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

JULY 3, 2024

For the purpose of the study, we define mobile warehouse robotics as load-carrying vehicles that travel under their own control with a level of autonomy adequate to perform intended tasks based on the current state and sensing without human intervention. The update to the mobile warehouse robotics market report has been.

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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

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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Trans Global Auto Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Forbes magazine cites a study by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) that determined over 9,000 trade shows were held in 2019, contributing to over 100 billion dollars in US GDP. Online Trade Conferences & Auto Events. For example, buyers can’t handle expensive items, such as cars, in person.

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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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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

You may read my post on holding a supplier’s day conference at your facility so that you may increase collaboration. Creating Collaboration: Supplier Day Conference Details of The Day. These are obviously confidential meetings in a closed office by Supplier Conference Team Members. Complete one-on-one meetings.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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Women in Trucking

MAY 25, 2020

Conference & Expo. Studies show that the higher men’s awareness of gender bias, the more likely they are to recognize the importance of achieving gender equality.” For example, about 14 percent of active Women In Trucking members are male, and five of the association’s board members are men.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We The premise of the study was interesting. 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.

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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. Visibility, however, has a much broader meaning, and this is a great example of other ways to apply the visibility concept.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, in a poll conducted during an SAP webcast last year, 42 percent of the attendees responded that logistics is viewed as a cost center at their company and 31 percent said it’s viewed as “warehouses and trucks.”. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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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. IBM Case Study: Supply Chain Intelligence, Watson, and Resolution Rooms.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

Distribution center utilization of 5S, Kaizen/Continuous Improvement, and Lean Six Sigma and transportation cost reduction: example: use your or your Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider partner’s Transportation Management System (TMS) to optimize your freight so you add value and reduce costs by using the most effective lanes and routes.

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Camelot 3PL Software

MARCH 29, 2025

At the 2025 Camelot User Conference, Chuck Feldman of 3PL Consulting, Inc. Chuck’s example focused on the various features of Excalibur that allow for “Proof of Load” This includes everything from scanning picked items and Pack Station verification to photo-capture images of packed items; all getting logged into Excalibur.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Delivery experience drives customer retention, and it is driving reference and many studies and numbers about it. Where did you grow up in India, and where did you study? I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. China is the other example. I will give you an example.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This coincides with a Wall Street Journal article from earlier this month ( Rising Freight Costs Are Weighing on Companies’ Profits ) that provided similar examples, including “cardboard maker Packaging Corp. The report, “Truck Driving Jobs: Are They Headed for Rapid Elimination?” million truck drivers overall.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. For example, only 1% of China’s 560 million city residents breathe air that is considered safe by the EU. Penske makes a good case study. The following are just a few examples.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“Not everything possible always makes sense,” states Frank Müller, Senior Vice President Brand Management, during this year’s STILL press conference, held this week at its manufacturing HQ in Hamburg. Concept study: The first circular forklift truck. Services that go beyond the STILL brand.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Loadsmart Announces $21.6 Hurricane Michael: How Can Logistics Professionals Help?

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A recent study from Congress found that while 46% of the national workforce is made up of women, females hold only 24% of transportation and warehousing jobs. Convoy’s ERGs are a great example of this effort and are at the heart of our community and key to fostering a sense of belonging at the company. Of that 24%, 12.5%

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

One person’s supply chain career might be focused on the specific area of freight forwarding, for example, whereas another person’s might encompass end-to-end operational management from raw materials management to customer invoicing. Supply chain is often what people define it to be. Check your possible “return on investment” too.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This is not only fulfilled by an analysis by ‘force exploration’ undertaken within the Integrated Investment Plan, but a detailed study of strategic concepts for operations and the logistics requirements necessary for them to occur. For example, the US national security community uses the term ‘defense technology and industrial base’. [6]

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Now, That's Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Yet, according to PwC’s Global Digital Operations Study 2018, most business leaders have still not come to terms with the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation or with the conceptual leap it represents. Sensors installed on the assembly line, for example, allow insights to be accessed and utilized in real-time (i.e.,

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. For example, if a there is no substitute for a material used, then that supplier should automatically be considered riskier despite its levels of performance.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Industry leaders discussed several topics at this year's CSCMP EDGE conference in Atlanta, and no subject was more important than how companies managed supply chain disruptions over the past year and the top priorities for the future. Here are several of my key takeaways from this year's meeting.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2020 Third-Party Logistics Study, data analytics is not only becoming more viable in the logistics industry, but it’s also becoming a necessity and make a difference. Langley sites dynamic pricing in freight for an example. Especially, when you consider some of the power plays made by the internet titan, Amazon.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional’s (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. Transportation costs saw a 10.4% The Need for Technology.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Michael Brandl, Executive VP EMEA for Koerber Supply Chain, told the conference that the company’s objective is to become the global supply chain management (SCM) leader. This provides visibility, for example if there’s a blockage we stop the next process.” The integrator is neutral, so as to make the fleet better.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 21, 2020

Just to give some idea of what they are facing, these are some of the demands major broadband providers such as China Telecom, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have to contend with due to complete or partial lockdowns of citizens ordered by various governments: Children studying online as part of home schooling.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2023

You need to be able to explain the facts in the clearest and most effective way, so make sure you thoroughly study and understand the freight market information you are looking to share. Jennifer Hoffman of Trinity Logistics is sharing freight market information at Trinity’s 2022 Freight Agent Conference. Plan in time to do this.

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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. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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