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Digital Transformation: An Imperative for Industrial Manufacturing in 2017

GlobalTranz

Are industrial manufacturers seizing all the opportunities of a more digital world? Possibly not. A recent article suggests that, by 2018, only 30 percent of manufacturers investing in digital transformation will be able to maximize the outcome. The remaining 70 percent are hindered by outdated business models and technology. This is concerning. The speed of business is fast and companies that aren’t successful in adopting, implementing, and optimizing new technologies run the risk of being left

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Supply and demand production challenges with new products

Kinaxis

by Iman Niroomand Supply chain performance depends on the matching of product features with supply chain features. When a new product hits the market, the existing supply chain that is optimal for a given set of product lines will not stay optimal. Thus, a new product introduction will require a supply chain logistic network redesign. A new product introduction leads to a potential risk of reduced service performance due to ‘discontinuity’.

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Teaching Case – Zara: The World’s Largest Fashion Retailer

SCM Research

The Case Centre has recently selected the winners of their 2017 Awards and Competitions. This year’s winning case in the Production and Operations Management category is closely related to supply chain management: Zara: The World’s Largest Fashion Retailer , written by Kasra Ferdows, Jose A.D. Machuca & Michael Lewis. This case is an updated version of the 15th in the ranking of top 40 overall best selling Zara case.

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The Rise of Supply Chain Control Towers

The Network Effect

Supply chain control towers fulfill a real need. But there are many variations. Which is best? Why? Why the interest. The post The Rise of Supply Chain Control Towers appeared first on The Network Effect.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (March 20-24, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of London following this week’s terrorist attack. So sad, so senseless. May the days ahead be filled with peace and healing, for all the injured and mourning, and for all of us. Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Walmart Secures Patent for Drones to Carry Products Inside Stores (Digital Trends). eBay to Roll Out Guaranteed Delivery for 20 Million Items.

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Constraints, Constraints, Constraints: Building the Optimal Supply Chain

Logility

I am constantly amazed that an automotive manufacturer will design and market vehicles with top-end speeds of 180+ MPH and 0-60 speeds in the sub 4 second range. Don’t get me wrong, I own three vehicles with 5.7L Hemi engines so I love powerful vehicles. However, considering the top legal speed in most of the United States is 70 or 75 MPH and most stop and go driving takes place where speed limits are less than 45 MPH, a driver rarely gets the opportunity to experience a vehicle’s tr

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Taking Advantage of Emerging Opportunities on the Consumer’s Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

The digital path to purchase is increasingly dominating retail sales. By that I mean consumers are increasingly using mobile devices … Continued. The post Taking Advantage of Emerging Opportunities on the Consumer’s Digital Path to Purchase appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Editor’s Pick: NAFTA and Mexican Free Trade – Aiding Our Neighbor to the South

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Pick ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. Today’s post is by Troy Ryley at Transplace where he recommends that we keep developing a North America that supports trade and builds a strong infrastructure and economy for Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

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MHI to preview new report on next-generation supply chains during ProMat Keynote

PINC

MHI will preview the 2017 Annual Industry Report- Next-Generation Supply Chains: Digital, On-Demand and Always-On during the April 5 Keynote at ProMat.

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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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Improving Logistics Efficiency: How Cities Can Join Forces to Combat Traffic Congestion

TMC

Many big cities around the world have implemented environmentally sustainable programs to reduce the traffic snarls that add cost to urban supply chains. Can the expertise they have gained in introducing these solutions be transferred to other traffic-choked cities? A European project called SOLUTIONS developed a framework for such an exchange of expertise.

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Major Food Companies Pledge to End Deforestation in Cocoa Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Mars, Nestlé, Mondelēz and Hershey and others have committed to working together to end deforestation and forest degradation in the cocoa supply chain, with an initial focus on Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. read more.

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If You Spend a Week with a Carrier’s Driver

Talking Logistics

But before you come to any conclusions. Try walking in my shoes. Try walking in my shoes. You’ll stumble in my footsteps. Keep the same appointments i kept. If you try walking in my shoes. If you try walking in my shoes. — Lyrics from “ Walking in My Shoes ” by Depeche Mode. Last week, BBC News published an article highlighting the poor conditions and low pay drivers who haul freight for IKEA and other retailers in Western Europe have to deal with, particularly drivers brought over f

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Scaling Your Fulfillment Operations for the Busy Season

Oracle SCM

Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group recently published an article in Forbes.com on how businesses should consider getting the jump on this year’s seasonal warehouse surges by focusing on upgrading and modernizing their supply chains. And while it might seem overzealous to be talking about preparations for high season in March, when one considers that Black Friday is only 248 days away, that leaves you more than enough time to get a cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) implemented,

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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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E-Commerce Reshaping the Face of Logistics

ModusLink Corporation

It is no secret that the entire retail landscape has endured some major changes over the last few years to accommodate the rapid proliferation of e-commerce. As direct-to-consumer order fulfillment has continued to evolve and consumers have fully developed their taste and expectations for instant gratification, retailers have had to depend heavily on their logistics […].

