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The Future of the Supply Chain is Taking Shape Today

Pivot88

The COVID-19 crisis is sparking one of the most challenging times since World War II, hitting both brands and manufacturers, in all industries. By causing blow after blow to both supply and demand, the pandemic has developed a huge storm, affecting everybody’s supply chain. Indeed, developing an effective supply chain response to the coronavirus outbreak is extremely challenging.

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What Supply Chain Data Should I Track in 2020?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain data management requires attention to detail and a mechanism in place that provides analytics, or insights, to gain actionable knowledge. Risk exists around data when it is incorrectly or inaccurately collected and shared. To ensure your organization applies data correctly and generates meaningful KPIs, supply chain leaders must know the challenges of data tracking, how it improves.read More.

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Supply Chain Planning: the Importance of KISS

DynaSys

Complex Supply Chain Planning solutions may not always be the best or the most efficient. When designing a supply chain planning solution or a process it is very important to follow K.I.S.S principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid), a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 stating that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

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Amplify Your Supply Chain While Capitalizing on your IT Infrastructure

Logility

Ampacet Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer of the pelletized pigments that add colors to plastics. The company spans the globe with 12 manufacturing sites on four continents. Managing the supply chain of such a global enterprise is challenging. “We’d never had a global view of our organization,” explained John Smith, Data Warehousing Manager.

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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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Beer, Wine and Liquor – The Alcoholic Beverage Industry During Covid-19

Kuebix

Social distancing has redefined business operations and everyday life throughout the country. Companies are changing their traditional business models to adapt to rules and regulations put in place to keep customers safe. Those that remain open or are starting to reopen are adapting to significant changes in consumer buying habits. One of these significant consumer […].

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How to Optimize Supply Chain Monitoring

All Things Supply Chain

The extent to which the supply chain succeeds or fails impacts all other aspects of a business.

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Cash Management Tips to Survive the Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cash Is King! Creating a Culture Focused on Money Management. Cash is King! If you didn’t realize that before the pandemic, in either your personal lives or at your company, more people certainly understand this adage now. Cash is King ! Without cash you cannot run your household and you cannot keep your business open.

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

ivalua

The Japanese Earthquake of 2011 and resulting tsunami are not exactly top of mind these days. But the connections between that event and the current Covid-19 crisis are more prominent than most realize. . On Friday March 11, 2011, at about 2:45PM local time, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck. The epicenter was more than 40 miles off the Japanese mainland.

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4 Supply Chain Areas to Examine in the Face of Disruption

QAD

Global supply chain leaders have broad and continuous experience in expecting the unexpected. They regularly plan for and respond to regulatory changes, natural disasters, labor strikes, fluctuating tariffs and other disruptive events. Common disruptions, like late shipments or unexpected short orders result in mild irritation compared to the more disruptive events like COVID-19. .

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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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Last Mile Health: 5 Disruption Prevention Strategies That Work

GlobalTranz

Last mile has never been more important than today. During times of massive disruption, the right supply chain management strategies can boost visibility, lower risk, and increase speed of service. Unfortunately, disruptions often occur with little, if any warning, putting company profitability and efficiency at risk. Last mile health, including e-commerce logistics, also suffers irreparable.read More.

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Applying The Hard Lessons of COVID-19 to Build a More Resilient Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reexamine so much of what society took for granted before the virus outbreak. What lessons have we learned to date that will prepare us when the next crisis hits? It’s a critical question for those of us in the industry. The pandemic completely exposed the world’s dependence upon a highly complex, fragmented and inefficient global supply chain.

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Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data

Logility

Companies across all industries and sizes struggle to make sense of and value from the available mountains of data. Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. Organizations are simply overwhelmed. We know the right information can significantly improve a company’s ability to reduce operating expenses, improve customer service and reduce the time needed to respond to market di

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Contactless Delivery: Because Paperless Is No Longer Enough

Talking Logistics

Among other things, supply chain digital transformation is about eliminating waste from the value chain. This includes eliminating manual and paper-based business processes, which remains prevalent in many logistics and delivery operations. Processing paper documents is time consuming and labor intensive; it also contributes to the data quality problem that continues to plague many companies.

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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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5 Ways to Go Green with Carbon-Neutral Shipping

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: Today’s blog comes from a guest author, Michael Gorman, who shares five different ways of going green with carbon-neutral shipping. Global warming is affecting almost every aspect of life because of the climate repercussions caused by carbon emissions. There are various campaigns and strategies currently being implemented by different industries to curb this.read More.

