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 part of its connected geo strategy, FourKites has expanded its operations to Japan, as it sees the country as an important link in the global supply chain.

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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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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” Integrating Yammer to track the collaboration process during S&OP is a good example. . As always, S&OP was a hot topic at the conference.

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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

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 Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example, companies that have their own in-house vehicle fleet often struggle to deliver products on time. Enterprises will typically negotiate one to two year agreements with termination for convenience exit clauses in case they wish to change their short to medium term strategy to market. But what about cost of service?

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For example, many of our customers use tools like FourKites Notification Rules, encrypted links and watcher settings to simultaneously alert key stakeholders both within their organization and their customer base when critical events occur in the lifetime of a load in transit. Examples of customer-driven supply chain strategy.

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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. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability. It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. The use cases just keep expanding.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

E-commerce was a rapidly growing area for the retailer, and with a relatively large SKU count (more than 10,000), its WMS was challenged to support strategies for handling the typical small orders, including: Zone picking and consolidation (either with unit sorter or put walls). Batch picking (multiple orders on carts).

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, we held our first educational and virtual Agent Conference of 2023. This conference focused on winning sales and growing strong customer relationships as a Freight Broker Agent. FROM PROSPECT TO CLOSING A SALE First, develop your strategy for handling freight leads. Here are a few proven tips.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

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. Do they need to get right to a conference, or is the schedule looser? What is the situation at this airport?

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 11, 2024

According to an assessment published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in February, many ships are now avoiding the canal and changing their routes from the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to the Cape of Good Hope and choosing a longer route. ” Expressions were used.

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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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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Here’s an easy way to think about the regular and potential future disruptions that could impact your ocean shipping strategy, and what you can do to prepare for what comes next. At these times of the year, you should see less risk to your standard ocean shipping strategy. Yellow: Space is getting tighter.

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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. Can you give me a concrete example of how your risk management solution detected a threat and came to the rescue? Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 12, 2017

I remember meeting Karl Siebrecht, co-founder and CEO of FLEXE , a few years ago at the CSCMP Annual Conference not long after the company had launched. The voice-controlled interaction with Alexa is part of DHL Parcel’s service strategy to continually improve the customer experience. and up come the results on the screen.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 11, 2019

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, conferences, festivals… But nothing as big as the World Cup. FIFA 2018 World Cup transport planning challenges and strategy. As we are digging up into flow management during the Logistics class, I wondered myself about events that required a really complex organization and planning.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

This new customer-centric reality is prompting manufacturers and retailers of all sizes to revisit their strategies and capabilities to succeed in this highly-dynamic, highly-uncertain, and highly-competitive environment. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” Integrating Yammer to track the collaboration process during S&OP is a good example. As always, S&OP was a hot topic at the Supply Chain Insights conference.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Sales, Inventory, and Production Planning (SIOP) should be used for business planning and strategy in the shipper, 3PL relationship. Consultants have a method which will align the KPI's with the strategy of the organization, while protecting the intent an employee performance. Strategic Business Planning.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passion for safety Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel kicked off the conference by sharing some statistics about his organization’s work: The Philadelphia fire department handled more than 300,000 medical emergency care incidents per year. In EHS, we are part of an energetic, committed, intelligent and innovative community!

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

For example, retirement benefits, paid-time-off, overtime pay, adherence to daily work schedules, and other aspects of typical workers is completely eliminated when robotics are employed in supply chain processes. For example, humans must create build an item from the inside out, as our tools only allow us to perform certain actions.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let’s add Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference. . An example is the way the Kindred robot learns to pick an item – in the best case scenario. The post Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2. Can we talk about robots?

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” Integrating Yammer to track the collaboration process during S&OP is a good example. As always, S&OP was a hot topic at the conference.

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AIMMS

JUNE 23, 2016

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. Another example, this time in the oil industry, would be an oil blending app. Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February. “P&G

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Through implementing LoRa devices and LoRaWAN, asset tracking has never been more simple and cost effective,” said Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. CLICK HERE to register for the conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

These changes pose a direct challenge to their traditional operating priorities and technology strategies. The most high-profile example of this is the growing adoption of autonomous mobile robotics (so-called AMRs) and modular micro-fulfillment systems. Inventory and Labor Planning.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 27, 2015

Expanded use of dimensional weight pricing in ground package shipping will push more less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers to test or offer dimensional pricing as an option to shippers, according to speakers at the SMC3 Connections 2014 conference last June 23-25, 2014. What is Dimensional Weight Pricing? You must also know its actual weight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. If you are implementing a warehouse management system, for example, you scan something, you put it away, you store items, you replenish, you build pallets. Count them!

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

This unprecedented change, and the challenges and opportunities it creates for CPG companies and suppliers, was a hot topic of conversation at the Nulogy xChange 2018 conference a few weeks ago where I delivered a keynote presentation and moderated a panel discussion with industry executives (more on that later). . Tim Koers (Visual Pak).

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

And, as if choreographed, speakers from startups, carriers, and forwarders brought up example after another of where the forces of change are finally breaking through. Full disclosure: This article contains many great quotes from the conference’s speakers. Charley Dehoney, Exec VP Strategy and Growth at Airspace Technologies.

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

Examples included BCO and SMB forwarder presentations on the growing tech stacks they rely on to improve visibility and operations, and leading experts like Jensen and Monroe each pointing to progress in digitalization and data visibility adoption as key to carrier and BCO success.

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WorkWave

JULY 28, 2024

For example, lab specimens need to be carefully transported to avoid any contamination or spoilage. Studying competitors is an integral part of market research as it helps the medical courier business gain insights into their strengths, weaknesses, and overall strategies.

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