Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Digitization is Your Friend. It’s not news to anyone that digitization is a roaring trend and I’m here to say: embrace it. Suspicion that digitization will eliminate jobs is not without cause—there is no doubt that certain roles are changing or being eliminated by automation. Digitization is not your enemy; it’s your friend.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The digital supply chain is basically a term that defines a supply chain whose foundation is built on Web-enabled capabilities. In essence, digital supply chains aim to minimize waste and bring greater profits, whilst being truly efficient system. Follow These Steps For Digital Supply Chain Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2021

Leveraging different models of thinking, representing key metrics using data aggregation, exposing real anomalies, and recommending a course of action based on operating models will make businesses smarter. The post Emerging Tech in Your Fulfillment Network: Stepping Beyond Digital Transformation appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

” “With no digital technology to assist the route planning process, I had to estimate all route timings , and I could only use weight to gauge when a vehicle would be filled. After another few years, we upgraded to a new route-planning system based on digital maps. Here is how he explained the daily planning task to me.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 75

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

Lessons from CMA CGM, Maersk and K+N on Transparency and Digitalization. You cannot afford in this day and age not to go digital…digital will become the name of the game”. Two years ago you didn’t hear talk of digitization from ocean liners. One of the best examples of how technology can change an industry is US trucking.

Digital 76

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Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

Digitize Invoicing to Eliminate Errors and Guard Cash Flow. In this article, we explore Invoice Reconciliation tools as a core piece of every digital 3PL/freight brokerage’s operations. And in the example of invoices, the unwieldy process of cross-referencing and auditing means that fraud in the logistics business is all too common.

Supply Chain Software 148

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2017

Supply Chains Went Digital. 2016 marched onward with a drive to improve the use of digital technology throughout the supply chain. However, this prediction proved to only touch on how important the digital supply chain would become. For example, an optimized supply chain is good, but it opens more opportunities for errors.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Some industries experience more returns than others.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

Why digital processes are no longer discretionary but necessary. Digital company organization. Flexible working models, paperless processes and digitalization are non-existent or a novelty in many places in the industry. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

Digital Catapult has today launched the Digital Supply Chain Hub, a platform designed to facilitate strategic collaboration between manufacturers and digital solution providers across the UK. The majority of the UK’s logistics industry is also seeking digital solutions to optimise their operations, with 86.5%

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Forto

APRIL 9, 2020

– Why digital processes are no longer discretionary but necessary. Digital company organization. The exchange of information, meetings and even training sessions run smoothly for us despite social distance – digital communication tools such as Slack or the video conferencing software Zoom make it possible.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, robotics does not tell the full story, as the world of manufacturing has evolved even further over the last few decades, with the rise of data and smart, autonomous systems. Technological advances has often moved faster than digital capabilities. Skills development as a central component of your digital roadmap.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As industries evolve the distance between the worker and the job has grown, for example back in the day the worker had one tool between them and the task. The rise of digitalization in the workplace has brought with it an interesting corollary for skills needed in human workers. Reskilling and attracting a smart factory workforce.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Digital trucking is bringing unprecedented, large-scale benefits to the national transportation grid. Digitization takes living, real-time data from once futuristic fantasy to practical present-day tools. Digitally integrated metrics also mean the more efficient movement of goods. Hybrid Supply Chains.

Sourcing Strategies 62

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Experts believe that through digital freight matching, transportation supply chains can open a new way of driving efficiency and visibility. Advancements in technology have created many opportunities for transportation supply chains to develop game changing digital tools. Digital Freight Matching.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. China’s Five-Year Plan and Digitization China as a country has chosen digitization as a core tenet of the country’s Five-Year Plan. But bandwidth is one dimension.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

More Resources Home Bridging Two Realms: The Digital-Analog Dance in Logistics Ian Arroyo Unbox your Freight knowledge. Visit our Resource Center The Digital Contradiction In the digital age, it’s easy to assume that all industries are racing to become fully digital. Digitization is underway…but it happens slowly.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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AIMMS

JULY 15, 2019

A great example of this is one of our customers, a Europ ean chemical company with $300M in annual revenue who is growing fast and was ready to move from spreadsheets to something more robust. A focus on Digital Twins . Analytics will play an increasingly important role in S&OP .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to Digital Commerce 360 , Amazon accounts for 42 percent of e-commerce. Of course, Amazon is investing heavily in its infrastructure and working toward market share gains, likely in detriment to earnings. Nike’s 2020 earnings are another example of costly e-commerce operations’ impact on the bottom line.

