Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2025

Bosch uses 5G to connect production equipment in its smart factories, allowing for real-time data streaming and analysis. 5G is already delivering benefits in pilot deployments across ports, warehouses, and smart factories. Maintenance is then scheduled proactively, reducing disruption to operations and minimizing cost.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Products are ready in factories, but there are not enough containers for them. The post Analysis: Why Shipping Rates Have Spiked and When Might Rates Come Down appeared first on More Than Shipping. For that reason, they couldn’t be sent back to Asia for new loads. That’s why suppliers choose to send only urgent products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With enforcement delayed until December 2025, businesses have time to integrate this tool, which streamlines data collection, geospatial analysis, and compliance verification. The downturn has also spurred mergers and acquisitions as companies seek deeper financial backing to weather the market challenges.

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WorkWave

MARCH 5, 2025

A pre-built, fully managed solution , such as Wavelytics Data Factory, significantly reduces development and deployment time, while ongoing maintenance and updates ensure optimal performance, data security, and compliancewithout any additional effort on your part.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. Production flexibility is limited; none of these factories can make all the company’s 1,500 products. For consumers in metro areas located close to their factories, there is a one-day lead time. What factory should make a new product?

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 24, 2019

How Will a Supply Chain Analysis Help You? A timely and periodic analysis will work as a preventive health check-up for your supply chain thus ensuring it continues to operate at an optimum level. An end-to-end in-depth analysis will also highlight which processes are redundant or need to be restructured. Call us at 800.MY.SHIPPING

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 18, 2024

SICK UK unveiled its trailblazing SICK Augmented Reality Assistant (SARA) at Smart Factory Expo 2024 in Birmingham. 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.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 20, 2020

At KataCon 2020, Steve Medland posed a problem that comes up fairly often: The default Toyota Kata process analysis (“grasp the current condition”) involves determining takt times and cycle times for the process, and a lot of processes don’t have an obvious repeating cadence. It is also true in many traditional factories.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Planners spend considerable time preparing scenario planning and not the actual analysis. For impactful scenario planning, planners must spend time on analysis rather than collating data and manually creating scenarios. When evaluating new solutions, look for comprehensive inline or embedded analytics within the planning solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Limitations of Traditional Supply Chain Planning Traditional supply chain planning relies on retrospective analysis. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility.

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WorkWave

APRIL 30, 2025

Myth 4: Historical Data Is More Valuable Than Real-Time Insights While historical analysis certainly has value, over-reliance on backward-looking metrics creates blind spots to current conditions. The most effective approach combines historical trend analysis with real-time monitoring to gain both perspective and immediacy.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Getting costs under control is important for a good return on capital investment and to ensure factory equipment is operating at optimum capacity and profitability. Therefore, companies should have a system to collect and consolidate the data for reporting and analysis. This can be used in costing analysis and equipment profitability.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If your factory is the heart of your organization, then your supply chain is the veins and arteries. A workflow analysis will allow for a thorough review of daily operations with the goal of identifying obsolete practices and areas of improvement. What are the bottlenecks and inefficiencies?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 2, 2024

ML and DL are mainly used in data analysis, classification, clustering, and ranking. The smart factory is an environment, enabled by digital technologies including AI, to monitor and control the physical processes of the factory and provide data for decision-making.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets. Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same. Analysis and scenario formulation lead time went from weeks to days. It was predictable.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 13, 2024

Per their analysis for the last 15 years, the risk level went up from 2.0 It’s worth even checking where/how companies’ main factories are doing sourcing from and de-risking sourcing by switching (if possible) to areas where threat levels are much lower. levels into 2.4 – an increase of 20%.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 3, 2023

The area of AI that manufacturers need to explore to drive their factories into the future is machine learning (ML). ML systems can identify patterns from the large amounts of structured and unstructured business and industry data that companies increasingly collect, and provide analysis and insights to users to help their decision-making.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 11, 2015

However, modern technological advancements have changed the landscape of how a factory, or other manufacturing structure, operates. Manufacturing Job Masquerade; Is a “Factory-Less” Manufacturing Job… Not A Manufacturing Job? Ultimately, this means companies produce items that do not require physical space.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

Take a look at how the IoT supply chain is changing the landscape in terms of equipment functionality, shipping processes, invoicing and payments, and analysis of trends. Analysis of Trends and Recommendations. In some cases, human intervention and input will be completely eliminated. IoT and Machine Functionality.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 19, 2019

For example, after the 2011 Thai floods, there was a global shortage of computer hard drives that sent consumer prices skyrocketing until factories were able to get back up and running. When the 2011 tsunami struck, several major car manufacturers were forced to shut down production at factories throughout Europe and the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain. Network analysis will be crucial for finding the best configuration of return centres, given factors like retail locations and transport facilities with backhaul possibilities.

