AIMMS

MAY 28, 2015

This month, I had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix. In almost every way this is a large and very professionally run conference with over 1500 attendees, everything you would expect from a Gartner event. In this post, I will summarize some of my favorite takeaways from the conference.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. All key Suppliers are called into your operation.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I ate breakfast with Sri Kotha at SAP’s Spend Connect Live Conference in Las Vegas in mid-October. For example, he wanted a better way to manage tail spend. For example, the University may need to buy five snowplow attachments for the front of its Ford F-150 trucks. Last year, the company saw $3.5

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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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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. As the press release explains: Today’s commercial enterprises are facing unprecedented market pressures.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.” For example, a pallet supplier in the United Kingdom would be able to look at the analytics and see what their market share in the UK is.

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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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MTS Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

For example, numerous ports are still severely congested today. During the TPM25 conference that MTS Logistics attended last week, carriers were very clear that they will reinstate the Red Sea route only if they are 100% sure of vessels safe passage. Gulf exporters that are shipping pretty much anywhere that goes via transshipment.

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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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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 21, 2018

While many conferences are an audience listening to keynote presentations, KataCon is more of an annual get-together of a community. If I can only go to one conference a year, it is KataCon, period. One of the main reasons to attend KataCon is to learn from others. Whether you are considering attending for the first time (please do!),

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Shipping and Freight Resource

AUGUST 1, 2021

An example of a liner service may be as below – CMA CGM’s South China Sea Service between Asia and West Coast of North America. Conference Line. When speaking of Liner shipping, I have also received questions as to what is a Conference Line. Conference Lines were an important historic feature of ocean liner transport.

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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

JUNE 21, 2023

We learned from the Conference Board C-Suite Outlook that rising inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions were high impact issues for CEOs in 2022. All of these issues remained relevant in 2023 as well (see Conference Board C-Suite Outlook 2023 ). One executive simply stated that it’s “an easy variable to address.”

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2023

The record set was “A perfect example of the future” “ Ellen is an excellent example of the future for electric transportation. On her return from the conference, Ellen had covered 50 nautical miles (92 kilometers) on a single charge. Ellen may be making her way to the record books.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2015

Last month I attended JDA Focus, the company’s annual user conference. I found it to be a great example […]. My favorite presentation from the event was that by Tony Simmons, an Operations Analyst from Genco.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Companies often choose private warehouses because of the high degree of control that they confer over the handling and storage of goods. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St. Let's dive in!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2015

As I’ve noted in my two previous columns, last month I attended the Home Delivery World, Click & Collect Show USA, and ETail Show USA joint conference in Atlanta. Today’s column is one example from the show. It is always interesting to see presenters give differing viewpoints on a given subject. As I wrote about […].

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 30, 2018

This process forced us to actually think about who was in the audience, and why they were there – what they were seeking from their participation in the conference. For example, for an ideal retail experience, a mom with two kids in tow would be a different customer than a single guy. Is it optimized for the person doing the work?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One of the companies she holds up as a positive example of a big company addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is Walmart. A few years ago, for example, my oldest child explained to me that Walmart was a malignant force. Rebecca Henerson’s formula for fixing capitalism was a business best seller.

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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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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

A few weeks ago, Trinity held our 2019 Agent Conference in Orlando. The purpose of our Agent Conference is to celebrate, educate, and energize Trinity Agents. Having that type of gratitude shown was another example of how Trinity’s Agents are part of the Trinity Family. It was humbling to see. It was humbling to see.

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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. For example, trading partners can give read-access to each other to access data on the data cloud.

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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. A few examples of where connected ecosystems can make an impact are within sustainability, especially when it comes to measuring emissions, and perfect order delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2023

I recently attended Körber Supply Chain’s user conference, Elevate 2023. For example, instead of traditional longitude latitude coordinates, electric power distribution companies often use approaches such as linear referencing and network connectivity to describe asset context and attributes.

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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!” For example, when GenAI is used to write job descriptions, aggregated anonymized customer data can improve the results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. And at last week’s FourKites Visibility user conference, the tech pioneer reported investment in a different form of artificial intelligence, Generative AI. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2024

In 1956 , “Artificial Intelligence” was officially coined by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon at the Dartmouth Conference. The conference is seen as the founding event of AI. Common Forms of AI Computer Vision Face recognition is one example of Computer Vision.

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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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Trinity Logistics

MAY 17, 2024

Examples of this can include access to industry research, subscriptions to relevant publications, or budgeting for educational conferences. Be the example and show them how you take on that initiative, and they will likely follow suit. This way, growth will be fostered organically.

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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. Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) announced the release of Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning.

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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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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Participating in Organizations and Conferences. Many of our Leadership Team Members participate in well-known organizations and conferences to not only help keep all of Trinity updated on what’s going on in the industry but to share our expert experience and knowledge with others. Check out our YouTube channel.

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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. For example, the WMS tells a floor associate to go to location AX32 and pick two cases. The humans label the pictures as dog, not dog, or unclear.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As you read this, I will be flying home from project44’s Transform conference where I moderated a panel discussion on real-time freight visibility and I recorded several video interviews with project44 customers and partners. Ok, so did everybody else who attended the conference, but it was cool nonetheless.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

AUGUST 30, 2020

Example : A service that calls the South African ports of Durban, Cape Town and Ngqura on a fixed weekly schedule carrying cargo to the UK/NWC ports of London Gateway, Antwerp, Hamburg, Le Havre and Rotterdam. Conference Lines were an important historic feature of ocean liner transport.

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10xLogistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At this year's CSCMP Edge conference I attended a great presentation with one of the returnable pallet providers. Everyone uses the iPhone as an example of this and so some may think only Apple can do this. Let me use another example: The Kitchenaid Standmixer. You will compete on cost and every nickel counts.

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