Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 20, 2025

Then in 2017, Dixon was tasked with growing our existing, yet small, Temperature-Controlled Division. We want to work together to solve these transportation and supply chain issues. The pandemic taught us a lot about how fragile long supply chains are, so theres been a move to source closer to the end consumer.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Key Takeaways: Understand the strategic impact of tariffs and reshoring on supply chain operations. Top enterprises leverage Arkestro to confidently optimize their procurement cycles with direct actions and clear recommendations, managing spend at scale without increasing headcount. RSVP now to secure your spot!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For shippers, this year’s overly-active hurricane season in the US is raising alarm bells for supply chain logistics operations. sugar will impact food and beverage production later in 2017 as the harvest is due to begin on 1 October and the full implications of the loss are yet to be measured.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 6, 2025

hundreds to low thousands) as globalization increased supply chain complexity. 20112015: Rising Professionalization Events like Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo and World Procurement Congress (nearing its 21st year by 2025) gained traction. ERP systems) and supply chain visibility needs. 2,000+ by 2022).

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 12, 2025

Guest bio: Craig Barth first joined Premier Trailer Leasing in 2017 as Vice President and General Manager, and assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer three years later. 7 execs weigh in Supply Chain Dive , or 429: Women In Supply Chain, Kameel Gaines. Check out our other podcasts HERE.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

Procurement eAuctions may be used in a multitude of sectors and domains, including industrial machinery, supply chains and logistical operations, telecommunications, commodities, and business technical support programs. Macfarlane, 2017). It’s time for the Auctioneer to take the stage!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 22, 2018

TRILLION on Shipping Costs in 2017” blares the headline from the Wall Street Journal Logistics Report article. Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. “Companies Spent a Record $1.5 Up a whopping 6.2% The pace of cost increases is unsustainable.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We do not need to spend any more money on our Supply Chain.” Yet no time or money had been spent on process optimization, order fulfillment cycle time reduction, cost reduction, or peak capacity load management. And we would now have to move over 100,000 skus to their optimal locations within a 120,000 sq.ft

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 24, 2016

Food shippers have grown increasingly reliant on supply chain logistics IT solutions over the last decade and for a number of reasons. The number of food producers adopting software solutions like TMS, YMS, WMS, optimizers and others – from agricultural concerns to processors to retailers – continues to grow.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The New Year will soon be here and after the holiday dust settles, it will be prime time to put the pieces in place to be far more responsive during the peak seasons in 2017. The post Retailers, Is Your TMS Flexible Enough to Optimize Holiday Replenishment? appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

From the movement of trucks to managing a good economic supply chain, GST affected logistics in a great way. Since 2017, there has been smoother flow and functioning has become more seamless than before. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Significant reduction in paperwork.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 16, 2024

Solution: Route optimization software: Utilizing software that optimizes delivery routes can minimize travel distances and improve vehicle fill rates, even with smaller loads [1]. Solutions: Route optimization: Using technology to optimize delivery routes reduces travel time and fuel consumption.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

That drove contract rates up 15% for the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period in 2017.” Again, when the economy is humming and business is good, the time is optimal to invest in logistics IT solutions. Top Reason # 1 – Supply Chain Automation is Key to Competitive Advantage in Any Economy.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For businesses to succeed in eCommerce they must ensure they have an effective eCommerce supply chain strategy. This means their supply chain operations must be as efficient at serving eCommerce sales channels as they are at fulfilling offline markets. Stock level optimization. This is not true. Here’s why….

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Is Your Supply Chain Ready To Recover? So how do we manage the Supply Chain in the face of this political myopia? His questions to me revolved around how I would optimize the network, that is the locations in which the company did business. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Disaster Strikes!!! Company 1.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. After that, the developers held a hardfork Ethereum Classic to optimize the code and postpone the “Complexity Bomb” – an update that would make mining the cryptocurrency unprofitable. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here!

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Arkestro

AUGUST 17, 2023

About Arkestro Founded in 2017, Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement Orchestration (PPO), taps into the power of behavioral science, game theory and machine learning to help companies make their best buying decisions faster across all addressable spend. Confirm your attendance. We look forward to you joining the conversation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Network optimization is a critical issue across all Supply Chains. There are many environmental factors that must be taken in to account in order to define and optimize your network. Whatever your situation your network must continually be optimized. That is the Warehousing Design Question! Case Study.

