Sat.Aug 29, 2020 - Fri.Sep 04, 2020

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Logistics Operations Forecasting- Are you doing it right?

ThroughPut

What is Logistics Forecasting? Logistics demand forecasting is the process of accurately anticipating the demand for products, services, and shipments throughout the supply chain. This takes into account even the most uncontrollable conditions or circumstances. To accomplish this, it would be ideal for manufacturers to implement a forecasting model to predict capacity demand, relying on a combination of their own historical data and multiple external variables.

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AI Supply Chain for E-Commerce: Opportunities to Save Resources

GlobalTranz

Creating new value and maintaining competitive advantage within the supply chain remains challenging for companies around the globe. As e-commerce grows, the ability to respond and offer a seamless, superior customer experience also grows more challenging. Fortunately, the applications of logistics artificial intelligence (AI) are well-poised to meet this demand and help accommodate the changing.read More.

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3 Reasons You Can’t Afford to Wait: Agility, Resiliency, and Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain is in the spotlight. It is the business function that is front and center - on top of the minds of consumers and executives. The global pandemic has ripped the rug out from under supply chains, but also highlighted its importance. Agility, resiliency, and sustainability are keys to supply chain survival, so you can’t afford to wait to invest in building these capabilities, which are entwined with each other.

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LogiSYM GAME CHANGER

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Stay ahead or get left behind – what you need to know about supply chains post COVID-19. 01 OCTOBER 2020 | 11AM (SGT). LogiSYM GAME CHANGER give professionals a chance to interact with partners and the experts from LSCMS to learn how to re-prioritize and adapt to the new world of demand and supply post COVID-19. All participants to LogiSYM GAME CHANGER will not only get to hear about the latest solutions in supply chain but unlike any other webinar out there, participants will have a one-o

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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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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (September 4, 2020)

Talking Logistics

I drove three hours yesterday to see my mom and sister. I hadn’t seen them since December. It was time. It was a surprise visit for my mom. When I arrived at my sister’s backyard — wearing a mask, sunglasses, and baseball hat — she didn’t recognize me at first. She thought I was a. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (September 4, 2020).

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This Week in Logistics News (August 29 – September 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

As the COVID pandemic continues, we have written a number of articles about the supply chain impact and the shortages of products and supplies that has ensued. Recently, there was a concern that there would be a shortage of glass vials for a vaccine that could hinder production. And I just read about another shortage that could impact the vaccine timeline: monkeys.

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Can You Make the Case For Supply Chain Technology Investment?

Arkieva

The right technology can provide a solution to maintaining optimal supply chain planning, but how can you justify the investment? Can You Make the Case For Supply Chain Technology Investment? was first posted on September 1, 2020 at 7:39 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Ivalua Launches Pre-Packaged Spend Management Solutions for Construction & Engineering Companies

ivalua

Industry best practice procurement capabilities now available for rapid deployment to improve margins. Redwood City, CA September 2, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged procurement suite for construction and engineering companies. The solutions span the full source-to-pay process and enable customers to make margin gains by streamlining procurement tasks, automating cost reconciliation, and managin

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Using a TMS to Capture Multi-Modal Ratings to Manage Peak Season Costs

GlobalTranz

Keeping freight spend under control and maintaining logistics visibility have always been a top priority for supply chain leaders going into peak season. Unfortunately, peak season costs continue to soar. For 2020, peak season costs are likely to shatter records. This is especially true as UPS and FedEx have now announced record-breaking peak surcharges.

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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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What Happens to Retail in Fall 2020?

Logility

As retail companies enter the traditional “back-to-school” selling season, we must acknowledge there is nothing traditional about BTS 2020. Organizations across the world have been forced to pivot selling and inventory strategies to address the many issues brought on by Covid-19. Two lessons of the past 6 months: 1) Companies need more time to make decisions.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 08/28/20 – 09/03/20

All Things Supply Chain

Amazon Prime Air to begin drone delivery testing Amazon Prime Air have been granted an exemption by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which will allow them to begin drone delivery…

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Supply Chain Resilience is a New Imperative

Enterra Insights

The topic of supply chain resilience sprouted in the media and professional journals as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or spring back into shape. The pandemic has certainly tested those supply chain characteristics. Suketu Gandhi and Steve Mehltretter, partners at Kearney, explain, “For many companies, supply chain excellence has long meant developing the most cost-effective way to deliver a product on time t

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5 Possible Scenarios for Peak Season Demand in 2020 | Fast Freight Five VIDEO

GlobalTranz

Rapidly changing supply chain market conditions have created vast uncertainty for peak season demand in 2020. Preliminary reports suggest upcoming spend will break records. However, the continuance of the COVID-19 pandemic and the upcoming US election will add more uncertainty to the mix. Freight management parties need to understand the top five possible scenarios for.read More.

