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Keys to Creating Fulfillment Metrics

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

When you outsource product fulfillment to a third-party logistics company (3PL), you place your trust and your customers' satisfaction in its hands. Yet it's shocking how many Etailers have no well-developed order fulfillment metrics to monitor performance.

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Disruption Denied: How Next-Generation Logistics Create A Resilient Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

When it comes to efficiency, today’s global supply chain has never been better. In the last 20 years, the size of the container ship has doubled – and the largest ships sailing today can haul 24,000 containers (TEU) — equal to the capacity of a freight train 44 miles long. But then again, ships of. Read more Disruption Denied: How Next-Generation Logistics Create A Resilient Supply Chain.

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Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2022 Highlights

ToolsGroup

The 2022 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium is back to its pre-pandemic glory, if the crowds and session lineup were any indication. Coming out of the breakouts felt a little like exiting a nightclub at closing time, and the healthy keynote session attendance and lively expo hall felt almost like old times. Sure, COVID still made a cameo here and there, but the overall theme was all about how to “stop coping—and start offsetting”.

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How business intelligence can boost customer centricity

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Globally, the use of data is growing — and in the past two years, the pandemic has been the main driver behind worldwide data growth, including increased internet access and a new way of working. The pandemic also opened the door for new competitors, an increased need for predictive data, and a need for new customer-centric business intelligence models.

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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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Ecommerce Fulfilment: The Ultimate Guide for SMEs

Unleashed

Order fulfilment is crucial to any eCommerce strategy , particularly as customers demand faster and easier access to products. But to be able to provide consumers what they want when they want it, a successful fulfilment process starts long before someone places an order. In this ultimate eCommerce fulfilment guide for SMEs, we cover the essential elements for your fulfilment process, identify the challenges you may face, look at different types of fulfilment, and offer tips on how to plan your

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How Well Do You Know your OT Network?

IT Supply Chain

By Martin Hodgson (pictured). Country Manager, UKI, Paessler. The post How Well Do You Know your OT Network? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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22 Supply Chain Areas to Check for 2022

Logistics Bureau

We give you a glimpse of the 22 things worth checking in your Supply Chain for this year, 2022. Best in Class supply chains get these right!

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6 Benefits of Spend Analysis

EC Sourcing Group

Spend analysis in procurement has always been an imperative, playing a vital role both in procurement management and the supply chain. So, what is it ? It is a process that identifies, gathers, cleanses, groups, categorizes, and analyzes your company’s spend data that leads to obvious benefits, such as saving money and boosting ROI, but the right technology is needed to make the process more efficient and effective.

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Additional May 2022 Supply Chain Indices Point to Ongoing Concerns

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights two additional May 2022 indicators of supply chain volatility as well as logistics services trending. In an update published earlier this month, we highlighted various quantitative data related to global and regional supply chain PMI indices for May. Our stated takeaway from the published May data that there were discernable signs of change occurring across the global supply chain landscape.

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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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Burnout in Logistics: Is It the Great Resignation or the Evolution of Tech?

Intelligent Audit

Like every business and industry struggling to recover right now, burnout has become a significant concern for managers and business owners. Staff burnout in logistics can be especially problematic as much of the modern supply chain and infrastructure society relies upon reacts significantly to disruptions and errors caused by burnout. A lack of insight, actionable analytics , clear directions, and industry guidance often paves the way to employee burnout.

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5 Steps to Creating a Profitable Same-Day Fulfilment

BlueYonder

The same-day delivery market is forecast to double over the next three years. According to a survey by Gatepoint Research called “E-Commerce Strategies in Today’s Enterprises,” 40% of retailers are focusing on this as one of their 2022 priorities. And according to the 2022 Bringg Barometer: State of Retail Delivery & Fulfillment , 99% of retailers are aiming to offer this service within three years.

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Succeeding with a Supply Chain Control Tower

Demand Driven Technologies

The concept of the supply chain control tower has become very popular. But what exactly does it mean? Magic keywords abound in this field: Digitalization, advanced analytics, end-to-end, big data, collaborative, real-time, etc. All this sounds attractive, but what is the reality behind the gimmicks? What is a supply chain control tower and what does.

