Amber Road Loves Customer Engagement – Watch This New Video

We’d like to thank our global customers for engaging with Amber Road! We love hearing your comments and suggestions here at Marketing@AmberRoad, and on our GTM Best Practices LinkedIn Group and @GTMBestPractice. Your Customer Success Director always appreciates hearing from you too – so please keep engaging!

Most of all, we love when we get the opportunity to see our customers in-person. This past May, we hosted our eVOLVE User Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor just outside of Washington, DC. This was a fantastic event because we took the time to celebrate our world renowned customers including; GE, Abercrombie & Fitch, Regal Beloit, Caleres, TE Connectivity and many more!

The user conference consisted of user-driven case studies, product updates, and best practice sessions from industry leaders. eVOLVE’s highlights and customer insights were beautifully captured in this short recap video.

 

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/evolution-of-global-trade-management-user-conference-highlights

As Trade with India Grows, Trade Automation Helps Pave the Way

The latest trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a steep increase in U.S. exports to India for 2017 – 18 percent – making it our 15th largest export market. India is the 11th biggest importer of goods to the U.S. as well, growing by a modest 5.6 percent from 2016 to 2017. The second-most populous country in the world, India is home to 1.3 billion people and a growing middle class. These figures help explain why India is increasing in attractiveness to U.S. companies looking to expand their global footprint.

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/as-trade-with-india-grows-trade-automation-helps-pave-the-way

Stop Throwing Cash Overboard: How to Avoid Demurrage and Detention Fees

Chances are, you’re not the only one looking to reduce demurrage and detention fees. Recently, a coalition of shippers, freight forwarders, and intermediaries urged US maritime regulators to make it easier to challenge congestion-related fees that container lines and marine terminals impose for delays that were out of their control. Terminals responded that it would cause chaos at the ports. Just this past Monday, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) voted unanimously to investigate further the concern of the coaltion, a welcome validation for shippers in the wake of ever-increasing volume, labor disputes and port congestion.

The FMC will discuss whether policy is needed to prevent what the coalition of shippers deemed “unfair” assessment of free time-related fees. While detention and demurrage fees have rarely been light for importers, recent instances of extreme port congestion – such as the aftermath of liner carrier Hanjin Shipping’s sudden bankruptcy, or the West Coast longshoreman’s strike in 2014 and 2015 – have exacerbated the issue. And container volume continues to rise faster than port terminals can expand.

Of course, importers and exporters will continue to rack-up large fees while the FMC slowly deliberates. But demurrage and detention fees are more than just a “cost of doing business”; they often trigger a ripple effect that throws exception into the planned supply chain flow. These exceptions lead to additional costs that add up. While many freight managers accept them as a line item, they have a detrimental impact of the bottom line.

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/stop-throwing-cash-overboard-how-to-avoid-demurrage-and-detention-fees

What's Your Reality of a Digital Supply Chain?

You may think your supply chain is digital, thanks to all those nifty tech tools you conduct business with like barcode scanners, robotics, and transportation management systems (TMS) - but is it really? These days, most supply chains use some sort of digital technology, and many best-in-class organizations are looking ahead to more advanced technologies. Their intention is to transform their supply chains to make them faster, smarter, more efficient, integrated, and agile.

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/whats-your-reality-of-a-digital-supply-chain

Supply Chain Visibility...and Influenza Vaccines?

It’s been a long flu season all over the world, and store stock of the “sneezing-sniffling-so-you-can-rest-medicine” are flying off local pharmacies shelves. Their real-time inventory system shows several stores running low on over-the-counter cold and flu medicines, which sets off an internal alert. This triggers the logistics teams to ship more from distribution centers set-up as hubs for re-supply. The major pharma manufacturers are keyed into WHO data and have already anticipated the need to produce more at their factories. So the goods will keep flowing.

This scenario isn’t farfetched in today’s fast-paced supply chain management. Shippers and their supply chain partners are gaining granular insight into the supply-and-demand sides of the supply chain, and responding faster than ever to the needs of their customers at every step of the process.

Amber Road’s Stephanie Miles was recently interviewed in Inbound Logistics about the evolution in supply chain visibility. “Years ago, the baseline for visibility was simple track and trace—where’s my stuff? Today, companies have advances far beyond that,” Miles explains. Miles goes on here to highlight what companies should consider to improve supply chain visibility, and what expectations to set when it comes to their partners’ capabilities.

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/supply-chain-visibility...and-influenza-vaccines

Are You Ready for Export & Import Compliance Ch-ch-changes?

As the late great David Bowie said in his 1971 hit song Changes, "time may change supply chains, but supply chains can't change time." Well... maybe not exactly that. Nonetheless, last year brought about many changes in the global trade industry. We saw a rise in protectionist measures worldwide, new import regulations, and free trade agreement negotiations that could greatly impact leading economies. All of these new developments can be quite concerning for importers and exporters, but which should be top of mind and how can you be prepared?

American Shipper’s Import/Export Compliance Benchmark Study: Turn and Face the Change explores the concerns of today’s shippers and provides insight into how other importers, exporters, retailers, and manufacturers handle cross-border trade. In fact, did you know that 40% of exporters want better market access in China for their products?

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/are-you-ready-for-export-import-compliance-ch-ch-changes-

Digitization: Delivering Seamless Experiences and More Value

Trade is more globalized than ever as organizations adopt more global sourcing strategies with suppliers in every corner of the world. As more countries participate in global trade, management of the supply chain grows more complex. Now add the multitude of customers armed with technology and putting on more pressure to deliver on cost, quality and timeliness.

The great confluence has forced leaders in this space to automate, optimize and analyze their internal processes to stay ahead of the competition. Those that chose to transform, have an opportunity to take advantage of supply chain digitization tools that will create greater value and deliver seamless experiences.

source https://blog.amberroad.com/blog/digitization-delivering-seamless-experiences-and-more-value