Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 22, 2024
Trends last for years. But how often do significant new things happen? In most years, there is nothing new in supply chain management. In the past year, we have seen two genuinely new developments. ESG Enforcement Gets Teeth The US Customs and Border Protection Agency’s stringent enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act has importers concerned.
John Galt
JANUARY 22, 2024
A strategic IBP process is increasingly important as changes accelerate in the global supply chain landscape, marked by risk and uncertainty.
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BlueYonder
JANUARY 22, 2024
Recently, Blue Yonder released the findings of its survey of wholesale distribution executives 1 , which focused on their order management challenges, goals and forward-looking plans. While this blog provides an overview of our key findings, the complete results are summarized in our new e-book, “Distribution Executives Agree: It’s Time to Up the Ante on Order Management.
IT Supply Chain
JANUARY 22, 2024
By Dr Darren Williams (pictured) CEO & Founder, Blackfog The post LoanDepot attack: 16.6 million customers’ data stolen appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
Mat Witte, senior vice president of ORTEC, offers a look at the company's Supply Chain Solutions Suite, to be showcased at Manifest 2024 in Las Vegas.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Locus Robotics
JANUARY 22, 2024
Home January 22, 2024 Improve Worker Safety with Warehouse Robots Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager Warehouses and restaurant kitchens like The Original Beef of Chicagoland in the award-winning TV series The Bear may not seem alike at first glance, but both operate at full throttle in pressure cooker environments keeping workers on constant red alert.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
JANUARY 22, 2024
Material Requirements Planning for a modern manufacturing environment Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is software that helps companies estimate the required quantities of raw materials, maintain inventory levels, and ensure manufacturing has all the items needed to make products to satisfy demand. MRP is one of the early inventory management systems and has been widely adopted by manufacturers.
Locus Robotics
JANUARY 22, 2024
By Mary Hart Warehouses and restaurant kitchens like The Original Beef of Chicagoland in the award-winning TV series The Bear may not seem alike at first glance, but both operate at full throttle in pressure cooker environments keeping workers on constant red alert. In restaurant kitchens, chefs, sous chefs, and assistants handle onslaughts of orders during meal times and know to yell “Behind” as they run through the kitchen to avoid bumping into a colleague and creating a mess, or worse, an inj
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
South African companies need to reduce their reliance on supply chains affected by conflict and prioritize domestic sourcing, production and distribution, PWC said.
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The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 22, 2024
Nick Klingensmith and Joe Lynch discuss becoming a better salesperson. Nick is the Founder and CEO of Stride Motivation, a company dedicated to transforming lives through inspiring keynote speeches and mindset coaching. Nick is an expert at helping achievement-driven professionals and leaders to overcome fear and rejection and push past self-limiting doubts.
Supply Chain Digest
JANUARY 22, 2024
Shipping Costs Sure to Increase
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
The vessels are designed to flex between methanol and conventional diesel bunker fuel and will include technologies such as optimized hull form, waste heat recovery systems and bow windshield.
Supply Chain Digest
JANUARY 22, 2024
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In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
Trucking operators have been slow to invest in the vehicles because of concerns about cost and durability and a lack of battery-charging infrastructure to support trucks on long hauls.
Stord
JANUARY 22, 2024
The tool most directly involved with the success of each warehouse associate is your WMS, but how quickly can you onboard new associates?
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
This guide helps you navigate the complexities of the choice, ensuring that your chosen partner not only aligns with your brand's goals, but also elevates your customers' experience.
Demand Driven Technologies
JANUARY 22, 2024
The planners and supplier chain managers have been scratching their heads for quite some time. How do you properly size buffers for inventory buffer management? Is there a magic and effective safety stock magic formula? Is the DDMRP logic of lead time and variability categories optimal? What should be the right lead time and variability.
Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller
As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
One way consumers can help reduce returns (and growing landfills) is to shop more conscientiously by going into stores to test out products before making a repeat purchase online.
Unleashed
JANUARY 22, 2024
Organising your inventory and calculating the cost of your goods is a fundamental part of running an efficient business. Get this right and you’ll make life a lot easier at the end of the financial year – get it wrong and your risk of incorrectly filing your taxes skyrockets. First in first out (FIFO) is one of the most common inventory management and accounting methods.
Freight Plus
JANUARY 22, 2024
One common question we hear at FreightPlus is, “What kind of tools are available to shippers to compare LTL base rates and discounts?” It is a simple question that doesn’t come with a straightforward answer. Like many things LTL, comparing rates is not as simple as comparing apples to apples, and therefore there isn’t a […] The post Comparing LTL Pricing: Tools and Techniques for Shippers appeared first on FreightPlus.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
The FAA did not order the older model to be grounded while the visual inspections are carried out by operators, as it did with the 737 Max 9 planes.
Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.
OptiProERP
JANUARY 22, 2024
In this tech-driven world, data is the driving force for every business, many of which use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. ERP software is a complete business management suite integrating data and business functions across sales, finance, accounting, purchasing, production, and other departments. Digital data stored in ERP gives cybercriminals a significant opportunity.
The Smart Software
JANUARY 22, 2024
In a highly configurable manufacturing environment, forecasting finished goods can become a complex and daunting task. The number of possible finished products will skyrocket when many components are interchangeable. A traditional MRP would force us to forecast every single finished product which can be unrealistic or even impossible. Several leading ERP solutions introduce the concept of the “Planning BOM”, which allows the use of forecasts at a higher level in the manufacturing process.
Gravity Supply Chain
JANUARY 22, 2024
Gravity, a global leader in Purchase Order Management and BuyCo, the container shipping platform, announced their partnership to offer shippers with a comprehensive solution that allows procurement and transport teams to collaborate seamlessly for international trade operations. By using the Gravity and BuyCo integration, shippers gain access to an innovative SaaS platform that covers the entire process, from purchase order management to container shipment booking and real-time tracking.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 22, 2024
While the White House is monitoring the discussions, there’s no indication yet of what steps the Biden administration would take in response to complaints about Boeing.
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