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The Evolving Warehouse: Prepare Your Warehouse for Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s been 18 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and the world is still trying to adjust to the changes and uncertainties associated with it, even causing a domino effect in some instances. The pandemic halted many supply chains last year, closing factories and stores, and limiting manufacturing and distribution operations.

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American Software to Announce Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Results

Logility

ATLANTA, GA (November 3, 2021) – American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA), a leading provider of innovative AI-powered supply chain management and advanced retail planning solutions, today announced that it will release its Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 financial results after the U.S. financial markets close on Thursday, November 18, 2021. In conjunction with the release, the company will host a conference call at 5:00 pm ET to discuss its results with the investment community.

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A Three-Step Approach to Adopting AI, and What to Prioritize

Supply Chain Brain

The global impact of the pandemic has yielded a number of important lessons for companies looking to survive the next major disruption. Among them is the need to better implement artificial intelligence in supply chains.

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Financing a Sustainable Future

Taulia

The Paris Agreement was adopted in late 2015 with the goal of limiting global warming. In 2021, as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), there has been renewed focus on what it takes to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees and protect communities and natural habitats. Implementation of the Agreement requires significant economic and social transformation.

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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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Watch: Reducing Supply Chain Risk Through 'Sureshoring'

Supply Chain Brain

Offshoring, nearshoring, and now "sureshoring": Brian Glick, chief executive officer of Chain.io, tells why global supply chains need to take a more complex and sophisticated approach to deciding where to source their products.

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Fifty Years in Idle Time Seen for Trucks at Two Major U.S. Ports

Supply Chain Brain

Trucking trips originating around the U.S.’s busiest ports are showing massive increases in idle time, another sign of the supply chain logjams plaguing American transport hubs.

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Emerging Lithium Battery Titans

QAD

The automotive market is trading in the internal combustion engine (ICE) for battery-powered electric vehicles. And with it is coming a new league of industry influencers and innovators who will take the lead in the rapidly growing market. . The new demand for high-power, low-cost batteries has sparked interest in the tech sector, causing a dramatic entrance of newcomers to the automotive market.

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Ensuring Supply Chain Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic World

Supply Chain Brain

Companies that are still rushing to lower product expense or speed up deliveries at the cost of the planet and its people are playing an outdated game.

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Houston: A Pioneer of Logistically-Centered Cities

NFI

As NFI continues to grow its North American logistics footprint, Houston has emerged as a leading supply chain hub. The area serves as a distribution hotspot with its intricate interstate highway, railroad systems, and access to major seaports for global trade. Houston is a top-ranked market for transportation, distribution, and all aspects of the supply… Continue reading Houston: A Pioneer of Logistically-Centered Cities.

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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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Blume Global Unveils Drayage Trucking Marketplace to Unclog Port Congestion During Holiday Season

Supply Chain Brain

Blume Global, a provider of supply chain execution and visibility technology solutions, has announced CarrierGo Live, a web-based solution that provides shippers, motor carriers and port terminal operators with the tools to alleviate unprecedented supply chain congestion.

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Meeting the Warehouse Challenge of the New Normal

IT Supply Chain

By Alex Mills (pictured). Sales & Marketing Director at ProSKU. The post Meeting the Warehouse Challenge of the New Normal appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Warehouse Automation and Robotics: A Practical Perspective

Consumer Goods Logistics

The logistics industry is in the grips of a disruptive labor shortage. Along with the truck driver shortage, reliable warehouse workers are also hard to find and keep, and wages continue to rise. Warehouse automation, mechanization and robotics can be part of the answer to the warehouse labor shortage, but they can’t be universally applied. We need to assess automated solutions in the context of key operational characteristics to ensure investments will have a proper return.

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LCL: A Shipping Solution for Today’s Global Logistics Market

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Less-than-container load (LCL) shipping has become part of the solution design to many supply chain challenges. LCL shipping provides shippers with cost and time savings as they face longer wait times at ports along with more last-minute-change needs, based on disruption and delays. In a recent global survey conducted by our team, shippers reported congestion and capacity as their main pain points in today’s ocean environment.

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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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Fixing communications: A persistent pain point

HICX Solutions

By Anthony Payne, CMO of HICX. 64% of respondents in the recent Supplier Experience Survey by HICX, cite communications as a top three area for improvement when it comes to doing business with suppliers. According to Stephen Day, Chief Procurement Officer at market research house Kantar, this casts the spotlight on a persistent pain point. There’s been a very notable imbalance, he observes, between suppliers and enterprises for some years now, and this needs to change.

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6 Strategies to Make Better Financial Decisions for Your Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cash Is King! Creating a Culture Focused on Money Management. Better financial decisions article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The financial decisions you make in your company determine many outcomes including the future of your business. Mistakes made in the financial aspect have dire consequences and may cause serious harm to your business venture.

