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Automation
Finding the Low-Hanging Fruit in Automation
We've all heard the term "low-hanging fruit," and it's a very appropriate one in business. What can get you the biggest impact for the least (relatively speaking) effort and investment.
Supply Chain Visibility
FedEx, FourKites Alliance Delivers Real-Time Visibility Capabilities
AI/AR
Achieving Full Supply Chain Visibility Starts in the Warehouse
Automation
Aurobindo Pharma Increases Throughput with ASRS as Hub of Integrated Distribution Network
Emerging Technologies
Amazon Prime Drone Delivery Becomes Reality
Supply Chain Visibility
Tada Heightens Visibility with Digital Twin-Enable Production Control Tower
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L.I.N.K. | How and Why Coca-Cola Values Truck Driving Careers
After a large investment in an educational program for trucking, an executive from Coca-Cola UNITED joins the podcast to describe the program and why large companies need to invest in trucking careers.
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.
Warehousing
Diverse Backgrounds Help Build Supply Chains Stronger
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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.
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AI/AR
Beyond Visibility: The Benefits of Digital Twins for Supply Chain Resilience and Agility
In what might be called the “Great Supply Chain Disruption,” global supply chain shocks are occurring more frequently and have a bigger impact on organizations than ever.
AI/AR
Hyperautomation, Autonomous, Digital, Sustainability Remain Top Supply Chain Technology Themes
All Top 8 themes are focused on implementing technological responses to disruptions, supply shortages and security incidents.
AI/AR
Supply Chain Headaches? Nearshoring and AI Can Help
Each day we search for technology solutions to provide answers to two critical supply chain issues: workforce changes due to society’s adapting to the pandemic, and many years of offshoring (even before 2020). Let’s have a deeper look at these two areas.
Software Solutions
Resilient Supply Chains Begin with the Cloud
The first step in achieving resiliency is investing in cloud computing.
Supply Chain Visibility
ToolsGroup’s Onera Acquisition Provides Inventory Visibility
The combined software offering gives retailers crucial visibility into inventory as well as the ability to optimize planning and fulfillment to enable a flexible and resilient supply chain.
AI/AR
Advanced Analytics Chart the Future of the Healthcare Supply Chain
As healthcare increasingly embraces digital transformation and employs more modern data strategies, predictive and prescriptive analytics will play an essential role in building the supply chain of the future.
Warehousing
2022 Predictions for the Challenged Supply Chain
What’s become overwhelmingly clear is that there’s a demand for increased visibility into supply chains to gain a better sense of inventory and any issues arising with the movement of that inventory.
Robotics
New Safety Standard Builds Trust in Autonomous Mobile Robots
In a recent global Warehouse Vision Study commissioned by Zebra Technologies, 76% of warehouse associates agreed they would feel comfortable working alongside an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), and it’s important we keep it that way.
AI/AR
Fulfillment Transparency Scale Can Be a Challenge
Reyaz Mohamed, VP of solutions advisory at Blue Yonder, describes the difficulty in scaling fulfillment transparency.
AI/AR
Data and Knowledge Is Power
Finance business partner at Enable Bill Speirs emphasizes the importance of collaboration and breaking down data silos.
Software & Technology
Going Beyond the 4 Walls: Optimizing the Supply Chain for Manufacturers
Digitally connecting planning from the top floor to plant floor operations provides insights that benefit the entire operation, and allows companies to identify patterns, react quickly to demand.
Software & Technology
Freight Technology Transforms the Supply Chain for Global Growth
Although technology cannot provide a solution for all of the world’s current problems, there are technologies that if leveraged in the right way, can help increase overall global growth.
AI/AR
Food Logistics, Supply & Demand Chain Executive to Launch New Top Tech Startup Award
The Top Tech Startup award is geared toward companies who’ve started operation within the last 5 years and have introduced a viable product.
Manufacturing
Pros to Know: How AI Provides Transparency in Supply Chains
Sumit Vakil, chief product officer for Resilinc, explains how artificial intelligence helps companies provide visibility and transparency in their supply chains.
AI/AR
Drone Technology Likely to Deliver Small Packages in Rural Areas
A 3PL expert describes the near future of delivery, which could likely be comprised of drone delivery in rural areas and electric bikes in urban environments.
Software & Technology
ShipHero Targets Greater North American Presence With Acquisition
Logistics tech platform ShipHero acquires Canadian Delivery Net to drive North American growth. The move adds 250,000 square feet of warehousing space under its belt.
AI/AR
Transportation & Logistics Sees Least ROI From Intelligent Automation
The most popular technology introduced in the last year was process automation (57%) followed by artificial intelligence (52%) and document centric process automation (39%).
AI/AR
Staying Ahead of the Visibility Evolution is Key for Profit Success
An executive from Armada reveals that a key strategy for the organization is to stay on top of supply chain visibility innovation for its clients.
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?
AI/AR
Negotiations Get AI Boost To Combat Market Volatility
A new solution from Pactum creates autonomous short-term rate negotiations to innovate in contracts within the supply chain industry.
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.
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.
AI/AR
L.I.N.K. | Fleets Need Intelligent Route Optimization to Keep Up
As demand continues to increase in the logistics sector, while a labor shortage and other major supply chain disruptions occur, fleets turn to intelligent ways to optimization their route planning.
Retail
Berkshire Grey Enables Retailers To Transform Any Space Into Automated Warehouses
A new mobile robotic platform from Berkshire Grey allows retailers to turn any floor into a flexible any-to-any induct-to-discharge sortation system.
Sanitization
3 Ways AI Is the Future of Warehouse Cleaning
To remain profitable and effective, warehouses must look for efficiencies elsewhere. Many are finding solutions through an unexpected team player: cleaning robots.
Supply Chain Visibility
5 Questions for Choosing a Supply Chain Transparency Vendor
You can't manage what you don't know so start by asking the right questions before you engage a technology vendor to help you achieve supply chain transparency.
Supply Chain Visibility
Pros to Know: FourKites Execs Share Their Supply Chain Experiences
FourKite’s VP of Industry Strategy, 3PLs, Raj Patel and GM of network collaboration, Glenn Koepke both join the podcast to discuss winning SDCE’s Pros to Know award, their careers and an inside look at the software company.
AI/AR
Thought Leaders Talk State of the Supply Chain in Upcoming SCN Summit
Register now to learn more about what's in store for national and global supply chains. Topics revolve around Warehouse Automation, Risk Management, Supply Chain Visibility, Electrification in Trucking, Building a Sustainable Supply Chain and more.
Emerging Technologies
Pros to Know: Innovation From Outside the Industry Inspires Supply Chains
Kevin Gue, senior director, research & development at Fortna and a winner of SDCE’s Pros to Know award, discusses the joy in innovating supply chain technology inspired by growth outside the industry.
