Fri.Nov 06, 2020

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Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain: Now and Next

Supply Chain Brain

The digital transformation of supply chains has been underway since 2010, but COVID-19 kicked it into top gear.

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S&D Coffee and Tea Roasts Logistics and Transportation Costs With PINC

PINC

Using PINC Yard Management System (YMS), America’s largest custom coffee roaster has reduced detention costs and eliminated yard inefficiencies while improving visibility and productivity across the supply chain. Since 1927, S&D Coffee & Tea has been making delicious beverages for consumers worldwide. Made from top-quality ingredients, its coffees and teas are not only tasty, but they’re also produced in a very sustainable, eco-friendly manner.

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Omnichannel is the New Black Friday

Enterra Insights

With the prospect of wary consumers remaining reluctant to shop in stores during the upcoming holiday season, online sales began in earnest with Amazon’s October Prime Day. Other large retailers, like Walmart, also announced they were canceling traditional Black Friday sales promotions in favor of season-long, online sales campaigns. Although these efforts don’t discount in-store shopping, they certainly highlight the significance retailers are placing on omnichannel operations.

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How to Maximize Warehouse Space Utilization Without Expansion

EnVista

Managing inventory in your warehouse or distribution center is one of many challenges you face along the supply chain, and a primary challenge in distribution centers (DC) is limited space. A distribution center is technically out of space when it hits about 85 percent of its occupancy. That’s not just in the storage area; it holds true for receiving, shipping and all other process areas.

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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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Make CAPA Work for Your Supply Chain: See How Covid-19 Inspired Blue Diamond’s CAPA Transformation

Elementum

Supply chain is one heck of a challenging place to make a career: order too much, the business is in trouble; deliver too little, the business is in trouble. Yet, everyday, there are supply chain heroes, who are stepping up to take on new challenges and persevere no matter what the headwinds are. That’s exactly what Shawn Nielsen, Global Sales & Operations Manager, did at Blue Diamond.

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Make CAPA Work for Your Supply Chain: See How Covid-19 Inspired Blue Diamond’s CAPA Transformation

Elementum

Supply chain is one heck of a challenging place to make a career: order too much, the business is in trouble; deliver too little, the business is in trouble. Yet, everyday, there are supply chain heroes, who are stepping up to take on new challenges and persevere no matter what the headwinds are. That’s exactly what Shawn Nielsen, Global Sales & Operations Manager, did at Blue Diamond.

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Poole Graduate Joydeep Ganguly believes in a “Goodness Chain” at Gilead Science

NC State SCRC

We have a lot of remarkable graduates that come out of the halls of Nelson Hall from the Poole College of Management, and one of the ones I have the pleasure to stay in touch with is Joydeep Ganguly. He is a true inspiration to me! Prior to joining Gilead Science in 2016, Ganguly spent 10 years at Biogen, working as the site manager nearby in RTP.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 31 – November 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

As I wrote earlier this week, the election is behind us – well, maybe not. With record numbers of mail-in votes still being counted, a winner has yet to be declared. As of the writing of this, swing states including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina were still counting ballots, and the races are too close to call. And even for some of those states that have been called, like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, there […].

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 6, 2020)

Talking Logistics

What else did you expect with the US elections this year? It is still 2020, afterall. Regardless of who ultimately wins the Presidency and the remaining Senate and House seats, what are the odds that over the next four years the government will actually take any action on improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure, “the burning. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 6, 2020).

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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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Importance of Program Management

EnVista

How a Program Manager Improves Organizational Performance. “Wait, who was supposed to do that?”.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 10/30/2020 – 11/05/2020

All Things Supply Chain

Amazon shipping costs outpace sales growth due to soaring pandemic operating expenses Amazon’s shipping costs increased by 57% Year on Year in the third quarter to reach $15 billion.

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Flexible Warehousing: A Shortcut to Direct-to-Consumer E-Commerce

Supply Chain Brain

Once COVID-19 is behind us, will traditional business-to-business retail stage a comeback, or is direct-to-consumer e-commerce the new normal? For an uncertain future, one strategy gaining ground is the “warehouse-in-a-warehouse.

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How can artificial intelligence transform the logistics industry?

Shipsy

Artificial intelligence has brought a revolutionary change in the industries by automating various processes to improve their efficiency and bring perfection. In the logistics sector, the technology is automating various manual operations to accomplish them quickly and with utmost precision. Apart from this, AI is also helping the logistics domain with many other benefits, which we have covered in this article.

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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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Top 5 Five Challenges for Importers in Ensuring Compliance

Supply Chain Brain

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the importance to global trade of business processes that have received little attention in the past. A prime example is import regulatory compliance.

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Mesh Governance is updated!

Axway

Mesh Governance is back! I want to share several recent updates we have made to update the mesh Traceability Agent reporting to the API Observer in Central. Mesh Governance updates.

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Driving Warehouse Operational Excellence: Meeting the E-Commerce Challenge

Supply Chain Brain

If your warehouse operations weren’t e-commerce ready before, chances are you’re scrambling to make sure they are now. The COVID-19 pandemic has given a huge boost to the already rising rates of e-commerce sales, which reached $3.53 trillion worldwide in 2019, according to Statista. Whatever turns out to be the medium-term course of the virus, it seems consumer habits will have been permanently changed by life during lockdown.

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API governance: What is it and why does it matter?

Axway

One topic that often comes up in organizations past a certain size is the question of API governance.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Podcast | Are There Positive Signs of Economic Recovery?

Supply Chain Brain

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the U.S. and global economies into dire straits.

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Inventory Carrying Costs & How They Impact Profitability

EazyStock

Maintaining cost-effective inventory levels is critical for any manufacturer, wholesaler, supplier or retailer. But just how much inventory is the right amount to hold? How can you ensure you have enough to cover fluctuating demand without over-stocking? How long can you hold ‘healthy’ stock until it becomes excess or even obsolete? Most businesses struggle to find an optimized balance between these two costly challenges.

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Episode 103 - Staying Educated with J.W. Taylor at Taylor & Associates

Freight Plus

In this episode, Consulting Logistics host, Jill Clifford, welcomes J.W. Taylor, Owner and Managing Member at Taylor & Associates, to discuss the importance of shipper education. In this conversation we will discuss: Where shippers can get themselves in trouble. Why education is important. Resources to stay up to date. Audio only version. Visit the Taylor & Associate Website.

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Collabera partners with Axway to maximize integration through the AMPLIFY™ Hybrid Cloud Platform

Axway

Collabera , a next-generation engineering services and consulting organization, is joining the Axway Partner ecosystem. Axway’s impressive background in invigorating legacy IT substructures to build digital-first customer experiences was one of the critical drivers for cementing this partnership.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Ethical Consumer Week: How to make transparency meaningful

Provenance

What is supply chain and impact transparency and what makes it valuable? Our CEO & founder Jessi Baker spoke at Ethical Consumer Week 2020 to explore the line between what’s progress and what’s simply marketing. She also shared why transparency without proof is, in itself, meaningless. See the three things brands should be doing, and what we should all be looking out for… The inaugural Ethical Consumer Week, spearheaded by the team behind the sustainability magazine of the same name, a

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