WorkWave

MARCH 4, 2025

By ranking prospects and customers into ten groups, from least likely to buy to most likely, green industry businesses can pinpoint high-value clients, optimize marketing campaigns and allocate resources more efficiently. To effectively implement decile data analysis, the first step is to gather accurate and comprehensive data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

APS are complex, live production environments requiring extensive configuration to accurately model a business’s operational reality. This broad optimization across many objectives allows leadership to meet corporate goals and functional objectives, enhancing visibility into the potential outcomes and benefits of different planning scenarios.

Scenario Planning 121

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we will delve into strategic ways for warehouse managers to eliminate waste, with a focus on not only optimizing the use of cartons and packing, but labor resources and warehouse space as well. One effective method to optimize packing is the standardization of carton sizes. Product slotting is a complex problem.

Waste Reduction 115

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this post, we’re revisiting the topic with a more holistic approach, focusing on six factors that can make the difference between an optimal and suboptimal distribution network design. Indeed, careful attention to data in the preparation stage is indispensable for delivering a simple yet optimal design.

Supply Chain Design Software 75

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. So we thought we’d focus on the lesser known topic of ‘stock optimization’ – this is an inventory control technique that’s becoming more popular with inventory managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. What is stock optimization?

Inventory Reduction 98

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. Reverse marketing starts first with Value Analysis. What is Value Analysis?

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Optimizing truckload freight spend is essential in today’s freight market. Using FreightWaves SONAR’s DHL Pricing Power Index (DHLPPI.USA) allows for the weekly analysis of pricing power between shippers and carriers based on the conditions of the current freight market. Know when to initiate renewed RFP processes.

Optimization Software 98

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Essential Steps to Using Warehouse Modeling Software for Design 1) Understand the Design Objectives and Constraints The first step in your review should be to determine and prioritise the objectives for your warehouse facility and operation. This helps you make informed decisions without risking disruptions to your physical systems.

Modeling Software 72

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In such a scenario, what is the optimal way to load these trailers and route the deliveries? When you consider that large grocery retailers and distributors have hundreds or thousands of trucks, along with thousands of pickup and delivery locations, the route optimization problem becomes, well, truly mind-boggling!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ITR Economics analysis shows rising and unmet demand for electric power from sustainability initiatives, coupled with the proliferation of data center construction ($27.3 As supply chains transition to a more circular and sustainable model, M&A activity in this domain is expected to intensify.

Cost Reduction 76

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 9, 2022

Mode optimization automatically included in each quote. Mode optimization has traditionally been promised, but not delivered because the analysis was completed by people who didn’t have the data or tools. In the new model, freight brokers won’t be rewarded financially for getting a big spread (cost of truck vs price to shipper).

Optimization Software 195

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 2, 2021

Mode optimization automatically included in each quote. Mode optimization has traditionally been promised, but not delivered because the analysis was completed by people who didn’t have the data or tools. In the new model, freight brokers won’t be rewarded financially for getting a big spread (cost of truck vs price to shipper).

Freight 195

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Before we look at the barriers to optimal inventory and the possible ways to eliminate or overcome them, let’s be clear on what inventory optimisation means—because misconceptions do abound. But ultimately, it comes down to what you assess as optimal inventory performance for your organisation. 1: Service Levels.

Inventory Reduction 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Strengthening the Supply Chain Supply chains must embrace agility, where companies proactively adjust and optimize their customer, product and network strategies to maximize opportunity – as opposed to fragility – where uncertainty leads to disruptions and chaos.

Manufacturing Procurement 93

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization AI and machine learning (ML) take matrix-based analysis to new heights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This business model provides many advantages: Processing big data efficiently. Data can be easily used for various applications such as detailed monitoring and analysis of operations, planning, optimizing stocks and use of resources or preparing recorded master data for other locations. Rapid integration. Pay as you grow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Optimization and simulation are the two main branches of SCND. Optimization accounts for over 90% of all work that is being done by SCND teams. This article describes how to incorporate simulation techniques into optimization, build a stochastic optimization model, and end up with a more resilient supply chain model.

Supply Chain Design Software 121

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Locus

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With the supply chains of all businesses going through a transformational shift, it is important for them to make tough decisions concerning logistics models. After the pandemic hit, flexible logistics models helped businesses to easily penetrate into dense urban markets at economical costs. What is fixed logistics?

