Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an updated news capsule follow-up relative to supply chain management and industry developments that we have shared previously on this blog. Workers After securing new ratified labor agreements among three major U.S. UAW Turns its Sights on Volkswagen U.S. All rights reserved.

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Parade

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

San Francisco, CA —February 9, 2022— Parade, the leader in carrier access and truckload capacity management platform software for freight brokers, announces securing $12.7M The round includes investment from Greenhawk Capital, Jones Capital, and participation from leaders in supply chain & freight tech leaders.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been an interesting decade for supply chain: just when you think things can’t get any crazier, a new extreme weather event, political drama or tech start-up pops up, disrupting entire industries. A major theme at the recent Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit was that corporate winners accelerate through economic turns.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech column has had a brisk start in our 2024 postings, and we have added this supplemental posting. In our initial 2024 posting last week, we highlighted two acquisitions related to supply chain technology providers. governmental agencies to include U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. in Lithium Supply Tie-Up U.S. America-centric is a big differentiator for us with customers, with investors.”

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with our news capsule update, specifically the latest updates in ongoing supply chain developments that we have highlighted in prior blogs. West Coast ports, and data related to increased adoption of robotics for North America production needs.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

How should shippers be prepared to secure their supply chain operations? History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? Where do we stand today? How alliances in the shipping industry might impact shippers?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Can I secure a dedicated ship to see me through near-term shortages? When you look back 18 months to the start of the pandemic, the first shock waves to hit global supply chains were all related to demand. There’s no question the pandemic radically accelerated digital transformation initiatives across the supply chain industry.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 7, 2020

One area in which there is no shortage predictions is the supply chain. Simon Ellis, Vice President of IDC Manufacturing Insights, observes, “The supply chain continues to undergo almost unparalleled levels of change. Supply chain trends. ”[1]. ”[1]. ” 5.

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Logility

OCTOBER 7, 2021

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, has partnered with ArcherGrey to strengthen consulting and technology solutions for its customers. The partnership will support the evolving needs of customers in a rapidly changing supply chain environment. About ArcherGrey.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2022

This week, in conjunction with General Motors reporting of Q2-2022 financial performance, the auto maker disclosed that it had secured strategic supply agreements to support one million electric powered vehicles in North America by 2025. or North America presence. Some Broader Context.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This fact drives us to innovate when it comes to our Supply Chain Execution solutions. Doing so, we enable our customers’ digital journey with new capabilities to help counter increasingly complex challenges and satisfy customer-centric requirements, while managing more frequent supply chain disruptions and rising costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens highlights of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit conference and highlights of a conversation with the company’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. .

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The EU has started to work on charting out a plan for that transition, but other large markets like North America and China will likely not follow them in 2024. That said many countries are struggling to accommodate the new sources of power into grids designed for fossil fuel power generation.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology column reflects a number of significant recent announcements that depict an ongoing active cycle of tech developments. Supply Chain Matters will feature more in-depth commentary on this development at in a subsequent update.

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Resilinc

MARCH 14, 2023

Key goals of the blueprint are to improve raw material sourcing, supply domestic processing of lithium, and encourage recycling lithium. From where will the US source materials? The main mission of this task force is to accelerate the development of a sustainable domestic lithium battery supply chain in North America.

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AIMMS

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a guest entry by Sander van Lokven, General Manager at Districon Solutions North America, an AIMMS implementation partner. Districon is a consulting company that brings the power of optimization and analytics closer to supply chain processes. How can an AIMMS app connect to source systems, like an ERP?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2018

Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. My passion is helping supply chain leaders. There are two groups: one in North America and one in Europe. To date supply chain processes are enterprise-centric.

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Requis

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the persistance of some strong fundamentals , 2020 may signal the true turning point in the shift to renewable sources for energy companies. This is not an isolated phenomenon: Norway has been divesting a number of funds of oil and gas investments, especially from high-carbon emission sources like Canadian oil sands.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Detective – Our First 10 Cases! On the surface the operational leaders I met from the Americas, Europe and Asia were very smart people. This was another case for The Supply Chain Detective ! appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Those logistics professionals who went through the ‘90s remember the period that warehouse automation was trending at the forefront of capital investment in supply chains. Border policies erode the effectiveness of homeland security. Challenges top C-level leaders are asking their supply chains to address today.

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RFgen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Today’s digital supply chain makes manual inventory control obsolete. Compare that to mobile barcoding, with standard connectors—and certified integrations—with most major ERP systems, leverage only your ERP database as the single source of truth. Inventory management is no exception. Industry 4.0 devices is no exception.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Technology must be employed that supports securely sharing all relevant information between internal stakeholders and suppliers, and it must support effective planning and transparency for project teams. Disruptions, ethical and compliance risks are more likely to occur deep in your supply chain. The next two involve technology.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And just as petroleum resources shaped the geopolitics of the last 100 years, control of the battery minerals needed to electrify transport and decarbonize energy utilities has become a critical national security issue for the 21st Century. Since declaring in June 2021 that China’s dominance of critical minerals supply chains threatened U.S.

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

As a finite but clearly valuable resource locked mostly in countries with difficult-to-track labor standards, cobalt’s supply chain has fallen under intense scrutiny in recent months, and companies are rushing to get their share. million metric tons (or 60% of the world’s supply). Where Do Companies Get Their Cobalt?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ? Recent years have placed supply chains into the spotlight and onto many board agendas. In a world of almost continuous disruptions and intense competition high performance supply chains have become the decisive factor.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2023

This agreement has been characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America. economy and for industry supply chains. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Now, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: U.S. project44 Secures $45M in Funding to Expand its Advanced Visibility Platform. E2open’s vision and strategy is to bring together the supply chain planning and supply chain execution realms in a network-based solution platform.

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

As a finite but clearly valuable resource locked mostly in countries with difficult-to-track labor standards, cobalt’s supply chain has fallen under intense scrutiny in recent months, and companies are rushing to get their share. million metric tons (or 60% of the world’s supply). Where Do Companies Get Their Cobalt?

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

While there is a wide range of data covering the ESG initiatives of public companies, it’s becoming increasingly clear that privately held companies must also be able to tell their ESG story to secure funding and enter public markets. . In fact, nearly 70% of consumers in North America think it’s important for a brand to be sustainable.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we provide highlights of manufacturing and supply chain developments involving electric vehicle automotive producers at the 2022 mid-year point. Two supply chain officials at the company, who spoke on condition of anonymity, had reportedly confirmed the news on Wednesday.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Supply & Demand Chain Executive Celebrates Influential Women in Supply Chain and Their Impact on the Industry. The Women in Supply Chain award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Samsung has implemented a number of initiatives to secure its supply by fostering long-term relationships, growth and stability with key suppliers and customers. Samsung has a specific set of best practices it follows to manage its supply chain.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It’s a comfort to know, for instance, that B2B marketplaces offer an extra level of security: all those trading within a marketplace are verified businesses that can be trusted as commercial partners, and there is support provided at various steps of the purchasing process and subsequent transactions. billion.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2020

It is an essential prerequisite that for a supply chain to operate effectively, complete visibility, traceability, and accountability must be in place. While it’s widely known that IoT is an essential enabler for supply chain visibility. end-to-end supply chain performance. IoT – The Enabler.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

A modern, multi-modal Tier 1 TMS can now take data from all sources, cleanse it and use it. Think about it as another type of API/EDI – as a different way to communicate securely between partners. That way, information can be shared but remain secure. Small but mighty. There are more than 500,000 TL carriers in the U.S.

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