- 1. Want to Boost Profits? Check Out These 3 Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Tactics
- (News)
- In today's competitive business landscape, companies are constantly looking for ways to increase profits and decrease costs. According to Forbes, supply chain leaders are under pressure to achieve both ...
- 2. Amazon Small Business Opportunity
- (Logistics)
- ... Amazon Delivery Service Partners (DSP) to meet their demands. The DSP program would give people a pathway to create their own delivery business complete with a fleet of 20-40 Amazon logoed vans; management ...
- 3. Wal-mart Cuts Costs with Autonomous Delivery Vans
- (News)
- Wal-mart is considering using autonomous delivery vans for the “middle mile”, reports Supply Chain Dive. Read the article on Supply Chain Dive
- 4. Is Amazon a Supply Chain Company?
- (Supply)
- ... their fleet currently includes 50 Boeing 767 Cargo Aircraft; over 141 million square feet of supply chain facilities, 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans and numerous branded trailers, fulfillment centers, and strategically ...
- 5. What’s Cloud Got To Do With It?
- (Integration)
- In many ways the supply chain is the perfect type business to adopt cloud technologies. And in fact it may have been one of the first to do so when VANs began receiving, storing, and forwarding the ...
- 6. Unmanned Delivery Options are Changing the Supply Chain
- (Logistics)
- The US Postal Service is handling more commercial shipments than ever. Traditional carriers like UPS and FedEx are seemingly on every street every day. Getting packaged delivered to the increasing number ...
- 7. Innovative Delivery Van for the Last Mile
- (News)
- ... a big investment in building networked delivery vans that can launch drones. According to Steve Banker on the Logistics Viewpoints site, the drone part of the concept may or may not pan out due to regulatory ...
- 8. Big Data from EDI Can Make Predictions
- (EDI)
- ... - and predicted. EDI software/service providers/VANs that act as collecting points for EDI data are in a great position to help leverage this data because all the transactions they transfer between ...
- 9. The Value Add Makes the VAN
- (EDI)
- Value-Added Networks (VANs) have been around for more than 30 years. But today’s VAN is definitely not your father’s VAN. VANs have evolved from simply being a managed network on which to exchange EDI ...
- 10. VANs Are Well Positioned to Support Logistics
- (Logistics)
- Processing the order is just the first step in the getting products to their markets. Some will say that getting the order to the loading dock is the easy part while moving it to its final destination ...
- 11. ec-bp.com's Best of 201
- (Blogs)
- ... When VANs No Longer Interconnect” (read it HERE), a summary of how EDI processes are affected by an ongoing business dispute between two large players. Ken also mined the same topic for his “Recommended ...
- 12. Moving Toward Better TMS
- (News)
- 3PLs and shippers have traditionally been a little slow in embracing technology. As supply chains become more global, and complex, they've moved toward the mindset needed to drive adoption of comprehensive ...
- 13. EDIINT, VANs, But Not SaaS?
- (EDI)
- ... segment regarding the services being used. While the survey indicates that 25% of respondents us only Internet EDI and 29% use only VANs, a larger group (37%) use a combination of Internet EDI and VANs. ...
- 14. Data That's Meant to be Share
- (Management)
- ... to know informed. Some interesting things begin to happen in large scale aggregations of data like what is captured and stored by VANs and service providers that don't simply act as post offices, passing ...
- 15. We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Replacement of ED
- (Management)
- ... changed tremendously since EDI was first envisioned. Bankrupted VANs One obvious difference is the availability of cheap connections via high speed internet services. The need for VANs as the arbiter ...
- 16. EDI Costs are Rising
- (EDI)
- ... might include VANs and other connectivity options, subscriptions to analytical services, SaaS providers, and other outsourced managed services. We've heard recently that some providers have adjusted their ...
- 17. What's Next
- (Retail)
- ... I was really impressed with a tabletop kiosk, called the Ziosk, being tested in a Chili’s restaurant in Evanston, IL. It uses a touch interface that’s similar to an IPhone’s, you can look at specials, ...
- 18. The Importance of Integration
- (Integration)
- This week I wrote about how VANs have evolved, and in my conversations while researching the article one resounding theme kept surfacing: integration. I intuitively knew that integration is critical to ...
- 19. The Value Add is the Sweet Spot of Today’s VANs
- (EDI)
- Value-Added Networks (VANs) have been around for more than 30 years. But as Scott Lewis, senior product marketing manager at IBM’s Sterling Commerce puts it, “today’s VAN is definitely not your father’s ...
- 20. EDI Transactions Tell Your Fortune
- (EDI)
- ... providers/VANs that act as collecting points for EDI data are in a great position to help leverage this data because all the transactions they transfer between trading partners pass through their servers. ...
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