Modeling Software 52

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TransAudit

JUNE 27, 2023

Machine learning presents a solution by optimizing the flow of products from one location to another. This optimization reduces costs associated with inventory holding, improves quality, minimizes waste, and ensures products arrive in the marketplace just in time, thereby enhancing overall operational efficiency.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It is a model that is still very common in small companies, which only need support in the transactional phase. While in the previous strategy, the functions are focused on a more practical, day-to-day aspect, focused on the transaction, in a 4PL approach the partner already takes care of integration and optimization tasks.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This moment goes beyond analysis and reflection; it is the right opportunity to redefine strategies and outline new plans that not only drive results but also guarantee a prominent place in the market. Being aware of innovations enables you to anticipate market trends, optimize operations, and provide a unique client experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Additionally, software vendors continuously invest in tuning the performance of their algorithms and models. 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.

Supply Chain Planning Software 117

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

3 min read Log-hub announces a major update to its Supply Chain Apps, delivering powerful enhancements that streamline cost management, route optimization, and data-driven decision-making. Businesses managing complex shipping patterns can now structure freight costs using four matrix types, including weight-zone and weight-distance models.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 23, 2021

Maintenance is carried out at optimal stages rather than following a timetable that may be written without any insight into when and how a piece of equipment is going to break down. Function 2: Optimizing manufacturing processes. Companies are optimizing their manufacturing processes through artificial intelligence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

The solution can answer questions like where should new production or distribution capacity be located to optimally accommodate anticipated growth in demand? On top of this cost network model, the solution allows for various scenarios to be kept and compared. In 2018, they implemented a LLamasoft inventory optimization solution.

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Freightos

JUNE 17, 2024

In the first issue of our AI popup newsletter series, Matt Motsick, CEO of Rippey AI and a long-time logistics technology leader, explores buying or building AI models. Focus on Innovation : By outsourcing the underlying AI technology, companies can focus more on innovation and applying AI in unique ways within their business models.

Modeling Software 119

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same. What PMI needed, considering the long planning horizons, was a digital and analytics network design and supply optimization tool. The tool was able to create a model going out multiple years. It was predictable.

Supply Chain Design Software 104

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 2, 2024

AI is a term for computing capabilities that are perceived as representing intelligence, including image and video recognition, prescriptive modelling, smart automation, advanced simulation, and complex analytics. ML and DL are mainly used in data analysis, classification, clustering, and ranking. ML models learn from data.

Supply Chain Planning Software 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

How the digital twin concept drives benefit By using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, digital twins can provide real-time insights and recommendations to optimize operations, reduce costs, and increase productivity. Physical change (i.e., changing the structure of the warehouse, modifying processes, etc.)

Optimization Software 121

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The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It depicts more detailed version of “ Organize, Standardize, Stabilize, Optimize ” showing the continuous comparison between “what should be happening” and “what is actually happening.” What About Root Cause Analysis? You apply the math you must to model and solve the problem at hand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

However, advancements in technology have made it possible for any company to automate and optimize their last-mile delivery operations. The High Cost of Ignoring Delivery Optimization Failing to utilize technology for optimizing delivery processes comes with a steep price.

Modeling Software 108

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, where I work, publishes an analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. Predictive analytics is used significantly more than artificial intelligence to optimize, as 35 percent are using predictive analytics compared to 17 percent for artificial intelligence.

Digital 119

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

UK-based robotics and data intelligence company Dexory is introducing a first of its kind, AI-powered logistics engine to help warehouses maximize operational efficiency, optimize inventory management, and enhance the overall warehouse agility and responsiveness.

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AIMMS

JUNE 25, 2019

When you finally have the analysis, everything’s changed, and the results are no longer relevant. The technology should also allow for model changes on the fly to help you adapt to changing business conditions. You have tough decisions to make about your supply chain network design.

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Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

Supply chain optimization ensures a smoother process and a more successful business model focusing on efficiency and profit. What is supply chain optimization? . Optimizing this process allows it to function at peak efficiency. Best practices for supply chain optimization . Optimizing Your Supply chain network .

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. It can be used to predict long-term trends or short-term (seasonal) demand, depending on the model you use. Your fulfillment center or 3PL should be able to give you this cost or make it easy to find in a few clicks.

eCommerce 105

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