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Local Sourcing strategy, useful to boost the Economy

Prophetic Technology

As a result of the pandemic, the world is experiencing a recession affecting most countries. There is a tendency to “buying local” or local sourcing, designed to set in motion the Economy after the prolonged-lockdowns, the stop of many operations, the falling of employments and much more, a significant per cent willing to buy products whatever the cost.

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Deploy Operation ‘Big Data’ For Supply Chain Excellence

Gravity Supply Chain

Big Data analytics, the cloud, and digital capabilities are fundamental components of an efficient supply chain, value add, and competitive advantage. Leave a Reply [contact-form-7].

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The Future Trends In The Supply Chain Industry

All Things Supply Chain

The year 2020 marked not just the start of a new year, but also a new decade.

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Logistics of a Company: Supplier Diversity to Survive Peak Season

GlobalTranz

The atmosphere of business representation has changed drastically over the last fifty years. A more diverse world has taken shape, and the transportation and supply chain industry is no stranger to this shift. There are many benefits to having more individuals, and therefore businesses, represented across the board. The logistics of a company can connect.read More.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Using AI & ML in Retail Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, and Zara are leading the path in the use of technology and advanced analytics in managing supply chains. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are of the hot topics being discussed in the retail world. Across the globe, whether they are grocery, mass merchant, or fashion, retailers are looking for ways to make faster and smarter decisions using this technology.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for Social Media-Fueled Demand Volatility?

ToolsGroup

Have you noticed how the clock speed of just about everything has sped up considerably in just a few years? Supply chain practitioners know trends like product line proliferation, shorter product life cycles, increased complexity, massive amounts of data and ever more demanding and unpredictable customers are accelerating. Add to that the dizzying pace at which new products and trends are promoted and spread online and via social media.

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Peak Season Supply Chain Challenges Spur Innovation

GlobalTranz

The typical peak season supply chain presents its own set of challenges yearly. However, this peak season is one never seen before. This year, 2020, is shaping up to be the most challenging year yet with the global pandemic in full force and the delays following for most of this year. Peak season will undoubtedly.read More. The post Peak Season Supply Chain Challenges Spur Innovation appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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FourKites Visibility 2020: Setting the Stage for Success

Logistics Viewpoints

As I’ve mentioned a few times here, COVID-19 has changed the nature of my job. Two weeks ago, instead of traveling to an in-person event, I joined the FourKites Visibility 2020 conference from the confines of my home office. The conference was an excellent event, with a clear message of how the company is moving forward during the current pandemic, a vision of what is to come, and a number of customer success stories.

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Dock Scheduling: A Requirement as Retailers Double Down on WMS & WES

C3 Solutions

Supply chains across the globe need more efficiency to survive. The opportunities to grow fulfillment and improve the flow of inbound and outbound freight depend on multiple factors. Items need efficient unloading and comprehensive, digital put-away processes. Outbound shipments require optimization to minimize touches and avoid unnecessary dock delays.

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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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Ocean Freight Visibility Spells new Opportunities for Supply Chains – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Ocean Insights. Headquartered in Germany, Ocean Insights is a leading ocean supply chain visibility and market intelligence provider that supplies real-time tracking data and market analysis to large shippers from a broad range of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, food & beverage, commodity trading, chemical and freight forwarding.

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Why Integrated Supply Chains are More Durable with John Tillison

The Logistics of Logistics

Why Integrated Supply Chains are More Durable with John Tillison. John Tillison and Joe Lynch discuss why integrated supply chains are more durable. John is the SVP in charge of sales and marketing at A. Duie Pyle, a company that specializes in integrated transportation and warehousing solutions. About John Tillison. John Tillison began his logistics career as a management trainee at Roadway Express.

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Why SME Manufacturers Love This New Stock Control Software Right Now

StockTrim

Running a business right now is challenging. Unpredictable demand, disrupted supply chains, cashflow uncertainty all make things a lot more difficult.

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Linking Data in Supply Chains to Bring Much-Needed Resilience to Global Businesses

Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles

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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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Work-from-Home, Trust & The Friday Factor – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Is Work-From-Home here to stay ? With more than 40% of the World’s population in lockdown, Working from Home [WFH] or Remote Working was suddenly subjected to what I can only imagine is the largest “proof of concept” ever undertaken. This has forced virtually every business to review their position in respect of Remote Working arrangements. In the absence of an effective COVID-19 treatment, contemplating a transition to new work formats such as WFH, will need to be part of our lives.

