Wed.Aug 29, 2018

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Supply Chain Facilities Management: It’s More Than Just Facilities

GlobalTranz

Supply Chain Facilities Management includes unique challenges and requires out-of-the-box thinking to be successful. Successful supply chain management includes successful Facilities Management , meaning the facilities must work at maximum efficiency to meet guest demands, explains Inbound Logistics. However, supply chain facilities can range from warehouses to forward-stocking locations in the supply chain network.

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Drafting the Ultimate Fantasy Team: Supply Chain Edition

CHAINalytics

| By Jacqueline Quirk | Senior Consultant, Supply Chain Operations | Chainalytics | Nothing quite compares to the sensation of winning: watching your carefully chosen players perform well, game after game, racking up points and moving your team up in the rankings. After taking the time to review player stats and understand the nuances of … The post Drafting the Ultimate Fantasy Team: Supply Chain Edition appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Closing the Gaps in Supply Chain Visibility

Talking Logistics

Not having adequate visibility to your shipments, orders, or products is an ongoing challenge for many companies. You may have very good visibility in some areas of your supply chain, but have poor visibility or blind spots in other areas such as transportation. How do you go about identifying and closing those visibility gaps? How are new technology capabilities helping in this effort?

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Business Planning Intelligent Application Suite Profile

E2open

Confidently take the next step forward to better plan your business. Wherever you are in your supply chain journey, E2open’s strategic platform has the breadth to meet your immediate needs and the depth to grow with you — all the way through digital transformation. The result is a new level of performance with improved customer service, increased market share, fewer costly disruptions and a consistently profitable supply response.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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EazyStock on The Freight Project Podcast by Cerasis

EazyStock

EazyStock recently appeared on The Freight Project Podcast hosted by Marketing Manager Adam Robinson at Cerasis to address the most pressing challenges that inventory managers face. On this episode, EazyStock Marketing Specialist Margaret Bendis introduces what defines inventory management and what red flags to watch for in your inventory, how inventory management affects the entire supply chain, what digitization is doing for inventory management, and how inventory management supports omnichann

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How Good is Your System? Part II

BlueYonder

Carl Sandburg, the poet, once said that “time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”. In my column a couple weeks ago , I wrote “you are as good as your system—your daily and weekly routine, cadence and regime.” This column is a continuation of that point of view.

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As Trade Wars Heat Up, Supply Chain Ethics Take a Hit

Material Handling & Logistics

It’s evident from analyzing the thousands of global, on-site factory audits we’ve conducted so far this year that manufacturers’ interest in ethics and sustainability is waning. So far in 2018, the chief concerns of global trade and manufacturing have been centered around main geopolitical issues, such as the unfolding China-U.S. trade war and the UK’s impending departure from the E.U.

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All The News You Need To Know: 8/27-8/31

Freight Plus

All of the logistics, supply chain, transportation, and global trade news that you need to know for the week of August 27th. 2018.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Aug. 30, 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Will Fuel Cell Truck be a Game Changer. More Getting RFID Implants in Wisconsin. New Record for Containers on a Ship.

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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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Video: Visibility-Driven Workflows for Transportation Execution

3GTMS

Visibility is talked about a lot in the transportation world, almost to the point where it’s lost meaning. Sure, we all want more visibility, but what can we gain from it exactly? How does the value of it actually convert into business benefits? B2B visibility is inherently complicated because customers need to know the status […]. The post Video: Visibility-Driven Workflows for Transportation Execution appeared first on 3GTMS.

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Coupons in the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

For decades, a common sight in many homes has been a mother sitting at the kitchen table cutting out coupons from the Sunday paper. You could be forgiven for thinking coupons are passé in the Digital Age; but, you would be wrong. Even though newspapers have suffered serious declines in circulation and advertising, “Free-Standing Inserts (FSI) found in the Sunday newspaper continue to dominate both distribution and redemption.”[1] However, as so-called Millennials and Generation Zers

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Reefer demand heats up, but rates lose a penny

DAT Solutions

It could be a little tougher than usual to find reefer equipment this week. The run-up to Labor Day weekend and the new school year typically leads to a surge in demand for transportation of fresh food. This year, the back-to-school grocery fest coincides with late-summer harvests. Apples, pears, onions, and potatoes are rolling out of orchards and fields in the Upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and parts of the Northeast, just as school cafeterias and busy parents are re-stocking fridges all ov

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What is the state of omnichannel commerce in 2018 & beyond?

