Logistics Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

Preliminary July North American Class 8 net truck orders were flattish compared to June and saw annual gains in July, according to recent data respectively issued by freight transportation consultancy FTR and ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles.

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Stord

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In this competitive market, protecting your customers, and their orders, is critical to your brand's longevity. But how do you do this for every order, each and every day, forever? And how do you pick the right carrier if you are now receiving new data of damaged packages? It all comes down to how well you can utilize your data.

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Logistics Management

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Preliminary November North American Class 8 net truck orders saw both sequential and annual declines, according to recent data respectively issued by freight transportation consultancy FTR and ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles.

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IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Increasing supply chain data visibility is a priority for logistics organizations looking to improve resilience. Supply chain recovery hinges on incorporating robust data analytics and other data-driven tools into business operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs and proactively manage risk.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 2, 2021

From a financial standpoint, transportation cost analysis remains focused on determining the value of the resources used to execute a given shipment and goes well beyond benchmarking. Moreover, this kind of analysis does not focus on who ends up paying which expenses in the end. The challenges of limited transportation cost analysis.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2024

Order-level Management: The tracking of orders from inception to fulfillment, and the management of the people, processes and data connected to the order as it moves through its lifecycle. By focusing on individual orders, companies can ensure that each shipment is processed with precision.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Fortunately, smart data utilization can help reduce deadheading occurrences and make the entire supply chain more profitable. Where a supply chain is weak, analysis and advisory teams can fill in the gaps – seeing the correlations between data points and real-time load operations and profits highlights potential problem areas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, data and software programs can be saved or run in any data processing center in the world. This business model provides many advantages: Processing big data efficiently. Cloud computing bundles all the data and services in one single infrastructure. Rapid integration. Access to latest features. Pay as you grow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lucas Systems has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University on research focused on developing new and innovative ways to reduce distribution center and transportation waste by optimizing the way packing and packaging of multiple items in a single order is executed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Erwin highlighted the importance of real-time data accuracy and visibility. People, technology, and data are very important for their journey. The importance of employee ownership in driving cultural transformation and their acceptance of data-driven decision making within the organization was also emphasized.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The public cloud gives Coupa visibility to $6 trillion in transactional data that passes through their platform. “15 The best data makes for the best AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Energy management solutions are products that energy utilities use to produce power and data centers use to consume power. These facilities produce and ship 150,000 order lines per day. By 2014, the company had purchased the Coupa solution, developed an internal modeling team, and created data extraction and cleansing routines.

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 6, 2022

For the month of April 2022, South Korean shipbuilders saw the most ship orders since 2016. However, the largest market share for shipbuilding still is in China, where there were 45 new ship orders, for a total of over 1.5 million tons. Compared to China, that is approximately half the total demand seen between both countries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The rise of e-commerce has led to higher volumes of smaller orders that need to be fulfilled and shipped individually. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change. It matches labor, equipment, and other resources accurately with order volumes, in real time. The result?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 18, 2024

The intuitive augmented reality app provides data visualization and error analysis by merging machine, sensor and diagnostic information with the real environment using technology most people carry in their pocket. SICK UK unveiled its trailblazing SICK Augmented Reality Assistant (SARA) at Smart Factory Expo 2024 in Birmingham.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 9, 2021

H aving access to real-time freight data and being able to make good use of it is essential for global trade and maritime shipping. Global retailers use data to understand lead time Successful supply chain operation at any stage hangs on the ability to stay on top of shipping and transport logistics. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Ship Monk

JULY 7, 2022

As online shoppers, we see examples of minimum order quantity everywhere. We, as consumers, have grown accustomed to buying in bulk in order to pay less per unit. For suppliers and merchants, however, setting a minimum order quantity for your goods can mean the difference between losing money and making a profit on each sale.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 27, 2022

