Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights communication made by retailer Walmart regarding a significant bet on warehouse robotics having attractive operating profitability promise. This large retailer has expanded its capital expenditure budget to upwards of $20 billion in 2022. The report indicates that the retailer’s 1.4

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Warehouse robots are just one form of warehouse automation , but they’re making a big impact. From greater flexibility and scalability to productivity gains, a faster ROI compared to other automation solutions and better resource management, warehouse robots are changing the face of warehousing.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As 2018 progresses, Warehouse Managers need to understand the risk of not going omnichannel, why demand is increasing, and a few tips to meet such demands. Increased speed in warehouses. Use of automated technologies for omnichannel supply chains. Automate warehouse and supply chain management systems.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

These include transportation and material moving, warehouse and fulfillment center workers , truck drivers, call center agents, delivery services, and manufacturing workers. You’re likely aware of these issues, so let’s move on to what you can do to minimize the effects of labor shortages on supply chain resiliency.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Bowman laments, “Multiple stages of the global supply chain, including manufacturing, distribution, warehousing and trucking, are suffering from a severe shortage of qualified workers.” ‘There’s no job called ‘supply chain,’ notes [Abe Eshkenazi, ASCM’s CEO]. So where’s the disconnect?

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AIMMS

JUNE 23, 2016

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. When it comes to Supply Chain Analytics, an “Apps approach” can have just as many benefits. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference.

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AIMMS

JUNE 23, 2016

When it comes to Supply Chain Analytics, an “Apps approach” can have just as many benefits. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. But what exactly is a Supply Chain Analytics app? Build your own Apps appeared first on AIMMS.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On demand warehousing and logistics services Cloud platform provider Flexe has initiated a layoff reportedly involving upwards of a third of its workforce. Multiple online media reports including GeekWire , FreightWaves, and others, have received confirmation of this action from the company.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

To coordinate, contracts can be made with direct links in the supply chain, but how can organizations coordinate with the suppliers’ suppliers or the customers’ customers? However, commonly used KPIs used by supply chain executives are usually focused on logistics performance (e.g., But, it can be overdone.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2018

Companies across all industries are dealing with rising transportation costs and a key question many CEOs, CFOs, and supply chain executives are asking is, “What can we do to better manage and control our freight spend in today’s market?” Another factor impacting parcel shipment cost is the weight and cube of the package.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how consumer packaged goods manufacturers can improve supply chain competitiveness, profitability, and sustainability. A unified, integrated supply chain plan can be accomplished by bringing cross-functional teams together; a plan is then developed from month six to month 48.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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BlueYonder

JULY 11, 2023

over to Asia for example, where they further process seafood into a consumer-packaged unit and then it is shipped back to the U.S. The coordination of these activities at each stage of the process takes a lot of effort: it involves people, facilities, systems, regulatory agencies, and supplies, which ultimately is what logistics is.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

All across the supply chain—in factories, in distribution centers, on forklifts, and in package delivery—companies are quickly adopting the Internet of Things (IoT). Why Supply Chain Executives Are Embracing IoT. ” Just 13% said IoT was “irrelevant.” What about your robots?

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

All across the supply chain—in factories, in distribution centers, on forklifts, and in package delivery—companies are quickly adopting the Internet of Things (IoT). Why Supply Chain Executives Are Embracing IoT. ” Just 13% said IoT was “irrelevant.” What about your robots?

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They also discussed best practices for maintaining supply chain control through unpredictable disruptions. Building a Customer-centric Supply Chain. The company also improved its operations by looking at downstream logistics, modeling capacities at warehouses, and optimizing inbound and outbound operations together.

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Turvo

AUGUST 18, 2020

particularly in supply chain management with businesses in need of “real-time access to package, truck and driver location, warehouse information” and more. For that reason, supply chain executives need to know a few things about evaluating and buying supply chain visibility software.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2023

The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada labor union have been in labor contract talks which have resulted in a prior 21-day cooling-off period. Up until that point, two mediators appointed by the Canadian federal government had been overseeing contract talks.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

SAP Launches Enhanced Supply Chain Execution Software for Faster Logistics Planning. HighJump Partners with Advantage2Retail to Bring Best-of-Breed Warehousing Software to Retailers. According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 28, 2019

Talk about complexity and change–today’s supply chains are no longer describable as ‘chains’ but complex, orchestrated and adaptive systems whose processes flow in many directions, often simultaneously. Decisions in areas like demand planning are being made by machines, and it’s the gateway to autonomous operations.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 6, 2022

For the 11 th year 1 in a row, we have been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) report 2 —which is every year since the report began! “ “ Blue Yonder is a powerful warehouse management solution that has exceeded my expectations. ” The Focus on Innovation.