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The Evolving Retailer's Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

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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The challenges of ‘Virtual Mediation’ as a result of COVID-19

IT Supply Chain

By Ian Timlin (pictured). Lawyer at Conexus Law. The post The challenges of ‘Virtual Mediation’ as a result of COVID-19 appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Blockchain Capacity Boost for Fortune 500 Shippers as ShipChain Mainnet Goes Live

Shipchain

Complete supply chain transparency, unprecedented security, and the transactional capacity to serve the needs of even the largest Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies are all now possible following the launch of ShipChain Mainnet. This launch is a significant milestone toward achieving a modular system across the entire supply chain. With all the uncertainties in the world today, it gives supply chain decision-makers the incentive to move from considering how blockchain might be used in global s

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Your home - the Last Mile endpoint of preference

Prophetic Technology

Governmental stay-at-home mandate during the pandemic provoked most consumers to intensify their online buying behaviour, making their residences the final-end-point for their purchases.

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Five Strategies for Improving Your Reverse Logistics Process

Supply Chain Brain

Making product returns as hassle-free as purchasing is the final frontier for the supply chain.

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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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Stochastic Planning – A Shift in Paradigm from S&OP

Adexa

in different seasons, with events or other social and environmental factors. This knowing enables accurate and adaptable modeling that leads to producing plans that are not just optimized but exact enough for immediate execution without user intervention. S&OP technology is a rough modeling of the supply chain that does not take into account the variability of resource availability and delivery of raw materials as well as likelihood of disruptions.

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Blockchain Will Eventually Make Supply Chains More Resilient

Enterra Insights

Supply chain resiliency has been a much-discussed topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rebecca Liao ( @beccaliao ), Co-Founder and Executive Vice-President at SKUChain, and Ziyang Fan ( @ZiyangFan ), Head of Digital Trade at World Economic Forum, assert resiliency begins with visibility. They explain, “In the wake of supply chain disruptions due to coronavirus, several experts have reiterated the need to obtain more visibility across the chain. … Obtaining this visibility is considere

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Blue Yonder CloudCon 2020 – Migrate and Transform Your Business Now with SaaS

BlueYonder

Turn Disruption into Opportunity with the Power of Cloud. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the clear need for supply chains resiliency like never before. In this time of disruption, there is also a great opportunity for companies to recalibrate and reimagine their supply chain strategies to take control of what’s coming next and gain competitive advantage in the market.

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The Complete Guide To Calculating Total Manufacturing Costs

Unleashed

To calculate total manufacturing cost you add together three different cost categories: the costs of direct materials, direct labour and manufacturing overheads. Expressed as a formula, that’s: Total manufacturing cost = Direct materials + Direct labour + Manufacturing overheads. That’s the simple version. However there’s a lot more to properly calculating total manufacturing costs than just knowing the formula.

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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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UPS Increases SurePost Rates to Match USPS Pricing Changes

Intelligent Audit

Much of what has happened in the shipping world in the last 6 months could be called “unprecedented.” From monumental pricing changes to carrier capacity issues impacting shippers, the world of shipping has been turned on its head and shippers are still trying to catch up. In Mid-August, another unprecedented announcement happened – USPS announced that, for the first time, it would be implementing a holiday surcharge.

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How a Big Grocery Supply Chain Took Control During the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

In the battle to keep essential products flowing to store shelves during the coronavirus pandemic, Retail Business Services has been on the front line.

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How to Prepare Your Holiday Order Fulfillment Now

Freight Center

Summer is slowly coming to a close, and the holiday season will be here before we know it. This year has been different for many reasons, but the preparation phase when it comes to your holiday shipping plan shouldn’t be different. With the crazy growth in eCommerce and all the changes that that involves, it has only emphasized the need and importance of supply chain preparing, planning and strategizing.

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Why Cybersecurity Matters in the Food & Beverage Supply Chain

QAD

Very few tasks today are done without some type of computer or data-based technology. I can still remember grocery stores, department stores and the like using the manual cash registers and the carbon imprint credit card devices. If the power to the store went out, you could still purchase items and products could still be ordered from suppliers and distributors.

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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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WMS TRAINING for Implementation Triumph: How it works

SCJunction

Team training is a key element in a successful warehouse implementation. Even the best system in the world cannot operate without being run! In this blog we speak to William Sudding , tech trainer supreme at Supply Chain Junction, to tell you everything you need to know about the training that should happen before your business is ready to rock your new systems.

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5 Reasons to Sell on Amazon!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How to Sell on Amazon! The Complete Guide! Reasons to Sell on Amazon article and permission to publish here provided by Chary Manango. Are you looking to sell something on Amazon ? It can seem overwhelming in the beginning, dipping your toes into the vast ocean that is Amazon. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dive on in.

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The New ROI: Return on Inclusion

BlueYonder

It’s no secret that many businesses are enacting change to deliver value. For many, that means focusing on diversity and inclusion initiatives that bring meaningful change. With the global adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals , as well as the impact of consumers looking to brands to lead social and environmental change, being committed to diversity and inclusion is more than just a box to check for businesses.