Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Energy management solutions are products that energy utilities use to produce power and data centers use to consume power. By 2014, the company had purchased the Coupa solution, developed an internal modeling team, and created data extraction and cleansing routines. We started as purely modelers, did the study, and handed it off.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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. These data include information such as types of goods, location, weight, size, origin, and destination.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

RPA technology simulates human operations in digital systems, such as data entry, file processing, and information transmission, achieving full automation of key processes from booking to order. Booking Processing : RPA can automatically scan and digitize booking documents in various formats and then automatically enter the data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. 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. This ends in a spaghetti approach to data integration. Celanese has 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A recent study of home delivery sustainability found that 83% of consumers aged 18-24 and 71% of 25-34-year-olds consider the environment when making a purchase, compared to only 43% of consumers aged 65 and older.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

They can ingest large volumes of functional data and leverage advanced intelligence to recognize broad trends and specific disruptive events. They are applying predictive analytics and data science to choose an optimal response quickly, driven by facts and pre-defined business outcomes. billion to $23.07

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

View the Full Case Study. After nearly two years of use, ARL Logistics is finding new value and opportunities to increase use cases of SONAR insights and data. For example, some top uses of SONAR have led to a few notable benefits for ARL employees and clients, including: Increased ability to handle one-off moves in tight markets.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

MIT’s Supply Chain blog presented a nice research study by Minhaaj Khan and Srideepti Kidambi and supervised by Dr. Tugba Efendigil. Their study is a good example of using less data rather than more to design a simple readily explainable approach … Continue reading →

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2020

Chemical manufacturers collect and use a lot of data in their supply chain. They deal with data on their products, customers, transportation, storage, operations and more. Acquiring that data is not hard but managing and utilizing that information to be able to analyze your business is the challenge. Managed Services.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Even headline speakers were professing “data got sexy” and data is now a core strategy for companies looking to succeed. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ITR Economics analysis shows rising and unmet demand for electric power from sustainability initiatives, coupled with the proliferation of data center construction ($27.3 For example, the global logistics automation market is expected to grow from $50 billion in 2023 to $120 billion by 2030, according to Allied Market Research.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important? Nonetheless, it is essential to have a hierarchy of KPIs.

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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 Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Amazon, for example, uses “ Robo-Stow ”, a robotic arm that aids with heavy lifting, reducing physical strain on employees while increasing efficiency. FedEx ’s AI-driven route optimization technology adjusts delivery routes based on real-time data, improving delivery times and fuel efficiency. billion annually.

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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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3PL Links

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Imagine an e-commerce company running a Black Friday sale and running out of a top-selling item due to outdated stock data. Real-World Example: Take the example of Zara , a global leader in fashion retail. Case Study: Consider Walmart , which relies heavily on data-driven warehouse management to maintain its competitive edge.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Robotics, Big Data manipulation, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques are enabling machines to match or outperform humans in a range of work activities, including ones requiring cognitive capabilities,” explains Richard E. A recent study by Deloitte bears out what Speier?Pero Pero is finding. But wait—there’s more.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 12, 2024

BlueGrace Releases Comic Book Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - March 12, 2024 DC Velocity Staff | DC Velocity March 12, 2024 Move over Marvel, BlueGrace Logistics has entered the comic book market.

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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. It’s easy to get caught up in new innovations like AI, but the success stories are lacking due to one major problem: foundation! Believe in Darwin (change is a good thing).

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2024

It has become a term applied to applications that can perform tasks a human could do, like analyzing data or replying to customers online. Machine Learning is just that – a machine or program that can learn from data. In the 2000s, big data came into play, giving AI access to massive amounts of data from various sources.

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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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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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IoT World Today

MAY 14, 2020

The industry is moving in that direction, as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems begin delivering fresh new Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics to workers in a variety of fields. “We The study, however, predates the COVID-19 virus outbreak, which will call for many market predictions to be adjusted.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As early as 2018, a Neilsen study found that fresh foods were “the primary driver of growth in retail stores, accounting for 49% of all dollar sales growth in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. Today’s grocers are capturing copious amounts of transactional data in interactions with customers both online and offline.

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

Air cargo for example, though continuing to make digital strides, is still behind – and is often compared to – passenger travel where digitized capacity, pricing and online bookings have been around for decades and is in some ways the digitalization template air cargo is referencing. But this problem isn’t new.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Because of service disruptions – not being able to buy toilet paper, for example – the supply chain has been more discussed than ever before. A study by E2open – the 2021 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study: Supply Chain Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic – provides the answers. But just how bad was it?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

OpenText was the largest vendor in this market the last time ARC did the study. An SCCN can also access pertinent third-party data feeds. An EDI VAN enables the secure exchanges of electronic business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, with trading partners—via electronic data interchange format.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2024

We write about trends in this study. I am the author of this year’s study. For example, if a worker is in an aisle making a pick, and they are next to a slot that has not been cycle counted for a while, the worker can count the number of items in that slot. There will increasingly be Tier 1 solutions with complex optimization.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 27, 2020

Bouncing back more quickly, said experts, will require supply chain managers to turn to new ways of managing the supply chain, including using Internet of Things (IoT) data, analytics and machine learning (ML). An AI system needs to be fed data sets to learn how to behave and react. And again, data quality is a huge concern. “The

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2018

Imagine moving cargo across continents as smoothly as computers process data. Data-centric freight exchanges and intelligent multimodal cross-docking hubs will allow haulers to move cargo effortlessly by road, rail, sea and air and seamlessly change carrier, or even transport mode, in real time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

I am currently finishing up this year’s version of ARC Advisory Group’s annual WMS market research study. For example, “maximize revenues within a theoretical facility that had two constraints.” This was a technical process, applied in a fairly simple fashion to an extremely high-level set of examples.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

ARC Advisory Group did a study on the supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) a couple of years ago. In that study, FourKites 2021 revenues were estimated to be $65 million. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. That is fast growth. What accounts for FourKites Growth?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2019

Attended college at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota FL, where I studied illustration. FSMA applies to: Food transported in bulk, where the food touches the walls of the vehicle (Example: juices). Packaged foods not fully enclosed by a container (Example: fresh produce). Born and raised in Cincinnati, OH.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2019

Our 2018 study tells us a greater percentage of Above Average Performers have “High Confidence” in inventory accuracy across all supply chain nodes compared to Average & Below Performers. That said, as we further evaluate the data we find even Above Average Performers have significant room for improvement.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As industries evolve the distance between the worker and the job has grown, for example back in the day the worker had one tool between them and the task. For example, chatbots are now able to enhance human abilities, using AI to serve as an advisor or support to help maintain efficiencies within the organization.

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