We experience such diverse supply chain disruptions that tracking the data on U.S. Carriers report strong demand on transpacific trade as some lines now restrict contracted businesses they once committed to, in order to accommodate current spot cargo. The shipping ecosystem is ever-changing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Organizations must take the following steps to bring departments together to create truly resilient and sustainable supply chains: Leverage external data to sense market shifts Look to external causal factors and forecasting models to identify market shifts. <br>- Use external data for forward-looking decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Better inventory management requires visibility at a granular level, down to individual orders and SKUs. What orders are planned versus in process? Strategy and leadership teams might elect to be alerted to production line disruptions, for example, so they receive details about every impacted order. What’s in manufacturing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Organizations leveraging a neutral, single source of truth that enables real-time tracking of orders and items throughout the entire manufacturing and shipment process, including solutions that truly orchestrate the end-to-end supply chain process, create their own success.

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3PL Links

MAY 3, 2023

Improving Supply Chain Visibility: The Impact of Data Strategy | Image source: Pixabay A business-contextualized data approach is crucial for boosting supply chain visibility, especially during downturns. This requires knowing precisely what details should be collected and trusting the sources of this data.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors. Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. Analysis of employment data. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats. Planners spend their precious time collecting and synthesizing the data to drive insights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

While creating a demand-driven supply chain means ingesting and interpreting large volumes of data, advances in cloud computing and edge computing make data-based decision making easy and cost-effective. These companies failed to realize that profitable agility relies on a mixed bag of capabilities ? A Positive Example.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the holiday shopping season reaches its peak, ecommerce business owners everywhere are crossing their fingers, hoping they have enough product in stock and that they didn’t order too much. All of them rely on data, whether you’re using historical data or new findings gathered from consumer research.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

Blue Yonder is a major global player in supply chain operating systems, offering specific products for WMS, TMS, Warehouse Execution, Order Management (boosted by the acquisition of Yantriks), Demand Planning, Inventory Optimisation and more. Data is gold. WES looks at tasks and resources in order to plan human and robotic labour.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ERP systems essentially integrate all the disparate functions within your business and overcome the so-called ‘silo mentality’ by creating a single, centralized data architecture. The ERP software collects, stores and manages data relating to business activities. What’s Your Business IQ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

so I went online to order it. According to data from a recent research survey, the following were on top of the supply chain headaches not addressed by their current systems: Supply shortages due to supplier’s inability to meet expected performance targets. Data cleansing and data robustness. Network cost modeling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Orders can be cancelled, rush orders come in, factory machines go down, port congestion occurs, and so forth. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. For the supply chain team, it is the plan for the coming month that is most important.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

More Resources Home The Red Pill: The (Slow Yet Steady) Revolution in Global Freight Digitization Eytan Buchman April 15, 2024 Dive deeper into freight data that matters Learn More The March 26th Francis Scott Key Bridge allision feels shocking. He’s obsessed with marketing, data storytelling (it’s a thing!)

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Although planning and timeliness are important, the impact of a critical path is much more substantial in build-to-order, project-based supply chains. They looked back at 2 years of data and determined that one out of every seven sites built was a unique configuration. Poles for cell towers are custom materials with a long lead time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Planning applications don’t work well if the master data they rely on is not accurate; this is known as the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 20, 2024

In recent years, the amount of data available to most companies has exploded. Common issues include: Lack of data-source integration. The ability to gather and compare data from multiple sources is vital to making real-time decisions. Data warehousing costs rise. Scarce manpower. Human error.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 16, 2024

In other instances, fraudsters create a fake website that closely mimics an existing online store, and collect payment information from unsuspecting customers who order products they will never receive. In order to make this profitable, they must identify the active accounts, weeding out those that have been canceled.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But by implementing data driven maintenance strategies these cost, performance, and environmental impacts can be greatly reduced. There’s a well-known law that states if something can fail, it will, and at the worst possible moment – peak season, rush order, Bank Holiday weekend when the spare parts stockist is closed.

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