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How AI Can Help Overcome the “Great Supply Chain Disruption

ThroughPut

The post How AI Can Help Overcome the “Great Supply Chain Disruption appeared first on ThroughPut.

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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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Using Digital Solutions to Keep Construction Teams on Track

DELMIA Quintiq

The construction industry has embraced digitalization to an extent, having seen great progress in the development of Building Information Modeling and design. But at the end of the day, construction is still an industry that runs on massive amounts of human time and labor. The complexity of building designs today means that operational complexity for construction teams have also increased in kind.

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Let the Debate Begin. Gartner Names Top University Undergraduate Supply Chain Programs for 2022

Supply Chain Digest

University of Arkansas Tops the List again, but Texas Schools Dominate the Top 25

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I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Enterra Insights

Over the weekend, Google placed a senior software engineer at its Responsible AI unit on paid leave over his claims that a chatbot had become sentient. Journalist Yoel Minkoff ( @YoelMinkoff ) reports, “Blake Lemoine had been testing an artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), alleging that the AI robot was in fact sentient, or having the ability to feel and perceive on its own.

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Supply Chain News on Mixed Picture on State of the Market for US Freight Transportation, Cass Finds

Supply Chain Digest

Volumes Up but Rates Down in May versus April

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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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Zero Sum: How Walmart Transportation is Working to Reduce Emissions Now and in the Future

Logistics Viewpoints

At Logistics Viewpoints, we have written about how companies are looking to reduce carbon emissions, especially when it comes to transportation. More and more global companies are pledging to make their supply chains and their operations net-zero or carbon neutral. The following Editor’s Choice article comes from Fernando Cortes, Senior Vice President, Transportation at Walmart, and addresses how Walmart is working to reduce emissions through their transportation practices and operations.

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Amazon Is Building a Property Empire, Quietly Buying Land Across the U.S.

Supply Chain Brain

Buying land is a major shift for Amazon, which historically relied on a handful of developers to find property, build fairly simple warehouses and rent them back to the company. Now, Amazon is increasingly taking parts of the development process in-house — often bidding against long-time partners for the best space.

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Xeeva and Insight Plum form strategic alliance

Xeeva

Southfield, MI – Xeeva, a leading provider of procurement software solutions is excited to announce a partnership with Insight Plum, a Procurement Technology Services Firm. This collaboration will allow Xeeva to offer procurement strategy and managed services supported by a leading AI-driven, cloud-native procurement platform and software solutions to Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises […].

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How to Optimize Your Warehouse Space to Improve Productivity and Achieve Growth

Supply Chain Brain

Access this e-book from Tecsys to learn about the advantages of a modern warehouse design process and the value of participation from all relevant parties.

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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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Pros and Cons of Different Trailer Types | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

Find the best trailer type for you by reading the pros and cons of the most popular options for your shipments.

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Consumers Want Greener Delivery Options — But Retailers Have to Explain Them

Supply Chain Brain

Many retailers that offer green shipping and fulfillment choices are failing to educate their customers, and consequently wasting their own efforts.

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Final Mile Logistics: What is Final Mile Delivery?

MercuryGate

Effective final mile logistics strategies are increasingly important since pandemic sent consumers into lockdown and online marketplaces. Understanding how to manage the last leg of a freight shipment is vital to managing costs and protecting customer experience. The post Final Mile Logistics: What is Final Mile Delivery? appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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How to Deal with Vendor Issues

ProcurePort

• Businesses that deal with multiple vendors face a tough balancing act to optimize their procurement operations. They have to ensure that procurement costs are reasonable and that vendors meet expected quality standards. • Vendor management is an art that requires both policy-level measures as well as agility to adjust to emerging issues. Proper vendor […].

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Your APIs need a business vision to drive value

Axway

I’ve spent a lot of time partnering with large enterprises in guiding strategy, adoption, and execution of business technology transformation.

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Omnichannel Solutions: What to Look For?

Tecsys

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in April 2017 and has been updated for… The post Omnichannel Solutions: What to Look For? appeared first on Tecsys.

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Your APIs need a business vision to drive value

Axway

I’ve spent a lot of time partnering with large enterprises in guiding strategy, adoption, and execution of business technology transformation.