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Improving Logistics Efficiency: How Cities Can Join Forces to Combat Traffic Congestion

TMC

Many big cities around the world have implemented environmentally sustainable programs to reduce the traffic snarls that add costs to urban supply chains. Can the expertise they have gained in introducing these solutions be transferred to other traffic-choked cities? A European project called SOLUTIONS developed a framework for such an exchange of expertise.

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Playing a Stradivarius Without Lessons: Thoughts on MercuryGate’s Logistics Integrator Program

Talking Logistics

One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 was that software vendors and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) would embrace Simplicity-as-a-Service as a new value proposition for customers. Here’s how I define Simplicity-as-a-Service: Simplicity-as-a-Service is enabling customers to achieve their desired outcomes in an ever-changing business environment with less time, effort, cost, risk, and resources.

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Tips For Evaluating Shipping Overseas

NFI Industries

Guest Post: Robert Garrison, President of Global at NFI When importers are booking their freight, two main concerns come to mind: cost and timeliness. With the new alliance route updates, it is a great time for shippers to reassess cost and time requirements. This year, carriers have adapted their routes to accommodate for larger vessels. Read More.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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The ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improving Demand Planning

Arkieva

How do you get the sense of what works for demand planning? While making a good sauce often does not require as much precision as baking does, it requires a general sense of measurement. Good chefs are often able to whip out soups and sauces without measuring every ingredient accurately. They start to get a sense of what works. [Related Webinar: How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers ] Improving Demand Planning.

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Oracle Positioned as Leader in "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Sales and Operations Planning"

Oracle SCM

IDC recently evaluated prominent vendor software applications in the sales and operations planning (S&OP) marketplace. As a quantitative and qualitative assessment that assesses both current and anticipated future performance in the marketplace, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Sales and Operations Planning evaluates the business capability and business strategy of 10 vendors that deliver notable S&OP tools.

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Supply Chain Optimization 101: How to Best Harness the Power of Big Data

AFFLINK

You can’t open a major tech news site these days without encountering the words “big data.” Tech journalists have written thousands of gigabytes about this emerging trend in IT, but what is it? More importantly, how can you leverage this fascinating technology into the world of supply chain optimization? What is Big Data? The easy question first: what is big data?

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UK manufacturer Fox’s Biscuits streamlines production and service levels to retailers after deploying FuturMaster supply chain technology

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Fox's, the £250m UK biscuit company, has improved its forecasting, manufacturing and promotions planning practices after implementing new supply chain technology from specialist vendor FuturMaster.

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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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8 Common Issues to Avoid When Creating a Customer Segmentation Strategy

Arkieva

Thinking about creating a customer segmentation strategy? Here are 8 common pitfalls to avoid. Customer segmentation provides a strategic way for aligning services and profitability. For businesses looking to improve bottom line results and the cash conversion cycle, creating an effective customer segmentation process is invaluable. With that said, creating a proper customer segmentation process is one that eludes many businesses for a plethora of reasons, including inaccessibility to tools that

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Manufacturing Not Prepared for Cyber Breaches

Material Handling & Logistics

One-third of all manufacturers sampled in new survey admitted to not having performed any cyber risk assessments of the industrial connected devices operating on factory floors. read more.

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Improving Logistics Efficiency: How Cities Can Join Forces to Combat Traffic Congestion

TMC

Many big cities around the world have implemented environmentally sustainable programs to reduce the traffic snarls that add costs to urban supply chains. Can the expertise they have gained in introducing these solutions be transferred to other traffic-choked cities? A European project called SOLUTIONS developed a framework for such an exchange of expertise.

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Managing the Complexity Paradigm

Supply Chain 24/7

This paper offers insight into managing supply chain and product complexity by providing background into the complexity’s sources, a framework for understanding its drivers, and methods to manage it.

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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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Advanced Supply Chains wins Decathlon contract

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Logistics operator, Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG), has won a £1 million a year distribution services contract with sports retailer Decathlon.

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Gain Insight from a Panel of 3PL Experts at SCLF2017!

Tompkins Blog

By Tompkins International Staff On May 8th to May 10th, join us at the 2017 Tompkins International Supply Chain Leadership Forum (SCLF) in Durham, NC! We have a great line up of speakers in addition to our three keynote speakers, Jim Tompkins, Tim Lowe, and Ernie Keith. Learn from all of our speakers about the. The post Gain Insight from a Panel of 3PL Experts at SCLF2017!

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Picking the Right Supply Chain Design for a Growing Food Business

MIT Supply Chain

Designing supply routes during periods of rapid growth when market conditions can change rapidly can be a major challenge for retailers. SCM program graduates Cyril Khamsi and Veronica Stolear developed a model for evaluating the cost trade-offs between multiple supply network designs under a variety of business scenarios. The research was carried out in collaboration […].