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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

At SAP Spend Connect Live, held October 14-16 in Las Vegas, SAP did make several significant product announcements. SAP announced a new transportation collaboration solution that involved messaging not just between shippers and carriers but also three-way communication involving logistics service providers.

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Manifesting Supply Chain Success for LSPs 

BlueYonder

A team from Blue Yonder attended the Manifest 2025 conference in Las Vegas last week, joining more than 7,200 attendees from the field of logistics. Presented by Blue Yonder customer DHL, Manifest brings together Fortune 500 global supply chain executives, logistics service providers (LSPs), innovators and investors.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. What do you say?

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Top Take Aways from Oracle CloudWorld

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week in Las Vegas, Oracle had its first in person CloudWorld in three years. The end-to-end process includes order management, demand and supply planning, inventory planning, transportation management, and other processes and applications as well. The demo focused on manufacturing execution. This demo’d beautifully.

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Putting the WoW! Into Service Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

In the past, supply chain professionals are trained to handle the service issues through a planning of inventory , service level and after-sales operations. In general, it focuses on supply chain management of non-manufacturing companies such as those in the logistics and distribution, consulting and hospitality industries.

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Together, Blue Yonder and Microsoft Are Redefining Supply Chain Digitalization 

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder’s Luminate(R) Cognitive Platform — built exclusively on Microsoft Azure — is the industry’s first intelligence-enriched, integrated technology platform that spans supply chain, retail planning, logistics, and delivery in one end-to-end solution.

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The New JDA Flowcasting Solution

BlueYonder

To oversimplify a bit, in this initiative, the retailers and manufacturers compared their own forecasts and worked to come up with a consensus forecast. These collaborative forecast initiatives had positive impacts on inventories and service levels. The most prominent was Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR).