August, 2016

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Computers in Manufacturing | Help or Hindrance?

GlobalTranz

A recent Armagard guest blog post, published by our friends at Cerasis , resulted in an interesting comment concerning computers in manufacturing from one reader. Are computers actually helping to improve manufacturing productivity or are they adding to productivity and efficiency problems? We felt inclined to tackle the question…. The comment submitted, stated: “There are many factors that manufacturing facilities have to contend with to integrate computers on the production floor.

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Bringing Freight Online with WebCargoNet and Freightos

Freightos

Bringing Freight Online With WebCargoNet And Freightos. We have exciting news at Freightos – we’re proud to announce that we’ve acquired WebCargoNet , a leading logistics technology provider. But this story is more about a vision for a better future of freight, than just another acquisition. An Industry On The Verge Of Change. In many respects, this should be a good time for the logistics industry.

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Helping Hammock Universe Grow Their Business – An Ottawa Logistics Case Study

Ottawa Logistics

What happens when your success and growth as a company isn’t scaleable? One of the biggest bottlenecks to continued growth is fulfillment and logistics. Hammock Universe was faced with a daunting decision as their sales grew – do we invest in an extremely expensive in-house logistics and fulfillment department, or do we use a third party logistics company?

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Bad Data is Costing You

Parade

The phone is ringing. Customers are hounding you. They want to know where their load is. You'd like to know too, but this is trucking and anything can happen on the road. Customers demand real data to handle delays, adjust personnel, and manage their gates and they're not easing up anytime soon. So you call your carriers. They tell you their driver is 20 minutes away from their destination.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Is Truck Driving for You

3PL Insights

If you’re looking for a high demand career field, like to travel, and find the idea of driving for a living appealing, a truck driving job might be the perfect career choice for you. There are many job opportunities in the truck driving field, particularly for individuals interested over the road driving opportunities. Job prospects are also good for those interested in local haul driving opportunities.

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Top 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2016. And Beyond

GlobalTranz

The winds of change are always blowing, but now, more than ever, logistics and supply chain professionals see it more than most. To keep pace with change, it’s important to keep an eye on the supply chain and logistics trends that are happening right now. In fact, they are likely to be indicators of what’s to come soon. To that end, here are 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch: Expansion of Same-Day Delivery.

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Technology and Culture: The Cultural Obstacles to Better Logistics

Freightos

Technology and Culture. The Cultural Obstacles to Better Logistics. Zvi Schreiber | CEO, Freightos. A version of this article originally appeared in The Journal of Commerce (August 6, 2016). When Apple released its pocket-sized personal computer, promising unprecedented connectivity, the industry got excited. Five years later, production of the failed Newton PDA was canned.

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The Key Processes of Warehouse Efficiency

Apparel Logistics

Since 2003, the Warehouse Education and Research Council (WERC) has surveyed hundreds of logistics professionals each year to determine the key metrics for measuring the efficiency and performance of distribution centers (DCs). This year's DC Metrics report identified four critical measurements of warehouse efficiency: on-time shipments, order picking accuracy, dock to stock cycle time, and internal order cycle time.

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TPG Capital to acquire a majority stake in Transporeon

Transporeon

Transporeon Experienced, global software and technology investor and leading, European cloud-based logistics platform company partner to drive growth and product innovation Fort Worth, Texas; San Francisco; and Ulm, Germany – August 2, 2016 – Transporeon, a leading European cloud-based business network for industrial logistics, today announced that TPG Capital, the North-American- and European-focused private equity platform of leading global alternative asset firm TPG, has entered into a defini

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Best e-Commerce Store Solutions for Retailers

3PL Insights

Over recent years, e-commerce sites have slowly started to adapt to the changing face of the internet. There will almost certainly be more changes to come, with retailers understanding the need to provide an experience for its users. A standard grid focusing on products and prices might not be going away, but new developments like rich media, social engagement, and related content help to build long-term customer relationships.

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1.4 Million Supply Chain Workers needed - Strategy: Keep the Ones You Have

10xLogistics

Get ready! The "War on Talent" is here and it is here to stay. Fortune published an article titled " Wanted: 1.4 million new supply chain workers by 2018 ". We have always discussed the need to develop and nurture talent and now it is getting even more important. If you are not focusing on how to develop and retain your great talent, you will be forever out in the market trying to recruit new talent.

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Top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Training Programs and Courses in 2016

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Kelli Harris, a consultant and recent college graduate in Logistics Management. Today, Kelly shares the top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management training programs and courses available in 2016. Nowadays, to succeed in business, it is not enough to use marketing approaches; it is required to apply modern efficient methods of management to stream processes, such as logistics.

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East Coast Warehouse Takes Yard Operations to the Next Level

PINC

This week, Clint Reiser, director of supply chain research at ARC Advisory Group, had the opportunity of speaking with Bob LaMere, CIO of East Coast Warehouse , about the company’s recent yard management system upgrade and the benefits obtained by the company. He just wrote an interesting article about his findings on Logistics Viewpoints blog. I have shared parts of the article below.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Expected Growth Within the 3PL Industry

Apparel Logistics

The 3PL industry has grown a lot over recent decades as it has expanded its reach to countries all around the globe. Recently, Allied Market Research published a report showing that the industry is expected to reach $1.11 trillion by 2022. This remarkable growth shows how important 3PL services have become to businesses that want to improve customer satisfaction, shorten supply chains, and evolve quickly when markets change.

