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Gartner Asks: Are You (and your Supply Chain) Bimodal?

ToolsGroup

Taking a bimodal approach to supply chains was the pervasive theme at this year’s Gartner North American Supply Chain Executive Conference. Simply stated, bimodal means simultaneously keeping a dual focus. Or as in F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “First-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in your mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”.

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Supply Chain Is at Its Best When You Can’t See It

Kinaxis

by Jonathan Matthews Playing hockey the other night, there was a particularly boisterous individual on my bench. One of my teammates made the comment that essentially boiled down to, “they should be seen and not heard,” which started me thinking, strangely enough, about supply chain. When a supply chain is working at its best, the general population doesn’t see it and often has no concept of the complexities behind it.

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Why Parcel or Small Package Auditing Is Important for Shippers

GlobalTranz

With the power of the internet at your fingertips, the connotation of auditing has changed. Historically, audits were seen as a costly, intrusive process that often resulted in the assessment of some sort of fine or penalty. However, the internet is making audits become the “best friend” of shippers. Audits provide a huge amount of power, which can be leveraged to increase sales, production, and return.

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Solving planning challenges in manufacturing liquid chemicals

DELMIA Quintiq

The chemical manufacturing industry has shown impressive growth over the past 25 years. Since the 80s, the global chemical industry has grown by seven percent annually. If current trends continue, global chemical markets are expected to grow an average three percent in the next 20 years. However, rising global competition and challenging customer demands are forcing chemical manufacturers to prioritize operational excellence.

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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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5 Tips For Keeping Your Freight Safe

Freightos

Freightos CEO, Zvi Schreiber, recently dubbed 2016 as the “ year that the freight industry goes online.” Some freight services, like rate quoting, have now reached the tipping point. On Freightos, for instance, forwarders and shippers can create a freight quote in 30 seconds. Other freight services have already passed the tipping point, fleet tracking, for instance, spearheaded by freight technology companies like Track Your Truck.

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008. The economy was on the road to recovery, and more technology was being developed and deployed to increase the productivity and efficiency of fleets. However, inconsistencies in service levels, including the use of inaccurate data, an economy that hinges on the state of foreign markets (think China), and changes to regulations and labor requirements are continuing to impact the capacity o

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Top 10 Reasons My Dad is Happy I’m in Supply Chain

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois When I told my dad I was going into supply chain, he grudgingly said, “That’s nice son,” and then whispered into my mom’s ear, “He’s not moving back in with us.” Well I think he finally came around after I moved all my stuff out of the house. Here are the top 10 reasons he was eventually happy I went into supply chain: 10. He doesn’t have to listen to me try to sing my way into the music business. 9.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 13-17, 2016)

Talking Logistics

My wife and I are off to my daughter’s 2nd grade class this morning for their end-of-year workshare, where we’ll see highlights of the projects they worked on this year, with a slideshow and other fun activities mixed in. A great way to start a Friday. But before I head out, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in its largest deal (Reuters).

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Moving Beyond Madness to Methods in Supply Chain Decision Making

Logistics Viewpoints

Data models provide insights, but humans make decisions, and those decisions are not always rational. Behavioral economics research explores the nature of human decision-making, biases –like the “anchoring effect”, a common tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information when making decisions — and how seemingly unrelated things influence our decisions.

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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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Supply Chain Risk Management: Keeping Track of the Risks

Enterra Insights

“Supply chain practitioners, accustomed to the ongoing disruptions throughout the sub-tier supply chain, are familiar with the usual risks that … Continued. The post Supply Chain Risk Management: Keeping Track of the Risks appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Driver Digest: Preparing for Summer Roads

NFI Industries

Next week marks the official beginning of summer in North America, and for many it is a season filled with warmth, fun, and adventure, but according to the Department of Transportation, summer is the most dangerous driving season. During the summer, ailing road infrastructure is magnified with an influx of traffic, leading to more accidents. READ MORE.

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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn: The Beginning of Something Big or Another Failed Tech Marriage?

Talking Logistics

The big news this week was Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. Is this the beginning of something big and transformative in the way we work and collaborate together or is it the beginning of another failed marriage between two tech companies? Of course, only time will tell, but regardless of whether Microsoft and LinkedIn are the right partners, or whether they’re able to execute and make this a successful marriage, I believe their vision, as expressed by Microsoft CEO Satya N

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Why Global Trade Agreements must be part of your supply chain planning: Guest Post by Tim Barnes

NC State SCRC

Today’s guest blog is posted by Timothy Barnes, who I met through the SCRC. Tim is a global supply chain executive originally from Australia, who has been studying the evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership closely, and is writing a book on the subject. He has put together some great advice here about how the TPP is going to dramatically impact the supply chain landscape in the near future… Supply chain decision makers play a continuous game of identifying what and where to sou

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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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Vendor Chargebacks Remain a Problem

Enterra Insights

Retailer chargebacks against vendors are not new, but they do represent a growing challenge to profitability. The staff at Supply … Continued. The post Vendor Chargebacks Remain a Problem appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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What is “push” and “pull” distribution?” – Part 16

