Wed.Mar 13, 2019

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21st Century Warehouse: How to Keep Up with Distribution Center Automation and Digitization

GlobalTranz

Picture the typical retail warehouse of 15 years ago: Workers rode around on forktrucks and pallet jacks, picking and putting away product by the pallet load, loading trailers for single stores, or several at a time. It was pretty regular stuff – Store 14 got its load on Thursday – with occasional surges for seasonal.read More. The post 21st Century Warehouse: How to Keep Up with Distribution Center Automation and Digitization appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Why you need digital transformation for the future

Axway

Digital transformation for the future is necessary if you want to stay competitive. Your company simply can’t compete on a global scale if it’s lacking updated software.

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How To Prevent and Mitigate 3 Common Inventory Management Problems

Unleashed

When managing inventory, there are a wide array of challenges and problems that face business owners. These problems are an issue for small businesses, large corporations and all of those companies in between who are experiencing growth. Inventory is one of your most important assets. It’s imperative to prevent and mitigate inventory management problems in order to protect the lifeblood of your business.

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Top 5 Practical Freight & Logistics Applications of Blockchain-Based Systems

Shipchain

It’s easy to get caught up in the hype over blockchain. When it comes to supply chain, the vast promises of renewed visibility and traceability are abundant. While there is much truth to the hype, it is important to stay practical and understand the logistics applications of blockchain and what they mean for you and your organization. 1. Logistics Applications of Blockchain Maintain Data for All Parties.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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Unlocking Innovation from Your Supply Chain – Lessons from Formula 1 Racing

ivalua

Afrika Morris, Senior Field Marketing Manager UKI at Ivalua. On February 12 Ivalua hosted Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals gathered for an Exclusive Dinner on the 34th floor of The Gherkin with F1 Veteran and Status Grand Prix Founder, Mark Gallagher. The theme of the evening was “Unlocking Innovation from your Supply Chain” with presentations and discussion focused on insights, knowledge sharing and learning from the F1 Grand Prix Pit Stops.

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5 Considerations When Evaluating your ERP system’s Forecasting Capabilities

The Smart Software

Consider what is meant by “demand management”, “demand planning”, and “forecasting”. These terms imply certain standard functionality for collaboration, statistical analysis, and reporting to support a professional demand planning process. However, in most ERP systems, “demand management” running MRP and reconciling demand and supply for the purpose of placing orders.

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The (Potential) Value of Labeling in the Lithium Ion Battery Supply Chain

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Kevin Popper, Julia Navarro, Amelia Lanfrankie, and Felipe Caro. Demand for electric vehicles has risen dramatically alongside consumer concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. Correspondingly, demand for lithium-ion batteries has also increased and is expected to continue increasing – the lithium-ion battery market is thought to have a CAGR of 14%, with the transport sector accounting for 60% of the market by 2025. [1] Electric vehicle driven demand for lithium-ion battery raw materials such as

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Making the Case for MiniHubs

Supply Chain Network

For me, the highlight of this year’s RILA LINK Conference, the latest evolution of RILA’s annual Supply Chain event , came in the opening keynote with Dick Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Footlocker. Multiple times during his session he spoke of what he sees as the burning need for Footlocker to establish MiniHubs of inventory closer to both customers and local stores to satisfy their growing omnichannel needs.

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What is Demand Sensing?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Solving the Out of Stock Problem! (Infographic). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Dave Joseph at [link]. Understanding more about the needs and wants of customers can help supply chain leaders make informed decisions, improve inventory management, and increase profitability.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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Bringing treasury into the digital age

Taulia

Treasury departments have a broad range of roles, from cash forecasting to working capital management. And just like every other common financial department, treasuries often spend a lot of time on tasks that could be made simpler through the process of digitalization. Treasury digitalization is the key to unlocking efficiencies in the treasury department.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 14, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Walmart Ups Chargeback Standards Again, Massive New Fuel Tax Proposed in Michigan, US Store Closings at Torrid Pace in 2019, US Moves Past Saudi Arabia in Fuel Exports

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Think Backwards

BlueYonder

Today’s Wednesdays for Women blog is an insightful conversation with Cheryl Williams, CIO at Wakefern Food. Cheryl recently stood on mainstage at NRF 2019 with Desikan Madhavanur, JDA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer and Professor Dr. Michael Feindt, founder of Blue Yonder, to share results of AI and ML at work in their supply chain to decrease out of stocks and increase efficiency. .

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Think Backwards

JDA software

Today’s Wednesdays for Women blog is an insightful conversation with Cheryl Williams, CIO at Wakefern Food. Cheryl recently stood on mainstage at NRF 2019 with Desikan Madhavanur, JDA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer and Professor Dr. Michael Feindt, founder of Blue Yonder, to share results of AI and ML at work in their supply chain to decrease out of stocks and increase efficiency. .

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Tail Inventory: The Silent Cost Driver You Shouldn't Ignore

Learn how centralizing slow-moving SKUs can help reduce fulfillment costs by $300M+ while boosting fulfillment efficiency.

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NEW Ivalua Contract Management Video

ivalua

The post NEW Ivalua Contract Management Video appeared first on Ivalua.

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Mexico, The Next Destination for Manufacturing?

Insights Solutions Global

As China is no longer a world factory with cheap labor, international companies are pondering over every possible outcome of relocation. Many take interest in Mexico, but will Mexico be a good alternate destination?

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Driving Value through the Supplier Experience

ivalua

Michael Arthur, Federal Business Development Leader at Ivalua. The nature of Public Sector Procurement demands a high level of sensitivity to perceptions of processes, communications, and access. This involves the perspectives of immediate stakeholders, agency leads and the general public, but it also includes the perspectives of suppliers participating in solicitations or seeking opportunities to work with the government.

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Mexico, The Next Destination for Manufacturing?

Insights Solutions Global

As China is no longer a world factory with cheap labor, international companies are pondering over every possible outcome of relocation. Many take interest in Mexico, but will Mexico be a good alternate destination? The post Mexico, The Next Destination for Manufacturing? appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Steer Clear of these Five Innovation Killers

APICS

Innovation is difficult to come by. It is a fleeting concept that eludes most companies. In fact, experts say the odds of a new product idea reaching full commercialization are less than four percent. That said, innovation is difficult, but not impossible.

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Web Scraping with Python at Scale (Request, BeautifulSoup, Splash & Tesseract)

Shipsy

With data being at the heart of impactful decision making, web scraping becomes an indispensable tool, especially in the logistics space where tracking consignments from different sources form the backbone of many products. In this blog, I will discuss an efficient and scalable way to scrape data from different websites, with a special focus on the necessary tools required.