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. of product moves through plants without rework.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 9, 2018

Last week, I attended Innovate 2018 , the company’s first user conference, and as I stood on stage to deliver my keynote presentation in front of 140+ attendees, the answer was clear: Yes. Last year, 3Gtms rolled out five product releases containing 140 new features and enhancements, including: Vendor Portal for Inbound Transportation.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S., Also, if you have a favorite industry conference not included on the list, please post it in the comments. “Who As I’ve shared in the past, here are three questions you should ask yourself: Does the conference agenda align with the key initiatives I’m working on?

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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. In short, I walked away feeling like this was a start-up within Manhattan Associates taking a modern and cloud-native approach to product development and deployment.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

As reported in MarketWatch , “The global construction industry has a chronic productivity problem. Over the past 20 years, productivity has grown at only 1% annually, only around one-third the rate of the world economy and only around one-quarter of the rate in manufacturing.”. Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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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 3, 2024

Scott Fenwick, Senior Director Product Strategy for Supply Chain Planning at Manhattan Associates. Manhattan Associates, a leading supplier of supply chain and omnichannel management software solutions, recently had a major product release that will shake up the supply chain planning market. Product A is too big.

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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 ).

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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. As a result, FourKites has moved from a single product company to a platform company. Last week I attended FourKites Visibility 2023 in Chicago, IL.

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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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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

MAY 22, 2018

Yesterday, we talked about delivery of a product,” Hughes added. Today, delivery is the product.”. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today. It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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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. Mr. Usie pointed out that the goal is to make every product better and more efficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Atlassian develops products for software developers and project managers. Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. Manhattan Associates, for example, has been gradually releasing microservices-based applications. Microservices have several advantages.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supply chain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supply chain conference Elevate. The company has seen strong productivity, even stronger safety performance, and better retention among these workers. Körber ranked the highest.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. Production uncertainties leading to changes in supply. Production uncertainties are caused by unexpected occurrances, such as yields that are different from forecasts, or factory machines that break down. Everyone was excited about it.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. I see no evidence that less money is being invested in product development. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability.

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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

MARCH 22, 2023

ProMat is the first public exhibition of this product, although it is currently live at a customer site in California for the unloading containers filled with dry goods. HAI Robotics , with its US headquarters in Fremont, Callfornia, is a finalist for Best Innovation of an Existing Product.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2019

We just finished our conference, Descartes Evolution 2019, where the theme was Transforming the Customer Experience. Given the breadth of products the company services, it is not practical to stock all parts on the vans. The Switch to Continuous Optimization. So, what provided the extended planning visibility? What a win-win.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Each month, Greg Massey pulls freight industry information from FreightWaves’ Sonar Product and writes a summarized article that we call our Freight Market Update. Participating in Organizations and Conferences. Check out our YouTube channel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 3, 2024

Productivity and efficiency are also central topics, with e-commerce retailers facing high SKUs, high volumes and customers’ high expectations for fulfillment, along with intense seasonal fluctuations during major sales and festive seasons. Technology: The Next Differentiator? You may find it here.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Interruptions to the cold chain create problems such as spoilage, changes in the appearance, taste, or smell of a product, growth of harmful bacteria, or lost potency. Some examples of these are: U.S. When it comes to pharmaceutical products, many regulations affect the cold chain. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Henry Hwong, the vice president of product marketing at Aera, told me: “The supply chain is full of messiness and volatility. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. Allocation is a good example of this.

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

Matt Hoffman, Vice President of Product and Industry Solutions, at John Galt Solutions One-number plans are bad plans. A one-number forecast, for example, looks across the range of demand that might emerge in a period and decides to create a forecast that is mid-way between the most and the least demand that is apt to emerge.

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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. She provided examples such as the German Supply Chain Act and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (approved by EU parliament several hours before Wilczek’s keynote started).

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Kushal talks with Joe about how FarEye is a delivery management platform that helps businesses get the product at a lower cost and more sustainable fashion. If you look at anything, which is a physical product, something that you can see, touch, and feel, it can now be ordered online and delivered at home. It is commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We Bob Herzog, the global planning digitization leader for supply chain, and Pedro Noriega, planning director, North American product supply, both of Procter & Gamble (P&G), spoke on this at Kinaxis’ Kinexions 2019 user conference. We need people that are adaptable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The fines, Uber Freight reports, vary by the costs of the products being sold to Walmart. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. Uber Freight is a major provider of managed transportation services. But for many retailers, the fines are well in excess of $1 million per year.

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