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[Editor’s Pick] The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Reshaping Global Trade for a Greener Future

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This recent post by Phani Reddy from e2open’s blog highlights the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — what it is, how it will.

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Top 10 Benefits of S&OP (Sales & Operational Planning)

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

This article was first published several years ago but it is about time for a refreshed look at what S&OP brings to your business.

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How Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Are Redefining Last-Mile Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous delivery vehicles (ADVs) are bringing significant changes to last-mile logistics, an essential component of the supply chain. With the rising demand for faster and more cost-effective deliveries, ADVs are becoming a viable solution to a variety of logistical challenges. For professionals in logistics and supply chain management, understanding the implications of this technology is crucial, as it has the potential to fundamentally change the way goods are transported and delivered.

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Why Are Supply Chains a C-Level Problem?

AIMMS

Supply chain optimization is now a strategic priority that directly affects profit, competitiveness, resilience and long-term sustainability.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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Spare Parts to Profits: Strategic Inventory Mastery

ToolsGroup

In the competitive industrial landscape, efficient spare parts inventory management is crucial to maintaining seamless operations and driving profitability. Spare parts supply chains, however, come with their own set of complexities, requiring targeted strategies and specialized tools to meet these unique demands effectively. Service level plays a pivotal role in the aftermarket industry, directly impacting customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Demand Planning Best Practices: Practical Advice for Harmonizing Demand and Supply

Arkieva

Proactively sense and respond to changing customer demands with effective demand planning. These best practices will help set your business on the right path. Demand Planning Best Practices: Practical Advice for Harmonizing Demand and Supply was first posted on October 16, 2024 at 8:27 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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10 Essential Steps to Enhance Your Supply Chain Cyber Security

Logility

With more and more triple extortion scams on the rise, organizations need to use a layered defense model to get ahead of cyber security risks. In a keynote session at LogiCon24 , one of the speakers, Rachel Wilson, spoke in detail on tactics to supply chain cyber security risk mitigation. Here are 10 tips for avoiding and managing cyber-attacks. Patch & Update Devices: Software manufacturers are constantly discovering new flaws, bugs, and weaknesses in their code.

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Protect your Customers and Orders with Data

Stord

Picture the last time you lost a package. That sinking feeling in your stomach. The frantic tracking page refreshes. The mad dash to find the customer service information. Now imagine being responsible for millions of packages arriving perfectly to the end consumer. This is the world of e-commerce fulfillment, where every lost, damaged, or delayed package isn't just an isolated annoyance—it's a customer relationship on the line.

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Visualizing Data in Amazon Neptune: Tools and Techniques for Gremlin Users

IT Supply Chain

By Claire Lloyd (pictured) Content Writer The post Visualizing Data in Amazon Neptune: Tools and Techniques for Gremlin Users appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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FreighTech24: Highlights and Themes

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home FreighTech24: Highlights and Themes Judah Levine October 16, 2024 Dive deeper into freight data that matters Learn More Freightos was delighted to host its seventh annual FreighTech conference recently, bringing together leaders in freight technology and digitalization across carriers, forwarders, BCOs and tech providers once again to discuss progress

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Bridging the Supply Chain Planning & Execution Gap

Talking Logistics

Historically, there has been a disconnect between Supply Chain Planning and Supply Chain Execution processes and applications. As a result, companies tend to plan, optimize, and execute their inventory, labor, transportation, and warehousing operations separately (that is, in a siloed manner). Is that the case at your company? What are the main problems caused by.

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Direct Spend Management: A Checklist for Enabling Shared Value with Direct Suppliers

Logistics Viewpoints

Harvard Business Review recently published an article, “ To Build Resilience, CEOs Need to Become Supply-Chain Experts ”. They noted the fact that companies whose leaders had supply chain experience took a more proactive approach to addressing potential supply-chain challenges, and in leveraging the supply-chain function to generate new business opportunities.

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10 Essential Steps to Enhance Your Supply Chain Cybersecurity

Logility

With more and more triple extortion scams on the rise, organizations need to use a layered defense model to get ahead of cybersecurity risks. In a keynote session at LogiCon24 , one of the speakers, Rachel Wilson, spoke in detail on tactics to supply chain cybersecurity risk mitigation. Here are 10 tips for avoiding and managing cyber-attacks. Patch & Update Devices: Software manufacturers are constantly discovering new flaws, bugs, and weaknesses in their code.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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What the 2024 Nobel Prize Means for SCM Research

SCM Research

This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for their research on how political institutions affect long-term economic prosperity. Their work shows how colonial-era institutions continue to influence whether countries develop inclusive systems that foster growth or extractive systems that benefit elites and perpetuate inequality.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 18, 2024)

Talking Logistics

Maybe it’s my beard. When I go through airport security now, those new cameras that take a photo of you and compare it to your license or passport photo, they don’t recognize me. The TSA agent tries two or three times and nothing. But here is the kicker. The agent has to call a supervisor. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 18, 2024) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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October 14th- 18th Supply Chain & Logistics News

Logistics Viewpoints

October 14th – 18th 2024 Supply Chain & Logistics News Yesterday, I landed back in the States from my autumn getaway. While I was away, I visited Barcelona and enjoyed the beautiful architecture, temperate weather, delicious cuisine, and affordable wine. For today’s round-up introduction, I decided to investigate the reasons behind the cheap and tasty wine.

