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The Future Trends In The Supply Chain Industry

All Things Supply Chain

The year 2020 marked not just the start of a new year, but also a new decade. In the previous decade, the supply chain industry turned to technology for growth,… General Supply Chain Management artificial intelligence robotics supply chain supply chain trends technology

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What are the best Supply Chain Strategies for 2021

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Supply Chain Strategies: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us So Far? In a blog at the very start of the COVID-19 outbreak when confirmed cases had just exceeded 40,000, we discussed the considerations for organizations facing the outbreak.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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How TMS Supports Contactless Supply Chain Initiatives

Supply Chain Collaborator

Like most transformative innovations in supply chain automation, the end state – in this case, a completely touchless supply chain – is an aspirational goal. And while technology is already being leveraged toward achieving the goal of contactless supply chain, it is an incremental process.

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Supply Chain Balancing Act: Meeting Customer Needs in the Era of Constrained Supply and Volatile Demand

Speaker: Tony Darnell, Shipping Manager at Lippert Components

Join this webinar to learn about the evolution of supply chain management in the Post pandemic era of constrained supply and volatile demand. Like a candle burning at both ends, businesses are struggling to manage supply alongside rapidly changing customer demands.

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10 Critical Supply Chain Lessons from The Pandemic! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility! The Coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc throughout the world. In some places the pandemic has been controlled and life is getting back to a new normal.

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For Fleet Management, AI and IoT Are Better Together

Supply Chain Brain

The artificial intelligence of things is already forming the backbone of many of today’s commercial transportation systems, especially in fleet safety

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Supply Chain Trends 2021

The Network Effect

The post Supply Chain Trends 2021 appeared first on The Network Effect. Network Business Supply Chain Control Towers Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Risk Technology supply chain trends

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How to Conduct a Spend Analysis in Seven Steps

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JAGGAER understands the traditional roadblocks to spend management and how important it is to gain insight into operational ineffectiveness in order to improve your sourcing success. A spend analysis allows you to do just that.

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The Wrapping Paper Waste Problem – and what can be done about it

All Things Supply Chain

Ripping open wrapping paper on Christmas morning is without a doubt one of the most exciting things children and adults alike look forward to.

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Unique Challenges of Small Parcel in the 2020 Holiday Season

All Things Supply Chain

Like everything else in 2020, we can expect the holiday shopping season to come with unique challenges. Not only are pandemic shutdowns ongoing, but some parts of the U.S. are… General delivery services holiday demand holiday season holiday supply chain parcel delivery

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Sustainable Procurement: The Ultimate Guide to Going Green

Speaker: Sarah O'Brien, CEO of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

This session will help you become oriented with sustainable procurement by providing an easy-to-understand framework, describing the potential benefits of sustainable procurement, and identifying key drivers for integrating sustainability into procurement.

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How the Pandemic is Impacting the Vanilla Supply Chain

All Things Supply Chain

The island country of Madagascar is currently feeling the impact of the pandemic on its top export: Vanilla. While consumer demand is high, vanilla prices are experiencing a downward spiral.…

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Innovation Begins With A Question

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Innovation is a difficult subject for many organizations. Some companies try to radically innovate, while others take an incremental approach. Some will look to outside sources for solutions and inspiration, whereas some tap into the knowledge that exists within the organization.

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Achieving autonomous or “lights out” supply chain planning

Supply Chain Trend

Operating in the supply chain world, it’s hard to not come across terminology like supply chain planning 4.0, “light touch” planning or “lights out” planning. All have generated a lot of hype over the past few years … and for good reason. Considerable progress has been made in technology in recent years, continuing at a dizzying pace. Autonomous development is happening in most major car companies with the promise of self-driving cars everywhere within a few years.

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Bringing It All Back Home – OTR TMS Supports Reversion to Regional Manufacturing

Supply Chain Collaborator

Will the trend toward a return to “regional manufacturing” boost volumes in over the road transportation in North America as manufacturers move away from Asian overseas operations?

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The 4 Keys to Demand Planning in 2023 and Beyond

Speaker: Eva Dawkins - Senior Consultant, Supply Chain

Demand planning and forecasting processes are critical to the resilience and profitability of any supply chain, maybe now more than ever. Join Eva Dawkins for this exclusive webinar where she will cover everything you need to implement for success!

