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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions. Reducing the number of human operators in transport and warehousing is constantly on companies minds. Labour costs.

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The Best is Yet to Come with Transportation Management Systems

Talking Logistics

These trends, in turn, are defining and shaping the innovation roadmap for TMS vendors, and they’re also fueling a new round of mergers and acquisitions (see Kewill and Leanlogistics coming together as BluJay Solutions ) and triggering a new wave of startups entering the market (see last week’s announcement about the launch of Haven TMS ).

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As youll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, weve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. A company without a supply chain strategy is at a competitive disadvantage.

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Distribution Center Robots: How Robots Continue to Power the Distribution Center

GlobalTranz

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. While robotics have resulted in some job loss, the case studies of Amazon, as noted by The New York Times , reveal that Amazon has added more than 80,000 jobs since they began adding Kiva robots to their distribution centers.

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Supply Chain Innovation Technology: No Longer Just a “Build vs. Buy” Decision

Talking Logistics

Across every industry, IT strategy is now business strategy. Thanks to innovations in software architecture and user interfaces, software vendors today are providing users with easy-to-use tools to build their own extensions and functionality. And it’s no secret that technology is fueling that speed. Kenco is a great example.

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Takeaways from Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2017 Conference

Talking Logistics

The new Manhattan Active Solutions suites address these challenges, with products and services that are always current and automatically include the customer’s latest extensions and modifications, reducing or eliminating both downtime needed for upgrades and additional fees. Empty miles reduced by 8 percent. Total miles down 7.7