Sat.Jun 18, 2016 - Fri.Jun 24, 2016

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When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall

ToolsGroup

Inventory planning is especially important to small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). Nobody wants to tie up more working capital than necessary in inventory, but SMBs typically have leaner resources, and a higher cost of capital means it’s more expensive to fund excess stock. And if a company is growing rapidly, capital is not only costly but may even require selling valuable equity.

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The internet of (supply chain) things

Kinaxis

by John Westerveld Lightbulbs that change colors from a command on your phone and turn on when you enter the room, thermostats that can figure out when you are in the house and adjust accordingly, refrigerators that e-mail you when you are out of milk, garage doors that let you know when they are open, doors that can be unlocked from your phone even when you are across the country, cars that drive themselves, tags you can put on your keys so you will never lose them again.

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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways. We have cars with A pps , watches running A pps , TVs that operate with A pps …as the phrase goes “There’s an App for That.” There are Apps out there for just about anything, it’s hard to imagine a world without them. Why do we love Apps so much? We get the information we need upfront, they can be used anytime, anywhere, they help us connect, and they serve a specific purpose.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. The silos compete. They lack alignment. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985.

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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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Gainsharing In Logistics: Is it Good or Bad for the Industry?

GlobalTranz

Gainsharing has been a topic of both criticism and acclaim throughout the business world, and the same is true for gainsharing in logistics. Initially, gainsharing seems like an amazing means of growing your business, but it can prove to be exceedingly difficult to manage and even more difficult to profit from. Gainsharing comes with its share of benefits too, and more logistics services providers are starting to use a newer pricing model, Vested Outsourcing, in place of rigid gainsharing models

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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways. We have cars with A pps , watches running A pps , TVs that operate with A pps …as the phrase goes “There’s an App for That.” There are Apps out there for just about anything, it’s hard to imagine a world without them.

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Shipping is still lost at sea when it comes to big data

DELMIA Quintiq

The world of container shipping is going through a prolonged period of instability due to oversupply of new ships entering service. There is also a fall in demand for the transportation of goods between major economies. Falling container shipping rates created a windfall for shippers and brought tears to shipping lines and ports. Uncertain recovery provides an opportunity to look at how better pricing, capacity management, and business optimization could combat the inevitable decline in yield.

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Will Blockchain Technology Revolutionize Supply Chain Applications?

Logistics Viewpoints

Building unbreachable supply chain applications is virtually impossible. So it was with great interest that I listened to how blockchain technology could be used to create robust tendering and visibility that can be wholly trusted.

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What is S&OP? By Accenture Strategy Guest Blogger

Kinaxis

by Steven J. Puricelli A few weeks ago, I launched a new blog series on sales and operations planning (S&OP ). In that introductory post, I outlined a number of important topics that I plan to explore in more detail throughout the summer. To make sure everyone is on the same page, I want to review the basics, the foundation, which is… what exactly is S&OP?

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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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This Week in Logistics News (June 20-24, 2016)

Talking Logistics

A beautiful woman passed away this morning, my wife’s aunt who we all loved, so I will be brief with my comments about this week’s supply chain and logistics news. U.K.’s ‘Brexit’ Vote Changes European Business World (WSJ – sub. req’d). Logistics in Transition: U.S. Business Logistics Costs Slow Considerably with 2.6% Growth. Trucking Stocks Plunge on Earnings Warning (WSJ – sub. req’d).

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What’s the Big Deal About Cycle Counting?

PINC

Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest and greatest warehouse management system. The fact is, if humans have to physically touch or scan inventory in the put away, inventory check or pick process, then errors will occur.

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Ten Years of Logistics Technology Trends

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I read the Logistics Viewpoints guest post by Chainalytics discussing the pitfalls of decision-marking biases. Although the Chainalytics article focuses on supply chain decision making, these biases can apply to business forecasting as well. Reading this article made me interested in my own potential decision-making biases. I chose to take time on Friday to review some of the research I have conducted during my ten years as an analyst at ARC Advisory Group. […].

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Meeting the Digital Enterprise Transformation Imperative

Enterra Insights

Most analysts agree that businesses face an imperative to transform into a digital enterprise or lose ground to competitors that … Continued. The post Meeting the Digital Enterprise Transformation Imperative appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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What’s the Big Deal About Cycle Counting?

Talking Logistics

Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest and greatest warehouse management system. The fact is, if humans have to physically touch or scan inventory in the put away, inventory check or pick process, then errors will occur.

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What’s the Big Deal About Cycle Counting?

PINC

Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest and greatest warehouse management system. The fact is, if humans have to physically touch or scan inventory in the put away, inventory check or pick process, then errors will occur.

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Leverage Your Supply Chain To Gain a Competitive Advantage

River Logic

The essence of business can be viewed as an organization's ability to deliver more value to customers than their competitors. In a global marketplace, this often manifests itself as a constant downward pressures on prices, as each business struggles to maintain and expand on market share in the face of strong competition from both foreign and domestic competitors.

