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The New World Of Warehousing with Matt Fain

The Logistics of Logistics

The New World Of Warehousing with Matt Fain. Matt Fain and Joe Lynch discuss the new world of warehousing. Matt is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapacity , which is dedicated to simplifying the process for sourcing warehouse space. About Matt Fain. Matt Fain is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapcity , which provides a cloud-based platform that enables shippers and suppliers to seamlessly connect.

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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Increasing scrutiny of labor practices requires supply chain technology that proves accountability and compliance. Key Takeaways. Consumers are demanding greater transparency and want more information about worker treatment in the supply chain. . Lack of transparency also carries a huge reputational risk. Companies are using social audits, which are often ineffective without essential support. .

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Top 10 Tips to improve 3PLP inventory control: Avoid stock-shock

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one-stop shop for all of the elements you need to achieve supply chain excellence.

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ToolsGroup Acquires Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management Business

ToolsGroup

Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business was formerly known as JustEnough Software. Combined company gives retailers a powerful new technology arsenal to efficiently improve product availability under constrained supply and outperform the competition. Acquisition coincides with significant new growth investment from Accel-KKR. BOSTON (Nov 8, 2021) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management b

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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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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba. But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. And both shifts will have major ramifications on customers – importers, exporters, and online sellers.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 12, 2021)

Talking Logistics

O, my oldest daughter’s pet hamster, died this week. He was a dwarf hamster with a giant personality. She got O in March 2020, shortly after I accidentally helped her previous hamster, Speedy, escape from his cage in the middle of the night. Despite setting food traps all over the house, Speedy never returned. O, Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (November 12, 2021).

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Inside Next Generation Supply Chains

The Network Effect

The post Inside Next Generation Supply Chains appeared first on The Network Effect.

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The Food Supply Chain is a Natural Home for Blockchain Technology

Enterra Insights

Over a century ago, the late English educator Frederick William Hackwood wrote, “Man has to eat to live; and to this primary condition of life he raises no particular objection. Man, indeed, eats and drinks with gusto; and not unfrequently, let it be confessed, without actual necessity.” Whether you eat to live or live to eat, one thing you don’t want to eat is tainted food.

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Hyper-Collaboration in Life Sciences Creates Supply Chain Opportunities

Logility

Collaboration in life sciences is not new but there is so much more to accomplish if the industry keeps pace with digital transformation. “Hyper-collaboration is based on the fundamental belief that it is innovation ecosystems, not individual companies, which will deliver the novel solutions the world is waiting for. Hyper-collaboration means seeing ecosystems for what they are: not just candy stores full of opportunities, but fiercely competitive arenas in which companies fight for the best par

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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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The Next Evolution in Supply Chain Technology

Talking Logistics

The 21st Century has seen tremendous innovation in supply chain technology driven by the internet, web services, mobile technologies, GPS, cloud computing, and so many other developments. What is the next evolution in supply chain technology? What factors are driving it and why is this important for supply chain professionals? Those are the main questions.

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Challenges for the Digital Transformation of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, blockchain – the list of emerging digital technologies is long. There is much discussion on their application and use and they are omnipresent in today´s society. Furthermore, they also have large impacts on companies and especially their supply chains. Companies realize that they do not only need to look.

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Artificial Intelligence Enhances the Evolution of the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

A score of years ago, my friend Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett wrote, “The defining achievement of the New Economy in the globalization era will be the Evernet, a downstream expression of today’s Internet, which most of us still access almost exclusively through bulky desktop personal computers anywhere from a few minutes to several hours each day. Over the next ten or so years, this notion of being ‘online’ versus ‘offline’ will completely disappear.”[1] Over the intervening decades, we have witnessed

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Food Giants Try Carbon Labels to Solve Their Climate Problem

Supply Chain Brain

Nestle SA, Pepsico Inc. and 25 other companies are backing a project that calculates a product’s environmental impact from farm to store and then grades it with a color-coded label. It’s the first time a partnership this big is working to find a one-size-fits-all way to assess the 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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Checklist for Creating a Capacity Capture Plan

Talking Logistics

For logistics leaders, continued supply chain volatility has increased the use of shorter-term contracts and reliance on the spot market to access freight capacity. According to FTR Transportation Intelligence, contract truckload rates are 10% higher year-over-year. Rates are expected to remain above that level for the remainder of 2021 — and likely beyond.

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A Digital Twin Is a Great Tool, but Is It What Your Supply Chain Needs?

