Tue.Dec 13, 2016

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Heard It through the Grapevine? Now Your Demand Forecasting Can Too

ToolsGroup

Editor's Note: This is the third in a three part series on advanced demand analytics to improve demand forecasting. Part One of the series, on New Product Introduction (NPI), can be found here. Part Two of the series, on Using Weather and Climate Data to Improve Forecasting , can be found here. When you hear the phrase “I heard it through the grapevine” you may think of the 1960s hit song.

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Your Supply Chain Strategy is Your Business Plan (Unless It’s Not)

Talking Logistics

More than 14 years ago, when I was still a relatively new supply chain analyst, I attended the CSCMP Annual Conference, and I still remember these words delivered by Michael Eskew, former Chairman and CEO of UPS, in his keynote presentation: “We’re seeing a dynamic shift in the relationship between business plans and logistics, a shift from the perception of our industry as a back-end process to a front-end strategy that informs and supports the entire business plan.

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage If you haven’t already, please read Bill Dubois’s blog, “ Latest Polls Show We’ve Lost Faith in Polls ”. Bill speaks to three factors, unpredictability, high randomness and variability. In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

Introduction. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Distribution Center Optimization

NFI Industries

The distribution center (DC) is a key component of the supply chain, providing organization and storage as a product moves from manufacturer to consumers. E-commerce fulfillment is a growing part of the supply chain and one of the major influences on distribution centers. With an increased demand from consumers, optimizing DCs is more important than.

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Cognitive Apps for Supply Chain Management [New Products]

Material Handling & Logistics

FusionOps has introduced a suite of next-generation cognitive applications that apply machine learning techniques and AI to identify and capitalize on opportunities that optimize business performance. read more.

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U.S./Mexico Shipping Series Part 3: Transportation Success is More than a Low Rate per Mile

CH Robinson Transportfolio

U.S./Mexico Shipping Series Part 3: Transportation Success is More than a Low Rate per Mile.Transportfolio by C.H. Robinson. More than ever before, shippers have better access to information, and better quality information about how to find transportation savings. Our white paper, Supply Chains: Where to Find the Biggest, Fastest Transportation Savings , is just one example and it offers multiple ways to save.

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Retailers Keep the Ports Humming during the Holidays

Material Handling & Logistics

Imports at major U.S. ports are up over 2015 as retailers are making sure their shelves are well stocked for the holidays. read more.

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More Insights on Deploying the Digital Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

On the second day of our executive focus group on the LIVING Supply Chain, the group took the opportunity to share insights regarding the emerging trends in the future of supply chains, with a focus on digitization, development of analytics and a focus on emerging technologies. The executives spent a good amount of time emphasizing the importance of “getting the question right” when it came to building analytical insights.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Samsung Fixing Abuses Found in Its Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

“We identified one of our labor supply companies to be in violation of the hiring process of migrant workers, and as consequence, we terminated our contract with this company. The remaining labor supply companies are under investigation.”. read more.

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December Retail Vendor Performance Management Bulletin Newsletter Now Available

Supply Chain Digest

Inlfection Point in Retail Supply Chains Part 3, RSR Research on Retail Supply Chiain Execution, More

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Surviving Business Start Up Stress & How to Deal With It

GlobalTranz

Many fresh graduates work hard to get that one good business idea and then work on it instead of opting for a traditional career. While the eventual success looks great, to get there, you have to wade through a very turbulent sea of difficulties and what we call “start-up” stress. Such is the stress associated with a start-up that we have given it, its domain.

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Retail Vendor Performance Management News Round Up for December, 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Excellent On Demand Videocast on Successful Vendor Compliance, RSR Benchmark Report on Supply Chain Execution

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Big Data and Ethics

Enterra Insights

“When Facebook researchers manipulated how stories appear in News Feeds for a mood contagion study in 2014,” writes Sarah Zhang, … Continued. The post Big Data and Ethics appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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5 Business Tips from a 20-Year Brokerage

DAT Solutions

Brian Sutton, CEO. George Copeland, CFO. Brian Sutton and George Copeland co-founded Austin Freight Systems (AFS) 20 years ago, after the freight brokerage they were working for lost its biggest customer. At that time, both men already had 19 years of transportation experience under their respective belts. Today the company has 14 employees, including Sutton, the CEO, and Copeland, the CFO.

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Divide and Conquer

BlueYonder

The Pizza Problem. I love pizza and frequently order from a shop that guarantees to deliver a pizza to my doorstep within 30 minutes from placing the order. I’ve always wondered what it takes for them to receive an order, prepare a pizza, get it packed with sides, travel to the destination locality, search for the correct house and then ring the bell – all within 30 minutes – every single time.

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Industry Trends to Expect Next Year

ModusLink Corporation

As the year winds down, some will be sad to see 2016 go – while others will be happily showing it the door and changing the locks after it’s gone. Regardless of whether it was a good or a bad year for you, the hope and promise of the new year will soon be upon […]. The post Industry Trends to Expect Next Year appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Distinctions Between Discrete and Process Manufacturing

synchrono

Process manufacturing is different, distinct, and distinguishable from discrete manufacturing. Process manufacturing uses formulations versus discrete manufacturers use Bills of Materials (BOMs) and assembles along a routing. Process manufacturers blend a batch – often a literal recipe found in food and beverage manufacturing. Discrete manufacturers are typically ETO (engineer-to-order), which includes make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), and assemble-to-order (ATO) production facilit

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RFID, AIDC, and IoT News on It Starts, as Measures in US, Japan Going to Track People with Automatic Identification

Supply Chain Digest

Stuff of Science Fiction May be Closer than We Think

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More than playing trucks

Tailwind

“V-a-r-o-o—o-o-m. Sc-r—e-e-e-e-e-ech……… BOOM!”. “Mr. Pratt, Mr. Pratt… what are you doing?”. “Oh hi, Prab… I was just playing with some trucks in my office. This guy driving the green rig wasn’t paying attention and ran the red light… and kaboom… he hit the guy in the gray Freightliner. Quite a pile-up don’t you say.”.

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Afternoon Coffee: AWS Educate Expands Global Reach, Trump Picks ExxonMobil CEO for Secretary of State

Aera Technology

AWS Educate announced Monday it is expanding the number of countries in which its Cloud Career Pathways are available. The new reach totals 36 countries, an addition of 31 new regions from the originals in the United States, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China. To learn more about AWS Educate and its significance to the evolving talent supply chain, check out Andrew Karpie’s recent coverage.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.