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Manufacturing
The Great Rebalancing Act: Reaping the Benefits of Regional Flexibility and Global Scale
Rebalancing the supply chain ecosystem can also provide companies with lower total costs, an improved customer experience and significant progress towards their long-term sustainability goals.
Packaging
Protecting Against Climate Risks During Peak Season
Supply Chain Visibility
How Retailers Can Guard Against Future Curveballs
3PL/4PL
What Big Box Pickup and Fuel Fees and Late Order Fines Means for Brands
ERP
What to do About Disparate ERP Systems?
Retail
Consumers Less Tolerant for Delivery Delays, Inaccurate Order Fulfillment: Study
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Sourcing & Procurement
Nominations Open for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2023 Pros to Know Award
Are you or someone in your organization an outstanding leader, reinventing what it means to be a supply chain professional? Get them nominated by Dec. 30.
Rail & Intermodal
Industry Leaders Urge Congress to Take Action to Prevent “Paralyzing” Rail Strike
The national rail strike, which could happen as early as Dec. 5, could threaten the nation’s coal shipments, supply of drinking water and shut down passenger rail.
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The newest supply chain forum: Enable's Rebate Strategists Community
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Manufacturing
Manufacturers' and Distributors' Find Use for Rebate Analytics
With the growing volatility in our economic markets, volume rebates are becoming more critical than ever. Here's what the 2022 State of Volume Rebates Reports for Distributors and State of Volume Rebates Reports for Manufacturers found.
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Delays, Inflation Biggest Concerns for SMEs
Half of the respondents expect either significant increases or significant decreases to their business’ 2022 holiday sales compared to the 2021 holiday season.
Manufacturing
Consumers Seek American-Made Holiday Gifts: Study
More than eight in 10 (81%) say they would purchase more holiday gifts made in the United States if they were more widely available at large retailers.
Sourcing & Procurement
Cut Jobs or Cut Costs? How CFOs Can Better Navigate an Uncertain Economic Environment
For more efficient and sustainable outcomes, building a high-performing indirect procurement team should be a priority for organizations.
Supply Chain Visibility
Winter is Coming. Is Your Supply Chain Ready?
Those that lean into real-time supply chain data and analytics will be the ones who will celebrate being in the black this holiday season.
Sourcing Solutions
Navigating Market and Consumer Shifts During Peak Season
As brands navigate peak season, they should be mindful of how consumer sentiment has shifted over the past year and strategize how to meet customer expectations.
Sponsored
The newest supply chain forum: Enable's Rebate Strategists Community
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Sourcing & Procurement
Reviewing New Source-to-Pay Processes Against Your Business Case, Part 6
Assessing source-to-pay technology solutions against these functional capabilities, then mapping them against your future processes will ensure that you are selecting the right technology solution for your business.
Sourcing Solutions
Sustainable Rightshoring Strategies
Why intelligent planning is the key to sustainable rightshoring.
Sourcing Solutions
9% of Suppliers Worldwide are Fully Automated Across B2B Commerce: Study
73% of suppliers say that shortages are having a major or severe impact on their business. Other top challenges include inflation (69%), workforce shortages (62%), strained production capacity (53%) and geopolitical risks (50%).
Sourcing & Procurement
How to Cure Purchasing Headaches with Procurement Automation
The pandemic may have been a gamechanger, but the technological innovations it has fostered, especially those for procurement and purchasing, promise to make businesses healthier than ever.
Software & Technology
CPG Industry Use of Data Acquisition for Demand Planning
The CPG industry is under constant pressure to adapt and operate on thinner margins than any other industry. Effective and accurate demand planning is not just an option anymore but an unavoidable norm.
Automation
Many Companies Remain Unsatisfied with DC Automation
A recently released Softeon study on user perceptions of distribution center automation and software found that only 12.9% of companies are satisfied with their current levels of DC automation.
Material Handling Equipment
Hy-Tek Rebrands as Hy-Tek Intralogistics
Hy-Tek Material Handling reintroduces itself with a new brand identity, positioning and brand promise as Hy-Tek Intralogistics.
Manufacturing
Microchip Shortage Underscores Opportunity to Strengthen Strategic Relationships
The concern lies more with the ongoing shortages than overall market conditions. Over three-quarters (79%) of respondents said component availability is of most concern to them, compared to 18% who noted market conditions.
Manufacturing
Costly LCD Supply Chain Problems and How to Fix it
There are five problems that can greatly impact your supply chain, but delivery often tops the list.
Sourcing & Procurement
Solving Supply Chain Woes Through Technical Debt
For industry professionals, agility is key to navigating cost pressures and heightened consumer expectations, and accruing technical debt can enable fast onboarding and integration of the necessary digital solutions to provide that agility.
Sourcing Solutions
Digital E-Commerce Marketplace for Excess Part Management
This tool provide users with a white glove experience that moves inventory fast and with price transparency.
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Professional Development
What is the Supply Chain and How Does the Network Work?
Supply chains are ever-complex systems involving numerous factors including uncertainty, various decision-makers, global interactions and intricate webs representing the dynamics between products, money, information and people.
Manufacturing
How Manufacturers Can Improve Collaboration with Suppliers
Agility is the name of the game today and agility comes from having supply chain transparency that facilitates collaboration. As the world gets more complicated and interconnected, it’s these characteristics that will separate leaders from followers.
Sourcing & Procurement
Women in Supply Chain: Be Nimble and Problem Solve Along the Way
Tracy Black, Partner at NewRoad Capital Partners and one of this year’s Women in Supply Chain award winners, talks about what it means to be nimble, flexible and a problem solver.
Retail
5 Steps to Avoid Overstocked Inventory
With major retailers reporting overstocked inventory across multiple categories, brands are getting squeezed by both supply and demand disruptions.
Supply Chain Visibility
Invoice Fraud Causes Major Loss for U.S. Businesses
U.S. companies are losing an average of $300,000 per business annually and 25% of finance professionals are unaware or unable to estimate the cost of invoice fraud to their business.
E-Commerce Solutions
What Resale Market Demands Mean for the Supply Chain
Since COVID-19, resale markets have boomed. Consumers are trading the throwaway mentality for a more sustainable approach that is transforming the sustainability efforts of many companies around the world.
Sourcing Solutions
61% of CEOs are Engaged in Supplier Diversity
The majority of respondents (93%) agree that engaging with diverse suppliers has a positive impact on their company internally and externally—a 15% increase from 2021—and 54% believe the impact is ‘significant’.
Emerging Technologies
Data-Savvy Organizations More Profitable, Resilient, Innovative
With an average increase of 9.5% in gross profits, data leaders report launching nine new products per year that wouldn’t be possible without their data innovation capabilities.
Procurement Software
How Automation Solves Back-Office Delivery Delays
By reducing variability in documentation and clearance paperwork, those in the industry can better handle ever-changing macro trends.
Sourcing & Procurement
Procure-to-Pay Suffers from Disconnected Governance
To focus on productively managing the end-to-end process, organizations need to shift from thinking of procurement and AP as separate processes and implement governance that enables them to become an integrated, seamless end-to-end process.
Sourcing & Procurement
Business Leaders Expect Low-Code to Surpass Traditional Coding by 2024
About 70% of survey respondents consider low-code a core part of their business.