Operations 124

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation. A connected and flexible digital shop floor. Human-tech augmentation. Sustainable supply chains.

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Giving credit where credit is due, this isn’t just a testament to what we have achieved – it’s a significant industry achievement, reflecting the fact that a conservative industry is finally going digital for real. Freight is digitizing itself now at real scale. The industry is taking digitalization seriously.

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Digital Freight Ecosystem. In the first part of this article , Dr. Schreiber observed that freight is still largely offline and examined why freight digitalization has been so complicated. . One recent example is CMA CGM’s recently-launched Freddie platform. Another direction is digital integration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Nevertheless, Mr. Ellison presented a fascinating vision centered on how technology can be used to digitally disrupt a 10,000-year-old industry.

Supply Chain Software 117

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In the last decade alone, we have seen factories move from basic digitization to more predictive power. In part 1 of the smart factory series we unpacked digitization, digitalization and digital transformation. A connected and flexible digital shop floor. Human-tech augmentation. Sustainable supply chains.

Factories 98

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

For example, take a lawn and landscape business that’s offering a fall deal for homeowners who need to grade and seed their lawns. This is a very simplified example of combining traditional, top-funnel organic content marketing with lead generating efforts. How, then, are you supposed to attribute those sales and leads?

Digital 64

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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. The implementation of this digital risk platform was supported by targetP!, It will link all initiatives within the supply chain function and be enabled by our digital solutions and all data sources.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Uber started this with taxis, using digital technology and the ubiquitous smartphone to bring taxi fares and taxi drivers together, any time, any place. Cloud computing itself is a prime example. All you need is your credit card (and a driving licence, of course.)

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. The study showed that upwards of 30 percent of American students enrolled in at least one online course in 2018. Online courses are the quickest path for a student to obtain a degree.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Hamburg-based startup driveMybox more than doubled its sales in 2021 compared to the previous year and is on a strong expansion course. ” The intuitive and user-friendly digital platform was launched in Germany in 2020. The post Digital trucking platform driveMybox expands appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

Second, what is autonomous planning in supply chain, and what are some practical examples? Feasibility of Autonomous Planning It is absolutely feasible to achieve this for companies of all sizes and levels of digital maturity. It is a three step approach: digital, intelligent, and autonomous.

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IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Supply chains will survive COVID-19, of course, but not without interim pain and structural change. E-commerce increased 49% in April, according to Adobe’s Digital Economy Index , given shuttered brick-and-mortar stores. Erratic consumer demand adds further dysfunction. Erratic supply and demand have strained logistics as well.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Freight Forwarding Will Undergo Digital Transformation. As explained by Zvi Schreiber via Supply Chain Brief, decreasing profit margins and the demand for scalable technology will result in more carriers using digital channels to sell product directly to shippers. But that is not stopping others from trying.

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Turvo

JUNE 10, 2020

The study found that 41% of respondents were investing in automation at a faster clip in response to the crisis, with another 43% of business leaders saying they will speed up investments in digital and technology once some normality has returned. Consider this example. Take another example.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

” These tried-and-true capabilities include a Digital Supply Chain Strategy and Network Design. Prescriptive analytics “describes a set of analytical capabilities that finds a course of action to meet a predefined objective, such as maximizing revenue or minimizing costs.” Prescriptive Analytics.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2015

They often shy away from STEM education courses and technical education. The use of video testimonials would show kids a real-life example of a pier that chose a manufacturing career. Here is an example from the website Profoundly Disconnected, a project developed by Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

Of course, the pandemic then hit global shores, not to mention the ripple effects of global trade wars. Digital skills gap. Singapore, for example, relies on Malaysia for one-third of its total poultry supply. In 2019, China accounted for 28.7 According to McKinsey , even though ASEAN’s annual exports increased 5.6

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