Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

by Ilyas Kucukcay From the incredible pace of turnover in style trends to the excess waste it produces, today’s fast fashion phenomenon is a controversial topic on many fronts. However, when it comes to the efficiency of today’s retail supply chain management techniques, controversy is replaced by admiration as international clothiers boast operations efficient enough to accurately anticipate demand in one of the world’s most rapidly changing industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

ou Feasibility (noun) : The state or degree of being easily or conveniently done. (Oxford Dictionary). In the 1990s supply chain planning was over-hyped. Then it was a new and promising technology category. The ride was wild and wooly. Hype ruled. A decade later, as companies added planners expecting dramatic improvements, the market entered the trough of disillusionment.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We all know the important role that supply chain and logistics people, processes, and technologies play in everyday commerce. Those capabilities and expertise also play a critical role in responding effectively to emergency situations such as natural disasters. What unique challenges arise from these incidents? How can the supply chain and logistics industry help?

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Travel time in the warehouse represents one of the biggest costs in modern distribution centers. Pickers must put away incoming product, pull product, and move products to packaging and processing zones. Like transportation management for shipped product, effective labor management and lean processes in the warehouse are key to lowering labor costs in your distribution center.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For many shippers, air freight wins out on speed and convenience and FCL (full container load) seems a better deal on cost. But, that often means LCL is overlooked as a mode when it would have been the better option. But for several reasons, that perception is changing, many shippers are now seeing LCL in a new light: Forwarders are increasingly providing direct LCL services, reducing the need for trans-shipment.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

New technologies always open doors to new opportunities and new possibilities. Nevertheless, business consultants caution executives not to pursue the latest shiny toy without a good reason. Those consultants often repeat the mantra, “Don’t change for change’s sake.” Consultant Rick DeMarco ( @rickd0216 ) explains, “The power to change is the power to grow.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Imagine you’re an executive of a large international business who has just discovered an excellent opportunity of entering a new exciting market just in time when your product design team has developed a perfect product for that market. Naturally, to take advantage of this opportunity, you will need a well-functioning supply chain, which you happen to have.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Gary Barraco, Director of Global Product Marketing at Amber Road , discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What are the six “rights” of supply chain execution? What are the “mores” that are redefining the rules for success? In light of these new rules for success defined by these “rights” and “mores,” how should companies respond?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Recently we were driving on some back roads and in the distance we saw something on the road. As we got closer we saw that there were a bunch of wild turkeys about to cross the road. The turkeys, hearing us coming, immediately turned around and quickly went back down the side road that they had come from.

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The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The rise of e-commerce and the consumer digital path to purchase has been a nightmare for some retailers from which they can’t awake. This has been especially true for large, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that failed to master omnichannel operations. Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports one new business model that has flourished in this new retail environment is direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

As e-commerce growth accelerates, shippers are working overtime to manage available inventory. Although e-commerce represents 10 percent of total retail sales, it has had an interesting effect. It catalyzed brick-and-mortar retailers to offer online shopping opportunities, which require much more than manual inventory management practices. As a result, brick-and-mortar retail has become more focused on digital inventory management, a building block in the road to omnichannel supply chains , t

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Arkieva

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Do others challenge your expanding portfolio or complicated offering? Need a portfolio pruning process or policy to keep a manageable inventory? Want to take the drama out of keeping or deleting products? Portfolio Pruning for Product Managers was first posted on November 20, 2018 at 8:45 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. From planning to negotiating to buying, from moving goods to processing goods, and from managing data to managing inventory. These responsibilities are at the core of making your company run.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Multienterprise networks and the ability to connect to external partner ecosystems have been recognized as a critical capability for digital transformation. Gartner examined the multienterprise network landscape and evaluated each vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. In addition to be ranked highest overall for combined completeness of vision and ability to execute, E2open was placed furthest on the completeness of vision axis by a wide margin.

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Supply Chain 24/7

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Improving demand forecasting with artificial intelligence is one of the most promising applications for supply chains, but how do the non-traditional methods compare in performance with established forecasting practices?

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Your customers want products to be available every day of the year. But when the holiday season arrives, their anxiety about having that perfect gift or deal — on time — puts enormous pressure on your brand. By approaching efficiency as a year-round problem and organizing your operations around the guiding light of product availability, you can turn the stress of the holidays into an opportunity to show customers your mettle.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Jason Rosing and Veridian at [link] Permission to publish provided by Jason Rosing. Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Adexa

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When it comes to supply chains, we plan for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the cost of not planning is extremely high resulting in much higher operation costs and bad customer service. In other words, the recipe for going out of business! Basically, we plan to be predictable, The post Why Do We Plan? appeared first on Adexa Inc.

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Supply Chain 24/7

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This research brief assesses the feasibility and potential value of implementing Demand Sensing in the supply chain of a major consumer medical device company - Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.

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Veridian Solutions

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Omnichannel is a term frequently used in today’s modern supply chain management. Omnichannel capability is associated with getting product to the customer in any possible fashion, that is convenient for the customer. The emergence of e-commerce mainly drives this, and in the process, is turning traditional supply chain models on their heads. While omnichannel refers to the integration and seamless experience across channels for supply chain partners, omnichannel 2.0 takes it a bit further

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally created by Jake Smith and published at [link]. Permission to publish here provided by Jake Smith. Check out Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? E-commerce has changed the game of how parcels are transported and delivered to customers. With the help of advanced technology, the days have become shorter.

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Convey

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In The Beginning It’s December of ‘97, and a portion of I-71 shuts down […]. The post The Saga of WISMO: Delivery Disasters Bring WISMO to Life appeared first on Convey.

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Supply Chain 24/7

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a recent interview with Supply Chain Management Review, A.T. Kearney Partner Michael Hu discussed AI's impact on supply chain planning.

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TradeGecko

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Sometimes, it feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day — scratch that, for many small businesses there aren’t. Oftentimes you’ll feel like you are constantly playing catch-up. You get one order away on deadlines when another comes in. And preparing for Black Friday, Cyber Monday or the Christmas rush ? The less said about that the better! Spending more money to increase productivity seems like the only way out, but tight margins can make this difficult.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series. This interview is with Jill Button, President and CEO at ProcurePro.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When manufacturing or construction is outsourced, materials procurement is often outsourced along with it. As a result, enterprises quickly lose visibility into essential planning and execution data. E2open’s Buy-Sell Management application helps companies regain visibility and control over materials procurement, lowering procurement spend and improving supply chain efficiency.

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Supply Chain 24/7

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Students in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Master of Supply Chain Management program spent a year mapping a manufacturer’s forecasting process to help determine if Demand Sensing was a worthwhile ambition to pursue.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) November 19, 2018. MonarchFx, a nationwide alliance of best-in-class providers focused on delivering integration, cost efficiency, and high service fulfillment solutions for brands and retailers through distributed logistics, announces our newest client, ToyHouse LLC. ToyHouse LLC is the exclusive distributor for LEGO Systems, Inc. in the United States and is excited to partner with small independent and specialty retailers on behalf of LEGO to provide the best customer ser

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