Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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TMS Strategies for Delivering Savings and Performance

TMC

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak again at CSCMP’s annual global conference, which focused on providing attendees with real-world strategies to maximize and transform supply chains. With 3,000+ attendees and 100 sessions at the event, the content addressed a wide range of supply chain opportunities and challenges. TMC’s participation included two different panel discussions; one was an overview of our Truckload Leader or Laggard research with MIT, which you can learn more about in my pre

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Cognitive Machines and the Future of Work

Aera Technology

by Shariq Mansoor, CTO and Founder of Aera Technology You have an appointment in 90 minutes. It’s a simple half-hour drive down the freeway, so you’re in no great rush. Then Google sends a notification to your phone: It’s time to leave. A traffic jam has left your route badly backed up. Perhaps you’ll depart immediately, or assess Google’s recommendations for alternative routes.

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What Is the Future of and Trends in E-Commerce Logistics?

GlobalTranz

E-commerce is growing at a phenomenal rate and, powered by the top trends in e-commerce logistics, shippers have an amazing opportunity to increase profitability and reduce freight spend simultaneously. The time to understand the trends in commerce logistics and position their organizations succeed and overcome the challenges that accompany this unique way of moving product on a global scale.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. This is the first time in many years that I’ve had to assume all of her responsibilities in managing the complex operations of a house with three kids (our oldest child is in college, which you would think would make things easier, but she lost her prescription eye glasses, so I had to pick up a new pair at the store, box them up, drive to the post office, and stand in line to mail them to her.

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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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TMS Strategies for Delivering Savings and Performance

TMC

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak again at CSCMP’s annual global conference, which focused on providing attendees with real-world strategies to maximize and transform supply chains. With 3,000+ attendees and 100 sessions at the event, the content addressed a wide range of supply chain opportunities and challenges. TMC’s participation included two different panel discussions; one was an overview of our Truckload Leader or Laggard research with MIT, which you can learn more about in my pre

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Rating and Evaluating Suppliers and Vendors: Benefits and Best Practices

Insights Solutions Global

What to do if you want to reduce risk, reduce cost, and improve supplier performance in the supply chain? Assessing or evaluating your suppliers could be a good place to start. And how you can assess your suppliers?

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TMS Strategies for Delivering Savings and Performance

TMC

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak again at CSCMP’s annual global conference, which focused on providing attendees with real-world strategies to maximize and transform supply chains. With 3,000+ attendees and 100 sessions at the event, the content addressed a wide range of supply chain opportunities and challenges. TMC’s participation included two different panel discussions; one was an overview of our Truckload Leader or Laggard research with MIT, which you can learn more about in my pre

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Rating and Evaluating Suppliers and Vendors: Benefits and Best Practices

Insights Solutions Global

What to do if you want to reduce risk, reduce cost, and improve supplier performance in the supply chain? Assessing or evaluating your suppliers could be a good place to start. And how you can assess your suppliers? The post Rating and Evaluating Suppliers and Vendors: Benefits and Best Practices appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.

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Don’t Become a Victim of Your Forecast Models

The Smart Software

Generally, the supply chain field has lagged behind finance in terms of the use of statistical models. My university colleagues and I are chipping away at that, but we have a long way to go. Some supply chains are quite technically sophisticated, but many, perhaps more, are essentially managed as much by gut instinct as by the numbers. Is this avoidance of analytics safer than relying on models?

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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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2018 CPhI worldwide at Madrid

The Supply Chainer Report

About CPhI. CPhI is an international brand where UBM ( PharmExec , LCGC ) organizes the largest Pharmaceutical performances in terms of manufacturers’ number and companies involved. UBM is now a part of Informa , the leading B2B Information Services group. This is an important consideration that I could say, the potential of a company with such an immense intangible knowledge is tremendous … ( 2017 FY results ).

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The Hack: Keep Calm, Supply Chains Have Got You Covered

APICS

Bloomberg reported last week that Chinese spies had infiltrated at least 30 U.S. companies — including Amazon, Apple and others — using a tiny microchip hidden on server motherboards.

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Supply Chain Comment on Trip Report for CSCMP Edge 2018 in Nashville Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

Best of the Breakout Sessions, including Excellent Carrier CEO Panel, Art Mesher Revisiting the 3 Vs of Supply Chain, and Transportation and the C Suite

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Distributor Assessment Essentials to Deliver Sales Growth and Improve RtM Strategy

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Welcome to Step 3 of the 20 Steps to Route to Market Excellence. You can read more about the overall model and the steps I have already discussed here.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

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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Brick-and-Mortar Supermarkets can remain Relevant with the Right Experiences

Enterra Insights

For much of early American history, many people grew the plants or raised the livestock they needed to sustain themselves and their families. To obtain food items they couldn’t grow, they visited their local general store where a friendly shopkeeper would dutifully locate requested items from stocked shelves behind the counter. In many ways, the general store was the center of the community — a gathering place where pleasantries were exchanged and local issues could be discussed.

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Measure markets at a glance

DAT Solutions

You don't have to pore over spreadsheets and crunch numbers to know which freight markets are sizzling. With the Hot Market Map in DAT Power load board and DAT RateView , you can see where demand is highest at just a glance. The map shows you the hottest freight markets based on the load-to-truck ratio, the number of load posts on DAT load boards by the number of truck posts.

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Understanding Stock Take Discrepancies and Why They Happen

Unleashed

A stock take discrepancy can present a real problem for businesses, potentially costing the bottom-line in lost sales, build-up of surplus stock, and perhaps most detrimentally – creating dissatisfied customers. Accurate stock recording and inventory management are essential to understanding a company’s true capacity to meet and capitalise on market demands.

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How To Pave The Path To Digital Transformation

Janeiro Digital

This post originally appeared on Forbes. Digital transformation has remained a hot topic this year not only because of how integral it is for businesses, but also because so many conversations focus on predicting where it’s poised to go. Worldwide, companies are predicted to spend $1.7 trillion on digital transformation by the end of 2019, which will be up 42% from 2017.

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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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Don’t Let Inventory Discrepancies Affect Your Accounting

Unleashed

A reliable stock taking procedure allows businesses to know its inventory count and value, not only informing decision-makers and driving operations but also ensuring accurate information is available to accountants, auditors and financial controllers who prepare annual reports, balance sheets and essential statements of earnings. Identifying discrepancies.

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When Launching TMS, Failure is Not an Option

Supply Chain Collaborator

This week’s manned Soyuz launch to the International Space Station appeared to be going smoothly, but some 90 seconds later NASA, on its livestream, reported that a problem seemed to have occurred with the booster rocket between the first and second stages of separation. The two astronauts were forced into a “ballistic descent” with their capsule landing a few hundred miles from the launch site.

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Procurement as a strategic advisory resource

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Defining the Perfect Procurement World. 3. Achieving the perfect Procurement world. 4. Are you a 2-dimensional or a 3-dimensional purchasing organisation? 5. Do you know what you are buying? 6. Buying a commodity. 7. Automation for the 3-dimensional purchasing organisation. 8. What are the benefits of a 3-dimensional organisation?

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5 Integration Techniques for Better Connections

TrackVia

When evaluating any new technology, the thought eventually occurs — how will this interact with other technology in my world to make things easier? When there are many enterprise systems running complex processes and money is on the line, the need for these systems to integrate with one another is incredibly important to efficiency and the bottom line.

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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.