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2022 Supply Chain Predictions

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC analysts have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. This year we have decided to lead with our predictions about the broader supply chain function – as supply chain itself has become such a hot topic in executive suites, corporate earnings, general news media, and even our own personal lives.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Are you looking for logistics management books? In this article, we will show you 5 books that'll help you learn logistics faster than any other logistics book. In the United States, the median wage for a Logistics Manager is around $70,000 annually. So, a career in logistics management can be very lucrative if you have a career plan and keep on developing yourself.

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Supply Chain Goals for 2022

Logistics Bureau

What are your Supply Chain goals for this year? Here are some tips to get you focussed on Supply Chain improvement: Get Strategic. Check Your Performance. Put Your Game Plan Together.

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Winning the Logistics Talent War with Radu Palamariu

The Logistics of Logistics

Winning the Logistics Talent War with Radu Palamariu. Radu Palamariu and Joe Lynch discuss winning the logistics talent war. Radu is the Managing Director Asia Pacific & Europe of Alcott Global and the Global Head of Supply Chain & Logistics Practice. Alcott Global provides Executive Search solutions for the world’s top companies in eCommerce, supply chain, logistics, and tech in transportation.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

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.

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The Top Three Keys to Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience during National Returns Week

Logistics Viewpoints

Each year in the United States, the return of goods purchased for the holidays usually peaks on one day in early January; the volume is so significant the day has been designated National Returns Day. This year, due to an increased number of e-commerce purchases, retailers and shippers will experience National Returns Week. How National Return Day Became National Returns Week.

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Overcoming Obstacles to Agile Battery Cell Manufacturing

DELMIA Quintiq

The global battery cell market is already growing rapidly thanks to rising demand—especially in electric vehicles—and it is predicted to continue accelerating. While this creates significant opportunity for battery cell manufacturers, there are several obstacles that they need to overcome by innovating in their supply chains and production facilities, allowing them to manufacture at scale with agility and in a profitable way. 1.

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Logility Partners with Planalytics to Systematically Address the Impacts of Weather in Demand, Inventory and Replenishment Planning

Logility

Planalytics’ weather-driven demand analytics help businesses stay ahead of never-ending sales variability. ATLANTA – Jan. 4, 2022 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced a partnership with Planalytics, Inc. to identify, quantify and apply weather-driven demand calculations to business planning and forecasting.

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Industry 4.0 — Are We There Yet?

Enterra Insights

Family car trips are often characterized as torturous journeys during which children constantly pester their parents by repeatedly asking, “Are we there yet?” The same question is often asked about the Fourth Industrial Revolution (aka Industry 4.0). Arno Koch, a partner at OEE Coach BV and owner of Makigami BV, has a couple of other questions.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 7, 2022)

Talking Logistics

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022! (Or is it 2020 too?) I woke up this morning to a foot of snow outside — the first significant snowfall of the season here in Boston. And it’s still snowing. Before I go find my snow pants and boots, and bring out the snow shovels from the garage, Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 7, 2022).

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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6 Trends Driving E-Commerce Supply Chains Now

CHAINalytics

E-commerce is a steadily expanding part of the retail space. Right now, the challenge is to serve always-incrementing e-commerce demand with supply chains that must continually extend and adapt to simply keep up. 1. Omnichannel continues to drive investment in brick and mortar The ancient notion that you have to go digital to become truly … The post 6 Trends Driving E-Commerce Supply Chains Now appeared first on Chainalytics.

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How AI is transforming manufacturing Part 1

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology that will enhance people’s. decision-making by using data and creating more accurate predictions. Traditionally, most decision-making has been based on experience and instincts. However, the world has radically changed, and so have supply chains and customer behaviors. In these times when past practices have been overturned, people at all levels in a business need a tool to help them plan and prioritize activities.

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Trends 2022: The Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

In his very interesting book The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures , Frans Johansson ( @Frans_Johansson ) writes about the value of creating a space in which people from diverse fields of expertise can gather to exchange ideas. The exchange of information is a time-proven way of making things better.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2022

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the year ahead. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many of these events were either cancelled or held as virtual events in 2021. This year’s list remains a work in. Read more Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2022.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

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

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Omicron’s Spread Means More Food Outages at U.S. Grocery Stores

Supply Chain Brain

The highly contagious omicron virus variant is disrupting already stressed food supply chains, sickening so many workers that more shortages at grocery stores are all but certain.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Activities for 2022

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Welcome to 2022 and let us all hope it will be better than 2021.

