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6 Reasons Why any Business Need Transportation Management Software

Shipsy

According to Globe NewsWire, The market size of global Transportation Management Systems (TMS) is forecasted to get market growth from 2020 to 2025, with a CAGR of 14.5%. The size is expected to reach USD 4330.8 million by 2025, which was USD 2524 million in 2019. These figures clearly depict how rapidly every business around the world is adopting transportation management software.

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Time for Manufacturers to Throw Out Old Ideas About Inventory Management

Supply Chain Brain

Innovative supply-chain strategies that seemed so perfectly attuned to current purchasing patterns have turned out to carry a lot more risk than their creators could ever have imagined.

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Are Storefront Retail Closures a Foregone Conclusion? Not Necessarily.

Tecsys

Traditional retail brick-and-mortar wasn’t exactly flourishing before the pandemic hit. In 2019, 9,300 stores shut… The post Are Storefront Retail Closures a Foregone Conclusion? Not Necessarily. appeared first on Tecsys.

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What is Multimodal Shipping?

GlobalTranz

Multimodal shipping represents how companies can find new value within their supply chains and augment efficiency without dramatically increasing landed costs. While multimodal continues to change in the wake of disruption from the pandemic this year, interest in new shipping strategies has exploded. The supply chain has been suffering due to the growing conglomerates like.read More.

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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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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. .

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3PL Basics: An Introduction to 3rd Party Logistics with Roberto Cadena

The Logistics of Logistics

3PL Basics: An Introduction to 3rd Party Logistics with Roberto Cadena. Robert Cadena and Joe Lynch provide an introduction to 3rd party logistics. 3rd party logistics services include 5 major categories: 1.) Transportation 2.) Warehousing 3.) Logistics 4.) Technology and 5.) Special Services. Robert is the Co-Founder and CEO of a company that provides operational, sales, marketing, and technology support to over 100 3PLs, so he has a very thorough understanding of the business.

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Unified Logistics: A New Mindset for a New Era

Logistics Viewpoints

Success in a post-pandemic business landscape requires that we truly shed the shackles of our traditional siloed thinking and embrace a holistic, customer-centric view of our supply chains. We need to take command and control of our product flow through all supply and fulfillment channels, breaking down functional walls that impede our larger view. And, finally, we need to embrace the rapidly expanding technology ecosystem to fully leverage the benefits of an open platform for ongoing logistics

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. The word, while bandied about frequently in speeches, is largely meaningless due to overuse and abuse. Here I share perspective on cash-to-cash abuse. While we speak of collaboration, the focus is on driving enterprise results not value in value chains.

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Forward-Thinking Technology is Improving Safety on the Roads

Kuebix

In recent years, technological advances have influenced nearly every aspect of the transportation industry. Technology has improved the ease and efficiency of training new drivers, optimizing truck routes, managing inventory and more. Trimble Transportation offers video intelligence, onboard event recording and safety analytics to help understand accidents and prevent future collisions.

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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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Using Resilience to Get Out of Your Own Way with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

Using Resilience to Get Out of Your Own Way with Ann Holm. Ann Holm and Joe Lynch discuss using resilience to get out of your own way. In times of stress, people need to become even more aware of their mental fitness. In this interview, Ann describes some of the challenges people face when under stress along with some strategies to become more resilient.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is Halloween. And like everything else over the last six-plus months, Halloween will be different this year. Cities and towns across the country have released trick or treating guidelines that have either canceled the practice or changed it to ensure proper social distancing and mask wearing. In my town, for example, we have a defined timeframe for kids to go trick or treating, with the understanding that no one […].

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[WHITE PAPER] Parcel Planning for Peak Season

GlobalTranz

Fill out the Form Below to Get a Free Copy of the White Paper to Your Inbox! Parcel shipping continues to redefine the standards in supply chain processes. And going as far back as 2016, McKinsey & Company explained the relationship between parcel and peak season, “in mature markets, volumes could double over the next.read More. The post [WHITE PAPER] Parcel Planning for Peak Season appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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JOLLIBEE FOODS CORPORATION successfully deploys IVALUA with CONSUS to transform procurement

ivalua

Food service leader digitizes procurement to drive efficiency, transparency and effective supplier management as it accelerates global expansion. Redwood City, CA – October 26, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, and Consus, a leading global supply chain solutions provider, today announced that Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to empower its procurement digital transformation, with Consus leading implementation.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Periodic Versus Continuous Planning – What’s Needed for Success?

