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How Do Supply Chain & Transportation Leaders Get Started Using Their Big Data Strategy?

GlobalTranz

The amount of information and improvement possible through big data can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, this may lead some supply chain managers or executives to simply avoid the topic until a more cohesive understanding of its possibilities can be made. Meanwhile, stakeholders do not get to reap the rewards of this new tech trend , and the overall enterprise suffers without realizing it.

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Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival

Freightos

Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. @zschreiber. In a single day in 2015, Alibaba handled an average of $9.9 million dollars every minute in a retail feat that racked up $14.3 billion dollars of Alipay payments , mostly on Tmall.com and Taobao Marketplace. That’s one and a half million dollars of sales in the time it took to read this article’s first sentence.

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How You Can Shorten Apparel Delivery Times to the Consumer

Apparel Logistics

As more people head online to shop for everything from groceries to gadgets to clothing, consumer demand for fast shipping is rising. Fully 80 percent of shoppers want same-day shipping , whereas 61 percent want to receive their products within one to three hours of ordering, according to "The State of Shipping in Commerce 2016," released by shipping software firm Temando.

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Shipment happens!

PINC

Sometimes it doesn't. Can you imagine start your week like this? So, what can you do to ensure that employee safety is a priority in your distribution center or manufacturing plant? Please leave a comment below.

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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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What Does the Future Hold for Big Data Applications at My Company in the Next 5 Years?

GlobalTranz

Big data applications are already impacting supply chain entities around the globe, but some of its most interesting possibilities may have yet to be realized. Since the digital universe will expand to more than 40 trillion gigabytes by 2020, reports Jim Taylor of Inbound Logistics , future possibilities through big data may not even be fathomable. However, the current progression of big data does give rise to some very tangible benefits to your company within the next five years. 6 Benefits to

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How The Winter Holidays Will Impact Warehouses And The Supply Chain

3PL Links

While many retailers are better versed in meeting in-store customer needs, experts argue that they have many challenges when it comes to handling digital operations, more specifically with regards to warehousing. This trend is particularly troublesome during the winter holidays season when the company’s distribution centre is handling 2 to 5 times the typical workload.

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The Best Way to Set up Your eCommerce Inventory

3PL Insights

For subscription box companies and other eCommerce sellers, managing your inventory can be one of the biggest challenges — but it’s also one of the most important to overcome. Properly structuring and managing your inventory means being able to forecast sales, prevent overselling, and get products to your customers efficiently. And if this process is neglected, it can lead to incorrectly listing what’s available on your site and therefore not being able to fulfil orders, which can severely damag

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[e-Book] E-Commerce Logistics: Background & Considerations for Manufacturers & Distributors

GlobalTranz

Within e-commerce, unpredictability is a constant factor. Flexibility in the supply chain, therefore, becomes critical. This can be derived from implementing the right software and automated systems that can support the fluidity that e-commerce requires. The flowering of e-commerce—while welcomed by most manufacturers and distributors/retailers—has introduced far more risk and complexity for logistics managers.

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New Yard Management System (YMS) Solution Brief

PINC

We are delighted to share with you our new and revised solution brief. PINC’s yard management solution provides insight, value, and scalability that adapts to your operational needs. It easily scales from a single location to enterprise wide. Learn how our customers achieve, on average, 30% overall operational savings and 6-9 months payback.

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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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How Can Supply Chain Leaders Use Big Data as a Tool to Continuously Improve?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain leaders are enthralled with the idea of using big data, but they tend to fail to understand how to disseminate big data in their organization properly. True, they may know how to roll out big data in a single warehouse, or they may have heard their competitors used branded systems for implementing this new technology. However, the fundamental problem remains.

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What Is the Impact of Big Data in the Transportation & Supply Chain Industries?

GlobalTranz

Big data will be a defining force in the future of logistics, but the benefits of big data are already being felt. Before thinking about future possibilities, you need to understand how it is currently being leveraged, According to Katrin Zeiler , supply chain entities will be able to lower overall operating costs, create and test newer business models, develop and maintain a higher standard in customer service and attain unsurpassed efficiency.