All Things Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
It’s that time of year: Cupid has his arrow at the ready; people are scrambling to get that perfect card, bunch of flowers, chocolates, presents or restaurant reservations to show…
Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
As with most complex business challenges, the ability to accommodate increasingly complicated supply chains is heavily dependent on technology. Yet, a surprising number of shippers are still performing their day-to-day functions without the assistance of any supply chain digitization software solution (or with antiquated processes). Time is running out to adopt the technology your organization will need to remain competitive.
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SupplyShift
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Chocolate is undoubtedly a world favorite in the realm of sweets. Each year, more than 3 million tons of cocoa beans are used to produce the treats we find on store shelves. The chocolate we buy doesn’t flow simply from confectioner to storefront, it comes a long way – from the cocoa pods, to the fermentation and drying of the beans, to packaging and shipping, and finally the alchemy of real chocolate.
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) businesses are set to witness stunning growth over the next few years. However, the aviation. The post 5 MRO Supply Chain Challenges Aviation Companies Need To Prepare For appeared first on The Network Effect.
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Interviews with executives at 10 companies across the food, consumer goods and commodities sectors reveal that many are grappling with how to defend their profit margins as transportation costs climb at nearly double the inflation rate. Two executives told Reuters their companies do plan to raise prices, though they would not divulge by how much. A third said it was discussing prospective price increases with retailers.
All Things Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
The expression ‘supply chain’ usually implies a string of single business ‘nodes’, one after the other, that extends from the end consumer all the way back to the raw or…
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Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Here’s a look back at the FDA information they used to prepare a solution for food shippers to achieve rapid compliance with FSMA regulations. UltraShipTMS announced its first-in-the-market temperature tracking capability in TMS last week. UltraShipTMS development teams studied the FSMA guidelines well ahead of the scheduled roll out of the new law and spent 12 months working to deliver the industry’s first TMS-integrated temperature tracking capability. .
Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Real-time Tracking of Temperature Levels for Reefer/Freezer Trailers is a Boon for Food Shippers Working to Comply with Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Mandates. February 13, 2018 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Regarded as the premier transportation management system (TMS) solution provider by high volume food shipping organizations, UltraShipTMS once again reinforces its reputation as an innovator in the market.
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
With 2017 over, it’s worth looking back at a few of the trends that have shaped the logistics industry. In. The post The Logistics Trends We Saw in 2017… and Beyond appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Syprine, which treats a rare condition known as Wilson disease, gained notoriety after Valeant Pharmaceuticals International raised the price of the drug to $21,267 in 2015 from $652 just five years earlier. Along with similar practices by pharmaceutical executives like Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals and Heather Bresch of Mylan (the maker of the EpiPen), the story helped spark a national conversation about the high cost of prescription drugs, not to mention Congressional inquiries and
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As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Indeed, the very notion of applications that “talk” to one another is merely an extension of a system that shippers and carriers have deployed for years, albeit in a more primitive fashion. There’s nothing new, for example, about a carrier’s ability to monitor the interior temperature and humidity of a shipping container while in transit. But the coming of the Internet of Things has allowed for the execution of that task with far greater scale, efficiency and accuracy than ever before.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
There’s nothing especially new about the concept of the “gig” worker – other than, perhaps, the label. Freelancers of all kinds have long been a vital part of the U.S. economy. But with the rise of ventures such as Uber , Lyft , Airbnb and TaskRabbit , the ranks of gig workers have swelled. Which raises the question: Is our education system doing enough to get students ready for this new world of work?
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
With the city facing an unprecedented water shortage, airport authorities had turned off all the sink taps but one, leaving visitors to wait in line to wash their hands, under the watchful eye of a bathroom attendant. “In Johannesburg, there were a lot of jokes about the situation. People were saying to each other: ‘Let’s go to Cape Town for a dirty weekend’,” said Rohner, who visited both cities recently for his job as a sales and marketing director for a Swiss machinery manufacturer.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
A total of 562 KFC outlets remained shut following a weekend of disruption that peaked on Sunday night at 646 closures. KFC published a list of only 338 of its 900 stores that were still open on Monday night. Many were offering a limited menu and restricted opening hours. The chicken delivery problem is so severe that the company cannot say when operations will be back to normal.