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The Revenue Engine with Kara Smith Brown

The Logistics of Logistics

Kara Brown and Joe Lynch discuss the revenue engine. Kara is the Founder and CRO of LeadCoverage , the premier B2B marketing and PR firm dedicated to helping logistics companies increase lead generation through targeted marketing strategies and media coverage. About Kara Brown A prominent thought leader in B2B go-to-market strategy, Kara Smith Brown is CEO of LeadCoverage, the pioneering consultancy transforming approaches to PR, demand generation and marketing across the supply chain, heavy in

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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The Costly Oversight: Why Your Inventory Rebalancing Strategy Is Failing You

ToolsGroup

Are you making the fatal mistake of underestimating the importance of inventory rebalancing? Many retailers treat inventory management as a mundane task rather than a strategic lever for success. This oversight can lead to hidden costs that not only erode your profits but also jeopardize your customer loyalty. It’s time to challenge your existing beliefs about inventory management and recognize how ineffective rebalancing can significantly impact your bottom line.

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Supply Chain Network Design Requires More Than Just a Smart Tool

AIMMS

Network design solves a variety of issues, from cost reduction to sustainability, and from inventory optimization to investment decisions.

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Autonomous Business Planning Is Not Only Possible, It Has Already Been Achieved

Logistics Viewpoints

During my current supply chain planning market research, I have received briefings from several SCP companies. All are investing in artificial intelligence. Many say that they are using generative AI, a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, as part of their journey toward autonomous planning. Autonomous planning is a type of planning that takes humans out of the planning loop.

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World Food Day 2024

Enterra Insights

During his audition performance on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi commented about the abundance of food in America. He joked, “America is new to me, man, even the food in America. The food! There’s so much food in America. … Big everything. Portions are big. The other day an American friend of mine [said,] ‘Man I am starving.’ I was like, ‘No!

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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A Thing of Beauty: How Belcorp Mastered Its Supply Chain Complexity with Advanced Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization and Planning Digital Solution

ToolsGroup

At ToolsGroup, we provide cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions to enhance supply chain resiliency and efficiency. In this article, I’ll discuss a case study which involved our customer Belcorp, a Latin American direct-sales beauty corporation. This article will examine the challenges Belcorp faced with managing its extensive product range and complex supply chain and how our solution set, which includes Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+), Demand Planning, and the Multi-Echelon Inventory Opt

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Holiday Season Will Bring Lower Prices, Leaner Supply Chains, Survey Finds

Supply Chain Brain

With only 27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this holiday shopping season is shorter than normal, prompting consumers to avoid the last-minute shopping spree

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Körber Opens State-of-the-Art Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas

Logistics Viewpoints

The Körber Innovation Center showcases a full-scale, end-to-end setup of Körber’s advanced parcel and postal sortation handling equipment, trusted by the nation’s largest multinational supply chain companies to efficiently sort and deliver commercial mail and packages to end customers. Its strategic location on Körber’s Dallas site, which houses the company’s engineering, manufacturing, and warehousing teams and facilities, enables the space to feature the latest machine hardware and software up

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Retailers Beware: Returns Fraud on the Rise As Criminals Get More Creative

BlueYonder

Returns already have a significant impact on retailers’ bottom line. National Retail Federation (NRF) data reveals that for every $1 billion in sales, retailers incur an average of $145 million in merchandise returns. To make matters worse, returns fraud is also on the rise. Last year, 13.7% of retail returns were fraudulent, up from 10.4% in 2022, costing retailers $101.91 billion in 2023 alone.

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What Makes a Warehouse Worker Happy?

The 2024 Newcastle Systems Worker Satisfaction Survey provides insights into the life of a warehouse worker and what matters to them.

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How General Pest Control Safeguards Your Commercial Space?

IT Supply Chain

By Raymond Webb (pictured) Marketing Manager, Takecare Termite & Pest Control The post How General Pest Control Safeguards Your Commercial Space? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Role of Supply Chain Planning Leaders in Change Initiatives

Supply Chain Brain

While many recognize the need to upskill and reskill supply chain planners, most aren't placing enough emphasis on building planners’ confidence and giving them the space to innovate.

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An Effective Productivity Tool – Cash Conversion Cycle

SCMDOJO

What do you often think about business growth? What is the heck behind lean productivity, profitability, and good relations with suppliers and customers? This is how Cost and value are distributed throughout the Supply Chain. Business Growth, Profitability, and internal and external customer relationships solely depend on Cost. Even so, the game-changer in the fast-paced business world is how well you manage the Cash Conversion Cycle throughout the Supply Chain.