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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Amazon is at the nexus of ecommerce, data, and logistics, with a drive to constantly improve their logistics network. That’s 258 operational facilities in the US and another 486 distributed around the world (see map below, data from MWPVL ). And the career data below spells out a strong ocean slant. Team Analysis.

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4 Companies Driving Transportation Technology Innovation

GlobalTranz

Especially when it comes to applying big data to solve the largest problems facing the trucking industry. The network operations center will also collect data on driver fatigue and vehicle maintenance. Back in 2005 Walmart vowed to double their fleet efficiency by the end of 2015.

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Fatigued operators are 7.3x greater accident risk

Logistics Business Magazine

The US DoT study, Fatigue Status of the US Railroad Industry , used data collected in the railroad industry in the US between 2003 and 2005. The analysis revealed the probability of a human factors accident (HFA) per 200,000 employee-hours, in cases with severe fatigue and, separately, in cases where no fatigue was present.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Logistics

However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic. All these events caused major supply chain disruptions to some of the biggest brands in the world.

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6 Manufacturing Trends to Watch Out for in 2016

GlobalTranz

Manufacturers will be able to improve their inventory due to the information presented by both supply chain and operations data. Predictive analytics help them do this by automating much of the analysis processes so even people without high-level skills can perform various analyses, according to Gillman. Increasing Equipment Uptime.

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BSH Group improves logistics transparency & carrier sourcing processes

Transporeon

Increased transparency, due to better data accuracy, has led to both cost savings and a reduction of the administration workload. Logistics contracts, freight rates and transport data were saved on several locations, which obviously didn’t provide the right overview. This speeds up invoice clarification significantly.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Following its acquisition of competitor Maytag in 2005, Whirlpool found itself entering an unprecedented period of growth, at which point the management team recognised the need to continuously optimise its supply chain design and make it more flexible and adaptive to ride out economic fluctuations. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool.