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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. You can model alternative flows and networks while guaranteeing service policies to customers.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Guest Commentary: Is Your TMS Pulling Its Weight?

Talking Logistics

You probably started your TMS project to manage shipping costs for your high-value freight, inbound or outbound. With constantly changing markets and rates, procuring and maintaining the best possible rates can be a nightmare. T’was the month before the Christmas season, when all through the warehouse. Be Sociable, Share!

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

The entire world owes a huge debt to the drivers , warehouse associates and other essential logistics workers who kept supply chains moving during the worst months of the pandemic. By implementing a warehouse management solution that automated and optimized processes, the company reduced its annual consumption of bond paper by 40%. .

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

Coast Port terminal operators represented by the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union (ILWU), union workers have previously enacted cargo movement disruptions to garner negotiation leverage. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Gulf or U.S.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

We watched as customers adopted new warehousing and transportation processes, new delivery modes, new technology tools and even entirely new network models that helped them succeed in the constantly changing “next normal” state that characterized 2020 and 2021.