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Worker Safety: Decontamination Robots to the Rescue

Logistics Viewpoints

Workers across many industries don't feel safe during this pandemic. Autonomous mobile robots emitting UV light can help kill COVID-19 microbes and keep workers safe. The post Worker Safety: Decontamination Robots to the Rescue appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1] The pandemic may be over; however, consequences of the pandemic will remain.

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Editor’s Pick: Serve Customers With a Personalized Supply Chain

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. This post by John Richardson from Transportation Insight’s blog makes the case for creating personalized supply chains.

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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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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

C3Nano is a material technology company developing and manufacturing transparent conductive films, the main component in all touch sensors used in phones, tablets, and more. As founding CEO Cliff Morris explains, they’re seeking to disrupt the market and replace the current go-to with their own solution-coated material that can be used in flexible devices that are becoming more commonplace.

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Fast Track Program to Transform the Healthcare Supply Chain

The Network Effect

The post Fast Track Program to Transform the Healthcare Supply Chain appeared first on The Network Effect.

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ToolsGroup’s COVID-19 Action Center Offers Support for Swift and Efficient Response to Supply Chain Disruptions

ToolsGroup

BOSTON (May 5, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today announced a new online COVID-19 Supply Chain Action Center and resources to help companies quickly respond to Coronavirus risks and speed supply chain recovery. Along with its AI-driven demand forecasting and inventory planning software, ToolsGroup has introduced new customer support offerings for COVID-19 planning as well as educational resources including the ebook “ COVID-19 Risk: Enable Swift and Effici

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The Missing Chief Supply Chain Officer: Insights from Indago Members

Talking Logistics

A few weeks ago, we asked our Indago members a simple question: Does your company have a Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO)? Only 21% of our member respondents said their companies have a CSCO; an additional 38%, however, said that their companies have a supply chain executive with comparable C-level role and responsibility. In short, Read more The Missing Chief Supply Chain Officer: Insights from Indago Members.

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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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Cliff Morris | The State of Manufacturing

4WL Consulting

C3Nano is a material technology company developing and manufacturing transparent conductive films, the main component in all touch sensors used in phones, tablets, and more. As founding CEO Cliff Morris explains, they’re seeking to disrupt the market and replace the current go-to with their own solution-coated material that can be used in flexible devices that are becoming more commonplace.

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Blue Yonder ICON: Supply Chains Can Save the World

Logistics Viewpoints

As an analyst at ARC Advisory Group, this is normally my busy travel time of the year. Along with my colleagues Steve Banker and Clint Reiser, I am usually attending a number of industry and customer events across the country. However, this year things are very different; coronavirus is pushing these events to online virtual affairs. Yesterday, I attended Day 1 of Blue Yonder ICON and DEVCON, the company’s virtual user conference initially scheduled to […].

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Battling Medical Device and Equipment Supply Chain Disruptions During Covid-19

Kuebix

Medical devices and equipment are tantamount to tactical gear and weaponry in the war against Covid-19. Without the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) like disposable gloves, masks and gowns, our healthcare workers are entering the battlefield without the assets they need for success. It’s not only PPE and products like ventilators that are essential during […].

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Collaborate to Win – Unlocking Supply Chain Innovation & Value

ivalua

The post Collaborate to Win – Unlocking Supply Chain Innovation & Value appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Recession?

Enterra Insights

“The rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus is already having a huge impact on the global economy,” writes Peter Dizikes, “which is rippling around the world via the long supply chains of major industries.”[1] How “huge” is the impact? Alan Rappeport ( @arappeport ) and Jeanna Smialek ( @jeannasmialek ) report, “The International Monetary Fund issued a stark warning about the coronavirus’s economic toll, saying that the world is facing its worst downturn sin

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Guide to Effective Strategic Capacity Planning

Demand Solutions

What is strategic capacity planning? Strategic capacity planning is how companies figure out the production capacity needed in order to meet consumer demand. It’s a highly difficult process because of several reasons. The first reason is because it relies on accurate demand forecasting. Most businesses do not do demand forecasting very well, often due to a lack of understanding of how to use the data at their disposal.

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Nucleus Digital Supply Chain Hub Advances Contactless Supply Chain Efforts

Supply Chain Collaborator

An “earthquake in supply and demand” is how the Wall Street Journal’s Logistics Report characterizes the effects of COVID-19 on supply chain management. In an article published today, WSJ lays out the compelling case for accelerated investment into supply chain automation and digitization. Here’s a synopsis of their reporting and how digital-ready solutions like Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Yard Management Systems (YMS), Fleet Management solutions and others fit into this critical