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Measuring the Costs of Poor Quality Packaging

CHAINalytics

Skimping on packaging materials and design leads to one primary consequence – waste. Sacrificing delivered quality in the name of cost savings alone can negatively impact your bottom line and environmental goals. Some initiatives that take a blanket approach to reduce packaging costs and improve margins often lack a holistic view of the potential downstream … The post Measuring the Costs of Poor Quality Packaging appeared first on Chainalytics.

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How to Approach Multi-Tier Supplier Assessments

SupplyShift

Organizations big and small rely heavily on hundreds—if not thousands—of different suppliers around the globe. In this type of supply chain ecosystem, companies must understand sustainability performance of not only their tier-one suppliers, but also their second, third, and fourth tier suppliers and beyond. Yet according to Deloitte , a recent study revealed that while most companies have social and environmental systems in place for internal operations, less than a third have similar structure

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3 Reasons A Retail Consolidation Program Leads to Better Supply Chain Outcomes

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Maintaining inventory levels and optimizing order quantities, while keeping retailer compliance requirements in mind, requires careful coordination and a strategic approach. If you’re currently shipping less than truckload (LTL) or underutilized truckload freight to retailers, a retail consolidation program might be the solution you need. Meeting demands during the retail revolution.

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Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Tips for Shippers to Mitigate Cyber Attacks

Logistics Viewpoints

Cyberattacks seem to be growing in prevalence and severity, particularly those around the major supply chains in the US, including both the fuel supply chain and the food supply chain. On June 2, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that a ransomware attack against JBS had resulted in the cancellation of shifts across all US plants. Such an event has constrained the meat supply chain more than ever, sparking fears of massive food shortages, and it comes mere weeks after the other major cyberat

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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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How a 3PL Empowers Shippers With LTL Transportation Stability

GlobalTranz

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as carriers continue to see overarching demands for their services increase. No carrier or mode has been excluded from the increased demand of e-commerce and a customer base that’s anxious for a return to normalcy, including the LTL transportation sector. For shippers, understanding what’s impacting the LTL market and how it affects traditional approaches to LTL transportation management is critical to maintaining supply chain efficie

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As Pandemic Winds Down, Supply Chains Prepare for the Holidays

Enterra Insights

The 2021 holiday shopping season could be hugely successful if recent trends continue. For example, overall retail sales in April rose by 51.2% year-over-year. Michael Brown, a Partner in A.T. Kearney’s Consumer Products and Retail Practice, asserts, “Retailers need to review forecasts and inventory commitments for Holiday 2021 which could be a blockbuster.

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Why Route Optimization is Important During the Driver Shortage

Logistics Viewpoints

Pick your country, but you will find the same story: there are not enough drivers to meet transportation demand and the situation is not likely to change for years. Ecommerce experienced significant growth globally during the pandemic and is not slowing down as countries continue to open up. Other country-specific factors, such as Brexit which caused approximately 60,000* European drivers to leave the UK and an aging workforce and competition from other professions in the US, have put pressure o

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CPE Planning Level, IBP, Elixirs, and the Ongoing Challenge

Arkieva

In SCM there is an ongoing flow of elixirs (magic potion) from ‘false prophets’ claiming that they are an easy path to improved performance. A recent elixir is IBP followed by “doing central planning at the family level” to neutralize the uncertainty associated with estimating demand at the product level. This blog will illustrate the challenge in this effort since factories produce products, not families.

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How the Internet of Things Could Help Solve the Chip Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

The recent computer chip shortage has created problems across industries, leading companies to reassess how they mitigate supply chain risk.

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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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What Level of Automated eCommerce Fulfillment Makes Sense?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

An ongoing logistics labor shortage and a year of pandemic-related supply chain disruptions have left many retail and eCommerce businesses wishing for more automated eCommerce fulfillment. Extensive automation of fulfillment operations requires a significant upfront investment, making the concept intimidating for many growing online sellers. The truth is most fulfillment centers don’t need extensive automation to run a highly efficient operation.

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Agility is not Resilence

Logistics Viewpoints

Gail Sayers, the Most Agile Halfback of all Time. Business professionals talk about “agility” and “resilience” as if they are the same thing. They are not. A company with an agile supply chain can react quickly to big increases or decreases in demand. An agile company is like a half back in football that can dart quickly to the left or the right depending upon the opening.

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Using Design Thinking to drive SC Innovation

Prophetic Technology

We should see the Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a team. Its success depends on a working party pulling together towards a common goal and operating through a collaborative alignment.

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Women in Engineering Day: how to encourage young women into a career in STEM

IT Supply Chain

By Rachel Hurst (pictured). COO, Domino Printing Sciences. The post Women in Engineering Day: how to encourage young women into a career in STEM 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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How to Get Bitcoins Fast!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What to Look for Before Investing and Storing Bitcoin! Get Bitcoins fast article and permission to publish here provided by Bailey Merton. If you’re looking to invest in cryptocurrencies, now is the right time. Even though bitcoin has been going through massive dips in the past, it is still just as valuable as before.

