been since my days as a boy scout. I was fortunate to have grown up in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Tennessee, where I could enjoy fresh air, clean water, and beautiful mountain countryside.

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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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Supply Chain News on China Seeing Results from Creation of Manganese Cartel

Supply Chain Digest

First it was Control over Obscure Rare Earth Metals, Now more Mainstream Metal Products

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How to Identify Your FMCG Distribution Weaknesses & Strengths

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

I recently started a blog series on indirect distribution by sharing our step-by-step approach to drive and develop distributor performance. We call this the Distributor Partner (DP) Development Programme.

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Beyond ERPs: How Source-to-Pay Solutions are Changing the Game for Procurement

ivalua

The post Beyond ERPs: How Source-to-Pay Solutions are Changing the Game for Procurement appeared first on Ivalua.

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Three Disasters Show Gaps in $1.7 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

Supply Chain Brain

Three times this year, major pieces of U.S. infrastructure have failed, and Biden’s $1.7 trillion infrastructure package wouldn’t necessarily have prevented them.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Sourcing Automation Checklist

ivalua

The post Sourcing Automation Checklist appeared first on Ivalua.

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Trailer Bridge Launches International Global Logistics Service

Supply Chain Brain

Trailer Bridge , a North American freight transportation provider, has recently introduced Trailer Bridge International, its new global shipping service.

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BVLGARI

ivalua

The post BVLGARI appeared first on Ivalua.

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Does the ‘New Normal’ of Retailing Mean the Death of CPG Brands?

Supply Chain Brain

Is there a place in the post-pandemic “new normal” of retailing for traditional consumer brands?

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Amplify Central Integration Webhooks – API Publish Approval

Axway

In a prior blog post , we looked at Amplify Central integration webhooks and an external application that detects when a new version of an API is discovered by a discovery agent and emails any subscribers to the API so …

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FedEx Announces New Surcharges Effective June 21, 2021

iDrive Logistics

FedEx updated peak surcharges and fees for U.S. Express, Ground services and Ground International services on May 21. See the surcharges broken down in the table below. As surcharge announcements become increasingly routine, it is important for shippers to understand that they can create options for themselves through carrier diversification. If your business could benefit.

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Unified API and integration governance takeaways: Why API complexity happens

Axway

It started with customers telling us they had a pain point: they were using multiple API gateways — both from Axway and from other vendors — and it was making their APIs very difficult to govern.