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Are You Prepared for a Climate-Change Charged Hurricane Season?

Enterra Insights

The world has seen some pretty brutal effects of climate change this summer — including the fact that the hurricane season got off to an early start back in May. Climate journalist Jason Samenow ( @JSamenow ) reported, “Packing winds of 105 mph, Agatha slammed into Mexico’s southern west coast as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane — the strongest the country has endured in the month of May.”[1] Unlike many events that disrupt supply chains, hurricanes can be anticipated and plans can b

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Cost to Serve and Its 5 Key Benefits

Logistics Bureau

Here are the 5 Cost to Serve advantages from which your supply chain could benefit. Here is a complete YouTube playlist on the topic: [link]. More Cost-to-Serve resources here: Cost to Serve at a Glance: 9 Steps to Success & 5 Mistakes to Avoid. Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers. An 8-point Guide to Understanding Your Cost to Serve.

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How Covid Changed the Restaurant Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Automation Helps Selling Food Online! The pandemic saw the restaurant industry face challenges like never before, with most being forced to close for a substantial period and, when allowed to re-open once more, having to operate under new restrictions, ensuring social distancing was being maintained for example.

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The Race for Last Mile Drones

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the most difficult and expensive aspects of the supply chain is last mile and home delivery. However, from a customer experience standpoint, it is also the most memorable and possibly important. Autonomous last mile deliveries are part of the answer to the e-commerce boom that we are experiencing. I have already written about autonomous mobile robots and how they are changing last mile deliveries.

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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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This Could Be Scary: A Halloween Candy Shortage

Enterra Insights

If geopolitics, inflation, and climate change aren’t enough to worry about, there are now warnings that there could be a shortage of Halloween Candy. The first company to sound the alarm was Hershey. Journalist Mehr Bedi reports, “Hershey Co said on [28 July] it would fall short of meeting demand for the all-important Halloween and Christmas holiday seasons this year, blaming a scarcity of raw ingredients and difficulties in securing suppliers.”[1] The following day journalist

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The Big Sigh

Supply Chain Shaman

I hopped on the plane in Baltimore on my way to Atlanta last week. Always late, I squeezed past a middle-aged man wearing a black mask in the aisle seat and promptly fell asleep nodding my head on the window ledge. As we circled Atlanta, I woke up and started a obligatory conversation with my neighbor. I started with, “Tell me about you. What brings you to Atlanta?

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Transforming Freight Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

Most supply chain suppliers have solutions that are very similar to each other. Occasionally, a cool vendor emerges – a vendor solving an important problem in a new way. Emerge is that kind of company. Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. There is a need for a more nimble, continuous bidding process.

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Walmart Transportation with Doug Estrada

The Logistics of Logistics

Doug Estrada and Joe Lynch discuss Walmart transportation. Doug is a Senior Director of Supply Chain at Walmart , the largest retailer in the world. About Doug Estrada. Douglas Estrada is a Senior Director of Supply Chain at Walmart Stores Inc. A graduate of Doane University in Crete, NE. Doug Estrada has 30 plus years of experience in Supply Chain with the last 20 years of supporting Walmart Stores, Inc.

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The De-Globalization of Supply Chains Is Reflected In Trade Policy

Talking Logistics

If we’ve learned anything in the last few years, it’s how vulnerable our supply chains have become in the last five decades. In a global economy, no nation or industry is self?sufficient. Each is involved at various levels in trade to sell what it produces, acquire what it lacks and produce more efficiently than the. Read more The De-Globalization of Supply Chains Is Reflected In Trade Policy.

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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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Solar PV Global Supply Chains

SCM Research

The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report entitled Solar PV Global Supply Chains. It examines solar PV (= photovoltaic) supply chains “from raw materials all the way to the finished product, spanning the five main segments of the manufacturing process: polysilicon, ingots, wafers, cells and modules”. The authors argue that “[p]utting the world on a path to reaching net zero emissions requires solar PV to expand globally on an even greater scale, raising concerns abou

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Do You See What I See? How to Select a TMS Visibility Platform for Improved Speed, Quality, and Cost

Logistics Viewpoints

To test the thinking and visibility of his students, Socrates held up a white ball in front of his student and asked, “What color is the ball?”. Almost without thinking, the student answered, “The ball is white, teacher.”. Socrates then slowly turned the ball around to reveal the back of the ball, painted black. “Next time, before you answer,” said Socrates, “examine both sides.”.

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Tracking Medical Shipments with Alex Guillen

The Logistics of Logistics

Alex Guillen and Joe Lynch discuss tracking medical shipments. Alex is the Director of Sales, Life Science and Pharma Europe at Tive , the leading provider of real-time supply chain visibility insights that help logistics professionals actively manage their in-transit shipments’ location and condition. About Alex Guillen. Alex Guillen is an established executive with a proven record in global business and market development, with well-rounded experience in multicultural sales management and bran

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International Supply Chain Trends and Challenges

Talking Logistics

Over halfway through 2022 we are still dealing with significant risk and uncertainty in supply chain management. And if you’re an importer or exporter moving goods via ocean carriers and ports around the world, it’s safe to say that every day is a new adventure. What special challenges are companies facing today? Which trends should. Read more International Supply Chain Trends and Challenges.

