LEGACY Supply Chain Services has acquired full ownership rights to Direct Shot Distributing from Harbert Mezzanine Partners, Direct Shot Distribution will become an operating subsidiary of LEGACY with rebranding beginning later in 2019. Source link
At SMC³ Connections 2019, the consensus among the panelists, Bob Biesterfeld, CEO, C.H. Robinson, Rob Estes, president and CEO, Estes Express Lines, Darren Hawkins, president and CEO, YRC Worldwide, and Dan Van Alstine, president and COO, Ruan, was that things are not nearly as rosy as compared to a year ago. Source link
Aera raises $80m to speed demand planning for the Unilevers of the world Phil Wainewright Fri, 06/28/2019 – 16:30 Summary: Aera raises $80m and reveals big brand endorsements for its intelligent automation platform to speed large-scale supply chain demand planning The world’s top brands have an Amazon-sized headache. They’re coming up against a new generation […]
Global supply chains, data analytics, China’s economy, faster delivery of e-commerce orders, and technological disruption and innovation, all topical supply chain and transportation predictions made at the beginning of the year – so how are we doing at the half-year mark of 2019? Source link
Posted by Brady Thomason, NetSuite Solution Manager, Restaurant & Hospitality There are few epic business fails that rival a bad restaurant website. Let’s face it: Restaurants have a special relationship with their guests. Emotions run strong around food and the dining experience, and guests are typically hungry and preparing to go into hunting-and-gathering mode when […]
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee last week heard expert testimony on the growing threat posed by “deepfakes” — altered videos and other artificial intelligence-generated false information — and what it could mean for the 2020 general elections, as well as the country’s national security overall. The technologies collectively known as “deepfakes” can be used to […]
The most successful brands today are those that have created engaged audiences and an exceptional customer experience. They have managed to humanize the most unsentimental of buying processes, and somehow made it look easy. Providing a world class customer experience is so profitable that Gartner has estimated the customer experience and relationship management software market […]
Oracle this week announced plans to combine its more than 18 related analytics products under a single banner, Oracle Analytics, making it easier for customers to figure out what they need. It’s not unusual for a company to innovate a string of offerings before consolidating them into a single product line, and it’s reasonable to […]
Posted by Paul Farrell, Vice President, Product For the second year in a row, Stamford, Conn.-based research firm Gartner Inc. has placed NetSuite in the Leaders quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Systems for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises. One of only three vendors to be named a Leader among the […]
LinkedIn on Tuesday disclosed algorithm changes designed to favor conversations catering to niche professional interests. Axios first reported the shift. The top 1 percent of power users grabbed much of the attention on its platform, LinkedIn found through internal research in 2018. The criteria for posts showing up in members’ feeds can be summed up […]
