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Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Why an Expert 3PL With Strict Security Measures Is Key to Success

GlobalTranz

Cyberattacks seem to be growing in prevalence and severity, particularly those around the major supply chains in the US, including both the fuel supply chain and the food supply chain. On June 2, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that a ransomware attack against JBS had resulted in the cancellation of shifts across all US plants. Such an event has constrained the meat supply chain more than ever, sparking fears of massive food shortages, and it comes mere weeks after the other major cyberat

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Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True with Jason Giulietti

The Logistics of Logistics

Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True with Jason Giulietti. Jason Giulietti and Joe Lynch discuss Texas: It Ain’t Bragging, If It’s True. Jason is the President of the Greater San Marcos Partnership , which is a regional economic development organization for the areas between San Antonio and Austin. The San Marcos area is booming and many think the city is on a path to becoming America’s next great metropolis. .

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Why Is Promotion Planning Important In Inventory Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year, I wanted to be a grateful child and buy a sweater for my father. It was father’s day, so I logged on to one of the prevalent e-commerce sites. I browsed and eventually found quite a few sweaters in green, my father’s favorite color. To my delight, I found one that was on promotion. I was excited to place the order right away so my present would arrive in time for Father’s day.

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DELMIA Communities Week in Review for May 31

DELMIA Quintiq

Hello and Welcome to the Week in Review! This is the weekly blog post for a one-look overview of what happened in the DELMIA Communities this past week. But there is a lot more than what is below. Visit the communities to see the exchange of information and ideas between members and DELMIA experts. With eight active communities, you are sure to find at least one to suit your DELMIA interests.

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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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How to Know It's Time to Invest In a Dock and Yard Solution

C3 Solutions

Supply chains, including dock and yard management and warehouse supervision, face significant challenges and have to deal with a seemingly never-ending string of disruptions and market fluctuations. From the increase in customer demands, dock scheduling needs, the steady rise of e-commerce, innovative retail shipping services, and just-in-time production practices, many challenges face the supply chain.

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Editor’s Choice: Dodge Disruption Using Smarter Transportation Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Today’s article is from Open Sky Group and highlights the need for a smarter transportation management system. Dodge ball. Mention the game and almost everyone has something to say. But have you ever associated it with supply chain life in 2020?

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Accelerating Reliance and Operational Excellence in the Consumer Packaged Goods Lab

DELMIA Quintiq

With increasing pressure at plants and labs, consumer package goods (CPG) companies need to improve performance and resiliency as part of their digital transformation journey. The lab is no exception. Digital transformation of CPG operations is at an inflection point driven by new consumer and personalized health demands, including the demand for science-driven innovation, which has been impacted by the shift in category spending and connected experiences with personalized health.

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Logility Recognized as a 2021 Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics IT Provider for the 24th Consecutive Year

Logility

ATLANTA – June 3, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced its selection as a 2021 Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics IT Provider for the 24 th consecutive year. The selection recognizes Logility as a provider of technology solutions that drive successful supply chains.

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The Opportunity Cost of Logistics Technology Inaction

C3 Solutions

To stay competitive in today's ever-changing global markets, shipping companies and transportation service providers incorporate logistics technology into their existing supply chain management systems. Recently, consumer demands have shifted, and the supply chain's logistics have scrambled at times to move and adapt. Likewise, dock operations management has also discovered that the latest technology can help boost overall productivity.

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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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Manhattan Associates Launches Active Transportation Management

Logistics Viewpoints

From a historical perspective, transportation management systems are all about freight savings. However, with the ongoing pandemic, and the resulting capacity crunch, TMS is trending more towards cost mitigation rather than savings. Manhattan Associates unveiled its latest TMS, Manhattan Active Transportation Management, last week during the company’s virtual user conference.

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The machine learning trap or how to tell if you’ve got the right waiter

All Things Supply Chain

Almost every progress-oriented company wants it right now: artificial intelligence (AI). No, actually everyone wants machine learning, which is almost synonymous for many people.

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Tiger Woods, Demand Planning and Machine Learning

Adexa

Traditional demand planning techniques rely on past data in order to forecast the future. They can also use event data that occurred at a certain point in the past in order to project the impact of that event happening again in the future. However, they do not take into account what is relevant data and what is not when historical training data becomes invalid.

