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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

The story continues. Bloated inventories. Rising inflation. Tightening of organizational belt-cutting to improve cash. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days.

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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

ProMat 2023 is being held this week, March 202 -23 in Chicago. I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. For those of you that were unable to attend, this article will provide a thorough second-hand experience of a day at this expansive exhibit. ProMat 2023 occupied both McCormick Place South and McCormick Place North with over 1,000 exhibitors.

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How to Find a Fulfillment Partner with Joe Spisak

The Logistics of Logistics

Joe Spisak and Joe Lynch discuss how to find a fulfillment partner. Joe Spisak is the Founder and CEO of www.Fulfill.com , a marketplace that connects ecommerce brands with the right warehousing and fulfillment partners. About Joe Spisak Joe Spisak is the Founder and CEO of www.Fulfill.com , a marketplace that connects ecommerce brands with the right warehousing and fulfillment partners.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 24, 2023)

Talking Logistics

I attended ProMat in Chicago this week. If you’ve never been to ProMat, it’s like Disney World for supply chain and logistics professionals. Crowds of people, more than 1,000 rides (I mean, exhibitors) spread out across two enormous halls, some vendor booths as big as skyscrapers, and the loud, nonstop sounds of conversations, robots, presentations, Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 24, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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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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JSCM Paper Development Workshop in Copenhagen

SCM Research

The Journal of Supply Chain Management is conducting a paper development workshop (May 25–26) wherein participants may submit a working paper to obtain constructive feedback. The workshop shall provide training in crucial areas that are essential for publication in a premier academic journal, help participants to develop their working papers into mature papers that are ready for submission, and offer networking opportunities.

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The Green Corridor: The Emissions of Work – How to Make a Green Working Culture

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: The Emissions of Work – How to Make a Green Working Culture by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio In this month’s Green Corridor, I wanted to talk about the emissions generated by a workforce physically going to work. In working out the carbon footprint of businesses that I have dealings with, there is always a section in Scope 3 emissions for the staff getting to work.

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What Every CFO Should Know About Aligning Finance with the Supply Chain

Logility

Year-over-year lowering expectations for revenue, earnings, capital spending, and domestic hiring have taken a toll on most companies’ outlook on their financial prospects. According to Deloitte’s Q4 2022 CFO Signals survey , only 29% of CFOs believe now is a good time to take on greater risk, which lags far behind a two-year average of approximately 50%.

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National Agriculture Day 2023

Enterra Insights

We all have to eat; nevertheless, we don’t often think about where the food we eat originates. For most of us, the days of living as hunter gatherers has faded into the annals of history. Except for a few isolated tribes, that lifestyle died when humans started cultivating food rather than hunting for it. The staff at National Geographic notes, “The development of agricultural about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived.

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SC Navigator: Your Ultimate Solution for High-Stakes Supply Chain Decisions

AIMMS

The post SC Navigator: Your Ultimate Solution for High-Stakes Supply Chain Decisions appeared first on AIMMS.

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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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LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – March 2023

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Logistics Procurement – Performance Management Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine In this edition we have several news updates, interesting & enlightening articles and contributions on people & management – topics which are most crucial to the development of the Supply Chain Industry across regions as well as globally. Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine now!

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What Lesson Learned from Experience Would You Share with Future Supply Chain Leaders?

John Galt

We tapped into a wealth of knowledge from supply chain experts and thought leaders to ask what lesson from experience they would share with future leaders. Read their answers!

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Digital Supply Chain Transformation: Is Bad Data Wreaking Havoc?

CHAINalytics

Data is an essential part of every digital supply chain transformation, and your data accuracy will determine the quality of your results. However, data cleansing is often overlooked, and you’ll feel the ripple effects throughout the process. What data belongs, and what should be left out? What data to include, what data to reconsider, and … The post Digital Supply Chain Transformation: Is Bad Data Wreaking Havoc?

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Sales & Operations Planning vs Integrated Business Planning

Arkieva

Are you ready to move beyond S&OP to integrated business planning? This blog covers key considerations for implementing IBP. Sales & Operations Planning vs Integrated Business Planning was first posted on March 21, 2023 at 8:12 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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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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A Discussion on Warehouse Automation Featuring Marc Wulfraat

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Supply chain consultant Marc Wulfraat joined Amware’s EVP of Strategy & Operations, Chad Warzecha, on a recent episode of Unboxing Fulfillment – the modern B2C fulfillment podcast. They discussed various aspects of warehouse automation. Check out the full 30-minute discussion or read on for key insights.

