Wed.Jun 17, 2020

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A Few Thoughts about Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

Supply chain management (SCM) sounds like a straight-forward topic; nevertheless, numerous articles have been written on the subject explaining what it is and what it isn’t. Ask a person on the street what constitutes supply chain management and my guess is they would say SCM means ensuring the entire supply chain, from procurement of raw materials to product delivery, runs smoothly.

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3 advantages of pick and pack order fulfillment for logistics operators

6 River Systems

Pick and pack describes all the activities involved in pulling items from their individual locations in a warehouse or order fulfillment facility and packaging them in compliance with customers’ requirements and specifications. The last process before shipment or last-mile delivery, pick and pack order fulfillment is a critical supply chain function.

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Where’s the Value in Supply Chain Analytics?

Logility

Most supply chain applications that Logility works on have significant ROIs. But sometimes it’s hard to see where the return on investment will be coming from. At Logility, we focus on the tangible benefits of improving your supply chain and how we go about producing hard-number results. We’re all very well versed in the traditional areas to look for: cost structure, growth, and capital.

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Smart Last Mile Tech That’s Upending Waste

GlobalTranz

Delivery efficiency remains a top of mind concept for supply chain leaders. Within the final mile, efficiency takes on a new role and expectation. The final mile is traditionally marred by excess costs, poor visibility, and limited ability to intervene when problems arise. Meanwhile., demand for more last mile service has risen as 56% of.read More. The post Smart Last Mile Tech That’s Upending Waste appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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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 Management’s Crucial Role in the Supply Chain

Kuebix

What is Inventory Management and Why is it Important? Inventory management refers to the process of ordering, storing and using a company’s goods or materials. Successfully managing inventory allows businesses to meet the demand level of their consumers with an appropriate amount of supply. Ineffective management can result in excess inventory which runs the risk […].

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My Superhero’s Cape

BlueYonder

This year, in honor of Father’s Day, we focus our Wednesdays for Women posts on sharing two perspectives of fatherhood. The first last week was from a Blue Yonder dad raising two girls. The second this week is written by a Blue Yonder daughter. Carla Garcia pens this touching tribute in honor of Father’s Day after losing her father recently. For anyone that has lost a loved one, whether a father, father figure, parent, grandparent or beyond, having a way to remember them and what impact th

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Join us on QDII Innovation Day Virtual Conference

Adexa

Qingdao China. June 23, 2020, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM. The Industrial Internet Initiative consists of streamlining industrial value chains and supply chains in order to boost productivity and minimize costs. This represents a strategic opportunity for Qingdao as the home to Haier which leads nation-wide efforts in driving its implementations with the de facto standard platform COSMOPlat.

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How AI Depalletization Is Shaking Up Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

The growing demand for fast supply-chain processes has reached yet another niche market: the unloading of boxes from pallets, or a so-called depalletization.

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! Rare Earth Elements article, and permission to publish here, provided by Joe Carson and Shubho Chatterjee. It’s amazing how quickly $4 trillion dollars can change a conversation. With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the resulting supply chain fallout , many have speculated on how the U.S. found itself so reliant on a foreign country, mainly China, bu

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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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5 Reasons Why You Need a TMS to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

TMC

Are you looking to improve visibility, automation, and optimization to achieve a more resilient supply chain? Then a global transportation management system (TMS) should be a key part of your supply chain technology strategy. TMS technology—arguably one of the most important logistics management tools available to companies—can make a major contribution toward creating and enabling a responsive, adaptable, and intelligent global supply chain.

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Sourcing and Procurement in Supply Chain Management

EC Sourcing Group

Sourcing and Procurement in Supply Chain Management. The terms “ sourcing” and “procurement” in supply chain management are often used interchangeably, although they are not quite the same. Procurement is a process and one link in the chain of the supply chain. The supply chain is the entire process of making and selling a commercial product or good.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a TMS to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

TMC

Are you looking to improve visibility, automation, and optimization to achieve a more resilient supply chain? Then a global transportation management system (TMS) should be a key part of your supply chain technology strategy. TMS technology—arguably one of the most important logistics management tools available to companies—can make a major contribution toward creating and enabling a responsive, adaptable, and intelligent global supply chain.

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Leveraging Supply Chain Engineering During Unexpected Disruptions

MercuryGate

Sometimes the world doesn’t make much sense and we find our supply chains responding unexpectedly. In the last decade, the rate of change has increased, and disruptions are becoming more common, impacting the way we do business. Leveraging supply chain engineering enables shippers to apply optimization and technology both tactically and strategically to logistics, reducing […].