Logility

The vast amount of information vying for our attention can make your head spin. When you think about how much this has changed over the last 10, 20 or more years, it is quite dizzying. It has been 13 years since the iPhone was introduced. Just 10 years prior, I remember purchasing my first Motorola Flip phone, which looked like the picture here. In 1997 this was the pinnacle of mobile technology and you just had to have one.

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Navigating Unprecedented Times with Command and Control Centers

Logistics Viewpoints

Global supply chains have changed more in the last six months than they have in the last six years. Never has the need to respond with agility been more clear. Control towers are a key tool to achieve agility. New solutions are available. The post Navigating Unprecedented Times with Command and Control Centers appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Investing in SCM Technology: Vision and Trenches – Lessons for a Successful Journey

Arkieva

The purpose of a vision in this journey is to create a focus on the implementation of decision technology as tools to overcome inherent organizational cognitive limitations of bounded rationality and uncertainty bias to improve SCM. This blog provides some critical lessons to protect a firm’s investment in technology. Investing in SCM Technology: Vision and Trenches – Lessons for a Successful Journey was first posted on October 27, 2020 at 8:02 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkie

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 10/23/2020 – 10/29/2020

All Things Supply Chain

British companies dread a Brexit border breakdown British companies are having to face bureaucracy which threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s largest trading…

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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The Horrors of Ecommerce Delivery Spell More Tricks Than Treats for Consumers

IT Supply Chain

By Andrew Tavener (pictured). Head of Marketing, Descartes. The post The Horrors of Ecommerce Delivery Spell More Tricks Than Treats for Consumers appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on Global Trade

Supply Chain Brain

In an ever-changing global economy, the best way to stabilize supply chains is through superior data visibility — and knowing when and where to act as shifts occur.

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Medical Device Manufacturing in 2021 – The 3 Key Challenges

Unleashed

For medical device manufacturers connected to the Covid-19 pandemic response, 2020 has been a year of growth. However more broadly the industry has faced the same challenges as other manufacturing sectors, with a -4.4% decline in US market size expected for 2020, according to IbisWorld data. Whether 2021 will see a return to previous growth trends (2.7% per year in the US, from IbisWorld again), depends partly on global conditions – vaccine rollouts, and supply chain stability, for example.

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The Supply Chain of Jack O’Lanterns at Halloween

All Things Supply Chain

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, in the US alone up to 148 million people are expected to celebrate Halloween this year.

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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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The role of an accountant in Supply Chains

IT Supply Chain

By Nidhi Donga (pictured). Content Writer at 123Financials. The post The role of an accountant in Supply Chains appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Watch: Building Resilience Into Supply-Chain Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Jeff Livingston, senior solutions consultant with QAD DynaSys, explains the importance of resilience in the supply-chain function, in times of high demand variability and uncertainty.

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Composable Architecture for Supply Chain Planning

Adexa

Gartner is advocating composable business architecture for real-time adaptability and resilience in the face of uncertainty. It is intended to be an architecture to support a business that exploits disruption by making things modular and orchestrating business functions as autonomous units that support each other as needed without having necessarily a central command system.

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Top Three Supply Chain Best Practices to Compete with Amazon

Tecsys

Amazon’s foray into the business-to-business (B2B) space with Amazon Business puts distributors at risk of… The post Top Three Supply Chain Best Practices to Compete with Amazon appeared first on Tecsys.

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Maximize Supply Chain Spend & Asset Utilization with Innovative Test Automation

Connected devices are emerging at an explosive rate exerting pressure on larger operators; however, some organizations cannot continue to purchase the latest & greatest devices without ramifications. The introduction of automated test technology drives the optimization of supply chain expenditures leveraging forward & reverse logistics paths. Adopting innovative test automation tools addresses these challenges by providing robust solutions for testing the interoperability, performance, & securit

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Change Is Not Always a Bad Thing

IT Supply Chain

By Marcel Gogan (pictured). Senior Software Developer. The post Change Is Not Always a Bad Thing appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Ivanti Wavelink Enhances Printer Management Capabilities for the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Ivanti Wavelink, the supply chain business unit of Ivanti, announced Ivanti Wavelink Avalanche now offers several new management and discovery capabilities for Zebra’s ruggedized thermal and barcode printers for the supply chain.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts: Succor or Sucker?

Enterra Insights

One of the characteristics associated with members of younger generations is their commitment to social causes. Journalist Nicole Schuman ( @Buffalogal ) reports, “Consumer loyalty could shift if brands do not honor their social justice commitments and promises. Forty-two percent of consumers say they would start buying from competitors if brands don’t stay true to their word, according to a new survey from Sprout Social.