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Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management

GlobalTranz

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Besides, these risks are much more serious (for example, there were about 134,000 reported cyber-attacks on businesses in 2017 , or almost 50 percent increase from 2016). GET YOUR COPY HERE. Download White Paper.

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Integrating ERP and TMS: Why Your Business Needs Both Systems

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According to a 2016 report from Ohio State University , 86 percent of respondents believed their ERP systems did not provide adequate supply chain management. All other systems studied had a median point of 18 months to two years, making TMS a more financially-sound choice when it comes to bolstering SCM capability.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

The first batch of containers was accepted in May 2016, with the final batch coming off the assembly line in June 2016, well ahead of the contracted delivery date. 16] Department of Defence 2016, Defence Industry Policy Statement, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, p 19. [17] When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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Advanced Analytics Continue to Get a Bigger Plate at the Manufacturing Dinner Table

GlobalTranz

Data collection, analysis, and appropriation will be defining factors for manufacturers this year. Advanced analytics offer manufacturers the ability to look beyond what's currently happening on the surface and uncover what trends, processes, and applications may impact the overall volume and quality of production.

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Amazon Reports It Shipped More Than 1 Billion Items with Prime Service Over the Holidays

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Anne Stych for The Business Journals reports that Walmart’s online sales increased significantly year-over-year in the shopping period prior to Christmas while other retailers saw much weaker growth or losses, an analysis by e-commerce intelligence company Edison Trends found (see chart below). . Source: Edison Trends.

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Surviving the Digital Race: What to Watch for in 2018

Blue Grace Logistics

Data analysis and predictive modeling are just the beginning of the industry’s new bag of tricks. While 2017 was certainly better than 2016, it’s still going to be a slog to get back to the post-recession era. Here are the biggest trends to keep an eye on as 2018 gets underway. What to Watch for .

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4PLs: Collaboration Among Logistics Service Providers Creating More Value for Shippers

GlobalTranz

In a sense, collaboration gives rise to greater data-capture points, aggregation, analysis, and change within an organization. Chart from Capgemini 2014 3PL Study. The third fundamental of collaboration in logistics trends focuses on how collaboration contributes to the livelihood of a company over an extended duration.