Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. Teams need a single source of the truth that creates a seamless workflow, enabling immediate action.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)’s conference attracts retail and supply chain leaders from the biggest brands in the country, providing a forum for innovation, networking, and collaboration. If you couldn’t make it, or want to refresh your memory, here are five big themes from the 2019 conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 9, 2023

Currently, LinkedIn is flooded with smiling pictures of supply chain business leaders attending conferences. The good news is that we can attend conferences again. The panel group is sourced from my group of LinkedIn followers. The process is not a panacea for the lack of organizational alignment or clarity on strategy.

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ChainPoint

DECEMBER 8, 2022

At the Textile Exchange Conference in Colorado Spring, Colorado U.S., Supply chain management in the textile industry is evolving rapidly. So are the available tools for textile supply chain mapping and management. we met many in textile and apparel to discuss challenges of this industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. . Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. Executive Keynote. All rights reserved.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 13, 2024

I recently attended a Supply Chain conference, where it became clear that we, industry professionals, have been terrible predators – criminals. Read more Source Forbes recently published an article. Forbes recently published an article.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

In my opinion, the best source of practical knowledge and advice are your peers — that is, executives just like you who have already met and overcome the same challenges and opportunities you face today. Below is a short list of the supply chain and logistics conferences scheduled this year. Happy learning and networking in 2015!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Results from The Conference Board’s C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs. However, I am surprised at the degree that localized sourcing is being considered.

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Maine Pointe

JANUARY 26, 2023

After an exciting National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City, I spent the following weekend in Orlando, FL where I enjoyed not only warmer temperatures, but the exciting Food Industry Association FMI Mid-Winter Conference.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 20, 2024

The conference will feature a diverse range of sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities tailored to meet the needs of professionals responsible for sourcing along the supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Brokerage & Managed Transportation: Handling all aspects of freight transportation, including carrier sourcing and contract management. Real-time Carrier & Brokers Spot Bidding: Finding the best rates for spot shipments. Gate, Yard, and Dock Computer Vision Asset Tracking: Using cameras to track assets within the yard.

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ChainPoint

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ChainPoint will be present as exhibitor at the 2020 Textile Sustainability Conference, a virtual conference that will take place from 2-6 November.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

John is CEO of FreightPath , an innovative talent firm that offers both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution. FreightPath addresses multiple industry challenges by offering both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 24, 2016

Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016 is the world’s most important gathering of supply chain leaders. Push past traditional boundaries, drive innovation, and uncover new sources of value for the enterprise. Date: 19 – 20 September 2016. Organisation: Gartner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Nonetheless, my takeaways below from the recent GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference provides some insight about the company, it’s success to date, and where it’s heading (assuming Infor doesn’t make any significant changes). I was driven by a challenge offered by GT Nexus: the person who tweets the most from the conference will win a drone.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Therefore, it’s not surprising that the question at the forefront of the most recent Leadership Roundtable meeting (held last month at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2018 conference ) was, How do we get started? Getting Started with Digital Transformation. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Sedex Conference 2016: Simplifying supply chain sustainability . The Sedex Conference 2016 will bring together over 1000 leaders in responsible sourcing for two days of discussion, insight, networking and practical advice – all with the aim of simplifying supply chain sustainability. Date: 2 – 3 March, 2016.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

During his tenure in the industry, he built innovative pricing and forecasting models, leveraging internal and external data sources to improve internal decision-making and increase profitability. Prior to joining DAT, Adamo led the pricing and decision science teams at FedEx.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

10th Pan-European Conference in the P2P Series. Organiser: marcus evans Conferences. URL: www.marcusevans-conferences-paneuropean.com. Attending this premier marcus evans conference will enable you to: Hear success stories on robotics and touchless. P2P Process Owners Strategy Workshop. Date 16-18 November 2016.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. To wrap up, this was my first time attending the Command Alkon conference.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2023

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. pageviews a month and over 1.5B monthly impressions.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, shared that insight during his keynote address at last week’s Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference. The post Supply Chain Talent: Insights from CSCMP Annual Conference appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves provides current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 27, 2024

At our June 2024 user conference Luca Cicchiello, Corporate VP of Supply Chain at Hutchinson, a global company with sales of over €4.5 Read more Source

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Demand Driven Technologies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At our French user conference in June 2023, our partner DFYA reminded us that we’re constantly making a huge number of decisions. Read more Source One figure put forward is 35,000 decisions per day for an adult human. If you do an Internet search on the number of decisions per day, Google will indeed give you 35,000.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

One of the things I most look forward to when attending the RILA Supply Chain conference is all of the great retail global logistics & supply chain professionals and information to be found assembled all in one place.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 17, 2024

Last week at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2024 conference in Barcelona, the supply chain community gathered for one of the most anticipated events of the year. Moving Towards Best of Breed, Not Platform, Solutions The conference highlighted a significant shift towards composable architecture.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I speak at many industry conferences throughout the year, where the majority of the audience are shippers — that is, supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing and retail companies. Today, I want to focus on what I learned at the conference, from the other side of the table, the carrier side. “If

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Megan Kelly, Crane Even if data standards existed and eased collaboration between partners, the multiple tools, solutions and platforms that many forwarders, carriers and BCOs interested in leveraging tech are starting to use can butt up against the desire for a single source of truth for all that data.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 28, 2024

Last week supply chain planning and execution synchronization technology provider Kinaxis conducted the company’s annual customer conference. Attending tech provider conferences provides an opportunity to catch up on technology training, direction and anticipated solution roadmaps.

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