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Understanding Today’s Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!

Arkieva

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. 1 of the keynote speakers was Mike Duke, the former CEO of Walmart. He summarized his career in 10 pieces of advice he got from 10 key persons throughout his life. His parents, his teacher, his first boss, … Advice #1 received from his parents: “There’s no substitute for hard work”.

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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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Kicking Off A Career in Supply Chain

NFI Industries

Finals are complete, diploma accepted with proud family and friends looking on, and celebrations commencing. Now the post-college graduation reality sets in for graduates…the job hunt. Whether majoring in something specific to the field or any variety of business related degrees, the supply chain industry provides a plethora of career opportunities for qualified and motivated.

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Putting a Value on Visibility

MIT Supply Chain

Tracking the status of ocean shipments accurately and in real time is critical to the goal of achieving end-to-end visibility into global supply chains. Yet this operational Holy Grail remains elusive, despite advances in information technology. A hurdle to this goal that individual organizations can address, is the inability of companies to measure the value of visibility to […].

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5 Reasons to Integrate Cell-Based Freight-Location Solutions with TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

Companies like MacroPoint, FourKites and others offer the next generation of freight tracking capabilities, leveraging the latest mobile device tech and web-based apps to yield up-to-the-minute location information for over the road freight shippers, carriers and 3PLS. These new, easy to implement, low-cost offerings can work either in lieu of – or even more effectively in conjunction with – in-cab telematics systems and EDI making them very attractive to transportation users of all strip

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A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable

Arkieva

Organizations, from health care facilities to manufacturing giants to small restaurants, can be viewed as an ongoing sequence of loosely coupled activities where current and future assets are matched with current and future demand across the supply chain or demand supply network (preferred term of Dr. Karl Kempf – Director of Decision Technology and Senior Fellow, Intel).

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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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Supply Chain Talent Friday 2016 – Companies

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Talent Friday. Datum: 16 September 2016. Locatie: Kromhouthal, Amsterdam. Organisatie: BLMC & Supply Chain Media. Do you want to win or lose the war on talent in supply chain management, purchasing, operations and logistics? Meet the 300 most talented supply chain professionals. In your company, just as in many others, the supply chain management, purchasing, operations and logistics departments probably have an urgent need for reinforcement by competent professionals (such as d

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Making Supply Meet Demand at America’s Food Banks

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Phat Doan, Mandy Kuo, Philip Okwo, Brendon Pezzak, Roxana Ruvalcaba, Christopher Tang, and David Zhao, UCLA Anderson School. In the U.S., Feeding America is a national human services agency that distributes food donated by large food manufacturers (such as Kraft) to a nationwide network of food banks (Figure). At each food bank, 20% of the foods is provided by Feeding America and the remaining 80% is donated by the local food manufacturers and distributors.

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Cloud-Based TMS Helps Develop Sustainable Relationships in Transportation Logistics

Supply Chain Collaborator

Tom Cook has authored nineteen books on global trade and supply chain. The June issue of American Shipper magazine published an article by Cook on developing sustainable relationships which this blogger found to be compelling because most of the advice his piece provides can be realized via the use of good, cloud-based TMS software. So with a hat tip to Mr.

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Weighing Managed Services? An Ounce of Prevention Really is Worth a Pound of Cure

TMC

Weighing Managed Services? An Ounce of Prevention Really is Worth a Pound of Cure.Connect. The demands on your logistics management operation have increased to a point where it’s time to consider adopting a managed services model. Where do you go from here? In some ways, managed services solutions are a level up from traditional third party logistics provider (3PL) models, where a 3PL handles carriers and negotiates rates for you.

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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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Webinar ‘Mindmapping Global Trade Management’ – 6 July 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Webinar ‘Mindmapping Global Trade Management’ Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | 16:00 – 16:45 CET. Location: Anywhere. Organisers: Amber Road and Supply Chain Media. Click here to register>> Companies engaging in global trade are subject to ever-increasing international regulations and legislation. A Global Trade Management (GTM) programme helps reduces the risk of liability, fines and delays at international borders, and conducting a sourcing and distribution analysis pr

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Self-Driving Cars and the Future of Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

AFFLINK

Self-driving cars have been on many manufacturers’ minds since Google announced that it had mastered the technology in 2011. With the invention of improved GPS, camera technology, and navigation systems, it seems like the self-driving car isn’t far away from becoming a reality. There are so many supply chain optimization benefits the self-driving car could bring, from improved automation to standardization.

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A Winning Way to Market your Supply Chain (Hint: get a little help from your friends!)

APICS

A highlight of the annual Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference is the release of top 25 supply chain list that ranks the best supply chains. (BTW, it was satisfying to see that 50% of the companies on the 2016 list work with APICS!) Winning an award presents a great opportunity to do some marketing, and that got me thinking that supply chain organizations should do more to market themselves.

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