Wed.Nov 16, 2016

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How Do Supply Chain & Transportation Leaders Get Started Using Their Big Data Strategy?

GlobalTranz

The amount of information and improvement possible through big data can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, this may lead some supply chain managers or executives to simply avoid the topic until a more cohesive understanding of its possibilities can be made. Meanwhile, stakeholders do not get to reap the rewards of this new tech trend , and the overall enterprise suffers without realizing it.

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Logistics Outsource Tendering in CEE - Top 7 Hazards

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

This process can be straight forward but a little extra care and knowledge will ensure you achieve the best warehousing and/or transport solution for your business.

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You Don’t Have a Supply Chain Planning System Roadmap?

Logility

Does your team face the challenge of having too many options in the supply chain planning space? With a plethora of solutions available today and the desire to move away from homegrown solutions and spreadsheets (see Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Supply Chain ), some more capable than others, you may feel a bit like a kid in a candy store. It’s hard to know what you need and what you don’t.

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How the Cloud Has Changed the Game in Supply Chain Planning

Demand Solutions

The old barriers are gone. Suddenly, anything seems possible. Even five years ago, starting a manufacturing or distribution business—or aggressively growing an existing one—meant making a major financial commitment to computing technology. You couldn’t think in terms of, “How soon can we get this product line on the shelves?” Instead, you had to ask, “How long will it take to purchase and build out our hardware infrastructure, implement a new software platform

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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You Don’t Have a Supply Chain Planning System Roadmap?

Logility

Does your team face the challenge of having too many options in the supply chain planning space? With a plethora of solutions available today and the desire to move away from homegrown solutions and spreadsheets (see Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Supply Chain ), some more capable than others, you may feel a bit like a kid in a candy store. It’s hard to know what you need and what you don’t.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

Introduction. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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The Role of Traceability in the Pharma Supply Chain

Elementum

The U.S. government is making a big push for pharma traceability, hoping to quell the amount of counterfeit drugs imported into the country. But that’s no easy feat in such a huge supply chain. The pharmaceutical industry is continuously facing the challenge of balancing expenditures and returns. Companies shell out funds to develop novel drugs and respond to demands by different consumers, healthcare providers, and logistics providers, all while trying to reduce R&D costs.

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European Supply Chains: Challenges Ahead!

CHAINalytics

By Erik Diks | Managing Director, Europe | Chainalytics In October 2016, a team of supply chain experts met in Amsterdam at the Chainalytics Executive Roundtable to discuss the complex web of global, local and internal economic, technological, geopolitical and strategic trends and challenges facing European supply chains: Economic Trends Interest rates have been very … The post European Supply Chains: Challenges Ahead!

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Defending Your Brand During The Holidays

Convey

The clock is quickly ticking away to the holidays and simultaneously consumers are making their shopping lists and preparing their wallets for the festive season ahead. As we have already seen this year, consumers’ omnichannel needs will continue to drive retailers’ agendas especially when it comes to delivery. The delivery experience can be the “make or break” point for retailers’ relationship with their consumer, especially during the holidays.

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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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Omni-channel in 6 steps: how to build a practical, effective plan of action

RELEX Solutions

We are delighted to welcome Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski from Columbus Consulting (CCI) as our guest blogger. CCI is renowned for its expertise in retail business processes and systems delivering practical solutions to optimize sales, margin and inventory across all channels of operation. How to build a practical, effective plan of action. Omni-channel, cross-channel, or all-channel retailing–whatever you may call it, retailers of all sizes are struggling to get it right.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on An Inflection Point in 3D Printing

Supply Chain Digest

As Technology for Printing with Metal Alloys Improves, GE Says 3D Printing Now Ready for Prime Time

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RELEX and Customer Europris Win Second Award

RELEX Solutions

RELEX and Europris have been recognised, yet again, for a project that transformed the supply chain at Norway’s largest discount variety retailer. On Monday night the Supply Chain Excellence Awards named the joint RELEX/Europris team as a winner in its supply chain visibility category at a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel on London’s Park Lane. RELEX and Europris also scored a Highly Commended for their submission for the ‘CEVA Logistics award for Retail and E-Tail’.

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Supply Chain News on LTL Carriers Again Manage Pricing Stength in Q3 Despite Weak Freight Volumes

Supply Chain Digest

Net Income for Our LTL Group was Down 4.

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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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Clay Christensen: At the Intersection of Innovation and Targeted Marketing

Enterra Insights

Have you ever heard of job theory (or the Theory of Jobs to Be Done)? In the coming years, it … Continued. The post Clay Christensen: At the Intersection of Innovation and Targeted Marketing appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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68% of the manufacturing industry ‘is incentivised with gifts from suppliers’

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Rewarding corporate clients for their custom and loyalty has always been big business, but new data has revealed that the practice is more common place in the manufacturing industry than any other.

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trucknews.com: Tailwind announces all-in-one Internet-centric software

Tailwind

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Tailwind Transportation Software has released its all-in-one Trucking and Freight Broker software, built to help small to medium sized trucking companies and freight brokerages compete more effectively. Read the full posting at: [link]. The post trucknews.com: Tailwind announces all-in-one Internet-centric software appeared first on Tailwind Transportation Software.

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Depending On Size, Shippers Think Differently About Order Fulfillment Operations

Supply Chain Digest

The Amount of Product shipped from a DC Impacts on Processing Methods

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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A Unified Supply Chain: Pipe Dream or Imminent Reality?

Aera Technology

In a recent article, Forbes contributor Jonathan Webb made the case that there are two main departments involved in the manufacturing of goods: procurement (supplier contracts) and supply chain (logistics). He rightly argued that this bicameral model makes it difficult, if not impossible, to create anything remotely resembling a contingency plan. How can production swiftly respond to a supply issue if they don’t know about it until it’s happening?