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Supply Chain Visibility
Pros to Know: It's an Exciting Time to be in Supply Chain Management
Henry Canitz, VP of industry and market strategy for Nulogy Corp., explains why everyone from the president down to kindergartners are asking questions about the supply chain.
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Staying Ahead of the Visibility Evolution is Key for Profit Success
Sourcing & Procurement
The Global Chip Shortage: Sourcing Through Disruption
Rail & Intermodal
Pros to Know: To Enable Progress, You Have to be Interoperable
Risk/Compliance
Earthquake Preparedness: How Parametric Insurance Prevents Supply Chain Collapse
Transportation
Tips for Effortless Trailer Maintenance
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SCN Summit
Companies Need to Play 3 Primary Roles for True Value Chain
Suraj Patil, assistant manager of Aranca, explains that value chain-developing edge-enable industrial machine ecosystem will require entities playing three primary roles.
Professional Development
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Opens Nominations for 3rd Annual Women in Supply Chain Award
This award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
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Supply Chain Visibility
Pros to Know: It's an Exciting Time to be in Supply Chain Management
Henry Canitz, VP of industry and market strategy for Nulogy Corp., explains why everyone from the president down to kindergartners are asking questions about the supply chain.
Retail
U.S. Parcel Volume Reaches Record High
Pitney Bowes forecasts U.S. parcel volume to reach 25-40 billion by 2027, with a 5-10% CAGR from 2022-2027.
Sourcing & Procurement
The Global Chip Shortage: Sourcing Through Disruption
What started as a ‘pandemic problem’ has quickly evolved into a long-term crisis. Sourcing agility will be key to navigating the volatility.
Rail & Intermodal
Pros to Know: To Enable Progress, You Have to be Interoperable
Bill Catania, founder and CEO of OneRail, says that to enable progress, you have to be interoperable. Here's why.
Retail
Supply Chain Delays Replace COVID-19 Concerns: Report
Findings from DHL show that business executive's concerns shift the more supply chain disruptions become prevalent. Most companies are already preparing for the holiday season due to delays.
Transportation
Tips for Effortless Trailer Maintenance
It’s only natural to want an easier solution for efficiency-draining tasks like maintenance. However, as any pro athlete will tell you, advancing to the point where something becomes effortless is rarely easy.
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SCN Summit
Companies Need to Play 3 Primary Roles for True Value Chain
Suraj Patil, assistant manager of Aranca, explains that value chain-developing edge-enable industrial machine ecosystem will require entities playing three primary roles.
Clean Energy
UgoWork: Benefits of Lithium-Ion Power Solutions are Endless in Material Handling
Transportation
Women in Supply Chain: Today's Supply Chains Need Strong Problem Solvers
Retention
Women in Supply Chain: Be On the Forefront of Strategy and Innovation
Retention
Women in Supply Chain: Identifying Strengths in Employees is Key to Success
Warehousing
Women in Supply Chain: Existing Roles Require Creative Change to Bring in New Talent
Sourcing & Procurement
Supplier Collaboration Critical to Minimizing Supply Disruptions
Over half (56%) of organizations have implemented automated risk monitoring to notify them of disruption, while 54% have increased inventory levels.
Automation
Empowering Drivers with Freight Tech
The best freight technologies are designed with drivers in mind, and should be built in a way that helps make their jobs safer, more productive and, frankly, more enjoyable.
Software & Technology
The Impact of Digital Optimization on Supply Chain Operations
The impact of digitally optimizing operations cannot be overstated. But where to start?
Software Solutions
Pros to Know: How Technology Brings Additional Visibility in Solving Today's Supply Chain Challenges
Corey Bertsch, VP solutions consulting for Slync.io, details how technology, automation and other logistics solutions help provide the visibility needed to solve port congestion, minimize waste and more.
Last-Mile
Don’t Underestimate the Final Mile
The concept of a distributed fulfillment network immediately clicks with most merchants when it comes to speed to delivery, but there’s often a disconnect when it comes to cost-justification.
