SC247    Topics    Supply Chain

Supply Chain


Supply Chain Top Stories

Meet Bluicity: The Startup That’s Predicting and Perfecting the Supply Chain
In this week's Startup Spotlight, we profile Bluicity, a company digitalizing logistics to ensure quality and reduce waste in supply chains.
Impending Canadian Rail Strike Could Paralyze Country’s Economy
Over 9,000 Canadian rail workers may strike on May 22, threatening major disruptions across national supply chains.
Auto Parts Makers Receive $100 Million to Help Ease Switch to Electric
The Department of Energy grants $100 million to help auto parts makers update facilities and improve sustainability in their manufacturing.
April Employment Update: Trucking Sector Faces 300 Job Losses
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest report shows trucking job dip, signaling industry challenges amid contract negotiations and seasonal shifts.

Supply Chain Resources

Navigating Procurement’s Digital Transformation with AI
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of AI in reshaping procurement and supply chain operations is...
GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report 2024
We’ve researched the five biggest trends in the supply chain space this year, and, drawing on our...


Supply Chain News

Three Checklists to Build a Successful Supply Chain Analytics Foundation
This white paper dives into the importance of building robust supply chain analytics capabilities to support profitable revenue growth and exceptional customer service, and offers three easy-to-use checklists to help get you started.

Three Strategies for Proactive Compliance by Automating Export Controls
Solutions for university export control and compliance officers, legal counsel and research administrators.

The Why & How on the Path to Free Trade Agreements
This e-book illustrates the path to reap the rewards of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) while maintaining full compliance with the regulations around them.

Digitization Creates a Strong Value Chain: Mitigating Risk
Digitization itself is a means to an end; the end goal is to derive the most value from a supply chain.

Stopped at the Border: Why Product Testing Matters
Real-time visibility, workflow and management by exception capabilities provide a simplified way to holistically manage product testing and safety.

How Supply Chain Orchestration Boosts Agility, Simplicity and Business Performance
Why Every Manufacturer and Logistics Provider Should Prioritize Supply Chain Orchestration.

OMS Helps Deliver the Omnichannel Customer Experience
Omnichannel retail is now mainstream. Today, 92 percent of American shoppers say they regularly shop across multiple channels. Ready or not, retailers must embrace this phenomenon.

What the OTIF Mandate Means for Walmart – and What it Means for You
Partners are central to the supply chain strategy at Walmart, and Walmart has clear expectations of them...those expectations just went up.

Your Inventory Optimization Solution Could be Creating an Inaccurate Forecast
Inventory buffers can counteract the effects of inaccurate forecasts...but, are you setting wrong inventory targets because your inventory optimization solution doesn’t understand how bad the forecast really is?

A Better Approach to Managing Your Extended Supply Chain
Outsourcing started in the high tech industry a few decades ago, but today, outsourcing is now the new norm in most industries today.

The Power of Predictive Analytics
According to KPMG’s 2016 Global Consumer Executive Top of Mind Survey, the use of predictive analytics was set to double by 2018.

Leading Apparel Brand UNTUCKit Optimizes Inventory Through RFID
Brick-and-mortar stores are making a comeback, but only the digitally re-defined will thrive. Luckily, tools such as IoT, RFID, beacons and analytics are giving retailers insights into operations that can give their merchandise a boost.

Demand-Driven Manufacturing Can Help You Cost-Justify Your Next IIoT Project
One of the keys to digital transformation is to prove the benefits of your IIoT program through a pilot project.

Collaborative Planning and Execution for the Industrial Manufacturing Industry
After decades of improving their engineering and production functions, the world's leading industrial manufacturers now are working to improve the performance of their supply chains, which are among some of the most complex in the world.

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
E2open’s Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization solution provides accurate modeling of current conditions, optimal inventory targets, fast run-times and rapid analyses, enabling organizations to reduce inventory while protecting or increasing service levels and customer satisfaction.

Tariffs Present Different Supply Chain Challenges for Shippers
The Trump administration on Friday escalated a trade war between the world’s two largest economies, moving ahead with tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods and provoking an immediate tit-for-tat response from Beijing.

How to Derive Optimal Value from a Supply Chain Control Tower
Supply chain control towers are everywhere, and there are many different kinds based on different assumptions and with different capabilities, however, many control towers miss the mark on foundational and critical elements essential to today’s supply chains, so how do you choose?

