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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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 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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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Among the early investors are Gero Decker (Co-Founder and CEO of SAP Signavio), Prof. This includes technologies for optimizing logistics processes, supply chain management, decarbonization and compliance, real-time tracking and data-driven decision making. Dr. Roland Fassauer (CODE University, CEO of aifinyo AG, Co-Founder of l1r1.ai)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Conger

JULY 22, 2021

For example, these systems can handle tasks ranging from: Receiving goods. For example, a Shopify storefront is an eCommerce platform. A Shopify storefront is an example of an eCommerce platform. Take our Shopify example again. You can track data about the latest orders, shipments, or any other activity on your inventory.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 18, 2020

Leuze electronic is a specialist manufacturer and provider of measuring and switching sensors, image processing and data transmission solutions, as well as components and systems. With Leuze already having decided to switch over to SAP at its company headquarters, they could certainly have used the SAP planning tool.

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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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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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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 3, 2023

A lot of automation focuses on information, such as data governance automation and ensuring greater data health. By understanding the issues that your data faces and some steps to resolve it, you guide your automation to be far more effective. Consider your needs Start your journey towards automation by considering your needs.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 29, 2017

Every day, more data than we can imagine zings across that global conduit we call the Internet. Much of that data comes directly from devices, without human intervention. Drivers carry cell phones in their cars to feed GPS locations to a traffic information and navigation service, which uses the data to detect congestion.

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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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Conger

JULY 16, 2021

A warehouse management system (WMS) is an example of digital automation software. An example of physical automation is the use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The follow vendors sell warehouse management systems, either as comprehensive modules or standalone products: SAP. Oracle NetSuite. Microsoft Dynamics.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 11, 2018

SAP recently queried more than 3,500 domain experts who had indicated an interest in blockchain. The overwhelming response we got was that ‘we’re still in the early phases,’” says Gil Perez, SAP’s senior vice president of products and innovation, and head of the company’s digital customer initiatives. Yet few have reached that goal.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

De Beers’ Tracr can provide provenance data for diamonds and track them from the mine to the retail outlet. Examples of Blockchain in Food Supply Chains. The result of the collaboration is the Food Trust Blockchain , a distributed ledger solution capable of recording data associated with more than a million individual products.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Renesas Electronics, for example, the world’s largest manufacturer of automotive microcontrollers, was forced to cut production by 70%, shifting from its badly damaged Naka wafer fabrication factory in the Japanese coastal city of Hitachinaka to a number of other sites around the company. If you have the data, use it.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

This is particularly the case when it comes to the intensive process of accurate order picking and the energy sapping and time consuming necessity of moving goods around a warehouse. An iFollow AMR, for example, can transport two roll cages at once, to a total load of 1,500 kg.

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