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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

At one of the demo booths, what stood out was the ability of the procurement solution to track savings leakage over the course of a contract. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.” When a procurement contract is negotiated, the buyer has planned to achieve a certain level of savings.

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Global Trade: Then and Now

MTS Logistics

New advancements in technology have, of course, made new and improved ways of shipping through new routes, but new technologies have also improved or have expanded old existing methods and routes. For example, think about the Suez Canal. The Silk Road is a prime example of that.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material. Now… reality is more subtle than this, of course. War Manpower Commission.

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How to get an Accurate Cost for Mezzanine

Logistics Business Magazine

When it comes to construction, the biggest factors will typically be the type and amount of steel used, along with the installation time required. If not, it may be possible to use a hybrid mezzanine (constructed from hot-rolled and cold-formed steel) for the areas with higher loading and a cold-formed floor elsewhere.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed. For example, if you want to train a vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. The humans label the pictures as dog, not dog, or unclear.

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Key Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Greenhouses can be constructed to be like semiconductor clean rooms which would eliminate the need for pesticides. And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. Uber has an ecosystem.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Technology in the Warehouse

Logistics Bureau

That’s probably one of the first differences you’d notice between a warehouse of today and that of 25-plus years ago – and of course it’s down to technology. That’s just what we’re seeing here, a prime example of how even more people are being displaced from the warehouse environment by technology.