IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Indeed, some organizations spent several years laying the foundations for data-driven strategy and remote operations even prior to COVID-19. Data-Driven Strategies Become Core Value Proposition. This core principle of creating value through logistics data has ricocheted throughout FedEx’s IT restructuring and its future plans.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)’s conference attracts retail and supply chain leaders from the biggest brands in the country, providing a forum for innovation, networking, and collaboration. If you couldn’t make it, or want to refresh your memory, here are five big themes from the 2019 conference.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

So, going into 2025, I would like to focus on current congestion data, global trends and what U.S. For example, numerous ports are still severely congested today. . & Europe, insufficient infrastructure in West Africa and parts of South America, and a surge in general volumes were the main factors behind all the issues.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. For example, I learned that there’s a difference between cement and concrete, even though many people use the terms interchangeably.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Christian Klein, SAP’s CEO, Speaking at Sapphire SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3 rd through the 5 th in Orlando. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” The manager would not be required to drill down through web page after web page and look at dense tabular data to get the answer.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It also matters because federal and state agencies and competitive pressures will also demand it (see, for example, the Federal Highway Administration’s e-Construction and Partnering initiative). Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2023

I spent the better part of last week in Las Vegas, NV attending the Blue Yonder ICON customer conference. This was the first time I have attended a Blue Yonder conference in person since 2019, which feels like a lifetime ago. New platforms are being created by data clouds, artificial intelligence (AI), and robots.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2024

It has become a term applied to applications that can perform tasks a human could do, like analyzing data or replying to customers online. In 1956 , “Artificial Intelligence” was officially coined by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon at the Dartmouth Conference.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. This means connecting these different stakeholders and facilitating data sharing that will make the entire supply chain run more efficiently.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020. What accounts for FourKites Growth? The network has grown in size.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. The visibility solution must be built in such a way that it can download order quantity and inventory data from a customer’s systems. That data then gets put into an advanced ship notice for the retailer.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One of the key themes that emerged was the growing importance of data standards and integrations. But the volume of available digitalized data, and the number of tools, solutions and platforms that supply chain stakeholders are using (juggling?) The rate of tech adoption in logistics continues to grow. are growing too.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

At supply chain and enterprise application conferences, software companies have talked about using generative AI to create user manuals. A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” This check involves connecting carrier contract data and shipment dwell times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2023

I recently attended Körber Supply Chain’s user conference, Elevate 2023. Secondarily, many of the assets are linear, rather than discrete, requiring different forms of location and measurement data. For example, SMECO wanted RFID capabilities to track the movement of high-value items as they entered and exited the yard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. 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. How much data do you have?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. Allocation is a good example of this. These crawlers never stop working.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. Another advantage of microservices rarely discussed is that this architecture also allows clever new functionality to be created because the components are seamlessly integrated on a shared platform and data model.

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AIMMS

APRIL 20, 2015

This was my first INFORMS Business Analytics conference and I was not sure what to expect. These sessions were incredibly valuable, but there is much more to the conference – there is the time between the sessions as well. For example, the 2014 Edelman winner was the Kid Risk Team at the U.S. The AIMMS team at INFORMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Sean Elliot, Acting Co-CEO kicked off the conference with a keynote that highlighted what Körber did in 2023, but more importantly, where the company is going in 2024. Data Visibility. Workforce Efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. For example, a supply planning solution may create a model that says a plant can produce 20,000 units of a product in a week. Creating a bottom-up plan requires that data be transformed intelligently.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. Right now, we are looking for a giant breakthrough, giving examples such as the emergence of Google and FaceTime. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. For example, if sales typically spike in December, then the expectation is that sales will again spike in the coming December. . For example, ML algorithms may show that once temperatures drop below a certain number, demand significantly drops.

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AIMMS

JUNE 20, 2017

Something struck me after spending a few days in Phoenix at Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference. What I heard at the Gartner conference is growing frustration with these large packages that have become cumbersome to use, too difficult for the average supply chain expert, lack flexibility and have high price tags.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For example, if you want to train a computer vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. The combination of the image, data from the WMS, and contextual rules, then allows the system to understand whether processes are being followed.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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Talking Logistics

JULY 30, 2018

Jason added, “At its core, blockchain is just a way to record transactions of value or a transfer of assets in a way that you have consensus across multiple parties and they trust that the data hasn’t been altered and only permissioned individuals can see it. Another example Jason offered is in tracking shipments. Getting Started.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

Increasingly, supply chains are all about the data. In the most memorable scene in The Graduate not featuring Mrs. Robinson, Dustin Hoffman is offered a one-word piece of advice about how to succeed in business: “Plastics.” If I were writing that scene today, I’d substitute the word: Data. Plastics.”.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The limiting factor is still getting timely and accurate data. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

I haven’t attended an industry conference over the past year, or participated in a client meeting, where blockchain — along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — hasn’t been part of the conversation. Take EDI, for example. Barlow then asked me the “What happens to my existing technology?”

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API. That is a huge success story for the air cargo industry and as promised it has brought significant efficiencies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Implementing the solution involved cleaning up master data and mapping their complete global supply chain. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

The manufacturer has access to the distributor’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders. Vendor Managed Inventory Model : The manufacturer receives electronic data ( usually via EDI or the Internet) that tells him the distributor’s sales and stock levels. The distributor maintains the inventory plan.

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