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Kinaxis and Blume Global to Empower Better Responses to Supply Chain Transportation Disruptions
Kinaxis and Blume Global to Empower Better Responses to Supply Chain Transportation Disru...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Kinaxis and Blume Global to Empower Better Responses to Supply Chain Transportation Disruptions\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n Partnership enables the agility needed to better orchestrate unified supply chain planning and transportation execution\n \n \n \n \n OTTAWA, ON\n \n and\n \n PLEASANTON, Calif.\n \n \n ,\n \n \n June 13, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ -\n \n Kinaxis\n \n \n ®\n \n Inc. (TSX: KXS), the authority in driving agility for fast,\n \n confident decision-making\n \n in an unpredictable world, and Blume Global, the only multimodal supply chain orchestration platform uniting end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution, today announced a partnership that will connect Blume Global's logistics visibility and transportation management system (TMS) with the Kinaxis RapidResponse® concurrent planning platform. The result will be better alignment between supply chain planning and execution, enabling companies to quickly remedy, or even avoid, freight transportation disruptions.\n \n \n Freight transportation disruptions are now one of the most common, and most costly, forms of supply chain interruption. Organizations need new levels of supply chain agility across planning and execution to understand the business-wide impact of a shipment delay and be able to take action in time to mitigate the risks to cost and customer service. By combining Kinaxis' unique concurrent planning technique with Blume Global's TMS shipment data, companies will be able to dynamically generate new plans to quickly get shipments back on track and ultimately have improved supply chain resiliency.\n \n \n \"For nearly three years, the supply chain industry has been defined by uncertainty. That is likely to continue. While major disruptions used to occur every few years, we are now facing significant events annually – or even more frequently,\" according to\n \n Pervinder Johar\n \n , CEO of Blume Global. \"Our partnership with Kinaxis will give customers around the world access to robust, i...