Tue.Oct 17, 2023

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Funding Your Way to a Decarbonized Supply Chain

AIMMS

Sustainable supply chains are not just beneficial for society and the environment; they’re crucial for a business’s future prosperity. This is because such chains influence capital acquisition, regulatory compliance, and customer loyalty. Big investment decisions that touch the core supply chain are always hard to make, especially if the returns are not quick.

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Battered by Fierce Winds. Will E2open Survive?

Supply Chain Shaman

Rodanthe is one of my favorite beaches. During the summers when I lived in Atlanta, I would pack my bikes on top of the car and head to this wonderful, and what was then a remote beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. In the mornings, I would bike to a wonderful bakery, eat an Apple Ugly (an amazing pastry) and sit and drink coffee while staring at the ocean.

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Empowering Vendors to Reduce Pre-Shipment Delays

Talking Logistics

Streamlining pre-shipping efforts creates efficiency and visibility In an IDC research survey, supply chain executives agree, “visibility, agility, supply diversification, and collaboration strategies” are the top responses for companies to mitigate supply chain risk from disruption. Furthermore, supply chain visibility and collaboration are essential for providing sufficient insights and time to react effectively.

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Using What-if Scenario Planning to Balance Supply and Demand

Arkieva

Scenario planning provides a framework and set of tools to help planners pinpoint risks and opportunities, offer recommendations and more. Using What-if Scenario Planning to Balance Supply and Demand was first posted on October 17, 2023 at 8:16 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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4 Ways To Drive Supply Chain Excellence in the Food Industry

The Supplier Relationship Management Playbook is your guide to building effective supplier partnerships that drive supply chain excellence. This playbook equips supply chain professionals with strategies for managing compliance, tracking performance, and fostering collaboration to reduce supply chain risks. Inside, you’ll find: Strategies for Compliance: Best practices to help meet regulatory standards.

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October 17, 2023 Update

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home October 17, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market.

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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

As China’s economy slows, its leaders worry that emerging foreign government and transnational corporate strategies focused on trade with China will make matters worse. In many respects, they only have themselves to blame. Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic highlighted global dependence on Chinese manufacturing — and those dependencies raised serious concerns among China’s trading partners.

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Localizing Decision-Making Maximizes Benefits of Digital Tech Investments

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain decision-makers are caught in a balancing act of competing priorities. To analyze the tradeoffs, many are investing in digital technologies. Often, however, that investment has yet to yield positive results.

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Strengthening Healthcare Systems: The Vital Role of Supply Chain Collaboration

Tecsys

Strengthening healthcare systems through supply chain collaboration is crucial for optimized patient care, cost savings, and innovation. Discover key areas for improvement and the benefits of collaboration in this insightful blog post.

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Auto Supply Chain Prophets Podcast Wrap-up: Eps. 37-40

QAD

If you haven’t yet listened to or read about them, take a look at our wrap-up blogs covering past episodes of the Auto Supply Chain Prophets podcast. As we move from the leisurely days of summer to fall and peak demand season, I’m reminded that the automotive supply chain is changing just as rapidly as the seasons do. Likewise, the action never stops here at the Auto Supply Chain Prophets podcast, because Cathy Fisher of Quistem, Jan Griffiths of Gravitas Detroit and I never miss a beat on suppo

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Saving Logistics Costs – Inventory

Logistics Bureau

We all strive to save costs, not just our clients but also in our own businesses, especially in all the supply chain and logistics operations we undertake. Did you know that you can reduce logistics costs through effective inventory management? Some of it sounds very basic and yet, so many businesses really do miss these Inventory Management techniques.

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Exiger Introduces New Supply Chain Platform and UX

Supply Chain Brain

Brendan Galla, chief product officer with Exiger, describes 1Exiger, the company’s platform for proactive risk and supply chain management, and automation of decision flows.

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Report Indicating Consideration of Potential Buyout of E2open

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides an update to our previous posting regarding the announced senior leadership transition that occurred in B2B supply chain platform provider E2open Holdings. A published report from Bloomberg ( Paid subscription required ) indicates that activist hedge fund Eliott Management “ is considering making a proposal to take supply-chain-software company E2open Parent Holdings Inc. private, according to people familiar with the matter.

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7 Essential Skills Required to Start & Run a Successful Business

IT Supply Chain

By Rob Jackson (pictured) Content Writer The post 7 Essential Skills Required to Start & Run a Successful Business appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Scouting for Success: The Role of Data in NFL and Dispatching Strategies

Locus

Two decades ago, apart from the obvious things like talent and skill, the National Football League (NFL) scouts would give a chance to launch multi-million dollar careers based on characteristics and intangibles like maturity and confidence. Today, teams are armed with data like never before, making the jobs of NFL scouts more efficient. Whether it was Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady , or any great player, an NFL scout first identifies them, bringing them to the attention of team management.

