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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, using the Internet of Things, companies can sense equipment status and predict failure. When the added costs of transportation and inventory working capital impacts are added, there is a solid logic to bringing manufacturing back to North America. I look forward to hearing your story.

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9 Ways Manufacturers Can Develop More Sustainable Products

Arena Solutions

Increase the lifespan of goods and materials while converting waste into resources by making technologies like PLM, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT) key components of circular economy. Using renewable energy sources that can create long-term sustainable energy consumption. Recycling, reusing/repurposing.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, leading experts from various sectors in transportation industry will discuss transportation trends you should take a closer look. In North America the low hanging fruit for long-haul loads is rail. Each full “truckload” equivalent of freight moved by rail reduces C02 emissions by 66%.

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Managing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) For Future Growth

IQMS

Across the wide spectrum of technologies that enable real-time monitoring, IQMS is seeing growing interest in and adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) to bring even greater accuracy, speed, and scale into warehouse management. Gillett January 14, 2016.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments. They aren’t.

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Takeaways From Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017

Shipsy

Key Trends in Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 (Source?—?Gartner) Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and advanced analytics have been some of the most disruptive technologies that leaders are adopting.

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Supply Chain Matters Highlights of SAP Sapphire 2022 Conference

Supply Chain Matters

Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. .

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