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Can you Automate Everything in Supply Chain Logistics

20Cube Logistics

With the boom of technology with robotics and AI, every player in the supply chain wants to be ahead in the market by using some form of automation. Every day one or the other tool is coming into the market. Renowned companies like DHL are seeing around 25% productivity improvement from the usage of the latest tech, Robotics. Few companies are using sensors, drones and wearable technologies in its warehouse to increase efficiency.

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Ethical Consumer Week: How to make transparency meaningful

Provenance

What is supply chain and impact transparency and what makes it valuable? Our CEO & founder Jessi Baker spoke at Ethical Consumer Week 2020 to explore the line between what’s progress and what’s simply marketing. She also shared why transparency without proof is, in itself, meaningless. See the three things brands should be doing, and what we should all be looking out for… The inaugural Ethical Consumer Week, spearheaded by the team behind the sustainability magazine of the same name, a

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4 New Trends in Multimodal Transportation

GlobalTranz

Problems with the global supply chain are not new, but they are somewhat unprecedented at the level they have climbed to in 2020. The supply chain coronavirus issues have pushed the supply chain — and many suppliers — to their breaking point. Fortunately, there is time and opportunity for the supply chain to recover. With.read More. The post 4 New Trends in Multimodal Transportation appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Melitta: Collaborating for an Improved Forecasting Process

ToolsGroup

Melitta is a household name for anyone who drinks coffee, but the Melitta Group’s business activities extend far beyond drip filters for your morning brew. With a revenue exceeding 1.6 billion Euros, Melitta products also include kitchen staples like aluminum foil and sandwich paper. When the COVID-19 outbreak began, the company quickly transitioned into face mask production, supplying hospitals and healthcare facilities with millions of units of coffee-filter-shaped PPE.

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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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Yard Management: The Most Important Limiting Factor in Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published last week, “The Impact of Digital Yard Management on Enterprise Transportation Costs and Capacity.” The research, conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by PINC, was conducted to explore the broader value proposition and business benefits of digital yard management solutions.

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Top Trends Driving Interest in New Peak Technologies

GlobalTranz

[link] In this episode, we discuss the top trends contributing to new peak technologies. So, Let’s Talk – Peak Season Technology Trends The need to better understand the effect of peak season on supply chain processes and technology remains paramount for freight management parties and resellers. As the world prepares for the upcoming peak season,read More.

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Building Supply Chain Resiliency with Richard Sharpe

The Logistics of Logistics

Building Supply Chain Resiliency with Richard Sharpe. Richard Sharpe and Joe Lynch discuss building supply chain resiliency. Because of the supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID 19, companies have a renewed interest in improving supply chain resiliency. About Richard Sharpe. Richard Sharpe is the CEO of Competitive Insights, LLC. As an industry leader for the last 30 years, Richard is a frequent speaker at industry forums and a lecturer at Georgia Tech and is a founding member of the Amer

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Engineering Stability and Predictability into Your 2021 Routing Guide

Talking Logistics

Still dealing with uncertainty in 2020, supply chain and logistics professionals now face the tough challenge of planning for 2021. From COVID-19, wildfires and hurricanes to truck driver shortages and capacity concerns, many organizations are in constant disaster recovery mode. Despite market volatility, supply chain executives must develop their logistics plan and transportation budget for.

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Why Retail Supply Chains Look to Dock Scheduling Technology to Remain Efficient in Freight Deliveries

C3 Solutions

As companies move to embrace remote management capabilities and rise to the meet challenges of the e-commerce boom, the need for more efficient, faster dock operations will increase. Unfortunately, speed for the sake of speed and failure to consider to plan for increased dock activity properly will lead to inefficiencies and significant risks. Aside from the obvious problems with inefficient, poorly designed dock schedules, stressed workers and a lack of a plan could lead to safety risks and add

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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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Rapidly Improve Fulfillment Operations to Conquer E-commerce Demand Spikes

CHAINalytics

For many retailers and manufacturers, the accelerating shift to e-commerce is most obvious in their fulfillment and delivery operations. Companies have been operating at peak season levels for the better part of a year. So before the traditional peak season hits, something’s gotta give. It wasn’t too long into the COVID-19 pandemic before it became … The post Rapidly Improve Fulfillment Operations to Conquer E-commerce Demand Spikes appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Investing in SCM Technology: 6 Hints for Success – From a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Arkieva

“Chaos, complexity, and uncertainty” often victimize an organization’s supply. Sounds like 2020? In fact, this comes from one of the original Jedi Knights Dr. Harlan Crowder in a 1997 paper titled “Helpful Hints for OR/MS Consultants”. The purpose of this blog is to revisit this paper since the hints for success are as relevant now as they were then.

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Supply Chain Election Issues (Insights from Indago Members)

Talking Logistics

The United States will hold elections tomorrow for President and members of Congress. Regardless of who wins, which issue/policy related to supply chain management should the government focus on improving first? We asked our Indago members that question last week, and by a wide margin, “Transportation Infrastructure” topped the list. “Although tariffs have impacted our.

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The Amazing Supply Chain of Data

All Things Supply Chain

In supply chain management, data and its targeted analytics are necessary to make statements about important influences on the supply chain: Which deliveries are often uncertain?

