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5 Analytic Shipping Data Insights for Shippers From SONAR

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chain intelligence and actionable insights must apply the most accessible, near real-time data available. Analytic data resources for brokers are great, but it’s equally important to realize that FreightWaves SONAR is much more than a broker-exclusive resource. Market dynamics of freight management can turn on a dime.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. Risk management had been a hard sale. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Legacy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software systems, such as Salesforce, were originally developed to help sales teams funnel and track potential customers through long sales pipelines, from generating leads to closing the sale, then supporting and maintaining the customer relationship.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. Why S&OP Needs a Lot of Human Investment.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

After months of dire predictions, many in the financial community are lowering the odds of a recession in the next year. But “9% of the companies didn’t simply recover in the three years after a recession — they flourished, outperforming competitors by at least 10% in sales and profits growth.”

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ERP For Medical Device Manufacturers: Part 1

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Major advances in wireless technology, miniaturization, automation and computing power are encouraging the development of new connected medical devices that can generate, collect and transmit data. This Solutions to these challenges will come from software and data collection that medical devices will include. A new business model.

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Demand Forecasting 101: Everything eCommerce Businesses Need to Know

Ship Monk

Put simply, demand forecasting uses a variety of data to foresee customer demand and inform major business decisions, from launching new products to finding the perfect 3PL partner. What percentage do they account for in overall sales? The COVID-19 pandemic was a prominent example. #5 What is Demand Forecasting?