Wed.Mar 23, 2022

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What your e-commerce website needs

ModusLink Corporation

E-Business Website Essentials. A formal and high-quality suit, polished and fitting shoes, and a pleasant smelling cologne or perfume. These three physical elements represent a professional and business-class image. Any experienced business professional is aware of the importance of conveying yourself appropriately. The reasoning for this is that we all know, image matters in the Business world.

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Google Making Inroads Into Supply Chain and Logistics

Talking Logistics

I’ve made many supply chain and logistics predictions over the years, and have been wrong many times, including this prediction from December 2014: Google will acquire a logistics service provider (3PL) and/or a logistics software vendor. Here is what I wrote at the time: It’s no secret that Google and Amazon.com are continuously looking to. Read more Google Making Inroads Into Supply Chain and Logistics.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Customer Has Spoken

Logistics Viewpoints

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. One thing that has become abundantly clear over the last few years is that visibility solutions are becoming more necessary.

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The Risk of Venture Capital Takeover of Supply Chain Software Providers–Anaplan A New Victim

Supply Chain Shaman

A dark cloud is laying heavy over the supply chain management technology market. The risk of the cloud is seldom discussed, but it is omnipresent. The dark cloud is the venture capital exploitation of manufacturers. How so, you might ask? It is the buying of software companies to profit from maintenance or service revenues paid by manufacturers and retailers to their established software partners.

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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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What Are The Factors That Cause Lack of Freight Capacity?

C3 Solutions

With the demand for order fulfillment steadily increasing in today’s modern logistic world, many factors contribute to the lack of freight capacity. Many organizations face challenges on the road to recovery from the 2020 pandemic. As the transportation sector saw rapid growth throughout this unpredictable occurrence, meeting the demand of the market requires businesses to overcome these pressing obstacles.

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Private Instagram Story Downloader!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How to Promote Social Networks with Content Marketing! Instagram is a well-known way to interact with your audience. Users view the stories of the people they are most interested in on a daily basis. Much visual content consists of useful information that motivates us: tips, advice, and great solutions.

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America's EV Future Means Domestic Supply Chains Must Take Root

Supply Chain Brain

A growing commitment from automotive startups and legacy players is setting up the electric vehicle market for an exciting future. Tesla Inc., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. have all announced plans to electrify their fleets as early as 2030.

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What to Do in an Accident with a Commercial Vehicle!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How Business Insurance Can Protect You! Getting into a collision with a commercial vehicle like a semi or big rig can be a terrifying experience. Small personal cars scarcely stand a chance against the massive trucks that can weigh 80,000 lbs or more when loaded to capacity. As you sit there trying to process the reality of situation, your first instinct is to check for the safety of the other passengers in the car and think

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Biden warns businesses to be prepared for Russian cyber attacks

IT Supply Chain

By John Davis (pictured). Director UK & Ireland, SANS Institute, EMEA. The post Biden warns businesses to be prepared for Russian cyber attacks appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Tackling Counterfeiting with Blockchain

All Things Supply Chain

The counterfeit business is booming, but at the cost of authentic businesses suffering heavily.

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When & How Can Procurement & Supply Chain Jobs be Automated?

IT Supply Chain

By Madeline Miller (pictured). Writer & Tutor at Best Essay Writing Services. The post When & How Can Procurement & Supply Chain Jobs be Automated? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 24, 2022

Supply Chain Digest

War Expected to Lower Global, US GDP. Trucking Firm Gives Big Bump to Driver Pay. US Manufacturers Plan Lots of New Workers, as Wages Jump.

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March 2022 Budget Comment

IT Supply Chain

By David Bushnell (pictured). Director of Consultancy & Strategy, Fleet Operations. The post March 2022 Budget Comment appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Eight Warehousing Trends Continuing in 2022: What You Need to Know

6 River Systems

Warehousing and logistics management is constantly evolving. Managing a warehouse in today’s climate can be a challenge. This landscape is driving change and revealing new trends and solutions to keep operations running at peak performance. As we near the end of Q1 2022, here are the top eight trends that continue to dominate the warehousing industry. 1.

