Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur. Of course it would!

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

It also allows them to communicate proactively with customers in the event of vehicle maintenance issues, heavy traffic, or other conditions that might delay delivery. Of course, every company with a distribution fleet to manage will have achieved some degree of maturity in the route optimisation journey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Adjust supply chain design more frequently than ever: As radical shifts in the centers of gravity of demand take place and the often-used transportation modes become inaccessible, organizations need to revisit their supply chain design and dynamically course correct. Create a Baseline for your Cost-to-Serve.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. The benefit of this is that you’ll be in a more proactive state when unforeseen events or crises arise with minimal warning. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. These “events” are turned into supplier scores, and if significant the score goes flagged in the Oracle procurement system. Now Oracle is working to connect these scores to the planning systems.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. Networking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The answer lies in identifying supply chain disruptions — from a big event, like a port closure, to smaller day-to-day performance exceptions — at the earliest possible moment. As disruptive events occur along the digital thread, the entire organization can act in a fluid, connected manner to optimize costs, service levels and other outcomes.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Instead of trying to cut costs silo by silo, these companies take an integrated view of operations (product design, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain management). Of course, some design issues are strategic and take longer to implement, but many offer quick efficiency improvements. Procurement: Buy Better, Spend Better.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

History can inform how we approach the next significant event. Keep your eye on events well before they occur. Robinson offices, procurement teams, and customers. When he’s not working, Vince enjoys spending time with family and friends, watching his favorite Chicago sports teams, and hitting the golf course.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

The skills enhancement program, dubbed Strategic Capabilities Planning, will include a mix of internally supply chain programs, systems education and external APICS courses – APICS is now part of the Association for Supply Chain Management. The 2017 hurricane season,” Mr. Herzog said, “was a big event on our journey.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

He will even train it to recognize his friends at the door and of course, make sure he is able to know what is going on with his new daughter, Max, at anytime of the day. and Smart Factories all powered by the Internet of Things will make running a supply chain as easy as pushing buttons (of course this all means it was set up correctly!).

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 19, 2020

I intend to hold low-cost, or even free, Supply Chain Secrets seminars in countries and regions that don’t often receive exposure to this type of educational event. I’ve been taking them around the Asia Pacific region for several years, and the seminars have received a tremendous reception in Thailand, Vietnam, and of course, Australia.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

Of course, the most common question about blockchain is “What is it?” This invite-only event brought together supply chain and IT executives from a cross section of companies, along with several executives from IBM, including Jeanette Barlow, Vice President of IBM Supply Chain Solutions, and Ron Castro, Chief Supply Chain Officer at IBM.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. In normal times there is no benefit, but companies need to stay the course even when demand and supply are equal. At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They wanted to stop me because I and my teammate Ralph were off course. We turned our bikes around, coasted down the hill, and got back on course. It turns out they didn’t want to high-five me for cycling up a 3-mile hill. We had missed a turn 3 miles back. You mean I climbed this hill for nothing?!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply chain technology investments were once delegated to a specific function such as procurement or logistics. making a fast return on investment (ROI) fairly likely ? and Unnu, Kaan. [2]

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

With recent events at Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse rocking international finance systems , the experts at global supply chain risk management solution Resilinc are urging UK businesses to collaborate with suppliers to reduce uncertainty.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Events and disruptions are par for the course in supply chain, so we need tactics to kick in for problem resolution. Supply chain leaders from planning to procurement to logistics face labor shortages and cost concerns, so they want to reduce workforce time spent on manual activities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

A regional supply chain does not mean supply chain operations are not impacted by global events. The supply plan will include the procurement plan for their raw material supplies (Tier 2) needed for their finished goods suppliers (Tier 1). That of course, works to VF’s advantage as well. Bailey exclaimed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 12, 2017

Of course, even if your company’s business needs have not changed a great deal, your operational methods, capacity, and network may certainly have been subject to change over time. A freight review will generally be a good idea in the event of significant changes in your supply chain. Are You Juggling With Multiple Carriers?

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Turvo

MAY 21, 2020

Used properly, collaboration enables better procurement, efficient shipment management, transparency, proactiveness, improved customer experience around delivery, and a team prepared to handle reverse logistics management. Collaboration is perhaps the most widely discussed and recognizable topic in the modern supply chain.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

Here are some interesting highlights: Justification Is Key Interestingly enough, one of the most important drivers for market intelligence is justifying procurement decisions or operational decisions to internal stakeholders, like executive teams, or to customers. This was, of course, an extremely popular use case for market data.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement. These events can throw off production schedules even creating idle labor or eventual lost sales. Of course, proper implementation is essential in order for these great technologies to succeed.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

An expensive and inefficient option, redundancy in this context means keeping excess capacity or back-up across the entire supply chain in case of shock events, such as natural catastrophes and epidemics. It’s widely mooted that many things in the world of business will be different after COVID-19 has run its course.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. The Executive Sponsor.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, you can set that goal, or rather, that set of goals (because being the best in your business normally means you must beat the competition in a number of disciplines) yourself, but if it’s to exceed that of the very best today, you must know how well the very best is performing. Click To Tweet. Know Your Distance to Target.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 30, 2023

Freight procurement has serious problems. Tender acceptance can range from 98% to just 75% over the course of a freight cycle, causing disruptions to supply chains that result in charge-backs, stockouts and lost sales. Contracts don’t hold up. How bad is the problem for shippers?

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. Over the course of around 15 years, the company perfected the strategy. However, considering those events, the company did adjust its procurement strategy, increasing engagement with alternative sources of supply.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also allows them to communicate proactively with customers in the event of vehicle maintenance issues, heavy traffic, or other conditions that might delay delivery. Of course, every company with a distribution fleet to manage will have achieved some degree of maturity in the route optimisation journey.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, the price of 42# linerboard has gone up 35% in the last 12 months, over the course of 4-5 price increases. And one particular issue has been the inability to effectively use and compare against FY20 data (with COVID considered a “ black swan ” event). This is a huge headwind hindering margin improvements for brands.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

It is surprising how far people walk in the course of a year in many processes. Perform Transportation Daily Event Management. Cost savings result from disciplined, daily event management and hour-to-hour focus on waste identification and reduction. Transportation takes time. If not, Why?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The first steps, of course, are to understand the challenges you face, prioritise them for action, and consider the resources and help you need to meet and overcome them. There are, of course, several ways to achieve a logistics knowledge infusion. Of course, as an enterprise grows, it becomes harder to coordinate all the moving parts.

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Freightos

MAY 17, 2016

And, of course, Amazon looms with Amazon Flex. Increasingly they are running procurement and logistics departments. Crowdsourced last-mile delivery is also on the rise. Roadie has already garnered 250K downloads and 20,000 drivers in the US, while Nimber is making headway in the European market. The Full-Stack Powerhouses.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 4, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. News & Events. |. Though I have attended all Pulse events since its inception in 2008 (last year I gave it a miss), it still looks new every year. This year, 7000+ people are scheduled to attend this event.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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