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Transform Your Supply Chain for Omnichannel – Part II

The Logistics Academy

New Retailing. Omnichannel with e-commerce is retail duality. There are two very different ways to reach customers. One is the traditional store approach which requires customers to go to the store to purchase products from stocked shelves. The other has retailers delivering many individual orders to many individual customers. It is customers going to retail stores; and it is also retailers going to customers via e-commerce.

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Shipping | Check Out The New Gate Cam At Wando Welch Terminal

Trans Global Auto Logistics

Wando Welch terminal has two new cameras that allow you to see gate traffic in real time. Well almost real time; the feed is updated every 30 seconds. Click on the link below to see traffic at the main gate and shipping lane. Wando Welch Terminal Inbound Lanes. The post Shipping | Check Out The New Gate Cam At Wando Welch Terminal appeared first on TransGlobal.

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Will The On Demand Economy Work in For Hire Freight?

10xLogistics

I recently read a very well written article in Trucks.com titled: Will The Sharing Economy Disrupt Trucking, Transportation and logistics ? It covered the very common topic of the day which is the "Uberization of trucking". Will it work? Can shippers get over the fear of people they do not know actually hauling their freight? Will it be consistent enough for commercial customers?

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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7 Distribution Technology Trends Worth Discussing

GlobalTranz

Modern distribution technology has significantly changed how suppliers get their products to end-users, and consumers are driving changes in how Distributors use technology to better their business processes. As a result, you need to understand what distribution technology trends, as explained by Advantage Business Media and Lindsay Konzak of Modern Distribution Management , are being seen in today's distribution network and how they will impact future operations. 1.

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A Home Lighting Products Company Reduces Inventory and Compresses the Supply Chain

Mazars Ledger

A prominent home furnishings company faced a nice problem. The good news was that its business was growing rapidly, thanks to… The post A Home Lighting Products Company Reduces Inventory and Compresses the Supply Chain appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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E-Commerce and the Apparel Retail World

Apparel Logistics

E-commerce has forever changed the way consumers shop. Sixty-nine percent of Americans shop online regularly, according to a 2015 online shopping report from market intelligence agency Mintel. However, if you broaden the definition of e-commerce to include using the internet for researching products and services before purchasing, that number jumps to 81 percent, according to Retail Today.

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Transform Your Supply Chain for Omnichannel – Part III

The Logistics Academy

New Supply Chain. Retail duality requires and is driven by supply chain duality. Retail duality requires and is driven by supply chain duality—to deal with stores and moving cases and pallets of products and to deal with many, individual customers and meeting their satisfaction expectations. The new retailing is about supply chain management. And that new selling requires a new supply chain to drive and create the customer experience.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Is Prescriptive Analytics really going to disrupt how Supply Chains evolve?

AIMMS

In a time when the term ‘disruptive’ is being over-used I find myself increasingly using the term when describing the impact of our product to clients and prospects. It’s uncomfortable because prior to starting with AIMMS two years ago, I spent 20 years in consulting and IT services and experienced many terms being over-used (such as ‘optimized’ or ‘disruptive’).

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The New Transportation Technology Ecosystem is Shaping

10xLogistics

Developing the future is messy. It always appears it cannot be done and individual technologies, when looked at in isolation, look like they will never work. However, I submit this is short term and to borrow a Star Trek phrase, is " Two Dimensional thinking ". Let's think about this in "three dimensions - think about the ecosystem and the connection of this ecosystem.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Will APIs Replace Freight EDI? The Transportation Industry Moves Technology Forward

GlobalTranz

With data playing an ever increasing role in supply chain, Eye for Transport teamed up with project44 to explore EDI – a technology that has been a core part of how carriers, shippers and 3PLs transmit and share data since 1970. Why does Freight EDI still exist? Do people in the industry really like it? EDI may be the current industry default, but it’s old technology that runs data over timers – meaning data isn’t coming to you in real-time, leading to more phone calls and emails to track proces

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2016 U.S. Food & Beverage Industry Study Results

Mazars Ledger

Mazars’ results from the 2016 U.S. Food & Beverage Industry Study offers benchmarks against which to assess 2015 performance, insights into… The post 2016 U.S. Food & Beverage Industry Study Results appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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How to Conduct Workplace Incident Investigations to Create Safer Workplaces

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of global workplace incident trends, focusing on the top three biases leading to such incidents. It also highlights the significance of CSA Z1005 as a risk management standard and outlines the ROI of thorough incident investigations, covering emergency response to post-incident interviews. Additionally, it introduces an Investigation Evidence Gathering Matrix.

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Get Special Treatment from a Specialized 3PL

Apparel Logistics

Using a one-size-fits-all logistics solution might sound like a smart move, but it could deprive your business of the advantages that specialized third-party logistics, or 3PL, companies provide. A 3PL team that serves every industry, from electronics to food, can't claim expertise in any one area, so it can't serve its customers as effectively as a specialized provider can.

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RFID: what, when, where and why of your supply chain

The Logistics Academy

With its strength in identifying individual items or assets and their whereabouts, RFID offers a multitude of benefits across the entire supply chain. Over the last few weeks we’ve walked you through the various benefits of using RFID in a retail store. RFID gives retailers the what, where and how much of their inventory on a real time basis. This information is invaluable for improving inventory accuracy, reducing out of stocks, aiding loss prevention and just locating stock in general – which

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Is Prescriptive Analytics really going to disrupt how Supply Chains evolve?

AIMMS

In a time when the term ‘disruptive’ is being over-used I find myself increasingly using the term when describing the impact of our Prescriptive Analytics product to clients and prospects. It’s uncomfortable because prior to starting with AIMMS two years ago, I spent 20 years in consulting and IT services and experienced many terms being over-used (such as ‘optimized’ or ‘disruptive’).