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Transportation Innovation For a Future-Proof Supply Chain

PINC

Supply chain experts and software leaders converge to discuss the current transportation environment and provide valuable tips on what companies should be doing now to get ready for what’s coming next. . What happens when you bring supply chain software leaders, a Berkeley professor, and a top Gartner researcher together in one “virtual” room to talk about the current and future state of the world’s supply chains?

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Why Procurement leaders must act now to tackle the digital skills shortage

ivalua

The role of procurement has transformed over the last decade, from cost-cutter to a vital ally that can inform and enable business strategy. COVID-19 has only served to cement the procurement department’s status as a key stakeholder. Procurement leaders now have a seat at the top table when it comes to making decisions on supply chain opportunities and risk.

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A Key to Vendor Compliance: What is EDI in Logistics?

West Coast and California Logistics

If you have retail customers, you are likely familiar with EDI. From shipping notices and order updates to purchase orders and invoices, EDI remains a workhorse of modern supply chain transactions – including those in eCommerce. In this article, we take a closer look at EDI in logistics, including its ramifications on vendor compliance.

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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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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

“Nothing will be the same” headlines are mushrooming. However, Foresight Alliance, a consulting firm that applies foresight, strategy, and research to build organizations’ resilience in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world warns against exaggeration and wishful thinking. “Experts and pundits are forecasting wholesale changes to every industry and every part of life, but only a minority of these forecasts of massive, permanent change will bear out.

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UK Govt advisor warns: Universities the latest frontier for cybercriminals

IT Supply Chain

By Bill Conner (pictured). CEO of SonicWall & advisor to GCHQ & the UK Governmentt. The post UK Govt advisor warns: Universities the latest frontier for cybercriminals appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Three Ways to Manage Costs With a ‘Zero-Based’ Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Companies can identify untapped value by applying zero-basing to every part of the supply chain.

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Embracing Differences

BlueYonder

In 1997, I walked into the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as a volunteer for a prison ministry organization called Kairos. On that day, I received the biggest dose of humility in my life. The question on my mind was what would I be able to share with these women in my life that would possibly compare to what they had been through?

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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 the Pandemic Challenges Every Leader to be a Better Leader – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In the new world living with COVID-19, we need to work more collaboratively than ever before. Yet, that’s become harder as we navigate how to work separately. Leadership styles have been forced to evolve fast. Organisations have learnt pretty quickly that to survive the pandemic leaders must connect and communicate regularly to their direct reports.

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Third-Party Access and Cyber Security Vulnerabilities

IT Supply Chain

By David Higgins (pictured). EMEA Technical Director at CyberArk. The post Third-Party Access and Cyber Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Future, Now: 8 Ways Machine Learning Transforms Warehousing

SCJunction

"Artificial Intelligence" and "Machine Learning" have recently become buzzwords across different verticals, but what do they actually mean for modern supply chain management?

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Three Things People Get Wrong in Warehouse Design

Logistics Bureau

What are the things that people get wrong most of the time in warehouse design? Here’s what Malcolm Walker , LB Manager Consulting, thoughts about it. Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our websites, why not check them out? Robobyrne: FACT – The 4 Warehouse Design Principles. Supply Chain Secrets: Triadic Warehouse and More Warehouse Tips.

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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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LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Crisis is an opportunity for speeding up Digital Transformation to enhance Agility, Resilience and Productivity Download the latest LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine. In this edition we have several news updates, interesting & enlightening articles and contributions on people & management – topics which are most crucial to the development of the Supply Chain Industry across regions as well as globally.

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Lessons for COVID-19 and Supply Chain Management – Six Months Later

Arkieva

Over the past six months, significant progress has been made in understanding COVID-19 and reducing its health and economic impact. In this blog, we will not rehash this information, but to identify open issues in handling the current challenge of tackling COVID-19 and relate this to the challenge of managing supply chains. Lessons for COVID-19 and Supply Chain Management – Six Months Later was first posted on September 22, 2020 at 8:22 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva

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QAD Tomorrow: What’s Next for Manufacturers?

QAD

Thank you to those of you who joined us for QAD Tomorrow, our virtual thought stream, which was focused on the unforeseen disruption in manufacturing and the new transformation imperative. For those who weren’t able to attend, it’s not too late to view the thought stream replay. Tomorrow attendees heard from QAD CEO Anton Chilton, CMO Carter Lloyds, and CTO Tony Winter on the challenges facing manufacturers today and the keys to adapting.