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How To Effectively Protect Your Family Business

IT Supply Chain

By Allen Brown (pictured). Content Writer. The post How To Effectively Protect Your Family Business appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Lessons Learned from 2021 Peak Season for 2022 Planning

Intelligent Audit

“Demand was greater than available inventory” was a common theme in many retailers’ earnings announcements in early Q1 of 2022. Bed, Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, and Abercrombie & Fitch were among several retailers noting not having enough inventory during the 2021 holiday season: “While we effectively offset higher freight costs that have been at the core of global supply chain pressures, increasing inventory disruptions impacting our ability to meet demand during the holiday season,” Bed,

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Grand Opening of Tesla’s Germany Based Manufacturing Facility

Supply Chain Matters

This week marks the formal opening of U.S. headquartered electric vehicle auto maker Tesla ’s newly constructed production facility located in Gruenheide, Germany , just outside of Berlin. Yesterday, in grand opening ceremonies, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and German government officials celebrated the event which included the handover delivery of an initial 30 Tesla Model Y performance vehicles costing a reported 63,990 euros to select European customers.

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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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What is Quick Commerce?

Vinculum

Quick commerce is a one-of-a-kind business concept in which goods and services are delivered within the shortest period possible. To be precise, it’s often just within 10 to 30 minutes after the booking is made. Quick commerce generally concentrates on micro to small or fewer commodities, such as food, stationery, personal hygiene products, and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals products.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. Included in this update are the following updates: Canadian Pacific Railway Work Stoppage Eased. U.S. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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Strengthening Supply Chains and Improving U.S. Border Security

Americold

Safety and supply chain integrity are at the core of Americold’s operations. Every decision we make accounts for these two drivers and their impact on associates, our commitment to preserve food quality and safety, and the physical security of our sites.

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Blue Yonder Associate Organizes Community to Help Ukrainian Relief Effort 

BlueYonder

Olivier Vattier-Delaunay is a Blue Yonder associate who resides in Châteaubourg, a small town in the west of France. He shares how his community is helping those impacted by the situation in Ukraine. On March 2nd, as the conflict was beginning to ignite in Ukraine, I was on a customer trip to Clermont-Ferrand, France. In the evening, while talking on the phone with my wife, we were dismayed at the impact it was having on thousands of families, even while 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from our cou

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on A Snapshot of US Manufacturing Health

Supply Chain Digest

Manufacturers are Bullish, but Costs are Rising, NAM Survey Finds

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Robotic Process Automation Requires a Thoughtful Approach

Enterra Insights

As a result of lockdowns, illness, and employee shortages, the pandemic forced many companies to explore or accelerate process automation. The Tibco team explains, “Process automation streamlines a system by removing human inputs, which decreases errors, increases speed of delivery, boosts quality, minimizes costs, and simplifies the business process.

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Diesel-Tax Holidays Are Meant to Help Truckers — But They're Not Celebrating

Supply Chain Brain

The move by some states to soothe the sting of soaring fuel prices by temporarily suspending diesel fuel taxes has some unlikely opponents: truckers, the very people it’s supposed to help.

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Survey: Closing the gap between API development and API consumption

Axway

As the digital links that enable countless disparate applications to communicate with each other, APIs are the glue holding much of our connected world together. But just building an API doesn’t get the job done.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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How a Major Restaurant Equipment Supplier Weathered the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

With a policy of keeping large amounts of inventory on hands, Parts Town was ready for any supply disruption. But it was also aided by having previously installed a goods-to-person system in the warehouse.

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Inventory Control - How to accurately predict your inventory needs

StockTrim

For small and medium businesses, inventory control can be incredibly hard to get right. Too much inventory requires overflow storage space and, depending on the product, result in wastage. Too little inventory, and you could miss crucial sales and cap your own revenue.

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Chip Producers Tell Congress They’re Ready to ‘Go Bigger and Faster’

Supply Chain Brain

The chief executives of some of the largest U.S. chip manufacturing companies urged Congress to pass legislation that includes $52 billion in incentives for their industry, calling it “essential” to maintaining competitiveness with China and other countries.

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