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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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S&D Coffee and Tea Roasts Logistics and Transportation Costs With PINC

PINC

Using PINC Yard Management System (YMS), America’s largest custom coffee roaster has reduced detention costs and eliminated yard inefficiencies while improving visibility and productivity across the supply chain. Since 1927, S&D Coffee & Tea has been making delicious beverages for consumers worldwide. Made from top-quality ingredients, its coffees and teas are not only tasty, but they’re also produced in a very sustainable, eco-friendly manner.

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Omnichannel is the New Black Friday

Enterra Insights

With the prospect of wary consumers remaining reluctant to shop in stores during the upcoming holiday season, online sales began in earnest with Amazon’s October Prime Day. Other large retailers, like Walmart, also announced they were canceling traditional Black Friday sales promotions in favor of season-long, online sales campaigns. Although these efforts don’t discount in-store shopping, they certainly highlight the significance retailers are placing on omnichannel operations.

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FreightTech for Fortune 500 Shippers with Brad Forester and Mike Mulqueen

The Logistics of Logistics

FreightTech for Fortune 500 Shippers with Brad Forester and Mike Mulqueen. Brad Forester , Mike Mulqueen , and Joe Lynch discuss FreightTech for Fortune 500 Shippers. Brad, Mike, and their team at JBF Consulting advise Fortune 500 companies on the assessment, selection, and implementation of supply chain software. About Brad Forester. Brad Forester is the Founder and Managing Partner of JBF Consulting.

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Four Essentials for a Greener Fulfillment Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.

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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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How to Maximize Warehouse Space Utilization Without Expansion

EnVista

Managing inventory in your warehouse or distribution center is one of many challenges you face along the supply chain, and a primary challenge in distribution centers (DC) is limited space. A distribution center is technically out of space when it hits about 85 percent of its occupancy. That’s not just in the storage area; it holds true for receiving, shipping and all other process areas.

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Pillars Supporting the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Even before the coronavirus pandemic closed physical stores and forced consumers online, they were journeying on the digital path to purchase in increasing numbers. The pandemic only accelerated that trend. “Customers are increasing their appetite for omnichannel commerce as the pandemic continues,” writes journalist Jacqueline Barba ( @JackieBarba1 ). “According to a new global survey of more than 2,500 consumers from Periscope by McKinsey, U.S. respondents want a more digital

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The Benefits of a Weighbridge for Your Business

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get Our EBOOK HERE. Weighbridge article and permission to publish here provided by Emily Bartels. As businesses grow in this era of technology, they aim to enhance their efficiency and productivity. Technology makes businesses more efficient and productive in the best possible ways.

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Watch: How COVID-19 Is Forcing New Supply Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

Ann Marie Uetz, head of the coronavirus task force with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, discusses the results of a pair of surveys about how executives are responding to supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.

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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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3 Emerging Trends as Manufacturers Shift in Response to the Pandemic

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Global manufacturing and distribution sectors are set to shift. Since the start of the pandemic, industries have had to face increasing pressures, from supply chain disruptions to a shortage of business system accessibility and a lack of worker availability. While the ongoing struggle for raw materials continued under national lockdowns, the pandemic also acted as […].

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Digital Transformation Means being on the Cutting Edge of Change

Enterra Insights

The term “digital transformation” is found liberally scattered through articles about how businesses are adapting to the digital age. I often wonder, however, if business leaders fully comprehend what transformation means. Jim Tompkins ( @jimtompkins ), Chairman at Tompkins International, writes, “The definition of transformation is the act or process of being transformed.

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Managing 3PL Ecommerce Fulfillment: Purpose, Problems, and Profits

SCJunction

Typically, a 3PL ecommerce fulfilment agency takes an embedded, strategic approach to managing a client company's transportation and supply chain to the end retail customer, and - as with most things - technology and automation not only makes this easier, but saves everyone money, time, and errors for all parties.

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A Look at FSMA’s New Food-Traceability Rule

Supply Chain Brain

As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new rule requiring stricter controls over the monitoring of food products throughout the supply chain.

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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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How Healthcare Supply Chain Automation Reduces Waste

Tecsys

Learn how healthcare supply chain automation reduces waste in these 3 areas: labor, expired or lost products, and charge capture. The post How Healthcare Supply Chain Automation Reduces Waste appeared first on Tecsys.

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What a 75-Day Peak Season Strategy Looks Like

Intelligent Audit

Uncertainty and faster shipping are two parallels in 2020. E-commerce is booming. And it comes as no surprise that Amazon is yet again changing the game in the middle of significant disruption. According to Mark Solomon of FreightWaves , “Amazon’s move [of Prime Day to early October] effectively kicks off the 2020 peak season 30-45 days earlier than normal […] What’s more, Amazon’s ability to condition consumers to its changes, and the need for competitors to keep up with its trail, means an ear

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Why Attribute Based Planning is So Important

Adexa

Almost all supply chain planning vendors use attributes only for finished goods in order match demand to available supply. This is not what Attribute Based Planning (ABP) is all about! ABP is an architecture that allows attaching attributes to every object in the supply chain. And be able to use the value of these attributes to produce an executable plan.