Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jeff Tramel, the Vice President of Global Procurement, at NTT DATA Services. SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. And more importantly, how did NTT DATA do it?

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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

JANUARY 20, 2025

CONA is a strategic partner that provides its bottlers with a common set of processes, data standards, and technology platforms. Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales. CONA hosts the bottlers’ solutions in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process. Musk smiled.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When you’re in the market for a TMS, it’s important to look beyond terms like SaaS or cloud in order to really understand your hosting options, how the data model will enable better business efficiencies and service, and the ease of integrations. Data Models Influence Flexibility. This is a true multi-tenant SaaS offering.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company relies on a solution from SAP called Global Trade Services (GTS). In the US, for example, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes lists of individuals and companies, and the addresses of those entities, owned or controlled by targeted countries. These transactions are flagged by GTS as potentially problematic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. Perhaps the best example of this is Exxon Mobil.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

HERE expands partnership with SAP to offer location-enhanced business applications. In other cases, where more sophisticated and expensive 3D printing capabilities are required, third-parties will manufacture the products on demand and deliver them to us (or we can pick them up at the local UPS Store, for example).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Mr. Botha does a lot of supply chain planning work implementing SAP supply chain solutions. CloudPaths implements solutions from SAP with a significant portion of their practice focusing on SAP’s supply chain planning solutions. An example of switchable constraint would be a factory that needs to close.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Through data integration and the ability to translate and share information flowing in from customers, vendors, carriers, order management, mobile applications, financial systems, emails, portals and more, today’s TMS can become a rallying point for all transportation related events and data for true inter-enterprise visibility.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

At its core, the IoT serves as a way of gathering data and information about a process, but applications of the IoT can detect potential problems within a machine before the machine falters. For example, a subtle change in hydraulic pressure may still permit the machine to operate. Automated Data Transfers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. The large fines above are examples of this class of penalties.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. Data Analysis Grew Exponentially, Providing More End-to-End Visibility and Continuous Improvement. Data analysis is the companion of cloud-computing technologies.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

A modern, multi-modal Tier 1 TMS can now take data from all sources, cleanse it and use it. With the ELD mandate, some companies are plugging into ELD manufacturers and retrieving data off the ELD or the carrier’s system (which gets it from their own ELD devices). Small but mighty. That way, information can be shared but remain secure.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. Yes, SAP had inbound ASN’s (advanced ship notices). But they were very basic.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2018

Here are a few examples: Maersk and IBM to Form Joint Venture Applying Blockchain to Improve Global Trade and Digitize Supply Chains. SAP Blockchain Initiative Expands to 27 Members. Blockchain doesn’t erase the fact that supply chains still suffer from crappy data. Barriers to Blockchain Adoption in Supply Chain.

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AIMMS

MARCH 2, 2021

S&OE and Data/Integration. To achieve this, integrating with live data is helpful, as well as getting detailed flow data on product availability, customer demand and KPIs. How can you get data visibility? How many data sources are typically connected to S&OP and S&OE apps? ” – Tweet this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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The Logistics Academy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

As global supply chains become more complex and customers more demanding, the race is on to develop software applications that can effectively manage and make sense of the zettabytes of data being generated by our digital world. Of course, capturing the data and then using it to make good decisions are two entirely different things.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile SAP jumped to an all-time high based on a bullish forecast of double-digit growth in cloud revenue. Even today’s most simplified “single-pane-of-glass” enterprise applications require that workers are well-versed in the system’s features and functions and trained to get the data and insights they are looking for.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

2018 Trend #2: Big Data and Advanced Analytics in the Cloud. Fear of the cloud is diminishing as concerns over data security give way to the desire for fast, flexible, high-powered computing. As legacy systems are retired, companies are replacing them with on-demand , cloud-based data solutions and services.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, in a poll conducted during an SAP webcast last year, 42 percent of the attendees responded that logistics is viewed as a cost center at their company and 31 percent said it’s viewed as “warehouses and trucks.”. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

In short, Descartes is among the largest supply chain and logistics software companies in the market today (behind SAP, Oracle, Manhattan Associates, and JDA Software), and one of the first to embrace the network/software-as-a-service model (services revenues represented 97 percent of total revenues in FY 2017).

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2020

Whether it is or not, though, you might find the following examples of AI application in supply chain operations interesting, intriguing—or even inspirational. Analyzing data to answering questions such as “Which specific geographic areas are impacted most often by late deliveries?”. AI in Transportation Management. TMS That Learns.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

Let’s take the example of inventory optimization. According to AIMMS VP EMEA Christophe Frère , there are 2 noticeable streams of technology implementation within European businesses today: The largest enterprises tend to focus on managing master data with one single integrated system, that being SAP in most cases.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2017

Plan on receiving data from legacy systems, portals, web APIs, EDI, manually and even via spreadsheets. For example, omni-channel, e-commerce and the Amazon Effect are some of the largest influencing factors right now in the shipper community. The entire on-boarding experience should be well-defined, simple and rapidly executed.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Improving predictability in outcomes is valuable, but ensuring your supply chain is nimble enough to act on the data is even more so. We explore how predictive analytics and big data with human sentiments can add value and amplify their supply chain strategies. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Order planning This will help you with routing, optimizing your delivery processes, integrating your delivery data, and getting a granular view of all transportation stages. Reporting This gives you more insightful data into your processes, so you can review expenses, carrier performance, and more to find what’s working and what’s not.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

“The Danfoss project is an impressive example of how automated warehouses will be controlled, monitored and analysed in the future,” was the unanimous verdict of the international jury of experts. Cloud-based storage of real operational data. iGo insights. Years of experience and research.

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Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A WMS uses scanners to scan bins, pallets , and goods and display data about the product, including serial number, type, manufacturer, expiry dates, etc. The business can maintain tighter management and control over the software and data. Supply Chain Module WMS Providers: SAP ERP Warehouse Management. Allocating labor.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Location data is making this more seamless with the precise location, ETA and tracking of vehicles much improved. The technology is integrated into SAP and Oracle’s TMS as well. “We HERE’s mapping features HD and 3D images, uses 900 data attributes and is approved as an AWS supply chain partner. Data is key.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

For example, we’re looking at one set of numbers – one version of truth. Donnie Steward, Chief Information Officer at ACH Foods , on using SAP at their food manufacturing company. More accessible data. Data is easier to find and more accessible to senior management. One version of the truth.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

When we decided to move off the system that we had, we looked at a variety of replacement alternatives including GAMS, SAP APO, OPL and a few others. Many of those people are casual users who are entering data or reviewing and implementing the current schedule. Take scheduling for example.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

A real world example of Vendor Managed Inventory in play is electrical products company Leviton Manufacturing. Additionally, a WEB-VMI solution removes barriers to inter-company transactions through database connectivity or formatted message communication options with enterprise systems, such as SAP R/3™, JD Edwards OneWorld™ and others.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is in line with data collected by a DAT solutions survey showing that 63 percent of drivers say they spend more than three hours waiting when loading and unloading. Freightwaves also collected data on driver wait times. According to the data from the FMCSA , in 2015, 415,000 crashes occurred involving large trucks.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For example, the sales department needs logistics data to analyze orders that have been shipped, customer service needs information to update shipment status, and the accounts section requires the data to cross-check transporter invoices. For logistics which is an intensely data-oriented function, this integration is crucial.

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