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Five Things to Know Before Enhancing Your Supply Chain Visibility/Compliance Tech Stack

  • September 2, 2022
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Home Five Things to Know Before Enhancing Your Supply Chain Visibility/Compliance Tech Stack Supply chain visibility is often thought of as tracking the physical location of goods and assets. But the process of getting products to customers is ultimately a digital one — from negotiations, purchase orders, and acknowledgments to shipping confirmations and receiving payment. […]

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Increase Manufacturing Productivity

  • August 8, 2022
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Home Increase Manufacturing Productivity If you can find the bottlenecks that are slowing down your assembly line, you can increase efficiency and productivity.   Manufacturing managers, roaming the factory floor, can address workflow impediments, but these supervisors can’t be everywhere at once. Using Edge Impulse’s industry-leading edge ML development platform, Advantech developed a smart monitoring […]

Business Case Studies

Case Study: Apparel Maker Large Apparel Brand Recovers $45M in Product Returned to Stock and Relieves 650K-Unit Backlog

  • August 3, 2022
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Home Case Study: Apparel Maker Large Apparel Brand Recovers $45M in Product Returned to Stock and Relieves 650K-Unit Backlog A major-brand omnichannel apparel seller had a returns backlog of 650,000 units in its forward-bound fulfillment center. This backlog was diluting new corporate sales directives by restricting the movement of outbound goods; causing unacceptable margin loss […]

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Supply Chain Planning Strategic Playbook

  • August 3, 2022
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Home Supply Chain Planning Strategic Playbook GEP estimates that about 20% or less of its clients do an effective job at supply chain planning. So how do you land among that elite group?   GEP’s Supply Chain Planning Strategic Playbook can help prioritize the next steps in your mission to improve planning. Here’s your playbook […]

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Supply Chain Convergence in a Disruptive Environment

  • August 3, 2022
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Home Supply Chain Convergence in a Disruptive Environment A new GEP white paper — Supply Chain Convergence in a Disruptive Environment — breaks down the study and its findings as well as highlights how technology can mend the gap through visibility and collaboration.   What’s Inside: The disconnects and misaligned priorities between supply chain and […]

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Building Shipping Operations That Attract Big-Box Retailers

  • August 3, 2022
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Home Building Shipping Operations That Attract Big-Box Retailers Over the last year, the retail market has witnessed disruption of seismic proportions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. While a black swan event, the impact of the pandemic has been long lasting. Tremors from the economic slump that followed were ubiquitously felt across the retail supply […]

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How to Optimize Your Warehouse Space to Improve Productivity and Achieve Growth

  • July 17, 2022
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Home How to Optimize Your Warehouse Space to Improve Productivity and Achieve Growth Imagine a warehouse design process everyone can get behind. In today’s modern supply chains, warehouse operational managers and stakeholders have settled for outdated and problematic warehouse designs. In fact, many warehouses haven’t changed since their original designs years ago, even as the […]

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How to Build Supply Chain Resiliency: The Ultimate Guide

  • July 4, 2022
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Home How to Build Supply Chain Resiliency: The Ultimate Guide Crazy times call for…supply chain resiliency.   It’s an unprecedented time for shippers. Supply chains that were so routine and reliable no longer make sense. Factories in China and Vietnam still face unexpected shutdowns. Retailers can’t keep store shelves stocked. Suppliers can’t meet manufacturers’ deadlines. […]

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Five Challenges in Parcel Shipping Optimization

  • July 4, 2022
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Home Five Challenges in Parcel Shipping Optimization COVID-19 caused e-commerce to surge as brick-and-mortar businesses closed, workers were sent home, shopping migrated online, and shipping demand pivoted to parcel.   Downstream consumers expect ever faster, cheaper delivery, with full end-to-end tracking and notifications while upstream, opaque carrier zone rates and fee structures continue to drive […]