GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A lot hinges on your industrial supply chain operating smoothly, not least the survival of your business. However, computer downtime constantly threatens to derail supply chains all over the world. How then can the humble Industrial Computer Workstation serve to safeguard your supply chain? Computers of yesteryear would quickly succumb to dust and heat damage, rendering them useless, while severely disrupting industrial supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Allison Fowler, Senior Director of Planning at LLamasoft discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: When it comes to supply chain planning, what are some of the challenges or limitations companies are coming up against today? How are they currently addressing those challenges? Is the line between supply chain planning and supply chain design starting to blur at the companies you work with today?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Last year, Alibaba Group reported Singles’ Day sales “totaled $17.8 billion of gross merchandise volume across Alibaba’s China and international … Continued. The post Singles’ Day: Are You Ready? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Oracle SCM

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Diego Pantoja Navajas , VP WMS Development. Maybe it’s the fact that high season is about to begin – but I get the same thoughts every year around this time. What are businesses planning to do to manage losses this year? It's an issue that raises its head annually – and it’s not a pretty sight. Two years ago it was reported by CNBC that the inability to efficiently manage inventory cost retailers $1.75 trillion dollars.

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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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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Recently I got interviewed for the Kinaxis supply chain blog. You can listen to the audio below or read the (not always accurate) transcript here. It is my mission to get effective mindset and behaviours on the agenda of CEO’s and S&OP is a great vehicle to support and implement this. The beauty of some behaviours is that they’re not just good for performance and team effectiveness, but also for employee well-being and life satisfaction.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Exertis, the distributor of technology products for the B2B, mobile and retail markets, has announced that its supply chain business, Exertis Supply Chain Services (SCS), scooped two major accolades at the National Procurement Awards in Dublin.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Pam Erb has built a 30+ year career at Wegmans, a regional supermarket chain. Her career with Wegmans all started with gourmet foods and cheeses and today, she is the vice president of supply chain. From a love of food growing up in an Italian and Irish family, Pam shares her learnings that as much as it is important to say yes to opportunity, it is important to identify what you love to do, go do it, and never look back.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The supply chain had difficulty delivering materials and services meeting production schedules, ISM said. Manufacturing remained solid in October even as expansion at U.S. factories cooled from a 13-year high a month earlier, figures from the Institute for Supply Management showed on Nov. 1. ISM production measure cooled to 61 in October from 62.2 while the factory index eased to 58.7 (est. 59.5) from September’s 60.8.

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Supply Chain Digest

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Nike Wants to Double OnLine Sales from 15 to 30 percent over Next Five Years

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The national flatbed rate for October was the highest of the year, boosted at least in part by rebuilding efforts in Florida and the Gulf Coast after the storms from a couple months ago. Volumes were up and down over the course of the month, though, as markets adjusted to constantly changing demand. The Memphis market posted the biggest gains for October, with outbound flatbed rates up 10%.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

by Bill DuBois If you had anything to do with supply chain planning in the early days of enterprise resource planning (ERP), you may consider those years the “good ol’ days”. Spreadsheets were the latest and greatest thing, your biggest headache was a supplier failure, and collaboration meant walking down the hall to visit with your buyer or dropping by the shop floor to check on a machine breakdown.

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Cognira

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Many retail challenges, like promotions, impact and require coordination across many areas of the business. We find it helpful to work across functional areas and bring different perspectives to the table. Below are some thoughts about promotions from the POV of an Inventory Manager. Inventory Managers can see that there is no turning back time on the discount clock.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The Truth About Multi-stop Truckload Shipping | C.H. Robinson. It’s something we’ve wondered about, along with our customers: do carriers reject multi-stop truckloads more than single-stop, or does it only seem that way? We decided to find out. We worked with MIT graduate students to analyze 5 million truckload and multi-stop truckload tender records collected by TMC, a division of C.H.

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