Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Supply chain practitioners seeking the best way to speed decision intelligence, unify supply chain data, and increase operational efficiency can benefit from a supply chain data gateway. Here are 10 ways a supply chain data gateway can improve your performance across the end-to-end supply chain.

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Complex supply chains generate more data, which companies can use to drive greater efficiency or engage in innovation that disrupts an entire industry—think Amazon. More data is coming in than ever before.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

For example, signs that a company is moving in the right direction, talent-wise, might include: The deployment of staff in new roles, absent the traditional supply-chain-centric titles and instead, hybridizing across data-science and logistics skill sets.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? The company modeled scenarios and performed simulations in AIMMS Network Design Navigator with all their products grouped together. In the context of disruptions like COVID-19, scenario modeling can make considerable difference – Tweet this.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By analyzing real-time data from various sources, companies can make proactive decisions that improve collaboration among stakeholders, boost operational resilience, and increase customer satisfaction. Data privacy concerns are paramount, as AI systems rely on vast amounts of sensitive information.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching. We spent hours and hours looking for data, whether it was for audits, compliance, or just basic troubleshooting. Data does not move.

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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. Data-driven approaches, such as predictive analytics, facilitate real-time adjustments in delivery operations. Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 24, 2022

A network effects business model allows a company to gain more value as more companies use its products or services. Google and Twitter mainly monetize the data through targeted advertising. Google and Twitter mainly monetize the data through targeted advertising. FedEx enriches this data with weather and traffic data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

During COVID, this more agile and resilient model allowed the firm to grow their market share. An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. Factories serve local markets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Returns, Mr. Tollefson pointed out, is an example of an application that must have the network at its core. Blue Yonder and Agentic AI Blue Yonder announced they were working with Snowflake, a company providing an enterprise data fabric solution, to transform access to disparate data for supply chain management in March of 2022.

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IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Increasing supply chain data visibility is a priority for logistics organizations looking to improve resilience. Supply chain recovery hinges on incorporating robust data analytics and other data-driven tools into business operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs and proactively manage risk.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Designed to integrate seamlessly with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems through APIs and batch processes, the TMS facilitates smooth data flow and operational efficiency. The company shared examples of its long-term collaborations with businesses such as Texas Instruments and Home Depot.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Data is a crucial component of digital transformation in the manufacturing sector. However, data in itself is not a value driver. Many manufacturers aren’t maximizing the value from enriching data and missing out on opportunities to grow, optimize or manage risk. Create new revenue models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of SAP agent technologies and Databricks data fabric solution, sets the stage for end-to-end enterprise orchestration. Databricks offers a Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks type of solution is increasingly being called a data fabric or a data platform built on data fabric principles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. The single data cloud runs on Snowflake, one of Blue Yonder’s partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

DES allows the modeling of complex warehouse operations at various levels of detail. Building a detailed DES model may be a time-intensive activity, but it pays dividends in bringing insights into the operations of a warehouse. Typically, modeling is done by highly trained engineers with an industrial engineering background.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, weve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. It would be folly not to take advantage of data availability and accessibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

Lets break it down with some examples that hit home: Supplier Diversification : Reflecting on the disruptions caused by the pandemic, companies heavily reliant on Chinese suppliers faced significant challenges. An automotive company I collaborated with conducted detailed modeling of potential tariff impacts on semiconductor supply chains.

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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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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 9, 2021

Data for data’s sake lacks value, especially in the view of the supply chain. And across the market, submitted data becomes rapidly outdated. And in some industries, outdated data can have disastrous consequences. For instance, take the value added by more accurate data in the health industry.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Indeed, some organizations spent several years laying the foundations for data-driven strategy and remote operations even prior to COVID-19. Data-Driven Strategies Become Core Value Proposition. This core principle of creating value through logistics data has ricocheted throughout FedEx’s IT restructuring and its future plans.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

In a prior post , I wrote about the various ways data is transforming global supply chains. Data is the raw fuel of digital transformation and the linchpin to accelerating industry collaboration, automation, predictive insights and so many more cutting-edge capabilities (including those yet to be invented). So, what is quality data?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SCCN solutions allow trading partners to collaborate across defined trading partner processes based on a common data model. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.” SAP’s Business Network is a supply chain collaboration network.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Solution: Use data-driven forecasting to predict demand as accurately as possible. By leveraging predictive analytics and a just-in-time (JIT) inventory model, you can maintain optimal stock levels, which reduces storage costs and cuts down on waste from unsold items.

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FreightWaves SONAR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Direct access to SONAR Lane Score within MacroPoint Capacity helps brokers maximize efficiency by bringing in useful data into one platform. This Descartes-FreightWaves partnership combines two leading technology solutions to address the challenges associated with historical lane modeling.

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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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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 7, 2021

Through data-driven transportation management , carriers can finally become more strategic and tactical, thriving through good and bad times. Achieving that goal hangs on a carrier’s ability to capture meaningful data. Autonomous processes are only as valuable as the data that powers algorithms and decision-making.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

But the model for those cost categories has been dramatically changed by the emergence of WMS delivered in the Cloud, with the software and other cost elements moving from a fixed to a recurring cost and creating a shift in how some deployment costs are incurred. Basic WMS Cost Categories. WMS Software Cost Drivers.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

For example, signs that a company is moving in the right direction, talent-wise, might include: The deployment of staff in new roles, absent the traditional supply-chain-centric titles and instead, hybridizing across data-science and logistics skill sets. Bringing Production Closer to the Customer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2021

As a DC planning tool, machine learning represents an alternative to traditional engineering and process modeling. For example, the traditional approach to workforce planning is to use an engineered labor standards system. Finally, the more complex the engineered model, the longer it takes to process the data and provide an output.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Essential Steps to Using Warehouse Modeling Software for Design 1) Understand the Design Objectives and Constraints The first step in your review should be to determine and prioritise the objectives for your warehouse facility and operation. For example, is an SKU typically ordered by the pallet, carton, split carton, or individual unit?

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. Instead of static data, AI-powered systems continuously update matrices based on real-time inputs like demand fluctuations and shipping delays.

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Trinity Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Foundational Model This is where the training/learning takes place, where you’re teaching the AI how to look at things and look at input. Large Language Model (LLM) This model is trained on vast amounts of text, can interpret what you’re asking of it, and can put a response in words that you can understand.

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Freightos

JUNE 17, 2024

In the first issue of our AI popup newsletter series, Matt Motsick, CEO of Rippey AI and a long-time logistics technology leader, explores buying or building AI models. Focus on Innovation : By outsourcing the underlying AI technology, companies can focus more on innovation and applying AI in unique ways within their business models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

When SAP refers to AI, it refers to generative AI based on large language models or AI based on machine learning. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” The manager would not be required to drill down through web page after web page and look at dense tabular data to get the answer.

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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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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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