Thu.Jun 15, 2017

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5 Skills Necessary For Maximizing Logistics Effectiveness

GlobalTranz

. Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Robert Everett who gives us some fantastic tips for managing logistics effectiveness. The latest news from the world of high technologies: Microsoft is going to store data as DNA. The data science is gaining popularity together with the tremendous growth of information, generated in the world. Investors are spending more money on the neural networks.

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The “Last Mile” Challenge and the Future of Logistics: Part 2

Enterra Insights

“The last mile is extremely inefficient,” writes Edwin Lopez (@EdwinLopezT37). “It is the final frontier of logistics, a cost so … Continued. The post The “Last Mile” Challenge and the Future of Logistics: Part 2 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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E-commerce Challenges Headline Factors Driving Warehouse Management System Growth

RFgen

Distribution and fulfillment process updates are becoming key as the e-commerce sector evolves. Innovation across e-commerce is emerging as a primary driver for growth in warehouse management systems. Essentially, retailers are facing pressure to establish multi-channel experiences that create consistent, positive customer experiences across digital and physical ecosystems.

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Does Lean Leveling Reduce Shipment Variability?

MIT Supply Chain

Supply chain professionals are often confronted with the challenge of managing highly volatile customer shipments resulting from the bullwhip effect. This volatility leads to supply chain-wide inefficiencies, high operational complexity, low service levels and substantial costs. Companies commonly try to compensate the risk of stock outs by carrying elevated levels of inventory and by paying […].

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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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E-commerce Challenges Headline Factors Driving Warehouse Management System Growth

RFgen

Distribution and fulfillment process updates are becoming key as the e-commerce sector evolves. Innovation across e-commerce is emerging as a primary driver for growth in warehouse management systems. Essentially, retailers are facing pressure to establish multi-channel experiences that create consistent, positive customer experiences across digital and physical ecosystems.

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JDA TV – Managing Warehouse Labor Using Warehouse Labor Management and Workforce Management Solutions

BlueYonder

Tyler Owen, Solutions Strategy Director for Store Operations at JDA, discusses how distribution centers (DCs) are under pressure to become more like retail stores, in terms of efficiency, due to the fact that they are facing the same challenges. DCs are quickly learning that their traditional labor management tools just don’t fit the bill anymore. In this JDA TV segment, Tyler talks about JDA Warehouse Labor Management Solution and how it can help forecast labor longer term.

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2017 Warehouse Capacity Economics and Trends Report

FLEXE

In mid-2015, FLEXE conducted a survey of supply chain professionals across multiple industries to identify and understand what key industry trends affect inventory and capacity fluctuations.

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Supply Chain Automation – Is Australia Ready?

Logistics Bureau

Supply Chain Solutions and Innovations at ProMat 2017:

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2017 Warehouse Capacity Economics and Trends Report

FLEXE

In mid-2015, FLEXE conducted a survey of supply chain professionals across multiple industries to identify and understand what key industry trends affect inventory and capacity fluctuations. We conducted the same survey, which closed in early 2017 and targeted the same audience to see how and if conditions have changed. THE PURPOSE. The rise of eCommerce and omnichannel shopping has disrupted traditional buying experiences and linearity of supply chain operations.

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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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US E-Commerce Shoppers Step Up International Buying Habits

Logistyx

Better Pricing is the Top Factor in Luring US E-Commerce Shoppers Overseas Shoes directly from Japan? Pottery directly from a merchant in China? Sure, say a growing number of U.S. shoppers, who are quickly learning the ins and outs of buying overseas versus buying from a domestic online retailer. According to the recently published UPS Pulse of […].

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Webinar: mobile device trends and consumer behavior, insights from Google

TradeGecko

2,400 times. That’s the number of times an average person touches their mobile devices each day. Along with all those touches comes new trends the way people do things: how they consume information and also, how they buy things. Is your business ready to take advantage of this trend in consumer behavior?

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Say Goodbye to Beer Runs. Alcohol is Delivered!

Deliv

Everything, delivered. That statement has become increasingly true of just about anything available for purchase nowadays. From mattresses to flowers to groceries, the convenience of delivery has become commonplace. Deliv, however, has helped take this idea to the furthest extent. Everything, delivered. Faster. Deliv’s logistics system allows retailers and grocers alike to offer their goods with Same Day Delivery.

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Outside Warehouse Solution: Check Out Video

Consumer Goods Logistics

For Dow Building Products, the best warehouse solution was to think outside the box – literally. This business unit of Dow Chemical Company supplies builders of commercial and residential buildings with a wide range of insulation products. The sturdy characteristics of the products allow them to be stored in an “outside warehouse” at KANE’s 224-acre logistics campus in Scranton, PA.

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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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The Size of Your Package Matters

CHAINalytics

The post The Size of Your Package Matters appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Why Bother?

Tailwind

I was driving my son and one of his teammates heading to our first baseball playoff game of the season the other night. I had John Fogerty’s Centerfield playing softly in the background as we drove the car down the road to the little field – the one where they “ actually have a real dugout dad”. In amongst Fogerty’s song with its ‘ say it ain’t so’s, ‘ say hey Willie’s , and ‘the Mudville Nine’s’ I could overhear my son describing this afternoon of playing California kickball with his class of g