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Reverse logistics Cost Reduction Vendor Strategies Inventory Reduction 74

GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Manufacturers Can Re-evaluate Factory Processes. . Since the skills gap reflects changes in how manufacturers operate, it represents the opportunity for manufacturers to re-evaluate their current factory processes, including a wide, diverse group of job positions, explains ThomasNet.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. This made the data analysis easier. This made the data analysis “painful.” Simmons always does an ROI analysis prior to purchasing a solution. But service is paramount in a vertically integrated supply chain with perishable products.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 9, 2022

The cargo volume at Shanghai port decreased significantly in April, as many factories closed, warehouses closed, and transportation options were limited. Although Shanghai remains largely locked down, some areas of the city may soon reopen as the Chinese government looks to jumpstart factory capacity after a lull.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2024

During the Chinese New Year, many factories in China shut down or operate at reduced capacity as workers return to their hometowns to celebrate with their families. The heightened demand for shipments, combined with reduced production and factory closures, often leads to congestion at ports and airports.

Cost Reduction 111

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2022

Workers take extended holidays as Chinese factory closures could last anywhere from 10 days to four weeks. According to a Sea-Intelligence Maritime Analysis report, global schedule reliability dropped to a dismal 32%. Traditionally, over 500 million people travel back to their hometowns from the cities they work in.

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Reliability Supply Chains Maritime Replenishment 98

Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

It’s evident from analyzing the thousands of global, on-site factory audits we’ve conducted so far this year that manufacturers’ interest in ethics and sustainability is waning. The good news is, in the second quarter of 2018, fewer factories were found to have immediate critical risks threatening worker life and safety. The bad news?

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Optimal Sourcing Supply Chains Manufacturing Procurement Factories 60

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

SYSPRO ’s 2020 survey, The Inflection Point for the Factory of the Future , showed that only about one-third (38%) of manufacturers’ business systems had enabled them to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic made that impossible.

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Carter Logistics

DECEMBER 31, 2018

A supply chain is a network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, and retail businesses, through which materials are acquired, manufactured, and distributed to customers. A company in charge of the supply chain management will run an analysis on planning and optimization of routing and scheduling. Blog Topics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2023

A larger share of freight forwarders and supply chain professionals this year in 2023 are expecting disruptions owing to COVID outbreaks in China and the Chinese New Year factory closures as compared to the last year (2022). “We Amidst this, in the coming weeks, we foresee prolonged factory closures and bearish market conditions.”

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. Besides optimising the present or fixing the past, CTS reporting and analysis opens the door to what-if scenarios and projections.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Shipping giant Maersk is out with a new warning: despite the Chinese economy staying resilient in the wake of the Covid pandemic, other factors such as a Chinese real estate market crash and repeating factory shutdowns in 2021 and 2022 have slowed down the Chinese economic recovery.

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Freightos

AUGUST 14, 2024

Dive deeper into freight data that matters Stay in the know in the now with instant freight data reporting Sign up for Free Analysis A massive container explosion on a vessel docked at the Port of Ningbo on Friday – the most destructive of several recent container fires – closed the port’s Phase III Terminal for 60 hours over the weekend.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

The analysis is mostly on point; however, the blame does not lie with Lean. In fact, a fully-integrated ERP solution enables manufacturers to tackle the immense challenges they face by optimizing their business operations, meeting and satisfying customer demands, and increasing factory output. .

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2023

Another factor contributing to the subdued market is the lack of significant improvement in Chinese factory orders. There is no major improvement on Chinese factory orders. This indicates that manufacturing and factory production have been on the decline.

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Freight Manufacturing Procurement Negotiating Skills Purchasing Skills 98

MTS Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2022

Considering it will take a while for factories to get back to their regular production schedule, there will be a lack of cargo which could create downward pressure on rates and give importers a break from sky-high rates (rates which aren’t supported by any improved service.) This will have a domino effect which we will feel in the U.S.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

Women worked in factories with the most famous one being Rosie the Riveter. Although aspirational, Rosie the Riveter was reflected by thousands of women in factories during the war. Women have significantly impacted supply-chain-related duties as far back as the 1940s with women in the workforce making military equipment, goods, etc.

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