Mon.Apr 17, 2017

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Alignment, Synchronization, Communication: Building Successful Relationships in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

When we talk about supply chain and logistics, we often focus on new and emerging business processes and technology — and those are certainly important and critical things for success — but at the end of the day, anyone who has been in this industry for a while recognizes that supply chain management is a relationship business, and relationships are critical for the success of any company.

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TMS Automation | Why Automation in a TMS Begets More Efficiency

GlobalTranz

Transportation management systems ( TMSs ) have become among the top discussed subjects in mainstream media and across the internet. TMSs give shippers unparalleled access to information within their organization and better rates than previously possible. Earlier this year, we looked into some of the top trends pushing the TMS train forward, and safety and automation were clear frontrunners.

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Supply Chain Professional – Protector of Mother Earth

Logility

I grew up in a time when people didn’t think that often about one’s impact on nature. When the first Earth Day took place in the US in 1970, it was a very small event compared with the world-wide phenomenon it has become today. A common definition of being Green is “the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources,” and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance.

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Top 10 Technologies That Will Disrupt Your Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply chains are evolving to become digital supply networks, which are on-demand and always-on. Is your company ready for this evolution? read more.

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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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When Demand Planning Goes Wrong: Lessons Learned from United Airlines Overbooking Issue

Arkieva

What demand planning lessons can we learn from the recent United Airlines Overbooking Issue? When Demand Planning Goes Wrong: Lessons Learned from United Airlines Overbooking Issue was first posted on April 17, 2017 at 11:10 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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2017 EFT Global Logistics Report

BlueYonder

While 2016 was a year of opportunity, 2017 is setting up to be a defining year for shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs). New industry research from Eye for Transport (EFT) shows that despite the rapid pace of change in the market, shippers and LSPs continue to improve the nature of their strategic relationships, recognize the value of technology and innovation and anticipate growth outside their traditional businesses.

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Four Ways the Internet of Things Will Transform the Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Suhas Sreedhar. If there's a "quick win" to be had with IoT, it's in monitoring the performance and maintenance of industrial machines. read more.

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Procurement…cost reduction is not enough… now the game changer is adding value for the customer

Pivot88

For many years, many strategic sourcing and procurement professionals have been using the cost reduction playbook as a guide for all of their sourcing and procurement activities. While cost reduction will always be a big part of procurement, the current trends are making their jobs much more demanding due to the value driven supply chain with the customer in mind.

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2017 EFT Global Logistics Report

BlueYonder

While 2016 was a year of opportunity, 2017 is setting up to be a defining year for shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs). New industry research from Eye for Transport (EFT) shows that despite the rapid pace of change in the market, shippers and LSPs continue to improve the nature of their strategic relationships, recognize the value of technology and innovation and anticipate growth outside their traditional businesses.

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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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Supply Chain News on Best of ProMat 2017 Day 2 with Individual Clips

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore and Materials Handling Editor Cliff Holste with Individual Reviews of Top New Solutions they Discovered on Day 2 in Chicago

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Finding Your Warehouse Partners Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

FLEXE

We’re excited to announce our new Premier Partner program—highlighting our top-performing warehouse partners in the network. Here at FLEXE, we get the opportunity to work with a lot of great warehouse partners. Now, we’ve created a way to recognize them and a new level of transparency into our partner data. . Every warehouse provider in the FLEXE network undergoes a vetting process before it can be listed in our marketplace.

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Jobs Sustainability: The Latest News is not Good News

Enterra Insights

There is a heated, ongoing debate about how artificial intelligence and robotics are going to affect jobs sustainability (i.e., the … Continued. The post Jobs Sustainability: The Latest News is not Good News appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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ARC Research Brief: ROI is Driving Next-Generation TMS Adoption

3GTMS

A TMS is a mission-critical technology component for today’s shipper. And while older systems have traditionally driven a strong ROI (most notably in the form of an 8.5% reduction in shipping costs), the next generation of TMS systems are providing new forms of optimization that continue to drive ROI even higher. In this exclusive brief from ARC Advisory Group, a leading market research and advisory firm for industry and infrastructure, you will learn the most important factors for success when

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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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Top 4 Merchant Processors for e-Commerce

3PL Insights

Top 4 merchant processors. As digital commerce continues skyrocketing to even greater heights than before, the need for a dependable merchant processor has never been more critical. A high-quality processing solution isn’t just something that would be nice for your business to have, but something that you absolutely need if you want to stand a chance at keeping up with your sharpest competition.

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3PL Outsourcing Tips

Logistics Bureau

So… how do you find the right 3PL? (3PL = Third Party Logistics company. i.e. Outsourced Logistics Services). And perhaps more importantly: What are the things you MUST do right ? And what are some of the traps to AVOID ? Having advised hundreds of companies over the last 20 years on Logistics Outsourcing, I still find many people struggling with the whole process.

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DeskTop Hero

Tailwind

(sung to the Tune of Jukebox Hero). ♫ Sitting at her desk, with her head hung low. Couldn’t find a ticket, collections were slow. Heard the roar of the boss, coming apart at the seams. He put his fist through the wall, and he started to scream! . That one little app. Felt good in her hands. It was an app in the cloud. And the very next day. Bought a PRO sub-scription.

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Scott Galloway: How Amazon is Dismantling Retail

Supply Chain 24/7

Scott Galloway speaks at L2’s Amazon Clinic about how Amazon is disrupting retail.

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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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S&OP as an Organizational Decision-making Process

E2open

S&OP as an Organizational Decision-making Process. alyssa. Monday 17 April 2017. Mohit Dubey, Senior Director, Product Marketing, E2open. "S&OP is dead," the caller said. This unsettled me – “Are lead-times dead, too?” I wondered. I had to find out. Work is changing – from the tools and technologies we’re using, to the products and services our companies are creating, and even who we’re competing with – it’s different now.