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Supply Chain Visibility
How AI Can Help Mitigate Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
AI is no longer a value-add—it is a core component of building and maintaining visibility and resiliency throughout the entire supply chain.
Retail
Environmental Cost of Retail Returns
Returns will always exist, but now retailers have multiple options to help reduce the returns volume.
Automation
Designing for Yard Automation
For enterprises looking to innovate for long-term competitive gain, they must embrace autonomous yard operations.
Retention
3 Ways Smart Factory Leaders Can Boost Skilled Talent
In order to attract the type of talent it requires for the future, manufacturing will need to sell itself to a new generation of job seekers who may alternatively gravitate toward a career in tech.
Sourcing Solutions
Why Online Collaboration is Key to Working Remote or At Home
Those that have the tools to collaborate easily online certainly recover faster from having to work at home than those without online tools.
Automation
Think Holistically for More Cost-Effective Warehousing
To lower costs in a sustainable and impactful way, you’ll want to develop a multi-pronged solution that addresses people, process, technology and the physical environment of the warehouse.
Sourcing Solutions
The Two Sides of the Pandemic Supply Chain
While the pandemic’s profound effects were not predictable, it did underscore the need for digital capabilities.
Supply Chain Visibility
4 Steps to Navigating the Changing Logistics Landscape
Here are Top 4 must-dos for logistics leaders today.
Last-Mile
The Importance of Getting Shipping Right to Your Logistics Strategy
To be successful, you need to crunch the numbers, get the information on your current parcel shipping and then use it to make smarter, more well-informed decisions.
Professional Development
Upskilling and Reskilling Workers to Improve Supply Chain Resilience
Tapping into the large talent pool of available workers due to COVID-19 can help to address the skill gap challenges within the industry.
Trucking
5 Ways to Reduce Invoice Rejection Rates
Not paying attention to freight payment chips away at a shipper’s bottom line and creates friction with carriers that are desperately needed these days more than ever.
Sourcing & Procurement
Importance of Technology as Manufacturers Prepare for ‘Buy American’ Executive Order
As manufacturing and supply chain leaders prepare for “Buy American,” it is essential to consider the upcoming challenges that they may face and invest in the right technology that will propel them forward and encourage scalability and growth.
Automation
How Technology is Improving Warehouse Safety
There are plenty of ways to improve warehouse and worker safety with both trusted and new technologies.
Micro-Fulfillment
Navigating Demand for Warehouse Space with Alternative Fulfillment Solutions
The next stage of growth for online brands will be hinged not just on sourcing additional capacity, but also on identifying alternative distribution and fulfillment infrastructures and utilizing them to ensure consumer demands can be met effectively.
E-Commerce Solutions
How SMBs Can Recover and Rev Up for 2021
In order to grow, you need a growth solution that includes new sales channels, and that means changing your business model to pivot in the face of adversity.
Warehousing
The Future of Forklifts is Lithium-Ion Powered
Simple changes such as the adoption and proper care of lithium-ion batteries can greatly improve productivity and resilience.
Sourcing & Procurement
Finding Diamonds in the Rough of the Global Supply Chain
Improvement in visibility can and will attract greater levels of talent and investment that will yield new technologies and solutions.
Sustainability
Are Your Suppliers Green or Are They Greenwashing?
AI technology is essential for gaining transparent, real-time intelligence into the outcomes of suppliers’ green decisions, verifying their compliance with a business’s own initiatives and making informed actions that maintain positive impact.
Manufacturing
Export Controls on COVID-19 Vaccines, Military End Use and EU Recast Regulations
Who knew it would come in handy to prevent vaccines from being exported at inconvenient times? Here is an overview of three recent export compliance areas of attention.
Sourcing & Procurement
Why the Pandemic Gave Procurement a Seat in the Boardroom
For leaders looking for ways to consolidate and increase their influence, consider these three takeaways to drive sustainable results for the company, develop strategic stakeholder relationships and prove broad procurement value to the organization.
Visibility Software
Preparing Inventory for Another Unprecedented Peak Season
Merchants need to plan and prepare now for the Supply Chain Storm that’s brewing and threatening to upend this year’s peak.
AI/AR
How Automating Data Analysis Can Break Down Supply Chain Silos
The use of AI-enabled technologies like ABA is growing quickly and the tools are easy to apply to existing data sets, helping organizations provide a better experience and quickly capture more revenue by simply following the insights in their own data.
Emerging Technologies
SaaS Management is Complex, but Doesn’t Have to Be
Effective SaaS management optimizes costs, reduces risk and provides critical knowledge of application utilization.
