Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Meeting today’s logistics challenges of the three C’s – customer service, carbon, and cost – companies are not just looking at gathering data, but also how to better interpret and understand this data, and then use it to drive additional value. Analyze and track your carbon footprint using logistics data.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, our advanced 3PL platform looks after every aspect of your supply chain in an efficient, effective way and our Virtual Carrier Network safeguards your shipping by always applying the best rates and speeds while not handcuffing you to any carrier. Of course we’re talking about your ecommerce store’s data security.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Ecosystem Today The logistics ecosystem is being transformed by the rise of connected vehicles equipped with IoT sensors and data-driven technologies. These vehicles collect and transmit real-time data on location, speed, fuel consumption, and cargo conditions, enabling more dynamic decision-making. What Are The Challenges?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

By embracing collaboration, real-time data, and a focus on sustainability, companies can build resilience, improve margins, and gain a competitive edge. Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

A meeting between two pioneers during a cocktail party in 1956 turned out to be a defining moment in the world of manufacturing. 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. The post Industry 4.0:

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Machine learning is a process by which learning algorithms are applied to large sets of data to create predictive models. First, DCs are a controlled environment for collecting and aggregating historical and real-time data – and data is a key to effective AI. AI-Based Warehouse Optimization Examples.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 4, 2021

If you use only one distribution center in California and all your freight has to be delivered from there, can you meet online ordering expectations nationwide ? That’s just one example. Robinson’s parcel technology takes mountains of data on your parcel shipments and turns it into actionable insights. One of the ways C.H.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Svend Lassen, head of reporting & data analytics for commercial and supply chain at Tata Steel Europe, explained that there needs to be a clear understanding of how any digital project will improve margins before the project is approved. “We Planners come up with data-proven forecasts on what the market may buy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

Companies “seeking to increase data sharing and collaboration across their supply networks have faced three principal hurdles.” A SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Jeff Erwin, VP of manufacturing at G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers , has been helping to accelerate the digital transformation while aligning with the company’s goals and mission to improve its operational efficiency and meet customer requirements and regulatory compliance challenges by tracking and measuring performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Planning applications don’t work well if the master data they rely on is not accurate; this is known as the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a recent Forrester study, they found the problem to be poor quality data. Digitization is your friend, but quality data is your foundation. Digitization is your friend, but quality data is your foundation. Be sure any technology you implement is likely to allow you to meet unforeseen needs. Change can be a good thing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

The key building blocks for the modern supply chain control tower includes data from key supply chain partners, robust supply and demand planning, and a master data management/data harmonization layer that helps to normalize the data and can then feed accurate data to the planning engine or team members.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Driven by regulations and a thirst for data transparency. The potential to provide reliable, tamper-resistant data across supply chains is driving interest from various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, electronics, and food production.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 12, 2024

For example, one of our heroes, who bears a passing similarity to Monica Rambeau or Photon from recent The Marvels movie, confronts an evil purple-faced villain by saying, “Spreadsheet Sorceror! Your outdated data methods won’t reduce risk disruption or costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2024

Data Normalization & Removing Bias Data normalization in the context of forecasting is the process of going from actualized sales, which may be biased by various factors such as weather or inventory availability, to an understanding of baseline demand that is stripped of the impacts of these demand drivers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand forecasts are improved with access to downstream data (point of sale, Nielsen retail data, and access to competitor promotion schedules). Other external data, like industry data or economic data, is used for other types of forecasts. forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores. This sounds obvious.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

The ability to meet that demand can be less than expected. Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization Demand planning is the process of forecasting the demand for a product or service so it can be produced and delivered more efficiently while meeting customer service level expectations. No plan is perfect. Medium-term planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2023

I therefore took the opportunity to meet with a few of the independent consultants in attendance. Secondarily, many of the assets are linear, rather than discrete, requiring different forms of location and measurement data. I recently attended Körber Supply Chain’s user conference, Elevate 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats. Planners spend their precious time collecting and synthesizing the data to drive insights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Whether considering where to start or what they have to gain, most merchants find the necessary insights to move forward with business intelligence tools that mine their own fulfillment data and customer interactions. Critical data to track. Carrier invoice data (actual costs). Carrier delivery status (visibility/performance).

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. Allocation is a good example of this. These crawlers never stop working.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

More recently, demand planning applications based on machine learning have improved forecasting by incorporating competitor pricing data, store traffic, and weather data. ML techniques like clustering, data similarity, and semantic tagging can automate master data management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process. As corporations announce plans to be Net Zero across their end-to-end supply chain at some point in the future – often 2050 – they then need their suppliers to participate in helping them meet their goals. Musk smiled.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Table of Contents [Open] [Close] Significance of Last-Mile Delivery Optimization Implementing Innovative Strategies The Role of Data Analytics Sustainability: A Necessary Focus 1. Timely and efficient last-mile deliveries are critical for meeting customer expectations. Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 20, 2022

It then leverages this information to orchestrate and optimize warehouse activities to meet the priorities and objectives of the facility on an ongoing basis. When and how does real-time warehouse data deliver productivity? Real-time data is most important when time value is high.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

Electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions have proven deficient in providing robust visibility. But unless a TMS provider has access to network transportation data (public cloud providers do), the visibility provider will be in a better position to use artificial intelligence to provide these enhanced ETAs than the TMS provider.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

DPPs allow companies to centralize compliance data, ensuring that it meets requirements across regions. Advanced data management platforms, which automate tracking of regulatory updates, are becoming increasingly important. For example, sustainability regulations in the EU and other regions are becoming more stringent.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. Digitization: from analogue information to digital data. The first step, therefore, is to get all your information – documents and data – into a digital format.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For example, in the morning, we may want to maximize picking density to improve the efficiency of our pickers without much concern about shipping deadlines. The key here is in analyzing data in real time – tasks which are well suited for AI. Who will reassign robots as the workload and order priorities change throughout the day?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The hyper-focus on meeting customer expectations is also creating pressures upstream in the supply chain, as manufacturers extend visibility and collaboration beyond their own walls to avoid any disruptions. To meet customers’ growing expectations for personalized offerings, the typical company’s product lines have grown exponentially.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

For example, if a shipper needs to ship goods from Chicago to Detroit, the TMS will have a record that on this lane, the transportation planner should contact Carrier A first. The visibility Emerge has to the marketplace allows it to leverage that data to understand the dynamics of the market.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

It can equip teams with better, more comprehensive data that can be used to make meaningful business decisions to maximise flexibility and opportunities for growth. Strategic stock management One of the crucial areas in which businesses can leverage data to enhance flexibility is stock management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

As a result, there’s a growing need for end-to-end visibility and for rich data that points the business compass toward the right outcomes. Yet, getting to this higher plane requires a focus both on better data and intelligent insights. Getting past disparate systems and centralizing data was critical.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

In certain scenarios, cheaper carrier services may be more than adequate; some shippers have determined, for example, certain regions in which ground shipping provides a perfectly acceptable and more affordable alternative to two-day or next-day services. Meet the basic needs. More to give the organization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

Elliott pointed to four main predictions for 2024, and then outlined the three pillars of how Körber will be able to meet the goals that align with these predictions. Data Visibility. Data is at the center of all decisions across the supply chain. And this is where data comes into play. Workforce Efficiency.

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