Improving the Customer Experience in the Age of Ecommerce
With e-commerce now making up a total of 17% of all retail sales in the USA, retailers need to put their focus on improving their supply chains in order to win and retain business.

Circular Supply Chain – The Missing Link
The circular supply chain is about taking apparent waste materials and returned goods and turning them into products which can be resold, and with sustainability goals in mind, companies need to find ways to reduce the carbon footprint of shipping freight.

Making Sales & Operations Planning a Calendar Highlight
With only 42% of companies rating their S&OP process as effective, we asked the question, what if, using powerful analytics, you could get insights into of all your low and high margin products and find opportunities for improvement on the fly?


Featured Companies

Enterra Solutions
Enterra Solutions, LLC, is a cloud-based, intelligent supply chain technology company that solves complex supply chain execution problems of consumer products and retail organizations through real-time data sharing and analytic solutions that “Sense, Think, Learn and Act” to continually improve…
TradeCard
TradeCard delivers a cloud-based network that enables complex, multi-enterprise sourcing transactions across multiple layers of the supply chain. More than 45,000 individual users leverage the TradeCard Platform to streamline transaction flows, from purchase order through production tracking, shipment and payment.
Bridge Solutions Group
Bridge Solutions Group implements the highest quality omni-channel and supply chain technology solutions from the world’s most respected and reliable brands. Our teams are committed to delivering agile and dynamic solutions with the dedication and attention of a trusted…
Shipwire
Shipwire Inc., a SaaS-based platform from Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services, offers a comprehensive order management system that connects merchants to an expansive global network of warehouses, parcel carriers, transportation, and ecommerce options. The platform’s logistics infrastructure supports…
Syncron
Syncron solutions create agile and streamlined supply and demand chain management processes that improve your competitiveness and financial performance. With Syncron’s industry-leading software and expert supply chain consultants, managing a complex global supply chain is easy.
Menlo Worldwide Logistics
Menlo Worldwide Logistics specializes in the integration of all functions across the supply chain, from sourcing of raw materials, through product manufacturing to the distribution of finished goods. Through practical and incremental solutions that leverage leading technologies and the best…
GT Nexus
At GT Nexus, we built a company around a simple but very powerful idea: put a single cloud-based collaboration platform at the center of a huge but enormously inefficient industry - global trade and logistics - and give companies a…
BlockEx
The BlockEx (Digital Asset Exchange Platform) DAxP is digital asset creation, issuance and trading platform. With toolkits for asset creation servicing, trade settlement, permissioned trading and automated reporting. BlockEx Labs works with trading firms, institutions, and governments providing managed services…
Dynamo
Dynamo is a logistics, supply chain and transportation accelerator program and early stage fund in Chattanooga, TN. Industry veterans Ted Alling, Barry Large, and Allan Davis, who started Access America Transport and grew it to a multimillion dollar company in…
University of North Texas Center for Logistics Education and Research
The Center for Logistics Education and Research works closely with senior executives to develop career placement and internship opportunities for students. These opportunities abound because the Dallas-Fort Worth region is a national leader in distribution, transportation and logistics services.
All Supply Chain Companies
All Companies
 


Featured Downloads

Unified Control System - Intelligent Warehouse Orchestration
Unified Control System - Intelligent Warehouse Orchestration
Download this whitepaper to learn Unified Control System (UCS), designed to orchestrate automated and human workflows across the warehouse, enabling automation technologies...
An Inside Look at Dropshipping
An Inside Look at Dropshipping
Korber Supply Chain’s introduction to the world of dropshipping. While dropshipping is not for every retailer or distributor, it does provide...

C3 Solutions Major Trends for Yard and Dock Management in 2024
C3 Solutions Major Trends for Yard and Dock Management in 2024
What trends you should be focusing on in 2024 depends on how far you are on your yard and dock management journey. This...
Packsize on Demand Packing Solution for Furniture and Cabinetry Manufacturers
Packsize on Demand Packing Solution for Furniture and Cabinetry Manufacturers
In this industry guide, we’ll share some of the challenges manufacturers face and how a Right-Sized Packaging On Demand® solution can...
Streamline Operations with Composable Commerce
Streamline Operations with Composable Commerce
Revamp warehouse operations with composable commerce. Say goodbye to legacy systems and hello to modernization.
{/exp:switchee}