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What’s the Latest Definition of an Enterprise TMS

Turvo

Often part of a more extensive supply chain management (SCM) system, a TMS helps companies stay compliant and log the proper documentation involved in the complicated processes of freight movement and fulfillment. Aggregates data analytics , allowing companies to spot out inefficiencies and improve operations.

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Electronic Data Interchange or EDI in Transportation: Breaking Down What it is and How It Works

GlobalTranz

Today begins our series about electronic data interchange or EDI in transportation. In this series, we will first talk about how EDI in transportation works and what it is, covering the history of EDI in transportation, the definition, how it works technically, and then some common EDI codes used within the transportation industry.

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Industrie 4.0 Breakthrough: Networks of Flexible Plants

Logistics Viewpoints

The three steps in realizing the vision are 1) flexible, reconfigurable plant; 2) global manufacturing networks of flexible, configurable plants; 3) the integration of the previous step with digital, certified, encrypted product definitions. The document gives business strategies based upon technical solutions. Although Industrie 4.0

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MES vs MOM: Understanding the Key Differences

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Smart factories use IoT-enabled technologies like sensors and smart machines to generate data, often in real-time, to improve information about production processes and help decision-making. Together MOM and MES provide the intelligent systems to collect, deliver and analyze production data to empower industry strategy and smart factories.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Demystifying The Top 10 Buzzwords in Cloud Computing & Automation: IoT, Big Data & More…What does it All Mean?

GlobalTranz

Combine this with the fascination in industry for “big data” and you have a recipe for a specialised, cloud-based archiving language. In its first industry buzzword guide, European Automation has explained ten popular cloud computing terms that are often referred to in technical documents without definition.

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The Definitive Guide to Transportation and Logistics Terminology

GlobalTranz

Bill of Lading (BOL) : A document between a shipper and carrier acknowledging the receipt of goods for transport and now available in electronic format (eBOL). Blockchain : A unique traceability service-ledger that builds immutable blocks of information and prevents all risk of tampering with data. All-in Line Haul: FSC + Line Haul.

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The Definition of Transparency

Blue Grace Logistics

As it is with most problems there is a lack of a clear and concise definition, according to an MIT study which conducted a survey of the apparel industry only to find wildly different results. Another explanation for being slow to act is inaccurate data coming from upstream, assuming there is data to be had at all.