Supply Chain Visibility
Extend Visibility Beyond Tier 1 Suppliers
Thanks to advances in technology, gaining information on supplier performance and potential disruptions is no longer such a time-intensive task.
SCN Summit
Companies Need to Play 3 Primary Roles for True Value Chain
Suraj Patil, assistant manager of Aranca, explains that value chain-developing edge-enable industrial machine ecosystem will require entities playing three primary roles.
Last-Mile
How To Successfully Drive Last-Mile Delivery Logistics in Today’s Commercial Environment
Supply chain shortages put added pressure on the construction market.
Last-Mile
What Einstein Got Right About E-commerce Delivery
Back in 1905, Albert Einstein argued that how you experience time is always in relation to something else; there’s no “absolute” frame of reference.
Professional Development
Pros to Know: Understand the Big Picture First
David Rink, director of solutions consulting at Slync.io and a winner of our Prost to Know award, gives advice to his younger self, saying that it is important to understand the big picture so you can get to the bottom of the root causes.
Emerging Technologies
Lack of Digital Maturity in U.S.: Study
Nearly all survey respondents (98%) indicate they continue to use manual spreadsheets even while taking steps toward digital transformation.
Warehousing
5 Small Innovations That Had a Big Impact on the Supply Chain
When you think about how a product that you order at your computer or via your phone gets delivered to you within days or even hours, you can thank many of the innovations that were developed over the past 100+ years for the supply chain.
Packaging
How Supply Chain Leaders Can Feed the Industry’s Change in Packaging
As e-commerce continues to increase its market share of overall retail sales, packaging often becomes the first physical interaction the consumer has with a brand.
Sourcing & Procurement
Pros to Know: Simplifying Complex Supply Chains
Verusen execs talk risk reduction, optimization, simplifying complex supply chains, providing stability in the market and providing tools and solutions for supply chain companies to better do their job.
Women in Supply Chain
Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2022 Women in Supply Chain Award
This award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
Professional Development
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Opens Nominations for 3rd Annual Women in Supply Chain Award
This award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network.
Risk/Compliance
5 Practical Ways Risk Management Builds Supply Chain Resiliency
Companies across all industries are feeling pressure to reevaluate their supply chain vulnerabilities and strategies - and it’s not just the big companies that need to take action.
Risk/Compliance
SaaS Subscription Provides Supply Chain Risk Analytics
SupplyChainMonitor offers interactive tools that help subscribers monitor and manage their company's supply chain risks at the aggregate and granular levels.
Warehousing
Surpassing the Mechanical Limitations of Legacy Systems
The need for automation has become more exacerbated during COVID lockdown challenges. Throughout the global pandemic, the need for automation has outpaced the solution cost.
Warehousing
Diverse Backgrounds Help Build Supply Chains Stronger
May 3, 2022
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Four of this year’s Pros to Know winners from SAP sat down to talk all things supply chain, how the pandemic has affected the way companies do business, what advice they would give their younger selves and more.
AI/AR
Advanced Supply Chain Analytics
Planning.AI is a concurrent planning solution designed to automatically detect and fuse the best combination of heuristics, optimization and machine learning, providing a highly accurate answer in the fastest time possible.
Warehousing
Why Future-Proofing the Supply Chain Starts with Partnerships
Planning for unexpected supply chain challenges requires a considerable amount of forethought. Brands need to prioritize changes that maximize their chances of weathering supply chain woes. Let’s take a look at three changes brands can make this year.
Professional Development
Pros to Know: Supply Chain is Key to Future Success for a Company
Cheryl Falk, SVP, global marketing from Fortna and a Pros to Know award winner, joins the podcast to discuss her supply chain journey and mentions a noticeable shift in business, where the supply chain is brought heavily into c-suite discussion.
Risk/Compliance
Some Companies Still Lack Third-Party Incident Response Programs
As a result, 45% of respondents said they experienced a security incident in the last year, up from 21% in 2021.