TradeGecko

With customers’ expectations growing by the day and omnichannel commerce enabling improved, personalized customer experiences, the widespread adoption of omnichannel strategies is undeniable.

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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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Collaborative Manufacturing Intelligent Application Suite Profile

E2open

Speed and accuracy are the new currencies of quality. A timely, precise response to production variances can mean the difference between a profitable run and a total write-off — or worse, consumer injury and a recall. Today’s challenges arise not from line-level quality systems but from the fact that they are siloed, often at external partners and bridged by the slow, error-prone exchange of spreadsheets.

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What is the state of omnichannel commerce in 2018 & beyond?

TradeGecko

With customers’ expectations growing by the day and omnichannel commerce enabling improved, personalized customer experiences, the widespread adoption of omnichannel strategies is undeniable.

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Demand Sensing Intelligent Application Suite Profile

E2open

Hope is not a strategy, yet the majority of companies still make replenishment decisions based on. what they hope will sell instead of what customers will actually buy. Just as all smartphone apps use real-time traffic to find the best route, modern planning applications can now use real-time information to better understand what customers will order.

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PINC’s CEO, Matt Yearling, accepted into Forbes San Francisco Business Council

PINC

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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 Management Intelligent Application Suite Profile

E2open

If you had visibility into all tiers of your supply network, what could you do differently? Imagine streamlined collaboration with your immediate suppliers and contract manufacturers — and their suppliers too — across every tier of supply. A new world of possibilities opens up with endless ways to lower costs through increased efficiencies, reduce supply risks, gain agility to capture upside revenue and improve competitive advantage by being the buyer of choice.

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Spend matters: What Makes it Great (Invoice-to-Pay Solution Map Analysis)

Taulia

Pitted against 15 major competitors, we achieved top marks in invoicing, trade financing, supplier onboarding, integration and financial analytics. View the full report from industry-leading analysts Spend Matters to discover how Taulia: Led the way nearly a decade ago as the first standalone dynamic discounting (and invoice-to-pay) technology provider to build material traction on its own Primarily sold into the SAP customer base (owing to tight technical integrations with SAP ECC) Has expanded

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How Good is Your System? Part II

BlueYonder

Carl Sandburg, the poet, once said that “time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”. In my column a couple weeks ago , I wrote “you are as good as your system—your daily and weekly routine, cadence and regime.” This column is a continuation of that point of view.

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Want to write for the Exapro Hub?

Exapro Hub

Have you ever wanted to write articles about the manufacturing industry and equipment? It’s now possible to publish them on one of the most important blogs in this industry thanks to our “write for us” program! Let […]. The post Want to write for the Exapro Hub? appeared first on Exapro Hub.

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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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Blockchain SCM Transformation Explained in Layman’s Terms

Shipchain

People cannot improve on what they do not understand or know. This statement applies to shippers as well. While this comparison is most commonly associated with benchmarking, it is also part of the reason why more people in the shipping industry are turning to blockchain for supply chain management (SCM). Blockchain SCM is poised to create links between all existing supply chains, even competitors, which allows supply chain networks to function more efficiently and with greater transparency.

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Beyond Basic Forecasting

Supply Chain 24/7

Forecasting Techniques that Produce Superior Results.

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Channel Shaping Intelligent Application Suite Profile

E2open

Unlock the potential of all your channels with a complete 360-degree view of retail, distribution and online at your fingertips — right down to the consumer. Imagine having the latest decision-grade data for every partner on a single platform to manage incentive programs and retail execution, assess and optimize partner performance, and measure the total return on channel investments.