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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

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This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. This is where big data technologies come into play. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics. Logistics and transport service providers create enormous data records as they manage the flow of goods.

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KRONOS Worldwide Improves Service and Reduces Costs with Managed Trans

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Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Users continued to work as they always had and then input data into SAP. Uber Freight procurement events now require that the selected carriers be able to provide visibility to shipment status.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

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However, the rapid shifts that companies are going through given the aforementioned trends, progressive companies are laying a robust data foundation and enabling a digital twin of the physical supply chain so they can conduct Design exercises on demand with increasing frequency. Wanted to share these thoughts here. He received his Ph.D.

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Is It Time to Move Beyond the Traditional Approach to IBP?

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Event-driven IBP – technological capabilities to monitor internal and external events (Supply Chain Control Tower) in real time. Contextualize and quantify event impact and be able to trigger re-plan in an integrated supply chain planning solution to create an executable and feasible plan.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

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Instead start with the foundation of your AI strategy, which should be an understanding of your company’s supply chain and your data. Those traits are essential for business, along with understanding of your supply chain and its data. Collaborative decisions are possible when everyone is on the same page at the same time, any time.

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Best Practices in Supplier Risk Management

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What makes the APQC data so valuable is the large pool of respondents and the rigorous process they go through to validate their data. The survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on best practices or performance drivers. All data has undergone statistical and logical validation.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

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Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming.