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Highlights from TPM 2023 with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

A career business journalist, Peter has served as a maritime reporter, West Coast Bureau Chief, Editor in Chief and Publisher of The Journal of Commerce, over the course of his 30-year career with the JOC beginning as a maritime beat reporter in the early 1990s. the world’s largest container shipping conference, now 23 years old.

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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. Government subsidies would certainly support domestic development of warehouse robotics. It doesn’t make sense to network a community in that way if you were to start from scratch today.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. 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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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

Causal AI offers the tantalizing promise of being able to unravel the intricate web of cause-and-effect relationships that govern business operations. However, complex process manufacturing presents a much more difficult ATP problem than is typical in discrete industries. Of course, getting a promise right is vital.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

Paying the right tariffs is necessary to avoid government fines and calculate the true landed cost of products. The computer is then presented with those images. Cause-and-effect relationships in an extended supply chain can be an intricate web that is difficult to unravel, but these relationships govern business operations.

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How Southeast Asian manufacturers can use ERP to realign the supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Of course, the pandemic then hit global shores, not to mention the ripple effects of global trade wars. To enable SEA manufacturers and distributors, governments are implementing policies, collaborating regionally, and leveraging the potential of Industry 4.0. In 2019, China accounted for 28.7 Challenges to growth with supply chain.

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Logistics, preparedness and the Defence Strategic Review

Logistics in War

The paper, of course, covers a swathe of topics and concepts. There is an important emphasis on the ADF’s logistics capabilities, functions and concepts in National Defence – more than usual when compared to other Government policy documents of recent years. This is, of course, a normal goal for logistics planners to have.

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