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Arkestro

MAY 16, 2023

We were able to go live within days of engaging with Arkestro, creating faster time to value,” stated Mike Novello , VP of global supply chain. Arkestro addresses the common barriers to supply chain and procurement success – ‘time, scale, and insight’ across multiple spend types and categories.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 17, 2023

Networking Happy Hour for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals  The White and Wood 215 S. Top enterprises leverage Arkestro to confidently optimize their procurement cycles with direct actions and clear recommendations, managing spend at scale without increasing headcount.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In the arena of Manufacturing there has always been a reliance on processes, data, sensors, controls, analysis and metrics to allow for monitoring, management and optimization of those Manufacturing processes. the ability to optimize Manufacturing processes through this incredible digital connectivity is about to take a quantum leap forward.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) Innovation is a team effort requiring collaboration and buy-in from all levels within an organization, and it’s especially true when it comes to bringing innovation to the supply chain. A Blueprint for Successful Supply Chain Innovation. What You Need to Know!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 11, 2017

For the Eighth Consecutive Year, Leading Solution Provider Earns Spot on Inbound Logistics Magazine’s Annual Compendium to Top Supply Chain Management Software Companies. March 11, 2017 – Fair Lawn, NJ – For the eighth year running, UltraShipTMS is included in Inbound Logistics magazine’s Top 100 Logistics IT Providers list.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

If you’re new to SolutionMap, here are the basics SolutionMap launched in 2017 and is published twice annually. Since then, many procurement professionals have subscribed to Spend Matters Insider and TechMatch℠ to gain access to deeper data cuts and vendor intelligence to drive procurement technology selection decisions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

For the upcoming Holiday our theme was that we were going to have a BORING Holiday season … from a Supply Chain perspective. But by BORING, from a Supply Chain perspective , I did mean that we were going to do all of the necessary planning. And we would deliver a great customer experience.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. WAX (WAXP) was released in 2017 as a purpose-built blockchain designed to facilitate faster, safer, and simpler e-commerce transactions — in particular, gaming-based item trading. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on February 19, 2022.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As the nation turns its attention to reasons for gratitude this Thanksgiving season, we here at UltraShipTMS, the Supply Chain Collaborator blog and the logistics industry in general have more than the usual reasons to be thankful. Here are some of the positive indicators supporting our exuberance during Thanksgiving 2017.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As consumers the complexity in the retail supply chain is usually oblivious to us. So what makes the Retail Supply Chain so complex? It puts huge demands on the Supply Chain team. The Omnichannel nature of retail requires a Supply Chain that is tremendously flexible. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Check out The Supply Chain Detective ! In Search of Broken Supply Chain Clues! In playing FarmVille I was really just managing a digital Supply Chain! Farmville was a Supply Chain game!!! Farmville had all of the elements of a real Supply Chain. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 23, 2020

Pharmaceutical companies have complex supply chains that are often not optimized to their full potential. From source materials to distribution, the supply network must be carefully streamlined to produce the best results possible. So how should a pharmaceutical company approach supply and distribution chains?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

As asset-intensive industries search for more ways to meet sustainability goals, digitalization has become key to optimizing resources and improving overall efficiency of business processes. Explore IBM Maximo Suite The post How digital twins optimize the performance of your assets in a sustainable way appeared first on IBM Blog.

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SupplyShift

DECEMBER 27, 2017

And with every delivery comes a box, or two, or three, all of which arrive on our doorsteps out of a diverse and complicated paper and packaging supply chain. Examining the packaging supply chain is a key priority for SupplyShift customers, and a critical component of responsible supply chains.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

2017 was an important year for delivery logistics. But this evolution in the supply chain, and for last mile fulfillment in particular, doesn’t end with retail. These are some of the key industry trends in delivery logistics and supply chain management which will take center stage in the upcoming year: 1.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The reality is that there are freight and logistics costs in every step of the Supply Chain. Lost Freight Optimization Opportunities. The loss of control not only means that you are giving away margin but you also are not optimizing your freight. There are freight costs of some fashion in every part of your Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 2, 2020

A recent study suggests that supply chain planners spend 50% of their time on data gathering and tinkering with it. Knowing this, who wants a job in supply chain planning when you just finished your degree? How can supply chain attract the best talent when all you do is tying data together?

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 7, 2016

This article will draw an analogy with the mapping and car industry to suggest that prescriptive analysis as an opportunity to support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and business optimization, is not a final stage, but just at the beginning of a new planning era. This creates dynamic constraints in the optimization model.

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Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The one-of-a-kind museum highlights the past, present and future of procurement, and serves to inspire future supply chain and business leaders about the exciting opportunities that lay ahead in this increasingly important business discipline. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Arash Azadegan, Ph.D.,

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