Unleashed
MAY 26, 2021
Ambitious manufacturing businesses that want to boost their R&D could turn to additive manufacturing. In this article, we’ll explore the different types of additive manufacturing, the benefits and weaknesses, as well as some industries that could benefit from additive manufacturing. What is additive manufacturing? Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of adding substances to manufacture or create an object.
EnVista
MAY 27, 2021
What Is a Warehouse Management System (WMS)? The simplest definition of a WMS is a system in which the daily operations within a distribution center (DC) are controlled and managed. WMS software has come to encompass how you receive inventory, how you store it, how you pick items for shipment and how you know when to order more. Because there’s so much interconnectivity built in, software naturally makes these processes cleaner, easier to track, and less susceptible to human error.
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BR Williams Supply Chain Management
MAY 24, 2021
If you need help bringing your product to market faster, outsourced fulfillment may be the solution for you. Growing your business can be exciting and fun, that is until you hit unforeseen stumbling blocks. From skyrocketing costs to the inability to meet buyer demand, there’s a lot that can go wrong during your fulfillment and shipping process.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 25, 2021
The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. The coronavirus pandemic is the most obvious of these hurdles, but everything from the threat of tariffs to the temporary blockage of the Suez Canal (and even the ongoing closure of the I-40 bridge in Memphis) could have had lasting r
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
DELMIA Quintiq
MAY 26, 2021
The Answer Lies in Virtual Twin Technology. With less than 10 years left to the 2030 deadline of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear that we are all not yet doing enough to achieve global sustainability targets. The current rate of production and consumption worldwide continues to deplete resources and damage our planet faster than it can recover.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
MAY 24, 2021
It happens that I am writing this month’s column on Earth Day (celebrated on April 22 every year!), so I’m going to talk about a topic that’s close to my heart — biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth. Those who know me know I am a big nature lover and always have been since my days as a boy scout. I was fortunate to have grown up in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Tennessee, where I could enjoy fresh air, clean water, and beautiful mountain countryside.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 27, 2021
Five Forces Reshaping Logistics as We Know it. Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. And, more than ever, these decisions have to be made on the fly, in real-time. As logistics managers grapple with their own challenges, including labor shortages and emerging commodity marketplaces, the logistics function has never been under more pressure to deliver.
AIMMS
MAY 25, 2021
The post 3 Techniques You Can Use Now to Add Resilience to Your Supply Chain appeared first on AIMMS.
Talking Logistics
MAY 28, 2021
This should have been a quiet week leading into Memorial Day weekend. But as you can see from the list below, it was anything but quiet, with the biggest boom coming yesterday: E2open’s acquisition of BluJay Solutions. E2open to Combine With BluJay Solutions, a Leading Cloud-Based, Logistics Execution Platform project44 Acquires ClearMetal Inc. Manhattan Associates.
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.
The Logistics of Logistics
MAY 28, 2021
The Hole in the Supply Chain with Deema Adada. Deema Adada and Joe Lynch talk about the hole in the supply chain. Deema is the founder and CEO of GetSett a company that provided its customers with a complete, real-time snapshot of available inventory and location, labor resources and shipment arrivals to optimize dock appointments with greater accuracy.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 24, 2021
Sean Halligan, Senior Vice President Pharmaceutical Operations, Cardinal Health. With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cardinal Health made the decision they needed enhanced visibility into PPE shipments as demand for these products surged. Since then, FourKites has become a key steppingstone in their journey to build a next generation control tower.
Enterra Insights
MAY 27, 2021
The world has always been a risky place. Survival has been a constant historical theme. Despite all our modern inventions, we haven’t been able to eliminate risk from our lives. That’s why business professionals pay close attention to risk management. Matt Kunkel ( @MK_LogicGate ), CEO of LogicGate, writes, “2020 was a wake-up call for many of us.
Arkieva
MAY 26, 2021
Often inventory is considered the simplest component of supply chain management that can successfully be managed separately. The purpose of this blog is to provide some observations to avoid the runaway train. We will first review the basics of CPE and then address the use of target inventory (specifically ending finished goods inventory EFGI) in CPEs.
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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.
