Forward-Looking Companies Embrace the Chaos
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 14, 2024
This white paper highlights the impact BANI is having on the supply chain and shows how logistics professionals can manage challenges that defy imagination.
Do More with the Same in Logistics and Distribution
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Download this new white paper to learn best-practice strategies that can help your company do more with the same — optimizing your workforce to weather the current economic climate and pave a successful path forward.
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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now
Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains
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Game Out the Path to ROI from Any New TMS Investment
Supply Chain Collaborator
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Whether automating logistics for the very first time (saying goodbye to spreadsheets and phone calls) or seeking to replace an outdated incumbent technology, implementation and subscription costs are not the most important consideration. We recommend reading the paper and using the Online Calculator.
A Guide to Selecting the Best WMS for Your Business from the WMS Experts
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Logistics White Paper, A warehouse management system (WMS) can improve efficiency and service levels, but choosing the right one can be difficult. enVista offers a proprietary RFP based on their expertise and experience, with an updated version for 2023.
Transform Your Supply Chain to Meet Consumer Demand
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Supply Chain White Paper, Manufacturers in 2023 need to adapt to uncertainty and resource limitations by implementing Unified Logistics, which optimizes manufacturing logistics networks, increases collaboration, and provides inbound and outbound visibility and control, ultimately giving them a competitive advantage in winning customers.
How currency changes are affecting logistics providers
The Network Effect
JUNE 12, 2015
So what does this mean to the logistics companies in these regions? Therefore, world currency changes do affect logistics providers. More Resources: White Paper: 8 Opportunities for Today’s Logistics Providers. White Paper: The Alibaba Effect: What Today’s 3PLs Need to Know.
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Global Trade & Transportation: Best Practices for Global Manufacturers
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
This white paper looks at best practices for global trade and transportation for manufacturers with multinational operations. Subject areas covered include free trade agreements, trade compliance and standardizing global logistics.
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What Makes a Supplier “Strategic”? Not Spend Volume.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Leverage your supplier management for maximum benefit with the white paper: How to Achieve Holistic Supplier Management. In our Holistic Supplier Management white paper we suggest using a fairly simple matrix that classifies suppliers across two axes, Relative Value and Outcome/Impact Risk. Strategic Supplier Management.
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The Difference Between Logistics and Supply Chain
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
APRIL 8, 2024
Achieved success with 23% of customers choosing to purchase online , showcasing excellent user experience for both online shoppers and HP Asia-Pacific employees Understanding Logistics Logistics is a crucial component within the larger umbrella of SCM. Recommended Reading: Qualified to Handle Your Company’s Logistics?
The 4PL Revolution Roundup: Top 8 Opportunities for Today’s Logistics Providers
The Network Effect
DECEMBER 15, 2015
One of our running themes in 2015 has been showing how cloud-based technologies are enabling logistic providers to provide their customers with services that extend beyond traditional logistics and transportation services and into their customers’ wider supply chains. White Paper. Demand-Driven Logistics Webinar.
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Are you ready to be the manufacturer of the future?
ivalua
JANUARY 20, 2016
Such change is pushing manufacturers (and their solution providers) to reinvent nearly every aspect of their businesses from demand sensing to the plant floor, logistics, sourcing, supplier management, and financial management. The challenge seems enormous and clearly needs to happen sooner rather than later.
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Are these the Top 10 Trends affecting Pharmaceutical Supply Chains?
The Network Effect
JUNE 25, 2015
Optimized execution in operations, logistics, and distribution. Second, the most advanced cloud platforms today can enable leading logistics providers to provide a much better infrastructure for the pharmaceutical sector. First, let’s have have a recap on the what the top 10 trends are: The Rise of OTC and Generics. Outsourcing.
What 3PLs Need to Know about Alibaba
The Network Effect
OCTOBER 23, 2014
What does this all mean for third-party logistics providers (3PLs)? Our new white paper, The Alibaba Effect: What Today’s 3PLs Need to Know , details key points that 3PLs must consider when planning their e-commerce strategy. It’s clear that Alibaba has changed today’s e-commerce marketplace. More Resources.
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Top Suppliers on Thomasnet.com for April 2023
The Thomas Blog
APRIL 13, 2023
The company also offers logistics and fulfillment services. Register for free now to unlock access to 75,000+ categories of products and services, 10 million+ CAD files, and 300,000+ white papers to help you in your sourcing. SAE Manufacturing Specialties Corp. Try out our platform today so you can see why we've got more than 1.6
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Qualified to Handle Your Company’s Logistics? Think Again!
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
MARCH 24, 2022
The larger the operation, the more challenges it presents to a company’s logistics needs. Determining who should handle logistics depends on both the buyer and seller’s relative and absolute sizes. Understanding and mapping your freight flow is an essential prerequisite to making decisions on logistics operations handling.
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Pharma companies will increasingly take cues from retail and consumer goods….why?
The Network Effect
OCTOBER 23, 2014
Generic drugs may be distributed over several logistical steps involving several distributors and transport providers while high-value specialty drugs and medical devices might be distributed from a single global or regional distribution center directly to the hospital (pharmacy or ward) or even the physician specialist at point of care.
NFTs & Supply Chain: What Are The Applications?
SCMDOJO
APRIL 22, 2022
The topic, Application of NFTs in Supply Chain Management, is buzzing in the supply chain & logistics space. Not only will the NFTs move the supply chain from unnecessary paper trails to an electronic platform, but they will also reduce all the bottlenecks experienced in the pipeline. Challenges .
How Today’s E-commerce Requires the Evolution to NEXT
The Network Effect
MAY 29, 2015
A supply chain now must accommodate the need to be omnichannel retail, omnichannel logistics, and omnichannel delivery. Omnichannel logistics is a multichannel approach to network planning, combined distribution centers/fulfillment centers/returns centers/liquidation centers and lean facilities planning. Abercrombie & Fitch.
Modernization is not Digital Transformation!
Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 11, 2022
My curiosity on the topic, inspired by the daily barrage of articles, emails, white papers, and webinar invitations on digital transformation, piqued my desire to get to the bottom of what it is or isn’t by way of an informed, expert source. I must say, MIT opened my eyes to another way of thinking.
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Who Did “AI Pick” As The Best Solution Provider For LCBO?
Procurement Insights
AUGUST 14, 2024
Supporting the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) during a rail strike requires a procuretech provider that offers strong supply chain visibility, risk management, and flexibility in sourcing and logistics. Flexible Procurement and Logistics Solutions 4. Here’s why: 1. Comprehensive Supplier Network 2.
What is a Digital Transformation?
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
For some time, I’ve been reading, watching and following the white papers, case studies, and countless webinars put on by keen minds about digital transformations. Get Our EBook here. Digital transformation article and permission to publish here provided by Bryce Boothby. I must say, the topic doesn’t feel any clearer.
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Digital Twinning of Supply Chains!
Supply Chain Game Changer
AUGUST 6, 2020
This Digital Twinning of Supply Chains article focuses on transformative ideation of transport & logistics value chains. In this Digital Twinning white paper, I have used the term digital twinning in the context of the inherent characteristics of the supply chain that are captured in a digital model.
Free Donuts or Freight Cost Savings?
Supply Chain Collaborator
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
When you leave decisions like this (and many other critical logistics decisions) to systems built atop tribal knowledge and inconsistent, home-brewed processes, you’re invariably leaving money on the table.
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The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility for Procurement
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
MAY 8, 2023
This is where Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) comes in – it allows businesses to align their procurement and logistics strategies, optimize their supply chain, and reduce costs. By aligning procurement and logistics strategies through S&OP, businesses can optimize their supply chain and reduce costs.
Forecasting in a Shelf-Connected Supply Network
The Network Effect
APRIL 7, 2015
Focusing on a single view of the consumer for all members of the extended supply chain requires an approach that not only includes retailers, manufacturers, and logistics providers but also requires that they be connected across a multiparty execution backbone. The Network Effect'
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The Future of Transportation 1: The Hyperloop
The Network Effect
JANUARY 29, 2016
The Hyperloop Alpha white paper by Elon Musk. If all goes well, the first working Hyperloop may be ready by 2018. Meet Dirk Ahlborn, the Man Building Elon Musk’s 760 MPH Hyperloop. References and sources. Wikipedia: The Hyperloop. Hyperloop Technologies. Hyperloop Transportation Technology.