APICS

If we summarize the discussion in the previous blogs, inventory replenishment in a multiechelon supply channel occurs in three possible ways: product is allocated down the supply chain using some form of dispersion algorithm; a form of reorder point pulls product from supplying to satellite facilities; and distribution requirements planning (DRP). For distribution channels supplied from a production plant or have long-lead time items purchased from outside suppliers, planners would most likely c

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part Five

Arkieva

Last time in Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part Four I talked about the Supply step of the cross-functional process of SiOP. For this blog we will conclude this discussion with the Exec SiOP step. Exec SiOP. In the ‘ demand ’ part we already discussed you should come to 1 forecast for sales, finance and operations, and have a monthly check of that forecast to the budget, which you can consider as the plan that contains a certain ambition to realize a given strategy.

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3 Things You Can Learn from Subaru's Supply Chain

Elementum

Subaru’s problem is a decidedly sweet one: where most automotive companies find themselves scrambling for orders (especially in a post-emissions scandal era), the Japanese car-maker has had to invest millions to expand its supply. Sales have burgeoned to the point that in late 2015, Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, Fuji Heavy Industries’ President and CEO announced plans to cap the brand’s annual sales at a little over a million vehicles in the interest of maintaining niche standards.

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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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Big Data and Supply Chain Transformation

Enterra Insights

The ground beneath businesses continues to shift as the impacts of e-commerce, new business models, digitization, and automation are fully … Continued. The post Big Data and Supply Chain Transformation appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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4 KPIs to Measure the Success of Your New Sustainability Strategy

AFFLINK

Whether you're trying to keep up with customer expectations or align with new industry standards, implementing a sustainability program is an absolute must. However, it can be difficult when the concept of "going green" is constantly evolving, and is often interpreted differently from one company to the next. Even more challenging is establishing goals and metrics for this ever-moving target.

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A Five-Step Approach to Effective Demand Planning Implementation

Arkieva

Good handling of market demand data is one of the most vital concepts in any supply chain. The correct management of demand information can greatly influence the level of integration and responsiveness, and has a direct impact on customer service and inventory levels. If customer demand is the activating element in the supply chain, it’s quite clear that a multi-step operational supply chain management process to create reliable demand forecasts can play an active role in improving supply chain

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How IoT Data Can Cut Machine Part Safety Stock

MIT Supply Chain

A Supply Chain Management (SCM) master’s program thesis research project carried out in collaboration with managed services provider OnProcess Technology, headquartered in Ashland, MA, found that by using Internet of Things (IoT) data to predict machine failures, companies can reduce spare part inventory volumes and improve their ability to meet service quality levels.

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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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Targeted Marketing: How Effective is It?

Enterra Insights

John Wanamaker, the late department store magnate, once stated, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble … Continued. The post Targeted Marketing: How Effective is It? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Starbucks has appointed Hans Melotte to take over Supply Chain Management. Starbucks has named Hans Melotte as their new Supply Chain Chief. Melotte previously served as the Chief Logistics Officer for Johnson & Johnson, and all involved hope that he continues to update their supply chain management since their major overhaul in 2008. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain.

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How to Drive Supply Chain Compliance and Efficiency through Global Control Towers®

TMC

How to Drive Supply Chain Compliance and Efficiency through Global Control Towers®.Connect. If you were asked to name the many functions performed by a supply chain’s global control tower, chances are that complying with international trade and tax regulations would not be top of your list. Yet an important part of optimizing international supply chain networks—a primary global control tower function—is making sure that shippers fulfill relevant trade and tax requirements within every country to

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Recruiting the Right People for the Right Jobs

APICS

I’ve had many conversations recently about the same theme: Supply chain and manufacturing offer great career opportunities. But how do we attract more people to these areas? We at APICS are not alone in this quest. I know this discussion is happening at many different employers, suppliers, and affiliated associations. Now, the topic has attracted the attention of mainstream media.

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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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Package Your Way to Supply Chain Cost Reductions

Logistics Bureau

Many articles on the topic of supply chain cost reduction have been written, most of which are understandably focused on issues such as inventory levels, network design, process efficiencies and supplier management/relationships. What do you do though, when you’ve explored and perhaps executed all the obvious options and still need to find additional savings?

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Starbucks has appointed Hans Melotte to take over Supply Chain Management. Starbucks has named Hans Melotte as their new Supply Chain Chief. Melotte previously served as the Chief Logistics Officer for Johnson & Johnson, and all involved hope that he continues to update their supply chain management since their major overhaul in 2008. Starbucks made waves when they completely revolutionized their supply chain.

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Nike Learns to Mass Customize Shoes While Near-Shoring

NC State SCRC

I had the opportunity to speak with a Nike executive about how the company has moved into the world of mass-customization. Many people have heard about their partnership with Flex to build mass-customized shoes in Mexico, which is a big shift for the company from it’s largely Asia Pacific supplier network. Although it is certainly not abandoning Asia, Nike is moving towards more near-shoring due to the need to mass-customize and meet many of the requirements for VELOCITY that we have dis