CHAINalytics

When you need to make quick, high-confidence supply chain decisions in near-real-time, nothing beats a digital supply chain twin. However, if you’re laying out a three-to-five-year strategic plan, well, you may be barking up the wrong tree. As you might imagine, in Chainalytics’ supply chain design practice, we often have clients asking about developing a … The post A Digital Twin Is a Great Tool, but Is It What Your Supply Chain Needs?

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How electronics manufacturers can use ERP to address industry challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The electronics industry has experienced dramatic changes on the customer and supplier side in the last 18 months – from sudden purchasing changes by customers to shortages of parts and components from suppliers. Given the radical changes of the pandemic, one strategic question electronics manufacturers should be asking themselves is whether they are prepared for further changes in the coming five to ten years.

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Watch: How a Lack of Supply Chain Visibility Fuels Corruption Risk

Supply Chain Brain

Jordan Strauss, managing director in the Forensic Investigations & Intelligence Practice of Kroll, LLC, details the major risks of corruption existing in supply chains today, and offers tips on addressing them.

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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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Supplier Management: An Important Piece of Your Digital Transformation Puzzle

Talking Logistics

One of the things that makes supply chain management so complex and challenging is that there are so many dimensions to it. One of those dimensions is inbound logistics and supplier management, which often doesn’t get as much attention as the outbound side. What are the main challenges companies face with supplier management and the. Read more Supplier Management: An Important Piece of Your Digital Transformation Puzzle.

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The New “Survival of the Fittest” for Supply Chain Management

IT Supply Chain

By Angel Mendez (pictured). Executive Chairman of LevaData. The post The New “Survival of the Fittest” for Supply Chain Management appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The UK Electronics Manufacturing Recovery: 2021 Revenue Up 30%

Unleashed

UK electronics manufacturers have seen a sales revenue lift of 30% in 2021 vs 2020, outpacing the average performance of manufacturers of 24%, according to data from a soon-to-be released Unleashed State of Manufacturing report. Other figures reveal stable profit margins despite the withdrawal from the common market, and improved performance amongst firms adopting eCommerce channels.

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Watch: How Supply Chain Is Changing the Real Estate Landscape

Supply Chain Brain

A supply chain consulting arm is essential to modern-day commercial real estate brokerage firms, says Joe Dunlap, managing director of the supply chain advisory of CBRE.

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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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Taking More Direct Control of Your Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

Back in March 2014, I wrote the following in Keeping Control: What 3PLs Must Convince Their Customers: For many years, companies viewed logistics as a cost center, a “non-core” business function that made more sense for a third party to manage. Logistics professionals, as well as analysts and consultants, always hated this “cost center’ characterization, Read more Taking More Direct Control of Your Supply Chain.

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The Technology That’s Making Clinical Supply Chains Work Smarter

Tecsys

Most healthcare organizations are managing supplies using outdated information technology systems that cannot communicate with one another and rely on manual keying across procurement, inventory, transcription and replenishment systems.

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Business Intelligence in your Supply Chain: 3 crucial points to fully capitalize your data

SCJunction

Going live with a supply chain solution (WMS, TMS, Omni-channel, etc.) reaps massive benefits in streamlining your processes and managing your business. It also gives you the possibility to gather an immense amount of data. Business Intelligence turns this data into meaningful information which can be used to provide insight in your operation, analyse processes and increase supply chain performance.

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Innovation Today: Not a Choice, But an Imperative

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident.

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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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Customs Duty De Minimis Thresholds: A Guide for SMEs

Unleashed

De minimis is an important concept for anyone who deals with international shipping. According to this principle, items below a certain value are not subject to customs duties, and sometimes other taxes as well. If you’re in the business of eCommerce, this can enable you to sell goods up to a certain value threshold before they attract duties or tax – which can have a significant impact on your business.

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The Top Hurdles to Implementing Supply Chain Visibility – And How to Make the Leap

IT Supply Chain

By Sophia Shats (pictured). VP Global Marketing at MPO. The post The Top Hurdles to Implementing Supply Chain Visibility – And How to Make the Leap appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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13 Reasons Why Taylor Swift Did Not Cause the Vinyl Record Shortage

BlueYonder

Calling myself a Taylor Swift fan would be a gross understatement. My younger friends would say I’m a stan , but the label I’m most comfortable using for my 16-year obsession with the 11-time Grammy Award winner is that I’m a “Swiftie,” the nickname lovingly donned by millions of other superfans around the globe. Here’s the thing about us , Swifties — we will defend Tay at all costs.