Mon.Nov 06, 2023

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How can the Lean Six Sigma methodology be applied to Supply Chain problems?

All Things Supply Chain

The first mentions of Lean Six Sigma date back to the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Corrugated box industry cuts a box’s greenhouse gas emissions in half

Supply Chain Dive

Corrugated boxes’ environmental impact substantially reduced, greenhouse gas emissions cut in half.

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Using Computer Vision to Inspect Incoming Boxes for Damage in the Warehouse

Supply Chain Brain

Intel sets out to replace an arduous and time-consuming manual process for inspecting damaged boxes in the warehouse, with an automated system that employs computer vision and artificial intelligence.

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???????‘Overstaffed’ FedEx tells unhappy pilots they can join American Airlines

Supply Chain Dive

Air cargo demand remains down at FedEx and other carriers, but passenger airlines continue to hire pilots at a strong pace, a VP told crew members in a memo.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Global Supply-Chain Pressure Hits Record Low, NY Fed Gauge Shows

Supply Chain Brain

Global logistics difficulties are at the lowest in 26 years as transportation costs keep declining, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.

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IRS bumps 401(k) contribution limit to $23K for 2024

Supply Chain Dive

The $500 increase affects all salaried employees, whether at retailers, warehouses, manufacturers, trucking firms or other employers.

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Why serverless technology is the next big movement

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Over the past decade, we’ve seen serverless computing take the cloud computing world by storm. Serverless is a cloud computing application development and execution model that enables developers to build and run application code without provisioning or managing servers or backend infrastructure. When developers first started using serverless technology, they were mostly only using it for Function-as-a-Service, or FaaS.

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A Record Number of Supertankers Is Headed to Collect U.S. Oil

Supply Chain Brain

The glut of vessels racing to the U.S. Gulf even includes ships heading to the region on a speculative basis without any cargo booking, an industry practice known as ballasting.

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Optimize APIs with API security best practices

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Enterprise businesses are continuing to move toward digitalized and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Digital systems enable unprecedented flexibility, scalability and speed when compared to their more traditional, on-premises counterparts. However, digital infrastructures are highly dependent on application programming interfaces — or APIs — to facilitate data transfers between software applications and between applications and end users.

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Cyber Scams and High-Tech Heists: Securing Freight in the Age of Strategic Cargo Theft

Supply Chain Brain

Fortunately, shippers can defend themselves against these forms of transport theft.

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From Reactive to Resilient: Charting Your Supply Chain Maturity

Learn strategies to develop supply chain maturity and save on costs. In this webinar, supply chain industry experts share insights and best practices for enhancing supply chain efficiency, resilience and adaptability. Delve into the stages of supply chain maturity, from foundational management to advanced optimization and innovation. Discover actionable first steps to boost your operations and reduce costs.

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Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems push to re-up 737 production

Supply Chain Dive

Delivery shortfalls this quarter have been driven by supplier quality issues in the aft pressure bulkhead.

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Managing Reusable Packaging Containers With Sensor-Driven Asset Intelligence

Supply Chain Brain

A leading supplier of reusable packaging containers seeks to boost visibility and cut down on losses within a network of millions of units, with a method that makes economic sense. Roambee provides the innovative solution.

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Pivot Bio taps former Corteva exec to lead supply chain operations

Supply Chain Dive

The appointment of industry veteran Balaji Venkataraman will help the biofertilizer startup scale manufacturing and logistics capabilities.

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Estes Boosts Pickup Data Visibility in Collaboration With Worldwide Express

Supply Chain Brain

Estes Express Lines achieves “clear line of sight” with a new visibility application, tailored to customer preferences defined by WWEX, a third-party logistics provider specializing in serving small to medium-sized shippers.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Watch this webinar with Rachael Foster, Director of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo, and Dan Dolph, Manager of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo.

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4 ways to empower small and medium businesses with generative AI

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In a tightening economy, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are challenged to grow while protecting thinning margins. Compared to large businesses, SMBs have fewer resources to help them weather an economic downturn or diversify into new value streams. As such, enterprises that serve SMBs must provide solutions that lessen administrative burdens and deliver tangible value.

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Latest research: CPO Compass 2024

Procurement Leaders

In partnership with GEP: Insights into the long-term technological, geopolitical and ESG trends that will impact procurement teams this decade

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Achieving High-Volume Throughput Performance for Subscription Fulfillment

Supply Chain Brain

A case study about a flexible and scalable fulfillment strategy for handling order for a major personalized beauty subscription company.

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Moody’s: Carbon Offsets Open Up Supply Chains to Financial, Reputational Risks

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

A new report from Moody’s finds that companies that rely on buying carbon offsets as an emissions-reduction strategy could face financial and reputational harm.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Introducing 1Exiger Supply Chain Platform and UX

Supply Chain Brain

1Exiger offers customers a simplified view of how they do business with preferred vendors and suppliers to protect against disruption and the risk of reputational harm.

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Inventory Optimization, It’s Complicated

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Master the Art of Inventory Optimization in the Post-Pandemic World. Register now for our Webinar!

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Supply Chain Innovation 2023: It’s Happening Everywhere

Supply Chain Brain

We congratulate all of the finalists in this year’s SCIA competition, who reflect the quantity, quality and scope of innovations that are being devised by supply chain leaders everywhere.

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Q3 Commercial Construction Starts Fall 37% vs. Q2

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The latest data from commercial real estate firm CBRE found that third-quarter construction starts fell 37% from Q2 and are down 64% year-over-year.

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AI in Sales: How AI is Transforming Go-to-Market

How will generative AI transform sales? It’s a question that promises to drive billions of dollars in revenue opportunities over the next five to 10 years. And if you’re not leveraging AI solutions in your go-to-market motions, you’re already behind. In this eBook, we’ll cover: How today’s top sales leaders are incorporating AI into their go-to-market motions.

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Lost en Route: Ambient IoT Ensures Shipments Reach the Right Destination

Supply Chain Brain

As the popularity of e-commerce grows, companies struggle with the business risk of misloaded packages. New supply chain visibility solutions can help fix the problem.

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AI will not replace humans, humans with AI will replace humans without AI – Agree or Disagree?

Procurement Insights

Data, AI, the Fear of the Black Box, and Job Loss – Invest 8:45 of your time to find the answers to four critical AI-related questions.

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IBM Uses AI and Visibility Tools to Boost Efficiency

Supply Chain Brain

IBM, a pioneer in the development of artificial intelligence, deploys the ground-breaking technology to make real-time predictions about the status and shipment of sales orders.

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How Pharmaceutical Brands can be Resilient: Let’s approach Supply Chain Resilience Holistically

HICX

By Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO of HICX While inflation and economic pressures, such as the recent US price reforms, force pharmaceutical brands to be even more frugal than usual, they will do well to not tackle cost efficiency as a solo issue. Brands require resilience in various areas, and chief among these is compliance. Stringent regulations must be followed, although the supply chains from which they are navigated, are incredibly complex.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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USDA Issues Guidelines for Schools Suffering Shortage of Milk Cartons

Supply Chain Brain

School officials in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Washington state said they were preparing for the shortage.

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Procurement Horror Stories

Arkestro

Webinars / Procurement Horror Stories Procurement Horror Stories Shannon Kreps VP of Marketing at Arkestro Robyn Sablosky Senior Product Manager for Machine Learning at Arkestro Susan Walsh Founder of The Classification Guru Summary: Hear from Arkestro’s machine learning expert, Robyn Sablosky, and The Classification Guru, Susan Walsh, as they unravel the intricacies of data cleaning, classification, and analysis.

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Tyson Recalls 15 Tons of Chicken Nuggets After Metal Pieces Found

Supply Chain Brain

The Fun Nuggets being recalled were produced at one U.S. facility and shipped to distributors in nine U.S. states.

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372: Women in Supply Chain, T.J. Kragenbrink

Let's Talk Supply Chain

 In today’s episode of Women In Supply Chain, I’m joined by T.J. Kragenbrink – former calculus teacher and Harvard alum turned actuarial studied work-from-home mama, driving operational efficiencies in the post-purchase return experience for busy consumers everywhere. After achieving her master’s from Harvard, T.J. became a mathematics teacher before changing direction to enter the busy world of supply chain.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu