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Three Key Attributes of Resilient Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Is your business prepared to survive a major supply chain disruption? If not, consider this. Two years after a major disruption, stock prices of unprepared businesses have lost up to forty percent of their value. (K. Hendricks & V. Singhal, See p.1.) That underscores the value of resilience in a concrete way. With the unprecedented […]. The post Three Key Attributes of Resilient Supply Chains appeared first on AGL.

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The Omnichannel Retail Report: COVID-19's Impact on Consumer Expectations

FLEXE

We asked 500 consumers about online shopping preferences. Here’s what they said.

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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

Belcorp’s Maturity in Supply Chain Design. When companies implement enterprise software solutions, they often label that implementation as being part of their company’s digital transformation. But implementing new software does not digitally transform anything if the people that are supposed to use that software cannot do so effectively. Belcorp Corporation has actively worked to be a leader in ensuring that their people can effectively use a complex type of software known as supply chain

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain management is a team sport. Just as there are many flavors of sports teams, there are many types of supply chains. Success depends on a team pulling together against a common goal. Team play requires clear rule-definition, timekeepers, referees, and coaches. The game in each sport is different: a swim team has little in common with rugby.

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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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Purchasing Manufacturing Network Design Software? Consider These Factors

River Logic

Manufacturing network design software focuses on optimizing plant locations, capacity, and product flow paths. It can span what-ifs on internal production optionality versus outsourced production. Since COVID-19, companies need more flexibility and agility in scenario analysis, so they can ensure their networks are resilient to continued disruption.

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Do You Really Understand What’s Driving Your Demand Planning Processes?

Logility

Descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics should be combined to optimize your demand planning processes. Some years ago, a 40-year-old Midwest process manufacturer with 40,000 SKUs finally completed implementing a new ERP system and quickly worked to combine all the new data with an array of other operational software, producing tons of new data daily.

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Experimenting Our Way Towards The Evolution Of Logistics

Freightos

Co-authored by Rebecca Wright (Head of Marketing, Twill) & Eytan Buchman (CMO Freightos Group). With customer expectations continuously on the rise and as technological progress continues, logistics companies need to explore new ways of innovation. As we kick off our joint Freightos.com x Twill experiment, we share our thoughts and initial observations with you.

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Winter Storm Alert: Major Snowstorm Threatens the Rockies and High Plains

GlobalTranz

Meteorologists at Weather.com are predicting “a major snowstorm will likely pummel parts of the Rockies and High Plains this weekend with over a foot of snow that could snarl travel, damage trees and knock out power in parts of Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska.” The expected snowstorm follows unseasonably warm temperatures throughout much of the Plains and Upper Midwest.

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A World in Flux: Global Supply Chain Predictions for 2021

ToolsGroup

In episode seven of Be Ready for Anything, industry insider Bob Ferrari discusses the pivotal factors affecting global supply chain revitalization in the coming year. Discover how to pinpoint your investments in supply chain management and regain your balance, even in a shifting marketplace. Take a listen! Check out the video below. Or listen and follow on Spotify.

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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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International Women’s Day: Choose to Challenge

DELMIA Quintiq

Celebrated on March 8 every year, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day dedicated to honoring the achievements of women throughout history and across the globe. It’s a day for all people from different backgrounds and cultures to band together to push for gender parity and women’s rights. The United Nations has been observing IWD since 1975 as a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

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Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Violations in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

Achieving timely, accurate, and complete supply chain visibility has been, remains, and will probably always be a top priority for companies. But can you aspire to have end-to-end supply chain visibility, which is what every manufacturer and retailer wants in order to become more agile and responsive, without also accepting end-to-end responsibility?

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The Map Is Not the Territory

SCM Research

One of the most interesting articles I have read recently is The Map Is Not the Territory: A Boundary Objects Perspective on Supply Chain Mapping by Fabbe-Costes and her coauthors (IJOPM, 2020). The authors argue: “Most past conceptions of SC mapping have involved identifying one map of a supply chain as a common reference point for all actors concerned.

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ToolsGroup Discusses Supply Chain Planning, Machine Learning, and the Covid Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

As part of ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum last month, I had the opportunity to speak with Kathleen Geraghty, Vice President of North American Sales at ToolsGroup. During our conversation, we touched on a number of topics around the supply chain planning market. You can watch also the full interview below. Specifically, I asked Kathleen to give me her insights on why the supply chain planning market has continued to grow during the ongoing pandemic while many other software markets have

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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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Grandmas Have Discovered the Joys of eCommerce

Enterra Insights

Long before the pandemic forced shoppers online, the trend was clear: Consumers were increasingly taking the digital path to purchase. According to Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, “The adoption of new technological behaviors in response to the pandemic, from video-conferencing to online shopping, means usage has already reached levels that were not expected for many more years.”[1] He adds, “Grannies have discov

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[Video] The Reality of Last Mile Delivery Challenges

Talking Logistics

The end-to-end supply chain consists of many parts, but the rise of e-commerce (especially over the past year due to the pandemic) has put the spotlight on last mile delivery. What makes last mile delivery so complex? How has the pandemic transformed this process? What will separate the leaders from the laggards moving forward? Those. Read more [Video] The Reality of Last Mile Delivery Challenges.