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Airbus and Boeing Q3 Aircraft Delivery and Order Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights Airbus and Boeing Q3-2023 commercial aircraft delivery and orders performance along with abilities to meet 2023 production milestones. As Supply Chain Matters has highlighted for readers in a number of prior commercial aircraft industry supply network postings, both Airbus and Boeing have been under the looking glass to meet or exceed plans for ramping-up monthly new aircraft deliveries amid airline order backlogs that extend for years.

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ThroughPut.AI Builds Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Solution on the Snowflake Data Cloud

ThroughPut

The ThroughPut.ai Supply Chain Decision Intelligence solution, Powered by Snowflake, provides customers with end-to-end supply chain actionability for real-time recommendations to minimize disruptions, mitigate risks, deliver results, and accelerate time-to-value. PALO ALTO, CA, October 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ThroughPut Inc. , the industrial AI Supply Chain Decision Intelligence pioneer, today announced the launch of its ThroughPut.AI Supply Chain Decision Intelligence solution, Powered by Sn

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Prevalent Launches AI-Powered Virtual Third-Party Risk Advisor

Supply Chain Brain

The AI-powered program uses anonymized data to provide users with risk management insights based on various industry guidelines.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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Decision Intelligence Tech To Empower Logistics: The Ways This New Automation Is Better

ThroughPut

The post Decision Intelligence Tech To Empower Logistics: The Ways This New Automation Is Better appeared first on ThroughPut.

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The Pros & Cons of Different Order Fulfillment Company Models

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

In the world of order fulfillment, where poor execution can erode customer confidence and profits, choosing the right partner is critical. But with literally thousands of companies to choose from, that choice can be confusing. But providers tend to fall under a handful of order fulfillment company models. If you understand which model works best for your business, you can narrow the choices and zero in on the perfect partner.

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Sustainable Shipping: Ship Fewer, Heavier Containers

I.C.E. Transport

One of the fastest and easiest solutions to sustainable shipping of ocean cargo is to maximize the payload of every container you ship and, in the process, ship 20% fewer containers. That's fewer ocean freight moves, fewer road moves, less handling, lower freight bills and, yes, a sizably reduced carbon footprint.

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Last Mile Delivery Platform: MercuryGate Use Cases and Success Stories

MercuryGate

Last-mile delivery is pivotal for brand promise, with 53% of shipping costs stemming from this phase. Read these case studies to see how MercuryGate’s last-mile delivery platform helps businesses overcome delivery challenges, optimize routes, and enhance customer communication. The post Last Mile Delivery Platform: MercuryGate Use Cases and Success Stories appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Bankrupt Rite Aid Settles with Drug Supplier McKesson to Avoid Shortages

Supply Chain Brain

Lawyers for the two companies said that they’ve agreed in principle to a settlement that will end a lawsuit Rite Aid filed against McKesson over their supply agreement.

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Building a Fortune 500 Logistics Program as a Middle Market Company

Freight Plus

Join FreightPlus CEO, Stephen Aborn, along with our client and carrier partners Colin Christ from Cenveo and Mark Watson from Estes, to discuss Building a Fortune 500 Logistics Program as a Middle Market Company.

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Watch: Are Online Sales Down? The Answer Might Surprise You

Supply Chain Brain

One might think that online sales have dipped post-pandemic, but that's not the case, says Vijay Ramachandran, vice president of go-to-market enablement and experience with Pitney Bowes.

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Key Steps for Successful Procurement: The Power of RFx Software

ProcurePort

Businesses always want to make their procurement processes simpler, choose better vendors, and spend less money. This is where RFx software comes into play. RFx is a tool that helps organizations improve their sourcing efforts. It stands for Request for Information, Request for Proposal, and Request for Quotation. This article will discuss RFx software. […] The post Key Steps for Successful Procurement: The Power of RFx Software appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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11 KPIs for Measuring Innovation Success

Measuring innovation success is critical yet challenging for organizations, often leading to confusion over which KPIs to use. Many rely on inappropriate metrics borrowed from other departments, wasting resources and overlooking valuable opportunities. This guide outlines why innovation metrics are hard to track and offers a framework for creating effective KPIs.

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Executives Say IT Investments Affect Their Company's Sustainability

Supply Chain Brain

Lowering energy costs was cited as the most important reason for companies when it came to investing in IT for sustainability.

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Locus Robotics and SOC 2 Type II Certification: Two Years Running

Locus Robotics

By Robert Pruyn, Senior Compliance Lead Locus Robotics has once again successfully completed its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit for the Security trust principle. This achievement demonstrates our continued commitment to maintaining comprehensive security for our customers. For those unfamiliar, SOC 2 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) that ensures proper controls and procedures are in place for security, availability, processing integr

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Primark Planning Expansion in the Southern U.S.

Supply Chain Brain

By the end of 2023, Primark will have opened eight stores in the U.S. with a plan to open 60 stores in the United States by 2026.