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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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Aegion Selects Ivalua to Digitally Transform Procurement

ivalua

Redwood City, 11 August, 2022 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that Aegion Corporation, a leading provider of infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation, and protection solutions, selected its platform to digitally transform procurement. The initial focus is on digitising the Procure-to-Order process with subsequent phases planned for invoicing and sourcing.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Some of the world’s biggest retailers and their partners are once again feeling the sting of “ the bullwhip effect ” – a term of art amongst supply chain professionals that describes how changes in demand at the retail level can reverberate and amplify issues throughout the supply chain. For months, retailers have been stockpiling massive amounts of goods to meet surging consumer demand, and compensate for ongoing supply and logistics issues.

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The GoBolt Story with Mark Ang

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark Ang and Joe Lynch discuss the GoBolt story. Mark is the Co-founder and CEO of GoBolt , a tech-enabled, sustainably-focused logistics provider for local ecommerce shops and national brands. About Mark Ang. Mark Ang co-founded GoBolt (formerly Bolt Logistics) out of the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Bachelor of Commerce. He was also selected to participate in the Creative Destruction Lab as part of the MBA program, an incubator/accelerator focused on scaling disruptive business

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5 Benefits Of Freight Broker Software That May Change Your Perspective

3GTMS

Software used to control the transportation elements of a supply chain is referred to as freight broker software and is also known as a transportation management system or TMS. Freight broker software can help you become more efficient, organized, and relevant to your clients. Furthermore, good freight brokerage software can help you expand your business while […].

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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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Building a Resilient Transportation Portfolio: Secure Your Network Going Forward [Podcast]

CHAINalytics

Frequent Freightvine podcast guest and Chainalytics’ VP of Transportation Kevin Zweier once again joins DAT’s Chief Scientist Chris Caplice to discuss the current state of transportation procurement. What does it take to build a resilient transportation portfolio? Which COVID-era measures will shippers continue to carry forward? Long-tail COVID afflicts shipping too A lot has happened … The post Building a Resilient Transportation Portfolio: <br/>Secure Your Network Going Forward [

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Stop Using Spreadsheets to Manage Your Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Maintaining your organization’s dependence on collecting, tracking and sharing supply chain data with Excel is perhaps the biggest threat to agility, resilience, visibility and profitability.

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The numerous tell-tale signs of a phishing email can be divided into 4 groups

IT Supply Chain

By Paul Brucciani (pictured). Cyber Security Advisor at WithSecure. The post The numerous tell-tale signs of a phishing email can be divided into 4 groups appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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The Bill of Materials (BOM) Beginners Guide!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? Manufacturing contributed 10.8% to the total US GDP in 2020. Manufacturing businesses are at the heart of eCommerce and retail businesses. If you’re an eCommerce seller or manufacturer, you need to know BOMs (bill of materials). How do you create a bill of materials?

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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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ELEVATE Your Business – Shift to QAD Cloud

QAD

Disruption. Disruption is everywhere and, as we know, it’s not always a once in a while event. But it’s not very helpful to only focus on solving yesterday’s problems and disruptions. How do we prevent a pandemic (or at least its impact), a chip shortage and its effect on auto manufacturing, the Suez Canal ship crash that stops global shipments, a deep freeze in Texas that takes out the petrochemical industry, a labor shortage, etc.

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Weathering the Storm Through Supply Chain Partnerships

Supply Chain Brain

It takes solid partnerships to weather crises — or, for that matter, the day-to-day business of supply chain management. In this latest edition of our annual roster of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners , we present instances of true collaboration in the face of enormous challenges.

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Retail returns to default settings as the Covid online bubble bursts

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks M.I.L.T (pictured). Head of Consumer Research, ParcelHero. The post Retail returns to default settings as the Covid online bubble bursts appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Don't forget the pilots

Cathy Roberson

(Photo credit: Depositphotos.com) Congratulations to the Atlas Air folks that will get a big payout upon the acquisition of Atlas Air Worldwide. Note, though, that payouts do not include any Atlas Air Worldwide pilot. Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In fact, if you read the press release , there’s no mention of the pilots – without them, there would be no Atlas Air Worldwide. “We believe this transaction

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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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Sanford Health Achieves 90%+ Preference Card Accuracy with Tecsys Software

Tecsys

Multi-state health system leverages Tecsys Elite™ Healthcare’s clinically integrated supply chain software to gain… The post Sanford Health Achieves 90%+ Preference Card Accuracy with Tecsys Software appeared first on Tecsys.

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A Cheesy Supply Chain Leader

Americold

Cheese is not only delicious, it’s a multi-billion-dollar market valued at USD $120.63 billion globally and growing. [1] Manufacturers produce cheeses of varying flavors, appearances, and tastes, and work with trusted partners like Americold to store, age, and move their product through cold storage facilities and the food supply chain. As you’ll read, cheese that’s moving through the food supply chain requires very specific temperatures to maintain product form and promote the aging process whe

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Github rolls out code signing to strengthen security of open-source projects

IT Supply Chain

By Tzachi Zorenshtain (pictured). Head of Software Supply Chain at Open-Source & Checkmarx. The post Github rolls out code signing to strengthen security of open-source projects appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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