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Editor’s Pick: Is Your Transportation Management System Adequate or Extraordinary?

Talking Logistics

This recent post by Mike Mulqueen from JBF Consulting’s blog highlights how to maximize your investment in a transportation management system (TMS). Read more The post Editor’s Pick: Is Your Transportation Management System Adequate or Extraordinary? appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Don’t Propagate Chaos with Your Supply Chain Planning System!

Logistics Viewpoints

The post Don’t Propagate Chaos with Your Supply Chain Planning System! This made me doubt much of what I had been told. Believability, let’s call it “explainability,” was not an issue at Kinexions. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Embracing the Supply Chain as A Complex Non-linear System

Supply Chain Shaman

My reply to my friend is that “The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. I think that the circular pattern we see is a system out of control.” I think that we are trying to manage an out-of-control system. The focus of the writing by Donella Meadows is on managing leverage points in a system to drive change.

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Lucas Systems is more than a Voice Vendor; They are a Warehouse Optimization Solution

Logistics Viewpoints

Lucas Systems Offers Warehouse Optimization Warehouse management systems, once known as supply chain execution systems, have evolved significantly. Adjoining systems—like Voice Recognition, Vision-directed Workflow solutions, and Robotics solutions—can also provide significant warehouse optimization capabilities.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier. For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly.

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The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis

SCM Research

I am pleased to announce that our new book, The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis , co-edited with Stefan Gold, is now available. The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis. It contains very insightful chapters by fantastic colleagues. Our book highlights the multifaceted challenges facing modern supply chains. Gold, S. & Edward Elgar.

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The Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the average company struggles to integrate robots from multiple vendors with their existing systems and processes, as well as divide and orchestrate work across humans and machines. Enter the Warehouse Execution System Fortunately, this purpose-built solution already exists, and it’s called a warehouse execution system (WES).

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system. Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

Brittle supply chains, fragmented systems landscapes, unreliable and inaccurate data, as well as poorly managed IT and business networks are consistently reported as top concerns, which is why executives are increasingly prioritizing digital transformation.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Strategically aligning your systems and teams. In this eBook, we’ll discuss leading strategies to create a marketing-led growth strategy for 2021 and beyond, including: Positioning your organization for automation. Getting consensus on how to define “qualified leads”.

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

The "TMS+" approach is more than a standalone Transportation Management System (TMS). Today’s question becomes: How do you leverage data to automate and optimize across the full order lifecycle?

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

Recruitment AI technology uncovers the most qualified candidates. This technology automates recruiting routines and facilitates natural conversations, resulting in higher productivity and a better candidate experience. Download the eBook to learn more!

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What Your Order Management System Should Be Doing

Others rely on a complex system of cross-referencing the dashboards of their various channels. Some try to force their ERP to manage it. None of these is an effective or sustainable solution. All leave you exposed to massive error, out-of-stock messages, and inefficient fulfillment processes.

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Case Study: DSV Implements a Single-Instance Control Tower with a Global Footprint

At the time, each unit had its own team operating according to their own systems and processes. The ambitious project would require extensive visibility and seamless coordination across expansive and dynamic networks.

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Mission Critical: Leveraging Learning Engineering to Drive Digital Transformation

Speaker: Trish Uhl, Founder of Owl's Ledge LLC and the Talent & Learning Analytics Leadership Forum

Join Trish Uhl, creator of the Learning Systems Engineering Framework™, as she shares secrets from the playbook she crafted to address these challenges while consulting on a global supply chain standardization and digitalization traceability project for the world's third largest food manufacturer.