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Post-Pandemic Impermanence and 6 Actions to Take Now!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Post-pandemic article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Carson, CEO of Spend Strategies, LLC.

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How Blockchain Benefits the Coffee Supply Chain

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Blockchain can help ensure that coffee growers are given fair payments for their crops, and are maintaining sustainability practices

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Effective Stock Replenishment: Why you need it & how to achieve it

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Stock replenishment is an important aspect of inventory management, as it ensures the right stock items are being reordered to meet customer demand.

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The Consumer-Direct Strategy: Why You Need to Strengthen Your Direct-to-Consumer Channels

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The post The Consumer-Direct Strategy: Why You Need to Strengthen Your Direct-to-Consumer Channels appeared first on The Network Effect. Distribution Leadership and Strategy Logistics Manufacturing Network Business Supply Chain Management Coronavirus D2C direct-to-consumer logistics

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

In the aftermath of the pandemic, supply chain inadequacies have been revealed in a new light. In order to thrive, companies need to take a more synchronized approach. Learn why a holistic “TMS+” approach is integral to success in the new normal and beyond.

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Augmented Procurement is Making the Future Our New Reality

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Technology has been augmenting everyday life for quite some time now , but p rocurement has historically been slower in adopting the technological leaps see n outside of the industry.

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The Amazing Supply Chain of Data

All Things Supply Chain

In supply chain management, data and its targeted analytics are necessary to make statements about important influences on the supply chain: Which deliveries are often uncertain?

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New vehicle concept helps congested cities

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Smaller than a car, bigger than a cargo bike and several of them at once – the new vehicle concept Ducktrain has the potential to change urban delivery and industrial… General Logistics autonomous technology logistics

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Our current supply chain concept is failing: why change has got to come in 2020

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So called “Supply chain fails” happen regularly. It’s not uncommon for different businesses to experience them due to a problem with one element of the supply chain, for example a… General Supply Chain Fails Supply Chain Management coronavirus supply chain fail supply chain management

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Case Study: DSV Implements a Single-Instance Control Tower with a Global Footprint

This case study illustrates how DVS implemented a Single-Instance Control Tower with a Global Footprint to deal with the challenge of connecting people, systems, and processes.

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Ivalua Launches Pre-Packaged Spend Management Solutions for Financial Services

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Best practice financial services procurement capabilities now available for rapid deployment. Redwood City, CA June 25, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged suite of solutions for financial services.

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Re-establishing the Enterprise’s Risk Appetite

All Things Supply Chain

Since risk is a reality in business, and ‘certainty’ is an extremely expensive proposition, an enterprise’s appetite for risk has always been measured on a sliding scale. Companies with a… General Supply Chain Management risk management supply chain management supply chain risk

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UltraShipTMS’s New Integration Partnership with Samsara for Fleet Tracking

Supply Chain Collaborator

UltraShipTMS, the enterprise logistics management platform built for (and used by a growing roster of) high volume shippers is pleased to formally announce the successful integration with Samsara telematics and fleet tracking technology.

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The Toilet Paper Supply Chain!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility! Our recent trips to Costco and Walmart, in mid March 2020, had one thing in particular in common.

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

This playbook offers manufacturers a realistic and viable guide to balancing immediate needs with future-focused strategy.

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How to Choose Eco-Conscious Suppliers

Supply Chain Brain

Many companies today are guilty of “greenwashing” or “green sheen” — marketing themselves as green while merely going through the motions

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ERP inventory management – how advanced is your ERP?

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What is ERP inventory management? Many organizations have an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to collect, store, manage and interpret data from a host of different businesses processes.

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Sales and Operations Planning on a Real Time Network

The Network Effect

The post Sales and Operations Planning on a Real Time Network appeared first on The Network Effect. Network Business ERP integrated business planning multi-party networks S&OP

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WARNING: Handling Dangerous Cargo

All Things Supply Chain

On August 4th, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate – equivalent to approximately 6 million pounds – that were being stored in a facility at Beirut’s port caught fire and exploded.… … Logistics Supply Chain Fails logistics supply chain fail

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Enabling Assurance of Supply in the Global Marketplace

Speaker: Adrian Gonzalez, Tom Nightingale, and Martin Verwijmeren

Watch this insightful conversation about enabling assurance of supply in the global marketplace to better balance inventory and control costs.