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Veridian Solutions

AUGUST 21, 2018

As 2018 progresses, Warehouse Managers need to understand the risk of not going omnichannel, why demand is increasing, and a few tips to meet such demands. Increased speed in warehouses. Use of automated technologies for omnichannel supply chains. Automate warehouse and supply chain management systems.

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Locus

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Business and supply chain executives are also incentivized to spread awareness and come up with sustainable strategies. Download the Ebook: Supply Chain Sustainability and Profitability with Green Logistics. Companies with business models that prioritize sustainability have a greater chance of wooing customers.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 30, 2022

The staff at Supply Chain Dive notes, “Consumers expect their packages to arrive and their local stores’ shelves to be stocked, even in the harshest of conditions. ” • Conduct simulations of how extreme climate-related events will affect your supply chain. ” • Think beyond your own sites.

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Techgistics

JUNE 6, 2016

Armed with more powerful computational tools, retailers started to centralize their supply chain functions and constructed large regional distribution centers. This period of centralization enabled retailers to reduce transportation costs, reduce lead times, and give greater product availability to consumers in their stores.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

28 | Business & supply chains in Europe. 30 | Innovations in warehousing. For warehousing a new era is dawning. 33 | Seamless Supply Chain Execution. 34 | Mindmap for an ethical supply chain. Facts & Figures. 12 Questions about Multimodal Transportation Management.

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PINC

JANUARY 5, 2021

When we combine our spotting services with PINC digital yard management solutions, we can give our customers a package that truly makes their yard and transportation operations as efficient and productive as possible.”. Visit PINC at www.pinc.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Also note that beauty, consumer packaged goods and food growth is also declining. As a result, unit picking, shipping and returns is redefining warehouse management and transportation processes. As a result, the average company is increasing investment in supply chain management technologies by 6 percent and rethinking architectures.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ultimately, it “ allows companies to generate a four-to-five-times return on investment by partnering with one service partner to support all or part of their supply chain needs, including procurement, production control, manufacturing, quality, warehousing, and logistics.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Stock outs, missed orders, long lead-times, and uncertainty have made the supply chain a hot topic, especially with the holiday season upon us, and the need to make improvements have become a C-level priority. Automation in the warehouse is nothing new. Robots can deliver significant benefits to warehouses.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It’s common for business owners to make the assumption that the supply chain starts after inventory is sourced and received, and instead the only focus is on getting finished goods from the warehouse to the end user. Even the most well-established DTC brands are susceptible to challenges in the end-to-end supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Net revenues from “other logistics services,” which include transportation management services, customs, warehousing, and small parcel, increased about 15 percent in Q4 2012 (excluding contribution from acquisition), driven primarily by transaction increases in its transportation management and customs services. million, up 2.7

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Optimizing your warehouse means examining every corner of your infrastructure and every facet of your workflows and processes to identify and correct inefficiencies. Not only does warehouse optimization result in a healthier bottom line, but it also improves key warehouse metrics like accurate orders and on-time delivery.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And the operation had been run without true Warehouse Management experience as well. The other person seemed overwhelmed and lost while looking at the mess in the warehouse. I was going to move to the States when the leadership team asked me to run the Canadian warehouse. The system cutover was a disaster.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2018

Here is a look at how some companies in the supply chain sector are preparing themselves for the months to come. The emergence of IoT is an amazing thing for supply chain executives – and especially exciting as the enabling technology is becoming less expensive and more readily available, meaning that deployments are possible now.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides the second in a four-part series of market education postings addressing the evolving use of Cloud based control layer technology platforms applied to warehousing and customer fulfillment processes.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Digital process prototypes.

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