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
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
What are people reading on The Network Effect? We took all the traffic to the site over 2017, filtered out. The post Most Popular Posts of 2017 appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The announcement early this year of the security gap discovered in just about every computer made in the last 23 years had chipmakers and users alike scrambling for a patch. Major software vendors, including Microsoft and Apple, offered some quick fixes, but long-term protection could be years away, involving a wholesale redesign of the affected chips.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The ability to negotiate should be part of our nature. After all, deal making is as old as humanity itself. But the rules for a successful negotiation are anything but innate, especially in the age of globalization and technological upheaval. Nevertheless, businesses and individuals alike need to know how to get along. The goal should be that eagerly sought-for “win-win” result.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
“Amazon is a threat if we don’t do a good job for them,” Soren Skou, the CEO of A.P. Moller Maersk A/S, said in a phone interview. “If we don’t do our job well, then there’s no doubt that big, strong companies like Amazon will look into whether they can do better themselves.” Shares of FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. dropped last week on a report that Amazon plans to handle more deliveries to its customers’ doorsteps.
Speaker: Shalini Dinesh
Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Thousands of acres of white-tarped greenhouses, some the size of several football fields, are crammed with seven-foot stems topped with rich red crowns. Many are pulled into warehouses by horses, chilled to sleep in refrigeration rooms, and then packed with other flowers onto planes — 1.1 million at a time — to be sold in the United States. It’s peak season for a massive Colombian industry that shipped more than 4 billion flowers to the United States last year — or about a dozen for every U.S. r
SupplyShift
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Chocolate is undoubtedly a world favorite in the realm of sweets. Each year, more than 3 million tons of cocoa beans are used to produce the treats we find on store shelves. The chocolate we buy doesn’t flow simply from confectioner to storefront, it comes a long way – from the cocoa pods, to the fermentation and drying of the beans, to packaging and shipping, and finally the alchemy of real chocolate.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Hospitalization rates for flu have reached record levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rapid spread of the illness is worrisome, with a higher-than-normal number of deaths related to flu and pneumonia, including 53 children. For care providers and other companies all along the pharmaceutical supply chain, it has led to higher revenue from increasing hospital visits and drug sales.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Terrill Johnson was installing car trunks at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, when he heard the sound that would define his next few years, if not the rest of his life. “It was a big, loud pop,” he said. In one movement, Johnson had blown out his elbow and his shoulder. “Once the pop came, the pain came.” That was September 2015. Johnson went on leave for his injury, but on workers’ compensation he earned considerably less than the roughly $1,700 he had earned every two weeks while on the
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
This time, it’s designed for the food supply chain, with an emphasis on achieving transparency and security between partners. The creator of the “token” is OriginTrail , a Slovenian I.T. company specializing in traceability and quality-control systems. But Trace , as it’s been dubbed, won’t function as a general currency and means of payment in the manner of Bitcoin or Ether.
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Three recommendations for retreating retailers Total Retail just published The Triple Threat to Retail, highlighting some of the pressures facing. The post The Triple Threat to Retail appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
It’s unfair and inaccurate to think of augmented reality as a weaker form of virtual reality. A.R. is itself a valuable tool in the worlds of logistics and manufacturing, among other business sectors. And it’s poised to explode in the very near future. Upskill , creator of an A.R. software program, believes (and hopes) that the technology will be “everywhere” in the coming year.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Anyone focused on the endless stream of innovations by Amazon might be surprised to learn that the e-commerce behemoth hasn’t killed off the brick-and-mortar store — nor is it likely to anytime soon. On the contrary, Amazon itself has been deepening its involvement in physical store management, beginning with the opening of a smattering of bookstores and proceeding to the acquisition of the Whole Foods gourmet grocery chain.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
To be sure, Amazon has been a hugely disruptive force in retailing. Shoppers these days are only too happy to buy many of their favorite products online, skipping trips to the store. In a time of strong growth in the general economy, many old-line merchandisers are struggling to survive. But Amazon isn’t the only cause of their woes. Underlying economic factors are playing a role as well.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon were there, of course. But few in the invitation-only crowd last Saturday at the annual Alfalfa Club gala could have guessed that the men were quietly closing in on what could be the answer to a question that divides the nation: How do we fix American health care? Their appearance together at the Capital Hilton capped years of discussions, according to a person with knowledge of the talks.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Trump said in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that he plans to use federal dollars to raise matching funds from state and local governments and the private sector to improve the nation’s infrastructure. Administration officials have said they plan to contribute $200bn to the effort. Divisions over the source of the money signal a potentially tough path for the plan.
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