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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation. to anticipate conditions that signal an emerging demand spike. Getting There.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. As an example, a heavy equipment manufacturer used SupplyChainPlanning.com to create a collaborative planning app with its dealers.

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An Optimistic Outlook for the LTL Market

Blue Grace Logistics

Some truck carriers have introduced last mile delivery services for items such as exercise equipment, mattresses, and furniture. As a result, some truck carriers such as JB Hunt, Estes and Werner have introduced last mile delivery services for items such as exercise equipment, mattresses, and furniture.

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

Logistics Bureau

Walmart may be the most famous example of a company that has succeeded primarily because of a well-developed and aligned supply chain strategy. For example, supplier performance issues can cause problems with inventory, order fill, on-time delivery performance, and customer-order lead times. . Mini Case Study: Walmart.

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Build Resilience in Volatile Freight Environments

FreightWaves SONAR

Starting in roughly 2017, the US freight market has had two periods of extended capacity tightness and two extended periods of looseness. From a shipper’s perspective, transportation is a cost center, and the exercise of sourcing trucking capacity is not much different than that of procuring raw materials for production.

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Supply Chain Career Changes – How to Get In, Get On, and Get What You Want

Logistics Bureau

One person’s supply chain career might be focused on the specific area of freight forwarding, for example, whereas another person’s might encompass end-to-end operational management from raw materials management to customer invoicing. Supply chain is often what people define it to be. Check your possible “return on investment” too.

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Underpinning asymmetric advantage: USAF airlift when strategic mobility is at risk

Logistics in War

For example, the US Army’s Multi-Domain Battle White Paper states, ‘adversaries will also exploit perceived U.S. 7] As these two examples imply, future warfare requires disaggregation of combat power to avoid detection and destruction, and then concentration when needed to produce operational effect. accessed 01 Oct 17).