Sat.Jun 22, 2019 - Fri.Jun 28, 2019

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The Next-Generation Warehouse Is Built on Data

Veridian Solutions

Today’s supply chains are evolving at a phenomenal rate. The next-generation warehouse will deploy analytics, blockchain, robotics, drones, driverless forklifts, automated storage and retrieval systems, and much more. Each rendition of the next-generation warehouse will build on existing technologies, and these improvements have a common denominator.

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Can Blockchain Technology Prevent Organic Fraud?

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Bel Yousefi, Sai Prem Achuthan, and Christopher Tang. . UCLA Anderson School. . In 2017, the Washington Post reported that millions of pounds of “USDA Organic” soybeans and corn imported through Turkey appear to have been fraudulent. [1] This is a common occurrence in the United States: a significant proportion of imported “organic” foods turns out to be fake.

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Improving Supply Chain Safety

Material Handling & Logistics

In honor of National Safety Awareness Month, here are some ideas to create a safe working environment for distribution and manufacturing employees.

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How to Develop a Supply Chain Strategy Like Amazon

GlobalTranz

Amazon has taken the eCommerce industry by storm, becoming the leading online marketplace in the world. And what’s not to love? From fast, affordable shipping to great customer service, consumers can find pretty much anything they need on Amazon. The company has become one of the fastest growing in history, thanks in large part to.read More. The post How to Develop a Supply Chain Strategy Like Amazon appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Overcoming the Top 5 Barriers for Supply Chain Network Design Adoption

AIMMS

You have tough decisions to make about your supply chain network design. You need answers to urgent network questions, but it often takes several weeks to get the answers you need. When you finally have the analysis, everything’s changed, and the results are no longer relevant. Perhaps the only good thing about this is that you’re not alone.

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Take Five: Quick Takeaways from the Gartner EMEA Supply Chain Executive Conference

ToolsGroup

Back home today after a fantastic trip to Spain including the Gartner EMEA Supply Chain Executive Conference. I think with all the delicious fish I consumed in Barcelona I should have enough omega-3 fatty acids to power my brain function for weeks to come…Besides a shared love of food it’s clear that global businesses converging last week found common ground on the challenges of merging the digital and physical supply chain.

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Attack That Sneaky Hidden Cost in Your Supply Chain: Reusable Packaging

Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles

Know how you can use BeeBeacons to calculate what your supply chain assets inefficiencies cost, and how you can reduce losses from the lost pallets

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From Purchase Order to the Last Customs Mile: Streamlining and Automating the Global Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

Risk, uncertainty, complexity, dynamic — these are all terms we use to describe global supply chain management. How can companies successfully navigate through this environment? What actions can they take to streamline and automate global trade processes? How can technology help? Those are some of the questions I discussed with Ty Bordner, SVP of Marketing.

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The Year of the Supply Chain Control Tower

Logistics Viewpoints

LLamasoft has developed a new supply chain control tower. What makes is so interesting is it's engine. It is built on top of a supply chain reference model that contains supply chain policies. Once I peeked under the hood at this reference model, it became clear to me this could be a very robust solution. The post The Year of the Supply Chain Control Tower appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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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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Why Dock Management is Vital for Warehouse Optimization

C3 Solutions

In today’s world, lost opportunities in the warehouse, that is “poor warehouse management,” can lead to severe consequences. Consumers can and will abandon your company in favor of Amazon or one that understands the Holy Trinity of Warehousing : knowing the product is available when it will ship, and its total landed costs. Also, the application of dock management in warehouse optimization is the first step toward achieving this goal.

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S&OP: Middle-aged or Never Grown Up?

Enterra Insights

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has been around for three decades. In human terms, the process should be entering its golden, middle years of life. Many pundits, however, believe the S&OP process, as originally conceived, needs to change. What’s going on? Jay Jayaraman, Dinesh Natarajan, Mike Romeri and Tom Zych, from OPS Rules, write, “Sales and Operations Planning is a process that has been deployed primarily to align different functions around the best plan they could

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[Video] Supply Chain Transformation In The Oil And Energy Industry

Talking Logistics

Francois Xavier Lanne and David Marshall from GEODIS discuss Supply Chain Transformation in the Oil and Energy Industry. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Supply Chain Transformation In The Oil And Energy Industry appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Francois Xavier Lanne and David Marshall from GEODIS discuss Supply Chain Transformation in the Oil and Energy Industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

The spotted lanternfly is becoming a problem and states are beginning to lean on truckers to help them in their fight to control the pest. The spotted lanternfly is an invasive, plant-hopping pest that hitches rides on trucks and other vehicles. It is currently spreading along busy transportation corridors in the mid-Atlantic region, threatening billions of dollars-worth of commodities including grapes, hops, and hardwood.

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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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2019 Transportation & Supply Chain Half Year Review – Where Are We Now?

Kuebix

At the end of 2018, we made some predictions about what 2019 would look like for the transportation and supply chain industries. With the half-year mark around the corner, it’s time to review those predictions and see which have proven to be accurate and which trends will continue to be important during the second half […]. The post 2019 Transportation & Supply Chain Half Year Review – Where Are We Now?

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Retail Inventory Shrinkage Remains a Problem

Enterra Insights

Retail Shrinkage is a serious retail challenge, especially when its causes can’t be accurately determined. Somewhere between 1.5% and 2.5% of revenue can be lost depending on the channel. For the last few years, inventory shrinkage has annually cost U.S. retailers just under $50 billion combined. Worldwide losses are believed to be north of $100 billion.

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Metrics that Matter: Inventory Effectiveness

QAD

The effective use of a manufacturer’s inventory investment is an important determinant of the company’s success. Excess and obsolete inventory is a drain on resources, as is excessive safety stock. Stockouts affect customer satisfaction and revenue, and the frequent need to expedite orders adds to costs and highlights problems lurking in the system.

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How to Ensure a Connected Retail Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Reusable packaging solutions can add value to different areas of the supply chain while pushing the company forward.

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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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Red, White, and BREW! – A Toast to America on the 4th of July

Kuebix

The Fourth of July is commonly celebrated with cookouts serving American favorites like grilled hamburgers and hotdogs accompanied by heaping portions of potato and pasta salad. While you’re surrounded by neighbors, close friends and family, you may find yourself raising a glass for a toast to freedom and the American dream. Whether your glass is […].

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10 Ways IoT Can Improve Supply Chains

IQMS

The majority of enterprises are prioritizing their blockchain pilots that concentrate on supply chains improvements (53%) and the Internet of Things (51%) according to Deloitte’s latest blockchain survey. By 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and tracking of $2T of goods and services annually based on a recent Gartner. By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services.

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QAD Explore 2019: Vertical Market Round-up

QAD

The city of New Orleans played quite the host this year to our growing community of manufacturers for our largest annual customer conference, Explore. There were plenty of thought-provoking sessions to attend, depending on your industry or areas of interest, as well as a steady stream of varying discussions that arose throughout the week. Of course, Explore must inevitably come to a close, but I made sure to connect with QAD’s vertical market leads to learn about their take on the event, as well

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Juta Shoes increase online engagement 146% by proving fair payment to their workers

Provenance

“In London, one in five jobs are paid below the London Living Wage, and women and those from migrant and refugee backgrounds are more likely to be underwaged or unemployed.”. – Juta Shoes. Championing fair pay for marginalised migrants, London-based social enterprise, Juta Shoes, increased engagement online by sharing their approach and the proof behind how much they pay their workers.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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3 Factors Driving Machine Learning Performance in Your Supply Chain [Video]

BlueYonder

The demand for seamless supply chains is becoming increasingly important and – thankfully – possible when using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Three key factors, which include forecast accuracy, robustness and the explicability of data, influence your supply chain performance. JDA’s Srini Muthusrinivasan, a VP of pre-sales for manufacturing and planning, explain how these collective factors can impact immediate and future forecasts alike.

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Chainalytics Delivers Award-Winning Global Logistics Procurement Program

CHAINalytics

Atlanta, GA (June 25, 2019) — Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has included a global logistics procurement program created and implemented by Chainalytics in the 2019 SCDE 100, an annual list of great supply chain projects. Chainalytics, a recognized global leader in supply chain … The post Chainalytics Delivers Award-Winning Global Logistics Procurement Program appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Are You Ready for 1-Day Shipping? How Mobile Barcoding Can Help

RFgen

Ready or not, one-day shipping is here. It’s more crucial than ever for warehouse managers to have the right technologies in place to fulfill shortening turnaround times and one-day delivery. In its first-quarter earnings call in April, Amazon CFO Brian T. Olsavsky announced that the standard free shipping time for Amazon Prime members will be reduced from two days to just one day.

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Is High Pallet Safety Stock Hurting Your Supply Chain?

Roambee

An optimized supply chain is supposed to do more with less. It calls for more throughput, more efficiency, more savings, and less transit time through lesser laxity and optimum utilization of resources.

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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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The Future of the Digital Supply Chain: IoT, Big Data, Blockchain, Predictive Analytics, and More

Shipchain

Understanding the future of the digital supply chain is essential to success. We must embrace the possibilities of Big Data, the Internet of things, blockchain technology, predictive analytics, and the growing unrest that these things bring to the industry. Let’s take a closer look at how these technologies will affect the future of supply chain management and your day to day operations.

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Improving Your S&OP Process with S&OE: A dedicated process for “here and now” planning

CHAINalytics

Upon implementation, S&OP processes are designed to make tactical decisions concerning long-term business goals. Unfortunately, there is often a stark difference between design and practice. For many S&OP teams, the majority of their time and energy is focused on immediate needs and disaster mitigation. As a result, the S&OP process breaks down, leaving investment and … The post Improving Your S&OP Process with S&OE: A dedicated process for “here and now” planning app

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Be True to Yourself

BlueYonder

Today’s Wednesdays for Women is another in our occasional series titled “Lessons from Leaders” featuring learnings of interest to anyone seeking insights and experiences to grow their leadership skills. JDA Marketing Operations Director Cristan Hutto shares her conversation with one of JDA’s newest senior leaders – Nathalie Carruthers. I had the pleasure of interviewing Nathalie Carruthers, JDA’s EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer.