Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 26, 2015

The domestic shipping industry sits at a crossroads. With economic growth increasing demand for trucking capacity and an aging population of drivers not being replaced by the younger generation disinterested in trucking as a career option, something is going to have to give. Transportation planners and managers have long suffered the pain of capacity crunch and recent government regulations have only exacerbated the challenges.

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The Network Effect

MAY 15, 2015

The Supply Chain Operations Reference model (“SCOR”) can be useful for measurement and benchmarking purposes. It is a normalization based on a well-defined taxonomy where major functional areas are disaggregated and attributes related to those functions are further broken down into strategic and operating metrics. It is a top down approach where at its lowest level an enterprise can try to map how they run the business to how the taxonomy is structured in order to try and derive som

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Supply Chain Action Blog

MAY 23, 2015

Let us remember and honor all who serve a higher good than their own comfort and fulfillment. This is Memorial Day weekend for us in the U.S., but may our memory serve us well when the calendar does not. Let us never forget when uncommon valor becomes a common virtue and those who shirk not their duty, nor shrink from their sacrifice leave their families bereaved.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2015

Guest Blogger, Rich Chrzanowski — Container volume at US ports hit an all-time high in 2014 and a DOT transportation study projects volume to more than triple in coming years. Compounding the problem is the emergence of megaships which are taxing the aging infrastructure of US ports leading to long back-ups for trucking. The cherry on this sundae of woe are the ongoing labor disputes at West coast ports.

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Supply Chain Optimization

The Network Effect

MAY 15, 2015

Visibility of the potential value locked in the current environment is a key driver in a supply network transformation and is being provided by today through cloud-based network platforms. The idea is to provide departmental workbenches which show not only the departmental performance as we see with most systems, but also display the effect of dependencies and actions taken in other departments or across customers or trading partners.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 20, 2015

WSJ has a new Logistics Report feature and we’ve been collaborating with the writers and editors supporting the new report, providing them with seasoned industry perspectives and other thought leadership. Enjoy this first article wherein we’re quoted as is our client, Stage Stores. Really excellent piece on the truck driver shortage. The post UltraShipTMS in the Wall Street Journal appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 13, 2015

The Wall Street Journal recently featured Ashley Furniture Industries and the role an 800 truck private fleet plays in the manufacturer/retailer’s success story. Ashley captures numerous benefits by maintaining their own fleet including exceptional customer relationships (driver/brand ambassadors delivering more efficiently than their outsourced counterparts), more predictable access to capacity and backhaul rates approaching an eye-popping 90%.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 8, 2015

Supply Chain Logistics IT Solution Provider Earns ‘Best Interface Design’ Recognition for its Increasingly Popular Software. May 8, 2015 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS was named a Finalist today in the Best Interface Design category at the 2015 American Business Awards, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the program.

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The Network Effect

MAY 4, 2015

Nic McPhee/Flickr. Note, this is part five in a series on demand sensing. Part one is here. Part two is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. . Demand Sensing can import demand data on an hourly rather than a batch or daily basis, immediately sensing demand signal changes as compared to a detailed statistical demand pattern, and then evaluates the statistical significance of the change.

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The Network Effect

MAY 29, 2015

Retailers need to adapt to next and next and then to next. As I have predicted, e-commerce has taken a huge toll on brick & mortar stores and retailers need to adjust their supply chain. A supply chain now must accommodate the need to be omnichannel retail, omnichannel logistics, and omnichannel delivery. Some of the retailers that are being affected by e-commerce this year are: Retailer.

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The Network Effect

MAY 6, 2015

Steve Jurvetson/Flickr. In the mid 1950’s a series of simple experiments were held with various groups of people to get a handle on the cognitive capabilities of people. In a famous experiment, Baba Shiv randomly split groups of people into two groups: One group memorized two digits, say “17”; and. The other group memorized seven digits, say “3784926”.

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The Network Effect

MAY 22, 2015

Juliana Swenson/Flickr. Note: This Guest Post is by Robert McClain, Senior Consultant, Tompkins Internation al. Docks are the interface to the facility where goods are received and shipped. They are also the point of the warehouse where machine and personnel come in close proximity. They are a place where thousand-pound loads are handled by heavy machines in fast-paced environments.

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The Network Effect

MAY 22, 2015

Bill Ward/Flickr. Transportation Management remains the foundational capability for most LPs and the new cloud-network platforms have been successfully architected and to serve as that transportation backbone. This enables a TMS that goes far beyond the scope of traditional systems. They offer more scalability and performance while providing optimization services to drive consolidation and routing efficiencies to lower the total landed cost of your freight.

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The Network Effect

MAY 29, 2015

Steve Gray/Flickr. We don’t often plug these types of things on this blog, but given the level of interest our demand sensing posts have gotten, and the overall interest in the market place, I want to alert you to next week’s webcast where I will be presenting. We’ll talk about how one of the world’s largest CPG companies is doing demand sensing at the world’s largest retailer…it’s a project that I’m personally involved in, and it’s sure to b

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Supply Chain Action Blog

MAY 23, 2015

Let us remember and honor all who serve a higher good than their own comfort and fulfillment. This is Memorial Day weekend for us in the U.S., but may our memory serve us well when the calendar does not. Let us never forget when uncommon valor becomes a common virtue and those who shirk not their duty, nor shrink from their sacrifice leave their families bereaved.

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