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Inventory System Concern: Should Companies Always Maintain Peak Season Stock?

GlobalTranz

Peak season gets more extensive and more demanding every year. And the upcoming peak season is expected to shatter records. As reported by Supply Chain Dive, “2020 has been a slow year for retailers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the upcoming sales are a great opportunity to boost sales and make up for the.read More. The post Inventory System Concern: Should Companies Always Maintain Peak Season Stock?

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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Supply chain professionals know it can be extremely challenging to drive day-to-day operational excellence and pursue innovation at the same time. Our recent survey showed that only 17% of organizations make it a priority to invest in innovation. Firefighting is the norm. It can also be challenging to decide where to invest.

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Invoice Hub – the Next Horizon for AP Automation

ivalua

My journey in Accounts Payable started back in 1998, when I worked on my first Accounts Payable automation solution combining scanning, OCR and workflow. It was a fun project and it felt like the first step towards something more powerful. After this came the next AP Automation project, and ever so slowly, innovation just became the norm, now it’s legacy Invoice Processing.

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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Supply chain professionals know it can be extremely challenging to drive day-to-day operational excellence and pursue innovation at the same time. Our recent survey showed that only 17% of organizations make it a priority to invest in innovation. Firefighting is the norm. It can also be challenging to decide where to invest.

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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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Data is Essential for CPG Success

Enterra Insights

From demand planning to manufacturing to trade promotion optimization, data is essential for almost every aspect of consumer packaged goods (CPG) company operations. Journalist Tina Wilson explains, “While the evolution of the CPG landscape has been underway for years now, its rate of change has dramatically quickened as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

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In the Pandemic, Factories’ Commitment to Human Rights Is Slipping

Supply Chain Brain

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

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Are Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing Mutually Exclusive?

USC Consulting Group

Lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 are in some ways a case in contrasts. The former is a production methodology designed to reduce operational costs through a combination of process efficiencies, a lighter footprint and smart time management. In short, it’s a system of minimizing waste and maximizing productivity through the barest of essentials.

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Introducing Blue Yonder Connections: a Special Interest Group App

BlueYonder

Providing community members with a simple way to get engaged and make new connections is a top priority. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the launch of Blue Yonder Connections, a Special Interest Group Community mobile app! . The Mobile App features include: Home Feed to keep you up to date on discussions in your Special Interest Groups including the topics and community members you follow A List of Recommended Connections we think you’ll enjoy following?

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5 Major Misconceptions About Perfect Order Fulfillment

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Whatever the business, perfect order fulfillment is the ultimate aim for any supply chain practitioner. That means delivering on-time and in-full (OTIF) to customers as cost effectively as possible. This is no secret, and every business is obviously working to achieve a highly effective supply chain strategy that builds customer loyalty while maximizing sales.

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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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WMS Generates Big Data but Struggles to Provide Real-time Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse management systems are Big Data applications. They can struggle to provide the real-time analytics needed to run a responsive and agile distribution operation. There is a solution. The post WMS Generates Big Data but Struggles to Provide Real-time Analytics appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Supply Chain News on Boston Dynamics Says Logistics Key Target for Its Robots, Product to be Available in 2022

Supply Chain Digest

New Versions Coming for Its Handle and Pick Robots

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19 Advantages of Logistics Outsourcing

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

The right partners can be powerful allies in a business’s quest to become bigger, better and more profitable. Nowhere is that more true than logistics management, where logistics outsourcing continues to grow, and 62% of shippers who currently outsource say they are actually stepping up their use of third party logistics providers (3PLs).

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Invoice to Pay Unlocked

ivalua

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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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Maximizing Logistics Outsourcing Benefits: What Shippers Can Do

Consumer Goods Logistics

A good third-party logistics partner (3PL) can add millions of dollars in value beyond the cost of the service. But the extent of that value is significantly influenced by the actions of the outsourcing company and how it manages the relationship. This article offers 5 things shippers can do to maximize the benefits of logistics outsourcing.

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Amazon, GM Among Firms to Share Private Diversity Data

Supply Chain Brain

More than thirty of the largest U.S. companies have agreed to new disclosures of previously private race, gender and ethnicity workforce data.

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FHIR within the healthcare spectrum, part 3

Axway

In part 2, we explored the health-as-a-service platform and its desired objects for a better modern technology approach.

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What you Need to know about Inventory Forecasting and Planning

The Smart Software

Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, inventory planning, and inventory optimization solutions, announced today that SourceForge Online Magazine will feature an interview with Smart Software CEO, Greg Hartunian. The post What you Need to know about Inventory Forecasting and Planning appeared first on Smart Software.

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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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Allbirds sneakers’ now have carbon footprint labels in the shoes.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Allbirds wants people to understand their sneakers’ carbon footprint like they do calories in food. PUBLISHED MON, SEP 28 20201:49 AM EDT (CNBC). Lucy Handley @LUCYHANDLEY. KEY POINTS. Allbirds is labeling its shoes with their carbon footprint in the hope that other companies will follow suit and lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

SUMMARY: Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains. In its simplest form, fourth-party logistics is a model in which manufacturers hand over the entirety of the organisation and oversight of their supply chain to a 4PL provider.

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What is Truck Platooning?

Operations and Supply Chain Management