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How to Navigate Rocky Terrain with Your Suppliers Beyond 2021

HICX Solutions

The 2020s have been one tough decade…and it’s only 2021. When it comes to building strong supplier experience management for the future, procurement needs to rethink our strategies. Earlier this year, Procurious and HICX teamed up to bring you the ultimate survivalist webcast: How to Improve Supplier Experience. In it, we discussed the lessons procurement needed to learn in order to achieve optimal supplier experience management (especially when it comes to data), maintain it during whatever cri

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o9 Solutions Platform Enables Vestas to advance its Global Supply Chain Management

o9 Solutions

DALLAS, 04 November 2021 – o9 Solutions , a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its collaboration with Vestas , a world leader in wind technology, to develop its global supply chain planning capabilities by leveraging the o9 Digital Brain platform. . Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions and an innovator in wind energy design, manufacturing, and installation.

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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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ThroughPut Inc & DCRA Inc. announce Strategic Partnership to launch Constrained-Based Supply Chain S&OP Diagnostics System to accelerate Revenue Growth

ThroughPut

The most comprehensive Operational Transformation solution for organizations seeking fresh perspectives to address complex Supply Chain challenges. PALO ALTO, Calif., November. 04, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ThroughPut Inc., the Industrial AI Supply Chain pioneer, today announced a partnership with Dynamic Cycle-Time Reduction Associates ( DCRA ) to launch their combined offering reinstating the focus to Sales, Operations, and Digitization efforts to maximize ROI and throughput.

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An Interview on How Sustainable Procurement Programs Foster a Greener Future with Charlotte de Brabandt and Max Kent

HICX Solutions

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) , held between 31st October and 12th November, we welcomed Charlotte de Brabandt and Max Kent to the Supplier Experience Live podcast, to discuss how sustainable procurement programs foster a greener future. Charlotte is a speaker, trainer, ambassador for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) with over 10 years of experience in global procurement.

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Three Tips for Brokers to Gain and Retain Customers

3GTMS

By JP Wiggins, VP of Logistics at 3G We talked to top brokers about getting/keeping customers, here is what they said. In today’s world, shippers are scrambling to find carrier capacity and affordably move their products. This includes relying on all available avenues, often leading to freight brokers and 3PLs. However, the freight brokerage space is […].

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Couch Report on Gartner Supply Chain Supply Chain Symposium 2021 Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

Tuesday and Wednesday Keynotes Oddly Both External Innovation Gurus

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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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Three Tips for Brokers to Gain and Retain Customers

3GTMS

By JP Wiggins, VP of Logistics at 3G We talked to top brokers about getting/keeping customers, here is what they said. In today’s world, shippers are scrambling to find carrier capacity and affordably move their products. This includes relying on all available avenues, often leading to freight brokers and 3PLs. However, the freight brokerage space is […].

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Ransomware Part Two: Before an Attack

Enterra Insights

“Your computers and servers are encrypted, backups are deleted. We use strong encryption algorithms, so you cannot decrypt your data.” That was the message that appeared on computer screens at Colonial Pipeline last May. Journalists Ellen Nakashima ( @nakashimae ) and Rachel Lerman ( @rachelerman ) report, “The extortionists said, ‘you can restore everything by purchasing a special program from us — universal decryptor.’ This program, the message said, ‘will restore all y

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Three Tips for Brokers to Gain and Retain Customers

3GTMS

By JP Wiggins, VP of Logistics at 3G We talked to top brokers about getting/keeping customers, here is what they said. In today’s world, shippers are scrambling to find carrier capacity and affordably move their products. This includes relying on all available avenues, often leading to freight brokers and 3PLs. However, the freight brokerage space is […].

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Warehouse Inventory Accuracy: Why It’s Important and How to Achieve It

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Inventory accuracy – the degree to which the goods you actually have in stock match the quantities in your order management system – is hugely important to your business. Why? Because inaccurate counts can lead to back orders and stockouts. Those, in turn, cause shipping delays, which make for unhappy customers, bad reviews and lost sales.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Meat Prices Continue to Surge With Worker Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

Of all the industries experiencing crunches for hourly labor, it’s hard to find one with a greater recruiting challenge than meatpacking.

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Precoro Recognized Top Performer for Two Seasons in a Row by FeaturedCustomers

Precoro

We’re happy to bring good news to our customers on a regular basis and provide assurance that they made the right choice by choosing Precoro. This fall, we have the FeaturedCustomers platform to thank for that. Precoro has been named a Top Performer in the Procurement Software category for the Fall 2021 Customer Success Report , and won the same award in the Summer 2021 Spend Management Software category.

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Hai Robotics Launches Three Products Exploring New Frontier of Warehouse Automation

Supply Chain Brain

Gianni Girolami, global key account manager with HAI Robotics , describes three new products that the company introduced at the CeMat Asia 2021 expo in Shanghai.

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