Tailwind

JANUARY 15, 2020

If you’re in the trucking industry, controlling cash flow is likely one of your biggest challenges. While maintaining a positive cash flow is always going to be an issue in every business, trucking is especially tricky because all of your costs are paid upfront. Investing in equipment, operating authorities, insurance, driver retention, fuel and maintenance costs requires enough cash flow to manage both your capital budgeting decisions and your day-to-day numbers fluidly.

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Veridian Solutions

JANUARY 15, 2020

Rejoice. It is time your organization has decided to purchase order management software and reap its benefits. Unfortunately, numerous order management system software vendors exist, and every vendor claims to have the best and biggest solution. Supply chain leaders need to understand the following points to ensure they purchase the right software on the first try.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2020

In a recent Wall Street Journal article (“The High Cost of Impeding Automation“), Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey from Oxford University writes that “history tells us that policies aimed at restricting or slowing automation come with a steep price tag. It is important to remember that the acceleration in economic growth that followed the Industrial Revolution…was.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 15, 2020

Erin Miller, senior solutions director, JXC & Partners, has worked at JDA the majority of her career. She shares some distinct learnings about management and how important it is to be involved in something bigger than yourself, for the greater purpose of your team’s growth and success. She also shares a great nugget on how to keep your career fresh – and it’s not always about jumping to a new role, either.

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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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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 15, 2020

Today’s guest blog is written by my colleague Joseph Yacura, who co-authored the most recent Data Quality and Innovation Study. Supply chain innovation has been slow to materialize in most organizations. Supply chain digitization has begun, but the adoption across different industry sectors and organizations is not consistent. Digitization faces many challenges, not least of which is the quality of the data organizations have available and their relative overall digital readiness. ( 2019

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 15, 2020

Erin Miller, senior solutions director, JXC & Partners, has worked at JDA the majority of her career. She shares some distinct learnings about management and how important it is to be involved in something bigger than yourself, for the greater purpose of your team’s growth and success. She also shares a great nugget on how to keep your career fresh – and it’s not always about jumping to a new role, either.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 15, 2020

US Demographics Headed in the Wrong Direction, Some Would Say. Solid 2019 Holiday Sales Numberss, Werner to Pilot Full Electric Trucks.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 15, 2020

A positive guest experience can lead to repeat purchases, word-of-mouth advertising for free through social media, brand value, access to new customers, and much more. Unfortunately, statistics are not on the side of shippers. Positive experiences are great, but they do not make viral posts. Adverse events and negative experiences pour into social media and.read More.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2020

A record crowd of 40,000 people attended the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City this week to see what new solutions and innovations software suppliers had in store for 2020 and beyond. The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, and machine learning, to name a few.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 15, 2020

Effective inventory control centres on the fine balance of holding enough inventory to ensure the business operates effectively while avoiding the overstocking that ties up valuable cashflow and leads to waste. Inventory control can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) because AI provides powerful insights for companies, highlighting interesting trends from large volumes of data that help procurement and warehouse teams to better manage the daily tasks of inventory management.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 15, 2020

Robotic process automation (RPA) sits on the doorstep of artificial intelligence (AI). Some analysts have described RPA as a gateway technology to AI. Priya Dialani ( @priyadialani248 ) writes, “Artificial intelligence is without a doubt on everybody’s radar, except all the more explicitly, robotic process automation, the subset of AI that empowers IT groups to configure software ‘robots’ to capture data and perform routine tasks, is picking up traction as an alluring spot to s

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 15, 2020

See how Denver-based United Transportation Services has implemented time-saving technologies while still delivering hands-on, personalized service to its customers. .

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SCJunction

JANUARY 15, 2020

To make sure your warehouse runs successfully, you need a well designed warehouse layout. Find out how your warehouse layout affects your ability to effectively process orders and how you can improve this to streamline your operations.

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Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Dragon Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

Last week, our team at Dragon Innovation attended the most popular consumer electronic event in the world: CES 2020. We had a great time connecting with current and future Dragon customers, hardware industry partners & friends, along with our colleagues at Avnet, Hackster, Newark, Element14, Farnell and Witekio.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 15, 2020

Erin Miller, senior solutions director, JXC & Partners, has worked at JDA the majority of her career. She shares some distinct learnings about management and how important it is to be involved in something bigger than yourself, for the greater purpose of your team’s growth and success. She also shares a great nugget on how to keep your career fresh – and it’s not always about jumping to a new role, either.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 15, 2020

An industrial cycle rarely acts like a cyclone, but rather as a continuous stream of ‘improvement ripples’ of different sizes caused by major breakthroughs in technology and energy access. If you are a ProcureTech geek like we are, I am sure you will enjoy this excellent and timely article by Matthew Deem, Mondelez’s Digital Transformation Lead, written a couple of months ago.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

JANUARY 15, 2020

Together, the two companies will enable retailers to deploy FutureProof's mobile self-checkout and service counter solutions fully integrated with SIRL's Indoor GPS & customer analytics platform that offers shoppers personalized recommendations in real-time through activation at the "last foot" of their physical store journey.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2020

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Detective™: The Case of the Unpaid Invoices! It was early September and I was sitting in my office preparing for a meeting. I was in the Retail Industry which meant that in Supply Chain this was the beginning of the frantic Holiday season. The last thing we needed was a Distribution Centre disaster.

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PINC

JANUARY 15, 2020

The post Modex 2020 – Digital Yard & Digital Inventory appeared first on PINC.

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ivalua

JANUARY 15, 2020

Redwood City, CA – January 16, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, and OJC Consulting, recognised software solutions implementation and consulting provider, have been chosen to transform procurement operations at Laerdal Medical – a world leading provider of training, educational and therapy products for lifesaving and emergency medical care.

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PINC

JANUARY 15, 2020

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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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Unleashed

JANUARY 15, 2020

Take a look at the list of artists that use Aston Microphones and you’ll be treated to a who’s who of the music industry in the UK and beyond. Catering to such demanding customers means creating a product that is at the absolute top of its game — and dealing with such high-end goods requires absolute visibility over where inventory is at any given time, and how much it’s worth.

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