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Has Walmart Beat Amazon in E-Commerce Using an Omnichannel Returns Strategy?
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Check out What Exactly Is Reverse Logistics? Use the button below to schedule some time to discuss your challenges with a member of our leadership team, or download our latest white paper to learn more. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Amazon acquired Whole Foods and dropped the price of Prime Pantry through Prime Perks.
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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 7, 2020
In 2010, I joined global strategy firm CVA to head the global logistics practice. I am judge of the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards and the Automotive Logistics Awards Europe. In the 2010s, I saw more and more new technology solutions emerging in the logistics and supply chain industry. A role that I left end of 2018.
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How Last Mile Delivery Affects the Supply Chain
The Network Effect
APRIL 1, 2016
Returns and Reverse Logistics. White Paper: Final Delivery: A Technology Perspective on Omnichannel Retailing. Proof of delivery information, including customer signature can be captured for immediate revenue recognition. More Resources.
Why Are ProcureTech Solution Providers AWOL From This Event?
Procurement Insights
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
from the PwC White Paper “Pharma 2020: Supplying the future: Which path will you take?” The reason for this conclusion is that PwC believe pharmaceutical companies are too focused on developing new products and regulatory issues while their manufacturing capability and supply chain is being overlooked. But what route should they take?
The future of 5G: What to expect from this transformational technology
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MARCH 14, 2024
According to this recent IDC white paper (link resides outside ibm.com), in the US alone, almost 120 million 5G devices were expected to ship by the end of 2023—a 9.3 % increase over the previous year. Soon, expect 5G connectivity to play a bigger role in enhancing both the employee and customer experience.
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A B2B Question from the Floor (that Almost Knocked Me to the Floor)
The Network Effect
OCTOBER 1, 2014
In the 2013 white paper “ Industrial Distribution at a Crossroads ,” we presented the reality that for industrial distributors to continue to be successful, they need to adopt the right strategy, the right technology, and the right supply chain. Blog Post – Five Major Changes Happening Right Now in Industrial Distribution.
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Resilience is the New Critical Supply Chain Strategy!
Supply Chain Game Changer
MAY 5, 2021
Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. For the majority of Supply Chain’s history, this evolution has been driven by a knack for finding efficiency.
The Importance of Network Design to Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Company Supply Chains
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Leadership is beginning to understand that supply chains are about more than logistics regarding the buying and selling of goods, supply chains are about competitive differentiation and profitable business growth. White Paper: What Is Supply Chain Network Design and Why Is It Important?
The Importance of Network Design to Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Company Supply Chains
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Leadership is beginning to understand that supply chains are about more than logistics regarding the buying and selling of goods, supply chains are about competitive differentiation and profitable business growth. White Paper: What Is Supply Chain Network Design and Why Is It Important?
Procurement Conferences: Are they worth it?
Procurement Software
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Compare what you’d get from running Google or LinkedIn ads, or gated white papers or webinars. The German Procurement, Supply & Logistics Association (BME) to their credit also run tech-themed events twice a year. Due your due diligence on the event.
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Cost-Optimal Parcel Packing
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Even before the logistical challenges that the eCommerce explosion of 2020 brought, businesses large and small have long struggled to adequately address packing inefficiency in the warehouse. It’s not for a lack of trying—investments are made in box on demand machines, carrier rates get negotiated, and consultants get consulted.
The Procurement Economy in 2019: The UK and the European Union
Jaggaer
JANUARY 22, 2019
It will be left to European leaders to decide on the future of the UK/EU relationship, and supply chain, logistics, and distribution may bear the brunt of the cost. Learn more about the economic factors impacting procurement in the UK and the EU in our white paper, Brexit and Beyond: A Guide to Procurement in 2019.
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The Procurement Economy in 2019: The United States
Jaggaer
JANUARY 11, 2019
Supply chain, logistics, and distribution will all be severely impacted, and companies that do not act to mitigate risks will see rising costs in the UK. To read our full white paper, download it here. With uncertainty over the pending exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, European supply chains are in limbo.
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