Thu.Aug 08, 2024

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Supply Chains and Climate Change: Adapt or Die

Enterra Insights

Predicting that companies must adapt to climate change or die is a bit hyperbolic. At the very least, companies that fail to adapt will lose out to their competition. Experts are warning things can get bad. “The verdict is out,” writes journalist Elise Leise. “According to McKinsey & Co, as climate change worsens, the world will face more frequent and severe extreme weather events — hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods.

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Six Ways Supply Chain Leaders Use Transportation as a Competitive Weapon

Logistics Viewpoints

Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing, TMS at Descartes Does your company view transportation as a competitive weapon? An enlightening new report indicates that this strategy corresponds to strong financial performance for shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs). Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey shares responses from more than 630 companies, indicating there is a correlation between financial performance and the strategic importance senior management pla

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Michigan hospitals struggle due to cyber attack

IT Supply Chain

By Darren Williams (pictured) CEO and Founder of BlackFog The post Michigan hospitals struggle due to cyber attack appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How To Talk to Customers About Returns

BlueYonder

As in so many things, communication is key when dealing with e-commerce returns. Marketers often discuss brand touchpoints, meaning the website, physical store locations, advertisements, sponsorships, and most crucially, when using, wearing or owning the product. However, one under-appreciated and crucially important brand touchpoint is the returns process.

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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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Why Your Warehouse Needs a Web-Based Management System?

My Office Apps

Why Your Warehouse Needs a Web-Based Management System Businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency of logistics and supply chain management. Solutions like Kechie’s Web-based Warehouse Management System (WMS) leverage the power of the internet to provide real-time visibility, streamlined operations, and scalability that traditional on-premise solutions struggle to match.

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U.S. Battery Manufacturers Form Coalition to Boost Domestic Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The group's goal is to lobby Congress and the White House to boost tax credits for U.S. suppliers manufacturing battery materials and components.

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Locus for Retail: Seamless On-ground Visibility for Dispatch Managers

Locus

Visibility is key to success in any business. Imagine if dispatch managers are not aware of what’s happening on-ground on their own floor! They have to manually contact resources to get updates on everything, which is pain that increases with scale. According to research, only 6% of companies across the globe report full supply chain visibility. That’s a concerning number.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for August 8, 2024

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon Fulfillment, Shipping Costs Continue to Rise. Trucking Slump Continues. East and Gulf Ports want a Big Wage Hike.

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Podcast | The Road to Wellness: Addressing the Issue of Truck Driver Obesity

Supply Chain Brain

What can truck drivers do to embrace a healthier lifestyle?

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Investments in Supply Chain Companies have Collapsed

Supply Chain Digest

Deals Dramatically Down from 2021 Peak

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Watch: A Look at the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Supply Chain Brain

Matthew Gardner, managing director of global consultancy Sustainserv, explains the new regulation that imposes a tax on carbon-intensive products being imported into the European Union.

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Mastering The Art Of Timely Delivery With Delivery Management Software

Loginext

Timely delivery is crucial in logistics. Discover how LogiNext’s Delivery Management Software optimizes routes, automates dispatch, and enhances real-time tracking to ensure on-time deliveries and satisfied customers. The post Mastering The Art Of Timely Delivery With Delivery Management Software appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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Port of Ulsan Signs $17.6M Deal to Expand Green Fuel Storage

Supply Chain Brain

The port plans expand its storage capacity for liquified natural gas, and set up corridors to provide that fuel to other shipping hubs across South Korea.

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Revolutionizing Hiring: Remote-Insourcing That Slashes Turnover & Training Costs!

What is Remote-Insourcing? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Not anymore. Remote-Insourcing isn’t outsourcing—it’s a revolutionary staffing model that lets our clients fill key entry-level positions with top-tier, loyal, long-term talent, integrated seamlessly into their businesses—just like local employees but without the turnover or W2 HR hassles. With under 4% unwanted attrition, you train once and keep the same team for years.

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Managing Multiple Retail Warehouse Peaks: From School to the Holidays

Locus Robotics

Home August 08, 2024 Managing Multiple Retail Warehouse Peaks: From School to the Holidays Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager As we wrap up summer (and apologies to those who think summer is just getting started), warehouse managers are gearing up for not one, but two major retail peaks: the back-to-school season and the upcoming holiday rush of Halloween and Christmas.

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Canada Rail Union, Railways Agree to Restart Labor Negotiations

Supply Chain Brain

Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon met with railways and the union on August 5 to "discuss the government's expectations in their collective bargaining negotiations.

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Product Update, July 2024

Precoro

Precoro presents our latest series of product updates. Please feel free to explore at your leisure or navigate directly to the updates that most interest you: Personalize supplier approvals with custom fields Maintain uninterrupted approval workflows with new notifications Improved accuracy with amount-based tolerance limit matching Integration updates OCR improvements Other upgrades Personalize supplier approvals with custom fields If you ever needed to approve suppliers based on specific crite

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Transforming Fulfillment Operations With Software & Robotics

Supply Chain Brain

In the fast-evolving retail landscape, efficient fulfillment operations are critical to maintaining competitiveness and customer satisfaction. Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore the transformative power of advanced technologies in warehouse automation.

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3 Ways Your Wholesaler ERP System Is Failing You

The supply chain is the world’s most complex logistics challenge, where efficiency and accuracy are critically important to ensure goods are accessible to consumers when needed. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems play a key role for wholesale distribution companies in this process, serving (among other things) as the inventory management software that attempts to ensure that the right products are available in the right quantities at the right time and place.

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Enhancing SAP Landscapes with Supplier Information Management (SIM)

HICX Solutions

In this white paper, we review how a dedicated supplier information management (SIM) solution adds value to a typical SAP-dominated enterprise landscape, the ways in which SIM enhances overall supplier experience, the reasons why this is important, and how a business case and evaluation of SIM in this scenario should be approached. For businesses extensively using SAP as part of their supplier data and ERP landscape, significant enhancements can be implemented to drive better business outcomes,

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Hurricane Preparedness: Five Essential Steps for Facility Managers

Supply Chain Brain

Distribution facility leaders who plan ahead for hurricane season can mitigate the cost of damage, minimize disruption, and evenly distribute the workload of cleanup.

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The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide for Inventory Management Software

ThroughPut

Overview You’ve been there time and again—inventory headaches. No matter what you do, it feels like your inventory is conspiring against you: always too much or too little, and it’s not just by chance that you find yourself in this familiar predicament. You’re likely here for one of two reasons: One, your inventory management strategy desperately needed an upgrade…yesterday.

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P2G Advantage: Maximize Warehouse Productivity & Flexibility

Supply Chain Brain

The demand for flexible, scalable solutions that create efficiency and productivity in your warehouse has never been more critical.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.

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Print is Not Dead: Why Your Business Needs Professional Printing Services

IT Supply Chain

By Allen Brown (pictured) Content Writer The post Print is Not Dead: Why Your Business Needs Professional Printing Services appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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U.S. to Call for Limits on Chinese Vehicle Software Over Data Security Concerns

Supply Chain Brain

Biden administration officials reportedly plan to propose limits on U.S. sales of Chinese vehicle software as soon as August.

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