Fri.Nov 15, 2019

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How to Prepare for Holiday Shipping Disruption and Stay Ahead

Zipline Logistics

Peak season and holiday shipping impacts can hit the logistics industry as early as August, lasting through early January. The period naturally spells tighter capacity and slightly higher rates as shipping volumes increases. It is imperative that you prepare in advance for holiday shipping to ensure that your order pricing is not subject to inflated holiday rates and at risk for service failures.

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How to Save Money Through WMS Automation

GlobalTranz

Supply chain leaders are under increasing pressure to improve productivity and efficiency in the warehouse. Demands from labor resources for better pay, better treatment, and more opportunity have never been higher. In the goal of achieving warehouse cost savings, WMS automation must be a top priority for your organization. However, supply chain leaders need to.read More.

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Opinion: All Those Returns Are Killing the Environment

Material Handling & Logistics

The 1 million packages that will be returned this holiday season will add 5 billion pounds to landfills and put 15 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

We are still 35 days away from winter, but more than 230 million people in the US feel like they are in the depths of the cold season already. Earlier this week, an arctic blast swept the eastern two-thirds of the country, plunging temperatures below freezing, breaking hundreds of cold temperature records. On Wednesday morning in Boston, we woke up to temperatures hovering around 18 degrees, with a wind chill of 5.

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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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Infographic: The Internet of Things (IoT)

The Network Effect

The post Infographic: The Internet of Things (IoT) appeared first on The Network Effect.

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TradeGecko Payments helps SME wholesalers get paid 3x faster

TradeGecko

Since launching TradeGecko Payments in early 2017, we have helped provide a built-in payment platform that helps wholesale merchants get paid on orders faster and have greater visibility and control over their cash flow. Today, the TradeGecko Payment platform is available in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand.

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Why 6 River Systems is a Top Place to Work

6 River Systems

6 River Systems has been named a Boston Globe Top Place to Work in 2019! According to the Globe, that makes 6RS one of the most admired workplaces in the state as voted on by the people who know us best: our own employees. Or, as we call them, Rivs. The office will celebrate the honor during our next Riv Social – a bi-weekly social event that brings departments together and allows them the opportunity to slow down and connect before the weekend.

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Navigating the Wild West of E-Commerce: A Guide for B2B Distributors

Supply Chain Brain

The meteoric rise of business-to-consumer retail e-commerce has sent shock waves throughout the industry. Now, the impact is reverberating beyond Amazon and eBay to affect business-to-business companies everywhere.

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The 3 Key Areas of ROI for Manufacturing ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and major enterprises always look to the returns they can make from implementing new tools, especially far-reaching solutions like ERPs. With the critical role that ROI plays in both ERP selection and implementation, we’re taking a look at three core areas where an ERP can improve operational efficiencies and manage costs. 1 – Inventory management and usage […].

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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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Smart Cities Need Smart Logistics Policies

Enterra Insights

Traffic congestion in cities can be a nightmare. It’s an age-old problem made worse by modern modes of transportation. Over a decade ago, Anthony Downs, a real estate finance expert, wrote, “Rising traffic congestion is an inescapable condition in large and growing metropolitan areas across the world, from Los Angeles to Tokyo, from Cairo to Sao Paolo.

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QAD DynaSys recognised as a major player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide for Supply Chain Demand Planning 2019 vendor assessment

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

QAD DynaSys, a leading provider of demand and supply chain planning solutions, has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Supply Chain Demand Planning 2019 Vendor Assessment. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the supply chain demand planning space and helps assess its current and anticipated performance in the marketplace.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 11/08/19 – 11/14/19

All Things Supply Chain

Tesla to open its first European factory Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, has previously talked about Tesla’s aims to build a European factory, but it was while he was at…

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SalesWarp & QSSI partner to deliver for Fortune Top 10 Online Retailer

Saleswarp

The SalesWarp team is proud to announce our latest partnership with leading warehouse management innovator, QSSI. Our companies have completed a joint implementation for a Fortune Top 10 Online Retailer and have proven that our products and services can exceed the expectations of the largest enterprise companies. This partnership combines the power of SalesWarp’s OMS+ (Order Management Solution +) with QSSI’s PowerHouse WMS (Warehouse Management Solution) for any B2B, wholesale or retail environ

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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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A Five-Step Approach to Inventory Agility

Supply Chain Brain

Too often, companies take a giant leap toward a best-practice system, process or software application that has recently captured headlines.

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FLEXE Hub: ‘Tis (almost) the season

FLEXE

A roundup of the latest news on logistics, retail, and industry trends

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Ces entreprises qui se transforment en écosystèmes grâce aux API (English translation provided)

Axway

Les stratégies d’ouverture d’entreprise décryptées lors d’un dîner-débat. par Dorian Marcellin – Alliancy – le 15 novembre 2019.

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