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The ROI of Implementing a Top Quality Yard and Dock Management Solution

C3 Solutions

As the supply chain industry launches into the era of massive e-commerce, implementing a dock and yard management solution seems inevitable and necessary. Except for the apparent benefits, the return on investment for integrating a dock and yard management solution remains successful given the industry's current state. The supply chain, in its entirety, continues to expand.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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The Case for Inventory Splitting, by Brands Large and Small

Supply Chain Brain

The lessons of the last year confirm that if all inventory is in one place, any company, regardless of size, is vulnerable to material interruptions in the supply chain.

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How to Use What-if Scenarios to Create a Dynamic IBP Paradigm

Arkieva

Taking the time to perform what-if analyses on a regular basis with real and speculative events, gives planners tremendous insight into what parts of the supply chain are most sensitive to changes. As a result, planners will have a sense of what is a big deal and what is not. And when a crisis happens, they’ll feel confident in their ability to respond.

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Shopping is no longer just the process of acquiring goods

IT Supply Chain

By Richard Willis (pictured). RVP Solution Consulting, EMEA and APAC, Aptos. The post Shopping is no longer just the process of acquiring goods appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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This Pride, I’m Respecting the Privilege of Coming Out

BlueYonder

Every year as Pride month comes around, I talk a lot about courage. As a gay man who grew up on a dirt road in rural Louisiana during the ‘80s, I’ve needed enormous amounts of courage my entire life — the courage to stand up to bullies, the courage to come out to my conservative, religious parents, the courage to move across the country and live a life that’s open and free.

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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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Consumer Brands Announces New Supply Chain Health and Performance Task Force

Supply Chain Brain

The Consumer Brands Association today announced the creation of a new Supply Chain Health and Performance Task Force aimed at increasing visibility and easing supply chain pressures felt across the consumer packaged goods industry.

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Can we re-shore and create a US semiconductor industry? Maybe…

NC State SCRC

I participated today in the National Academies of Engineering, Science, and Medicine’s “Logistics and Manufacturing under Attack Virtual” Workshop , that involved a number of Department of Defense, private sector companies (GE, Pratt & Whitney), and academic partners, to discuss the current state of critical technologies required in the current space.

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Why the JBS cyber-attack is a wake up call for organisations to take security seriously

IT Supply Chain

By Chris Waynforth (pictured). AVP Northern Europe at Imperva. The post Why the JBS cyber-attack is a wake up call for organisations to take security seriously appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Importance of Value-Added Services in Logistics and SCM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Do you have a Freight Management Strategy or are you Spinning your Wheels? Value-added services article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Choi. The goal of supply chains is to add value to the manufacturing and distribution processes. Supply chains can be differentiated based on characteristics such as price, time reliability, and risk, depending on the markets and value chains they serve.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Watch: Can We Build a Domestic Supply Chain for PPE?

Supply Chain Brain

Kezia Fitzgerald, co-founder of CareAline, tells how her company responded to a need for isolation gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, and describes what it will take to set up a domestic supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the future.

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Digital Manufacturing and the Smart Factory in 2021

Unleashed

From operational intelligence to additive manufacturing, mass customisation and speed – digital manufacturing is changing the way companies manufacture products through the use of digital technologies that allow for far greater control and adaptability to the way things are conceptualised and produced. Let’s explore some of the key aspects of digital manufacturing and how it is revolutionising the way we (and factories) work.

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Manufacturers Need for Speed in a Digital World – Embracing AI & Automation

IT Supply Chain

By Thomas Zanziger (pictured). CEO at inRiver. The post Manufacturers Need for Speed in a Digital World – Embracing AI & Automation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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7 Ways to Create a Great Customer Experience!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is the Value of Customer Loyalty? Great customer experience article and permission to publish here provided by Harry Stark. Are you looking to get ahead in the game? Having a great customer experience strategy is the way to go. A well-executed strategy will give you positive results, maximize consumer lifetime value, increase your revenue and boost customer satisfaction.

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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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Wearable Tech for Cows Could Help Tackle Methane Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

Tackling methane emissions from livestock is one of the most critical — and most difficult — climate issues for meat and dairy companies that are under increasing pressure to clean up their supply chains.

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API vs EDI: What Is Better For Supply Chain Management? | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

When it comes to supply chain integration, there are two known technologies that provide it: APIs and EDIs. Learn more in this PLS blog.

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The Royal Dutch Shell ruling will ripple through the entire energy sector

IT Supply Chain

By Mark Perera (pictured). CEO of Vizibl. The post The Royal Dutch Shell ruling will ripple through the entire energy sector appeared first on IT Supply Chain.