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Russia’s Arctic Expansion: The Future of Global Shipping

SCMDOJO

Russia’s Arctic Expansion: A Long-Term Strategy While the world is currently focused on the conflict in Ukraine, Russia is quietly expanding its military presence in the Arctic, building new bases in the region. With untapped oil and gas reserves and melting polar ice, the Arctic presents an opportunity for Russia to access these resources. Additionally, new shipping lanes are opening up, and Russia has a grand plan to become the biggest beneficiary of climate change in the region.

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The Hitachi Energy breach – How organisations can avoid similar third-party attacks

IT Supply Chain

By Lorri Janssen-Anessi (pictured) BlueVoyant’s Director of External Assessment The post The Hitachi Energy breach – How organisations can avoid similar third-party attacks appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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AI + SCM: A Formula for Automation and Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

With every passing day, AI continues to be integrated into supply chain management systems and processes, with a focus on improving efficiency, reducing costs and increasing sustainability.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Freight Broker Terms – the Language that Moves the Supply Chain Forward

Tai Software - Freight Broker Software Articles

Freight brokers are the backbone of any company that relies on sending products from one place to another. Without freight brokers, companies would spend a lot more time and money just getting their goods delivered.

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Furniture Manufacturers: Choosing the Right 3PL for Retail Deliveries

Zipline Logistics

Did you know…? The furniture market is estimated to reach a global value of $729.7 Billion in 2023. The furniture market centers on different movable commodities like couches, chairs, tables, beds and bed frames, dressers, etc. Unmovable household objects such as sinks and faucets are excluded as well as tableware, cutlery, and other small household objects.

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Supply flex vex: food shortages drive up inflation, supply chain to blame

IT Supply Chain

By Gary Barraco (pictured) Assistant Vice President, Product Marketing at e2open The post Supply flex vex: food shortages drive up inflation, supply chain to blame appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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How CPG Brands Can Beat Disruption with Digital Manufacturing

QAD

From toilet paper to bed sheets, fresh food items to cleaning products; the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry has changed and will continue to do so. Today, the choice for CPG manufacturers and supply chains is clear: future-proof with digital manufacturing technologies that can meet the customer where they are or be left behind. Not so long ago, the industry saw consumers swapping products they’d been loyal to for years to whichever brand was easiest to come by, and ditching in-store shopp

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What Your Order Management System Should Be Doing

To continue scaling your omnichannel business, you need to manage a lot of orders across a lot of different channels and marketplaces. Some brands do this by hand. Some try to force their ERP to manage it. Others rely on a complex system of cross-referencing the dashboards of their various channels. None of these is an effective or sustainable solution.

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The top 3 reasons why your spreadsheet won’t work for optimizing reorder points on spare parts

The Smart Software

We often encounter Excel-based reorder point planning methods. In this post, we’ve detailed an approach that a customer used prior to proceeding with Smart. We describe how their spreadsheet worked, the statistical approaches it relied on, the steps planners went through each planning cycle, and their stated motivations for using (and really liking) this internally developed spreadsheet.

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Logistics Outsourcing Tender – How Many Suppliers to Invite?

Logistics Bureau

This is a really common question. How many Suppliers should you include in your Logistics Outsourcing tender? View the entire video to discover the answer !

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Ten tips for modernising your HMI/SCADA system

IT Supply Chain

By George Walker (pictured) Managing Director, Novotek UK & Ireland The post Ten tips for modernising your HMI/SCADA system appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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9 Ways Manufacturers Can Develop More Sustainable Products

Arena Solutions

If you’re a science fiction film buff, you may remember the 1973 American ecological dystopian film, Soylent Green. It featured a nightmarish tagline— Soylent Green is people. Uncanny, the film takes place in 2022. The plot revolves around an investigative murder against a backdrop of the devastation caused by the greenhouse effect—pollution, food shortages, depleted resources, poverty, and overpopulation—not much different from the issues we’re facing today.

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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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Security BY Design: Spring Cleaning

BlueYonder

With the arrival of spring, it’s a good time to give your digital life a thorough clean up and ensure that your online accounts and devices are secure. Cybersecurity is an ongoing process and neglecting it can leave you vulnerable to hacking, identity theft, and other online threats. Device manufacturers and software companies are always adding updates to address new vulnerabilities or threats, and, in the same way, we need to consider ongoing updates for ourselves both personally and prof

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 03/17/2023-03/23/2023

All Things Supply Chain

IBM and Canada to Unveil Chips Pact Canada and International Business Machines (IBM), look to seal an agreement to strengthen semiconductor cooperation on today.

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The Power of Play: How League of Legends Provides More Than Just Entertainment

IT Supply Chain

By David Fowler (pictured) Content Writer The post The Power of Play: How League of Legends Provides More Than Just Entertainment appeared first on IT Supply Chain.