C3 Solutions
MAY 28, 2021
The replenishment cycle in the supply chain holds many opportunities to improve. Some areas, such as dock scheduling and yard management system (YMS), can hold the key to increasing productivity, efficiency, and profitability. Accuracy and real-time visibility tend to be Achilles' heel in the supply chain industry.
SCMDOJO
MAY 23, 2021
The implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems brings its own very unique challenges, this blog shares the Top 10 ERP Books to help perfect your implementation and hopefully reduces the common pain points. Before we talk about ERP implementation books, let’s understand first what is ERP. The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are integrable.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 25, 2021
To achieve a reliable yet lean approach, supply chains must be simultaneously agile and resilient. But both qualities have historically depended on “clean” data.
Kuebix
MAY 26, 2021
The first half of this year has been filled with a number of challenges and new opportunities for supply chains. The pandemic has changed the volume and pace at which consumers are purchasing products. As a result, logistics professionals have been identifying ways they can pick up the pace of their operations without sacrificing quality. […].
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How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.
C3 Solutions
MAY 27, 2021
Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will entail many more years of adjustment and growth through the transportation industry. The supply chain suffered a significant blow, and while adjustments were made to carry most companies through the worst of the effects, many changes will help continue current recovery levels.
Prophetic Technology
MAY 25, 2021
The pandemic highlighted the importance of Supply Chain (SC) resiliency to allow an organisation to adapt to changeable forces whilst maintaining customer service. Large organisations with SC risk strategy currently in place could not fully face the impact of the pandemic. Many SCs not so flexible and resilient were not capable of surviving.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 25, 2021
Join speakers from HERE Technologies and Siemens Healthineers as they explore how tracking and monitoring the location, condition and ETA of time-sensitive medical equipment brings real-time, end-to-end visibility into the supply chain.
Resilinc
MAY 25, 2021
In the last year, OEMs have seen a wave of force majeure claims from suppliers who failed to meet their agreements to deliver items on time; many have been attributed to pandemic-related disruptions. As described by Law360 , force majeure ( FM) contract clauses, also known as “excusable delay” or “excusable nonperformance” clauses, are meant to “allocate risk for events that are not within the reasonable control of a party, [and they] generally excuse performance when it is delayed or prevented
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Shippers and logistics service providers are pressured to match the “Amazon effect” for fast and efficient service across multiple B2C, B2B, and D2C channels. Perfect order delivery - on-time and in-full at the lowest possible cost – is critical. However, recent surveys of supply chain stakeholders reveal that many don't have the technology necessary to achieve it.
Demand Driven Technologies
MAY 25, 2021
The pandemic dealt an unprecedented blow to global supply chains, with virtually all business leaders reporting disruptions to their strategic sourcing and supplier management processes. Yet some companies found ways to mitigate the impact to their operations. In Demand Driven Technology’s Pandemic Planning series, we take a look at their stories—and how they leveraged DDMRP to adjust to a changing landscape.
The Smart Software
MAY 26, 2021
Smart Software is pleased to introduce our new webinar, offered exclusively for Prophet21 users. Greg Hartunian, CEO at Smart Software, will lead a 45-minute webinar focusing on specific approaches to demand forecasting and inventory planning. The post Prophet 21 User Group Webinar: Inventory Planning Processes appeared first on Smart Software.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 26, 2021
The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater demand for sophisticated supply chain technology that can accommodate increased demand for direct-to-consumer sales, bypassing physical storefronts.
Logistics Bureau
MAY 24, 2021
Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. Not that it was ever an easy question to answer, but the Coronavirus crisis has perhaps turned it on its head, or at least, helped to do so. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
BlueYonder
MAY 27, 2021
The U.S. is experiencing a big glow-up. What’s a glow-up, you ask? It’s when a person goes through a transformation of any type and is feeling better about themselves physically, emotionally or mentally. With vaccinations on the rise and more people re-entering public life, we’re seeing an incredible boom in personal care products, like teeth whitener, deodorant and make-up.
Tecsys
MAY 26, 2021
This is just the beginning. Tecsys is excited to launch our new podcast series next… The post Welcome to The Great Supply Chain Podcast appeared first on Tecsys.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 27, 2021
The paradigm of just-in-time supply chains has left many brand manufacturers ill-equipped to handle the impact of the pandemic.
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