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Supply Chains: Post COVID Readiness

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Fingers, toes and eyes crossed but it looks like there is some light at the end of the COVID 19 tunnel and it is not a train, hopefully. Getting back to normal is a top of mind desire for everyone but that normal will not be how we operated in 2019. Our new and probably ever changing normal is about to develop as plans for the lifting of restriction of movement appear around the globe.

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Guide to a Successful Leap to Warp Speed in Central / Supply Planning – LP Genie

Arkieva

Learn when it is time to move from RCCP to LP Genie for your CPE as part of your organization’s journey pulling from years in the trenches and current ongoing activities with clients. Guide to a Successful Leap to Warp Speed in Central / Supply Planning – LP Genie was first posted on March 10, 2021 at 8:02 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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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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Manufacturers Must Adapt to Changing CPG Landscape

Enterra Insights

Like seasons of the year, business landscapes are constantly changing. Nolan Bushnell ( @NolanBushnell ), an entrepreneur best known for establishing Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese, asserts, “Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That’s because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever.

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Watch: How One Fast-Food Chain Is Surviving the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

Andrea Sordi, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute, weighs the risk and rewards involved in Taco Bell’s decision to introduce a major new product to its menu during the pandemic.

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Best Practices for Optimal Inventory Replenishment

Vanguard Software

Having a clear inventory replenishment strategy is essential for organizations to avoid critical supply chain issues that result in high costs. Vanguard Predictive Planning™ helps businesses reduce excess inventory levels in the entire supply chain network through algorithmic optimization calculations and machine learning.

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Decarbonization: A Call to Focus on SME Road Freight Carriers

All Things Supply Chain

A new study from Smart Freight Centre and the Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains at Kühne Logistics University highlights the crucial role that small carriers play in achieving…

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Supply Chain Management in a Post-pandemic World

Enterra Insights

Experts tell us the virus causing COVID-19 is probably here to stay — along with all the variants of the virus. Shelly Xuelai Fan ( @ShellyFan ), a neuroscientist-turned-science writer, explains, “Coronavirus is almost synonymous with Covid-19, social distancing, and frustration. But it’s not one virus — it’s a whole family. The good news is that we’re already well acquainted with some members of the family.

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FMI Convenes Timely Supply Chain Forum

Supply Chain Brain

FMI – The Food Industry Association today announces FMI’s first-ever Supply Chain Forum April 6-7, designed for mid-senior level supply chain professionals willing to learn and engage on a range of critical and timely topics across the industry.

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Empowering women in STEM is critical , especially given the current global technology skills shortage

IT Supply Chain

By Sam King (pictured). CEO at Veracode. The post Empowering women in STEM is critical , especially given the current global technology skills shortage appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Achieving Autonomous Supply Chain Planning; an expert interview

Supply Chain Trend

Hi there, hope you are all safe, sane and healthy! I recently got interviewed by Bethanie Maples about my Foresight article; ‘Autonomous or Lights out Planning, what’s really required?’ Bethanie is an AI and human cognition expert, does research at Standford University and is advisor to many entrepreneurs. I explain how we have to make the leap forward from Wave 1 (ERP) and Wave 2 (APS) technology, to Wave 3 technology, or systems of intelligence.

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Five Best Practices for Balancing Costs, Risks, and Sustainability

In the face of volatile macroeconomic conditions and other complex challenges, supply chain and procurement pros must strike a tough balance between seemingly contradictory demands: boosting performance and sustaining and extending business operations, all while meeting customers’ needs. This GEP paper provides impactful tips on how to develop a strategic procurement approach that focuses on collaboration, innovation, and sustainability.

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Industry 4.0 was Delayed, not Cancelled, by the Pandemic

Enterra Insights

The late Beatle John Lennon once stated, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainly believe now it — thanks to 2020. Industry 4.0 was Delayed, not Cancelled, by the Pandemic. Stephen DeAngelis. March 09, 2021. The late Beatle John Lennon once stated, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” If manufacturers didn’t believe that truism before, they certainl

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Celebrating Women’s History Month in the Supply Chain

Kuebix

March is an especially important month as it’s Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day is today! The first Women’s History Day was held in 1909 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the garment workers’ strike when 15,000 women marched through lower Manhattan. The day became Women’s History Week in 1978 because the National Women’s […].

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Redefining Communications for Today’s Mobile Workforces

IT Supply Chain

By Dave George (pictured). Chief Technologist & President of Pryme Radio. The post Redefining Communications for Today’s Mobile Workforces appeared first on IT Supply Chain.