Read Excel files with Python. 1000x Faster.

In this article, I’ll show you five ways to load data in Python. Achieving a speedup of 3 orders of magnitude.

Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?

From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.

What is freight forwarding?

This piece dives into freight forwarding and how your business can benefit from it.

Panasonic acquires Blue Yonder in a $7B supply-chain software deal

Panasonic’s acquisition of Blue Yonder is the latest billion-dollar deal marrying a manufacturer with a software firm.

The 7 A's of demand planning: A guide for CPG brands

Imagine a business that runs better. “Better” looks like Integrated Business Planning—a harmonious framework in which sales, finance, and supply chain operations combine long-term profit goals and short-term demand planning efforts for a balanced, unified trajectory.

WSJF - Scaled Agile Framework

Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is a prioritization model used to sequence work for maximum economic benefit. In SAFe, WSJF is estimated as the relative cost of delay divided by the relative job duration.

The Algorithms That Make Instacart Roll

Instacart crunches petabytes daily to predict what will be on grocery shelves and even how long it will take to find parking

How to compute a safety stock - frePPLe

This articles covers the art and the science of computing a safety stock.

How to Make Your SFDC Funnel Analysis 10x Better - Coefficient

Coefficient's Google Sheets data connector integrates with your business systems. Live data, spreadsheet automation, & pre-built dashboards.

Why the empty container math doesn't add up in US exporters' favor

What led to a global imbalance of available shipping containers? And what were the effects on U.S. businesses?

Improve Warehouse Productivity using Order Batching with Python

Design a simulation model to estimate the impact of several Single Picker Routing Problem strategies in your Picking Productivity

New And Innovative Supply Chain Threats Emerging

But so are better approaches to deal with thorny counterfeiting issues.

In-store pick and pack starts with inventory visibility

Nearly three-quarters of retailers consider it a challenge to implement an in-store accept, pick and pack process for online orders, according to a survey of retailers by Forrester.

Croston forecast model for intermittent demand

How to forecast intermittent demand thanks to the Croston forecast model.

A Little Step Makes a Thousand Miles, and a Little Stream Makes a Great Oce

Youtan, Head of Alibaba Supply Chain Platform(ASCP), Tmall Supermarket, Freshippo, and Digital Agricultural Products

ERPNext User Manual (English)

Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP

Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established

Amazon’s AI tool can plan collision-free paths for 1,000 warehouse robots

Amazon researchers describe a machine learning system that plans the movements and paths of up to 1,000 mobile warehouse robots.

A picture is worth 1,000 false-positive bug reports

How and why we built a custom app for visual debugging of warehouse pick paths.

The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy

The pallet.

A Feat for Connected Warehouses, Sensors Read 12,000 Bluetooth 5 Tags in 60

In a quest for resilient supply chains, OnAsset Intelligence and Silicon Labs have achieved the

Top ERP Software - 2020 Reviews, Pricing & Demos

Find the best Enterprise Resource Planning Software for your organization. Compare top Enterprise Resource Planning Software systems with customer reviews, pricing, and free demos.

Manufacturing Software - Shoptech The E2 Shop System

ECI Manufacturing Software lets you run your shop like never before with JobBOSS², the most widely used shop management system on the market.

Wayfair is all in on logistics

Executives insist 2020 is the year Wayfair's logistics investments will show their worth.

The Best ERP Tools to Use in 2019

Newsweek released their America's Best Business Tools 2019 list, and for this article, we chose to to focus on the best ERP software tools to use.

The Best E-Commerce Fulfillment Services for 2019 | PCMag.com

An online shopping cart and catalog is only the first step in e-commerce retail success. Once the customer buys, you need to get them their wares quickly and efficiently. That's where fulfillment services come in and we take a close look at ten of the top players.

The Box That Built the Modern World

How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.

Free Shipping — Real Life

Delivery robots will redefine the meaning of every object they transport

3 Strategies to Fulfill Like Amazon

We can be certain that Amazon is spending millions to improve and optimize its shipping processes. In this post, I'll describe three strategies to fulfill like Amazon, even if you have a fraction of its scale and infrastructure.

Right product, right time, right location: Quantifying the semiconductor su

A new metric can help companies pinpoint performance issues on the semiconductor supply chain.

A Machine Learning Approach to Shipping Box Design. (arXiv:1809.10210v1 [st

Having the right assortment of shipping boxes in the fulfillment warehouse to pack and ship customer's online orders is an indispensable and integral part of nowadays eCommerce business, as it...

9 Tips to Manage Out-of-stock Inventory

Sometimes even the most-prepared retailers sell out of popular items. How these inventory shortages are communicated on an ecommerce website may impact

The Arms Race to Leverage Machine Learning in Supply Chain Planning

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Over $4 billion in venture capital has been invested in AI firms just in the US. But supply chain planning software companies, with their cadre of operations research Ph.Ds who have been modeling complex problems for decades, may be better…

Open Source Supply Chains Can Fix Your Dependency Headaches

Automated updates and community-driven tools like OpenRewrite help developers tackle dependency challenges and streamline software maintenance.