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The Past, Present, and Future of Technology in the Warehouse

Logistics Bureau

While some imagination will still be required on this journey, most of the hard work has been done in the writing of this article, so you can shut down the imagination overdrive and cruise through this rundown of technology’s impact on warehouses and distribution centers. Further examples can be seen if you look around.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed. So, the term “Haiphong” when combined in an article with the phrase “port fire” would generate an alert. Customs uses the same technology to determine which shipments should be denied entry.

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Exiger Has Taken the Supply Chain Risk Market by Storm

Logistics Viewpoints

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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The Digital Supply Chain Needs to Include Trade Compliance Systems!

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, it can look like imports from China are cheaper than the same goods imported from Mexico if a company is not relying on analysis produced by an advanced good global trade compliance (GTC) system. For example, the U.S. However, many nations defer to the US list when creating their own sanctioned party list.

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A Deeper Look into Time Slot Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on the benefits of time slot management. In that article, I highlighted the importance of the network effect on time slot management and related technologies, as well as the main benefits of a time slot management application.

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Probabilistic Planning Helps Master Supply Chain’s Unknowns

Logistics Viewpoints

Another example is commuting. Recently, Steve Banker wrote an article about taking a flight and planning the drive to the airport. You estimate the time it takes to get there based on past experiences, traffic patterns, time of day, and other variables or potential occurrences such as construction or an accident.

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Mercy for the World: An Overview of Hospital Ships

MTS Logistics

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, while I was jumping from one news feed to another, I saw an article about Mercy ships and the latest news about Global Mercy, which will be the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. She is still under construction in Xingang, China and she’s being planned to be ready in 2021.