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Trends 2022: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Seldom, if ever, has the global supply chain received so much attention as it did in 2021. Unfortunately, most of that attention resulted from what went wrong instead of what went right. Some critics have called for a complete overhaul of the global supply chain, insisting current operations can’t be fixed. Change, however, takes both time and money — especially when that change needs to be global in nature.

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£3.2bn of Christmas orders are now being returned, but some stores’ deadlines have already ended

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T. (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research. The post £3.2bn of Christmas orders are now being returned, but some stores’ deadlines have already ended appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

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

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Outlook 2022: The Future of VR, AR and Digital Twins

Supply Chain Brain

Virtual reality technologies offer new opportunities for manufacturing, warehousing and other areas of supply chain management.

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Just-in-Time vs. Just-in-Case Procurement During Supply Chain Disruption

Ware2Go

Recent supply chain disruptions , including images of cargo ships stuck off the West Coast , have led eCommerce shops to rethink their just-in-time and just-in-case inventory strategies. . In a November survey , 87% of merchants shared that they already were affected by increased freight costs. At that time, 31% had raised prices on end consumers to offset the negative impact.

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Multichannel eCommerce in 2022: The 15 Key Trends

Unleashed

Online eCommerce is now the shopping method of choice for consumers, so getting a step ahead in the multichannel market is crucial for your businesses. So what trends will we see in multichannel eCommerce in 2022 – and can SMEs leap on board with them? We think so. Read on for the 15 key multichannel eCommerce trends of 2022. Learn more: Guide to Effective Multichannel Selling What are the key trends in multichannel eCommerce for 2022??

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6 Ways a Warehouse Management System Boosts ECommerce ROI!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Tips For Making Warehouse Management Easier Than Ever! ECommerce ROI article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. Warehouses play a significant role in businesses that offer goods and products. Whether you have a physical or online store, they’re important since they hold these products and house your inventories.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

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.

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Watch: Is the C-Suite Lagging in Sustainability Efforts?

Supply Chain Brain

David South, senior principal for energy and utilities with West Monroe, discusses the results of the firm’s latest survey of top executives, and the progress they’re making toward supply chain sustainability.

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Security implications in 2022 of the exponential increase in ransomware

IT Supply Chain

By Ed Williams (pictured). EMEA Director of Trustwave SpiderLabs. The post Security implications in 2022 of the exponential increase in ransomware appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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2021: Manufacturing, a Year in Review

QAD

The Oxford Languages and Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have advanced “Vax/vaccine” as 2021’s word of the year, but we think it really should be “disruption.” We’re tired of hearing about it in our business planning, and we’re tired of living with it on the shop floor. Supply chains are more fragile than ever, shipping and trucking backlogs have hit multiple industries endangering holiday celebrations and causing general shortages, and the lack of certain products (read: semiconductor chips )

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Why You Need to Invest in Mobile Phones for Your Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cloud Telephony! How to Set up a Small Business Phone System! Mobile phones article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. What does a business need in order to succeed? A solid business plan? Sure. Good staff? Absolutely. A tenacious owner at the helm? Of course.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Short- and Long-Term Solutions to Supply Chain Bottlenecks

Supply Chain Brain

There’s no indication that supply chain disruptions will ease in 2022. Bottlenecks, labor shortages and limited transportation capacity across all modes will persist.

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4 in 5 Brits bear the brunt of rising grocery bills

IT Supply Chain

By Matt Pavich (pictured). Senior Director of Retail Innovation, Revionics. The post 4 in 5 Brits bear the brunt of rising grocery bills appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Mastering Digital Manufacturing: A Diagnostic Tool

QAD

It’s the buzzword of all buzzwords – digital transformation – but what are we really talking about, how do we get there, and what are the obstacles along the way? In 2020, Deloitte conducted an extensive survey about digital transformation and found that: “Digitally mature companies enjoy a wide range of specific benefits arising from their digital transformations that include, but go well beyond, the bottom line.