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CADDi Receives 2023 Top Tech Startup Award by Food Logistics, Supply & Demand Chain Executive

The 2023 Top Tech Startup Awards by Food Logistics, Supply & Demand Chain Executive spotlights the top software and technology startups in the supply chain and logistics space.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a TMS to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Are you looking to improve visibility, automation, and optimization to achieve a more resilient supply chain? Then a global transportation management system (TMS) should be a key part of your supply chain technology strategy. TMS technology—arguably one of the most important logistics management tools available to companies—can make a major contribution toward creating and enabling a responsive, adaptable, and intelligent global supply chain.

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Cloud WMS: A Platform for Reliability, Scalability, and Performance

Logistics Viewpoints

WMS ia a mission-critical application, the backbone of warehouse operations.Cloud applications running on leading enterprise cloud infrastructure offer extremely high availability. The architecture and algorithms dynamically scale cloud computing capacity to handle customers’ increasing volumes. Oracle WMS Cloud, for example, is a zero-downtime application.

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Quantifying the Waste in Transportation

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from “Network-based TMS: How Connected Platforms Will Transform Transportation Management in 2020 and Beyond,” a research e-book produced by Adelante SCM and published by Kuebix (a Talking Logistics sponsor). No doubt, the current challenges in the transportation market are an acute response to an unexpected crisis [the COVID-19.

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“Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 Ardent Partners’ Annual Survey Results of Chief Procurement Officers”

ivalua

The post “Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 Ardent Partners’ Annual Survey Results of Chief Procurement Officers” appeared first on Ivalua.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Coronavirus Spreading Along Major US Highways

Supply Chain Digest

Result of Travel as Restrictions are Eased

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5 Challenges to Expanding into Latin America with Demo Perez

The Logistics of Logistics

The post 5 Challenges to Expanding into Latin America with Demo Perez appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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What is Smart Manufacturing and How can it Help your Manufacturing Operations?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Answer agree or disagree with these two observations: The Coronavirus pandemic is going to change the way manufacturers operate. After the pandemic is over, we won’t be able to go back to doing things the way we used to. If you responded Disagree to both points, you don’t need to read any further. However, if […]. The post What is Smart Manufacturing and How can it Help your Manufacturing Operations?

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Scaling Up Delivery Operations Safely and Efficiently

Supply Chain Brain

Growing too quickly can cause delayed deliveries, inefficient inventory management, overworked drivers and disappointed customers.

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Enhancing Efficiency in Design: Suzuki Motor Corporation's Integration of CADDi Drawer

Suzuki Motor Corporation integrates CADDi DRAWER to streamline design processes. The cloud service organizes past drawings, facilitating quick access, reducing search time, and preventing duplication, ultimately enhancing design team efficiency.

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Common Less-than-Truckload Accessorial Charges Explained

Freight Plus

Common Accessorial charges you may see: Fuel surcharge (fsc) : Every carrier freight tariff has one negotiated in it. How it works is whatever the U.S. diesel average cost is per week, the carrier will put a percentage of cost onto that. . This is negotiable in that you can negotiate what the percentage of that fuel surcharge fee is going to be. . Notify charge/appointment charge/call before delivery charge: all charges surrounding appointments - each are slightly different but essentially the s

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Blog: Smart Integration, an Essential Building Block for Digital Platforms

Bristlecone

Digital platforms have arrived in a big way owing to the current need for efficiency and accuracy, which is driving digital transformation across businesses. All the digital needs of a company – from insights to infrastructure development to service delivery – are being met by different digital platforms today. Leading software vendors have realized that, by employing applications and platforms that are tightly knit and can communicate with each other, enterprises can push for better efficiency

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Common Less-than-Truckload Accessorial Charges Explained

Freight Plus

Common Accessorial charges you may see: Fuel surcharge (fsc) : Every carrier freight tariff has one negotiated in it. How it works is whatever the U.S. diesel average cost is per week, the carrier will put a percentage of cost onto that. . This is negotiable in that you can negotiate what the percentage of that fuel surcharge fee is going to be. . Notify charge/appointment charge/call before delivery charge: all charges surrounding appointments - each are slightly different but essentially the s

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Using Tail Spend Management to Your Procurement Advantage

ProcurePort

Did you know that 80% of the transactions in a typical American procurement department are tail spend? Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker once said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Tail spend as we know is spend that is not actively managed and may lead to all sorts of financial difficulties for procurement […]. The post Using Tail Spend Management to Your Procurement Advantage appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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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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A TMS Can Benefit Your Entire Company

Freightview

A transportation management system is a valuable tool, and it seems obvious that your logistics team would have access to this kind of tool but it can go beyond your basic logistics functionalities. A good TMS helps to streamline the process from quoting all the way to paying the carriers for moving your freight.

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Five Questions to Test Your Post-Pandemic Business Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

Does your company's strategy still make sense?

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Warehouses Serve as a Pandemic Haven for Property Investors – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Warehouses Serve as a Pandemic Haven for Property Investors. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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