July, 2011

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Who said supply chains are boring?: A Peek at Leica Camera Lens.

Supply Chains Rock

'Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands.

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The Efficient Frontier Awaits

Logility

Whenever you set a goal, your natural inclination is to achieve it; swipe a line through it, and be done. Supply chain management is full of goals such as mounting pressure from the top to get costs down quickly. We tend to grab this bull by the horns with the intent of showing demonstrable results. But, sometimes grabbing the bull may be short-sighted, and to really achieve the goal we might need to first step back.

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Purolator wins Third-Party Logistics Sustainability Award for its work with Echo Global Logistics

Supply Chain Network

'Purolator, Canada’s leading integrated freight and parcel solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded Logistics Quarterly’s 2011 Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Sustainability Award for demonstrating leadership in sustainable supply chain practices. Purolator received the prestigious award at Logistics Quarterly’s Sustainability Study and Awards Symposium held in Toronto on July 14. “We live and work in every neighbourhood in Canada,” said Tom Schmitt, President an

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Sustainability in Your Supply Chain

ModusLink Corporation

'This post, written by Matthew Gardner, originally appeared on the Sustainserv blog. Sustainserv is a global CSR and sustainability consultancy. Sustainability in Your Supply Chain. In the past few years, we have witnessed a wholesale shift whereby businesses in just about every sector realize that sustainability is a topic that they must engage with in a credible and transparent manner.

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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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Best Practices in Supplier Engagement

EcoVadis

TriplePundit recently hosted a series on Stakeholder Engagement in CSR. EcoVadis CSR Analyst, Nicole Sherwin, weighed in on what true supplier engagement should look like. Supplier Engagement: Shifting from Defensive to Collaborative. Companies are only beginning to uncover the best practices for engaging suppliers on sustainability. With suppliers providing the major inputs for the operations of businesses, it would only make sense that companies would be eager to engage this specific stakehold

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Who said supply chains are boring?: How Logistics Helped Gain.

Supply Chains Rock

'Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands.

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Kraft Foods Names Daniel Myers Executive Vice President, Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

'Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today (June 30th) that Daniel Myers will join the company in September as Executive Vice President, Supply Chain. Myers, 56, will lead the functional groups that make up the company’s integrated supply chain, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering and Customer Service and Logistics. He succeeds David Brearton, who is now Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

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Multi-Tier Supply Chain Visibility – Is There a Case to Look Further?

ModusLink Corporation

'Every supply chain professional has had to make decisions with imperfect or not enough information at one time or another. While we would obviously prefer to have more information, and the best quality, this is a common issue that comes with the cost of collecting, maintaining, reporting and analyzing huge amounts of data. Companies have invested millions of dollars in systems and processes to track supply chain activities through their own operations.

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Government Intervention Lowers Risk in Global Supply Chains

ModusLink Corporation

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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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How to Get Back On Track After a Supply Chain Disruption

ModusLink Corporation

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Three Supply Chain Optimization Trends Happening Now

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The Value Chain as a Key to Growth - Value Unchained - ModusLink

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The Era of the 'Network Organization' is Upon Us. Is it Time to.

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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.