Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Spend Management Takeaways SAP continues to invest in using generative AI to improve the user experience. SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Many companies are achieving this transformation by adopting modular, elastic DC technologies – including AI and robotics – that provide continuous warehouse optimization without replacing their current monolithic and static warehouse systems. Optimization software can also be a “soft” alternative to investing in more steel (i.e.,

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

John is CEO of FreightPath , an innovative talent firm that offers both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution. John’s vision for continuous service improvement and his prior experience with global recruitment firm Search Logistics drive FreightPath’s success.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

About Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen is Co-CEO of The Nearshore Company, where he helps North American, European, and Asian manufacturing companies to successfully establish reliable manufacturing operations in Mexico, by ensuring quality, certifications, transparency, and continuous improvement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Machine Learning, a Form of Artifical Intelligence, Has Feedback Loops that Improve Forecasting. Further, while artificial intelligence helps solve certain types of problems, Jay Muelhoefer – the chief marketing officer at Kinaxis pointed out – optimization and heuristics work better for other types of planning problems.

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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

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The use cases just keep expanding.

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WorkWave

OCTOBER 30, 2023

.” WorkWave attributes much of Q3’s success to multiple product launches and enhancements, most notably the announcement of new Dynamic Routing for its RealGreen platform, the first and only automated, AI-driven routing optimization available in the green industry. The launch of Customer Assistant Website 2.0,

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Erik has been a guest speaker for multiple companies and conferences, including the Denver Transportation Club, Landstar and most recently the 3PL & Supply Chain Summit: Atlanta. Loadsmart leverages data from public and private sources. BA, Finance, Michigan State University. [02:06] 02:06] You went to MSU for finance.

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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.”. Source: LLamasoft.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Results from The Conference Board’s C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs. However, I am surprised at the degree that localized sourcing is being considered.

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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. User Experience improvements. The transformation resulted in significant benefits: Cube improved by 7 percent. Dynamic Cross Docking capabilities.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Therefore, it’s not surprising that the question at the forefront of the most recent Leadership Roundtable meeting (held last month at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2018 conference ) was, How do we get started? Getting Started with Digital Transformation. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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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. Mr. Elenjickal focused on the three main areas where FourKites is looking to improve connections across supply chains: geos, teams, and ecosystems.

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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. It began with the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of necessities for life. combines heuristics, optimization, and machine learning. and Supply.AI.

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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. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. So, what are some of the data challenges the industry faces?

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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. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. As the Automotive OEMs improved their supply chain risk management processes, they then turned to their key suppliers to improve their risk management processes.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Talking Logistics episodes and posts related to transportation procurement and shipper-carrier relationships: Time to Squeeze Carriers for Better Rates? Leading Practices in Transportation Procurement. Transportation Procurement: Advice to Effectively Plan, Execute, and Deliver the Best Results. What Are Other Shippers Doing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. We are hiring to build on our global trade network vision, improve global support, and build the solutions that will help you [our customers] compete,” said Braun.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. I believe this claim.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That said, like a slow steaming ship, the ocean cargo industry is making progress, and as the benefits of digitalization become more apparent, and as standards and industry collaboration improve, the ocean cargo sector will gain momentum and eventually catch up.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. How do you know you are getting what you paid for? 3PL/SLA Skills/Knowledge.

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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 ). And they must be capable of adapting to various demands.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector. Competitive warehouses.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

What, exactly, can 'digital transformation ' improve upon? And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. If digital transformation is to “transform” supply chain management, then it must do so in a way that significantly improves this primary objective. . Everyone was excited about it.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In today's highly competitive marketplace, it’s imperative for businesses to innovate new ways to streamline their supply chain and optimize productivity. Here are just a few ways to integrate modern supply chain technology applications into your business model and improve your supply chain management. Source: Morai Logistics.

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Conger

MARCH 28, 2024

These fast speeds improve the hardware used for fleet management and the bandwidth used for the Internet of Things (IoT). This data helps in identifying areas for improvement, optimizing operations, and making data-driven decisions. This data identifies inefficiencies, optimizes maintenance schedules, and improves productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Throughout the conference I met with a number of software and hardware suppliers to get a glimpse of what they were showcasing. In a conversation with Blue Yonder executives, they pointed out that retailers are looking at port diversification for improved sourcing and allocation. This is essentially continuous optimization.

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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

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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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. If you’re like me, staying up to date on supply chain news is critical. wsjlogistics.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

KPIs or Key Performance Indicators are a core practice of measuring the effectiveness and for continuous improvement in any business outsourcing model. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection. KPIs for Cost Reduction and Continuous Improvement was created.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the first day of the conference, Tracci Schultz, FedEx senior vice president for strategic planning, is scheduled to give an IoT keynote on technology and innovation’s ability to transform traditional industries. The second day includes a fire chat conversation with Louis DiCesari, Levi Strauss & Co.’s

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

To learn more about the future of logistics, tune as they give a preview of the topics for their upcoming Manifest conference happening in 2023 like sustainability, connecting the ecosystem, machine learning, and intelligent infrastructure. By the way, we should also mention Manifest had its first conference in 2022, right?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. according to the Walmart Marketplace website. Cargo imported into the U.S. from May’s 2.24

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