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How to Show Your MOM Year Round Appreciation

QAD

Have You Connected with Your MOM Lately? When we say MOM, of course we’re talking about your Manufacturing Operations Management system. It’s the system of processes you use to bridge your ERP and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with your equipment and shop floor automation. Whatever manufacturers need to manage actual manufacturing operations to get the product built and out the door – that’s MOM.

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Ecommerce Product Catalog Management: Why It’s Important for Your Store

ShipBob

When you think of catalog management, do you picture a glossy JC Penny paper booklet full of ~trendy~ new clothing that came in the mail? . While the days of cheesy poses by unknown fashion models may be mostly long gone, catalogs in the context of ecommerce today are a lot more functional than fashionable. . And while you might not have a catalog as large as SkyMall, it’s just as important to manage your products this way, so you can expand your product line, attract the right customers, and sp

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Organisations need to utilise modern technologies to ensure that employees are doing their job effectively

IT Supply Chain

By Andrew Filev (pictured). Founder of Wrike. The post Organisations need to utilise modern technologies to ensure that employees are doing their job effectively appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Supply Chain Woes with Inflation Rising … What’s Next?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Inflation rising article and permission to publish here provided by Olivia Alex. Companies rely on supply chain management to reduce costs and increase their production cycle. Sadly, with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, many global organizations had to rethink their supply chain strategy , especially those who depended solely on China for their requirements of

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Watch: The Long-Term Impact of the Colonial Pipeline Shutdown

Supply Chain Brain

Thomas Goldsby, professor and Haslam Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee, discusses the short- and long-term impacts of the ransomware attack that temporarily shut down a major East Coast gasoline pipeline.

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Benchmarking the Modern WMS with Fuel Transport: Tecsys Receives 2021 Top Supply Chain Project Award

Tecsys

Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected Tecsys as a recipient of the Top Supply Chain Projects Award for 2021 in association with the company’s supply chain transformation project at Montreal-based logistics and transportation company, Fuel Transport. The post Benchmarking the Modern WMS with Fuel Transport: Tecsys Receives 2021 Top Supply Chain Project Award appeared first on Tecsys.

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6 River Systems Garners S&DCE Top Supply Chain Projects Award Win for Crocs Partnership

6 River Systems

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many businesses pivoted in how they operated on a day-to-day basis. One such company was Crocs , which opened its Dayton, Ohio distribution center in October of 2019, with 40% more space than its previous operation. With the additional space, the company had expected to deliver 50% more throughput. At the same time, Crocs was unofficially becoming the leisure shoe of choice for those who were now working from home, and with that came an increased demand far mor

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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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Mining! The Backbone of Bitcoin Technology

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Understanding the Bitcoin Mining Process! Mining! The Backbone of Bitcoin Technology article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. Bitcoin was released as a digitalized coinage in the year 2008 at the very first glance. However, the characters rendered by the cryptocurrency king transformed the digitalized coinage into a speculative asset.

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The 10 inventory management trends to watch for in 2022

Unleashed

2021 has been a tumultuous year, marking a transition period from the chaos of 2020 through to the beginning of the post-Covid-19 recovery. It’s seen businesses adapting rapidly, with technology playing a key role in giving managers the flexibility and efficiency to thrive. Best practice inventory management – and the wider world of supply chain management – has played a big part in business survival through 2021.

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Bristlecone and Aera Technology Announce Strategic Partnership

Supply Chain Brain

Bristlecone, a provider of AI-powered application transformation services for the connected supply chain, has announced a new partnership with Cognitive Automation company Aera Technology.

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Ignoring corporate sustainability responsibilities is not an option for logistics companies

IT Supply Chain

By Paul Mulcahy (pictured). Quality, Health, Safety & Environment Manager, Toyota. The post Ignoring corporate sustainability responsibilities is not an option for logistics companies appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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What Makes a Warehouse Worker Happy?

The 2024 Newcastle Systems Worker Satisfaction Survey provides insights into the life of a warehouse worker and what matters to them.

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Great Bitcoin Features!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How Bitcoin Works! Bitcoin features article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. Many cryptocurrencies have come and gone, but no one could attain success achieved by the bitcoins only because of blockchain. Yes, bitcoin is a top-rated digital currency that has become the top choice of people worldwide.

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What food logistics services does a 3PL provide?

West Coast and California Logistics

Food companies looking to optimize their supply chains can do well to entrust operations to a third-party logistics provider (3PL) that specializes in food logistics services. They can distribute your products through the supply chain safely, while optimizing your business’s efficiency in the process. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the many food logistics services a 3PL can provide.

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Timely award recognition for SnapFulfil

SnapFulfil

Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the only publication covering the entire global supply chain, has selected SnapFulfil for its Top Supply Chain Projects Award for 2021. The Top Supply Chain Projects (formerly known as SDCE 100) spotlights successful and innovative transformation projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across a range of supply chain functions.