RFgen

JUNE 2, 2023

If that sounds hard to believe, you may be delighted to learn that companies across the world have been leveraging the power of software automation to do exactly that. That’s why effective stock control remains a crucial aspect of supply chain management. Let’s find out. Every challenge impacts the bottom line.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, I hosted the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2024

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. Coast Guard authorities are assured that the bridge debris and/or underwater obstacles are sufficiently cleared for cargo ship navigation.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Businesses that develop a cost-effective supply chain strategy can benefit from greater operational efficiency while staying competitive in their sector. Supply chain management helps you improve business performance, bring costs down, and efficiently spend your capital investments.

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Logility

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Industrial psychologists point to the need for a modern workforce free from restrictive and highly specialized business silos, and comfortable with – even optimized for – stretching in new directions, juggling priorities, acquiring new skills and mastering new technologies. Optimizing Critical Supply Chain Functions. Challenges.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

We’ll look at their warehouses, their delivery tricks, and even how they use new technology to make things faster. Content creation: Amazon Studios – Produces original films and series available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Amazon does it all.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is a range of manufacturing software now available to help businesses streamline their processes and maximise efficiency. Here we look at 15 types of manufacturing software, and for each answer three questions: What are the main functions of this software? What type of business is this software suited to?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 10, 2020

“Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic,” writes Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder of Supply Chain Insights.[1] The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints.”

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For many growing and established direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands alike, the supply chain is the most critical but also most challenging aspect of their operations. . The process involves complex steps, from procurement, to shipping products to end users, often resulting in a lack of visibility and high operational costs.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 14, 2024

It can be undertaken manually or with manufacturing inventory management software tools that automate and streamline your operations. Raw materials Raw materials inventory is the basic inputs used to produce finished goods and one of the biggest sources of inventory waste in manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Dave Elias, vice president of supply chain management, and Josh Stauffer, senior director of IT, spoke at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. They have implemented a broad suite of enterprise and supply chain applications and are still implementing more. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

by CJ Wehlage What would you say is the next great disruption coming to our supply chain world? However, there’s one great disruption already occurring, which has yet to truly “touch” supply chain. As a supply chain practitioner, do you notice something missing? Where is the supply chain nodes?

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Freightos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Technology changes everything, including Christmas. Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as they visit the Xmas supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

What is the #1 technology topic Descartes CEO Ed Ryan gets asked about? Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Over the past decade, Descartes has acquired 35 companies and has evolved into a technology platform company, with its Global Logistics Network as the foundation.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 31, 2017

by Bill DuBois This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. It’s our perpetual hobby horse here at Argentus that Supply Chain needs to be doing more as a field to attract young people. We all know that’s not the case.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. Highlights from the Conversation.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 21, 2016

Bluetooth technologies seem to predate the use of the Internet of things (IoT) in society. However, Bluetooth technologies are creating a subset of the IoT, expanding its benefits and use among shipping and logistics providers. Driving Forces Behind the Increased Use of Bluetooth Technologies. As seen on MAZINE.WS

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Check out 5 Seismic Shifts in Supply Chain Technology! In our ongoing technology series, we have concentrated on the Informational and analytical innovation applications which are reshaping supply chain technology as we know it. Driver-less technology will not replace the truck driver.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 30, 2017

by Melissa Clow Recently, Madhav Durbha, Vice President of Industry Strategy at Kinaxis was interviewed by SupplyChainBrain on supply chain planning in the digital age. I wanted to share their fascinating conversation with our readers – check out the video interview and transcript below: Supply chain planning in the digital age.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

Over the past few years there have been many advancements in freight visibility technology, particularly in trucking. One technology that transportation companies, especially the trucking community, are using to eliminate the cost and complexity of setting up EDI connections is automated programming interfaces (APIs).

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In episode six of Be Ready for Anything, ToolsGroup’s Pre-Sales Manager for Europe, Birger Klinke, talks about what retailers should expect in 2021 and how they can leverage probabilistic forecasting and automation to adjust to a changing marketplace. Check out the video below. Or listen and follow on Spotify. Transcript.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Raw material inventory management represents a vital stage in the successful supervision of any manufacturing company’s supply chain. Try to automate as many processes as possible. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The following Product Information Management (PIM) article was written by guest author Alex Borzo, a content contributor at Amber Engine , a software company passionate about eCommerce. Inventory management starts with the fundamental in and out of your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! Consumers are demanding more from the companies they buy from, and Supply Chain Management is at the forefront of delivering that increased responsibility. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer expectations for shipping are higher than ever. Why Shipping Costs Matter. In today’s anything, anytime connected world, shipping costs and delivery speed have become make-or-break factors for small-and-medium sized businesses (SMBs) across the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrum.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Marketing campaigns largely focussed on mate-ship and camaraderie. For example, Carlton United Brewery’s marketing strategy for Victoria Bitter portrays a sense of the Australian culture:mate ship, and reward for a job well done with its “hard earned thirst” campaign that ran from the 60s to early 2000s.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

Have you seen the video of the chimpanzee using Instagram? Here it is in case you missed it: Here's a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. When it comes to drone deliveries, there’s still a lot of red tape to break through, as well as technological and social acceptance hurdles to overcome, but progress is being made nonetheless.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. Shippo raises $20 million to be the Stripe for shipping (Venture Beat). Is this a technology in search of a problem?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

I remember the first time I saw the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on MTV, back in the days when MTV still played music videos. I was sitting on the couch with my dad, probably close to 11 at night, and we were both entranced by the sights and sounds of that video. Supply chains are fragile systems.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 26, 2023

In this article, we delve into an unconventional yet remarkably effective training tool: movies. The central theme centers on the talks between the shipping company’s chief executive officer and the Somali pirates’ interpreter. Discovering the Unstoppable Power of Videos For Mastering Negotiation!

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synchrono

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Rick Morris, a Certified Supply Chain Professional wrote in Supply House Times that while improving fill rates, improved forecast accuracy also lowers inventory levels measured in days of sales; and simultaneously , improved forecast accuracy improves fill rates and lowers inventory. Visibility Matte rs. gain in profits.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 29, 2024

Streamlined processes for order picking , packing, and shipping. Data analysis Data analysis is easy when you employ the use of various tools and techniques that help you evaluate the current performance and future potential of each SKU. You can keep your purchasing costs down by stocking only the SKUs that generate profit and demand.

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Elementum

AUGUST 19, 2015

What do I need to know about China’s shipping merger? Two Chinese shipping companies, Cosco and CSCL, are merging to form one alliance. Which sounds like a big deal, but it won’t have an effect on Asia-Europe shipping costs. Which sounds like a big deal, but it won’t have an effect on Asia-Europe shipping costs.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 23, 2018

She provides some great insights into how big data might be able to be used in supply chains. In spite of this often-daunting aspect of business today, with appropriate use of this data, you can realize a powerful advantage over the competition by boosting efficiencies in your organization’s supply chain.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! Annual technology product updates became bi-annual. You need to source for products to sell at wholesale prices to your retail customers. Fast fashion, with its short production runs , became trendy.

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