Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

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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.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A 2020 SYSPRO survey showed that 60% of manufacturing and distribution businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. According to 2021 G2 ERP Statistics 95% of businesses achieve major improvements after using ERP through reducing process times, increasing collaboration, and centralizing enterprise data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

First, in the early 2000s, advancements in data analytics, RFID, and localized supply chains fueled the rise of “fast fashion.” The Ulula platform will enhance EcoVadis’ data by providing insights through automated surveys, grievance management, and analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Companies knew this, which is why 93% of senior supply chain leaders surveyed in May 2020 by consulting firm McKinsey planned to increase inventories of key products and materials while also diversifying their supply base and localizing or regionalizing both supply and production.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MAY 12, 2021

Data from ports across the world collected by project44 shows that the percentage of containers missing their scheduled sailing is still rising, with some major carriers and ports posting rollover rates over 50% for the month of April. Other carriers that posted worsening rollover rates include Evergreen, at 47% and ANL, at 57%.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2015

Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies. Connected supply chains provide additional opportunity link supply chains and receive more data. But how does it work in industry?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

SYSPRO ’s 2020 survey, The Inflection Point for the Factory of the Future , showed that only about one-third (38%) of manufacturers’ business systems had enabled them to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finance and production can’t be working off different data sets. The pandemic made that impossible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86 While supply chains are recovering, a recent survey found that 57% of shippers experienced longer lead times from suppliers in China. Those factories with essentially zero inventory of critical components were forced to close or drastically scale back.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

The survey conducted by Deloitte and MAPI, included more than 200 different manufacturing organizations. Above all else, the survey shows the main reason why manufacturers are looking into a digital supply network; end to end transparency. This represents the top challenge for 30 percent of the survey respondents. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. We need problem solvers, people that can work with data from a data analytics perspective. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

For decades, ASEAN manufacturing, once seen as a global phenomenon, had been overshadowed by the meteoric rise of Chinese factories. Recent lockdowns in mainland China left global manufacturers reeling even further due to deteriorating factory production. In 2019, China accounted for 28.7 Top leadership support for Industry 4.0.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 20, 2022

A survey SYSPRO fielded during the early days of the pandemic showed that 47% of businesses were unable to function because operational staff completely relied on on-premises resources, and 37% were unable to provide the remote work capabilities they required. A year later we asked manufacturing CFOs how their strategies had evolved.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 21, 2022

SCM solutions provide oversight of materials and products, and their associated data, as they move through the supply chain from supplier to consumer. By gaining access to the data in these processes, businesses are better able to coordinate workflows, improve efficiencies, and ensure that customers get the product they ordered.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

A recent SYSPRO survey shows that only 45% of businesses have looked at systems to address supply chain disruptions and just 44% have investigated technologies that enable collaboration with external suppliers and customers. Hence our surprise at the findings of the global survey above. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. This data needs to be curated. I am skeptical.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Defining your footprint – what your supply chain should look like, where you should build your next distribution center, where you should locate your next factory. . You need technology to crunch the numbers, manage data and run optimization models for decision support. . SCND is about two things: . ” .

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

With allegations surfacing in the UK of factories paying half the minimum wage or ignoring physical distancing precautions during lockdown, the research found that organisations in the UK did see the correlation between improving visibility and creating sustainable supply chains with business growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a conversation with Everstream’s chief data officer, the executive told this writer that the company was using artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data to solve this n-tier problem. The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. It is not enough to have data; you need the right kind of data!

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

The latest Energy Information Administration data shows the national average diesel price is at $3.34 Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey , 59.7 This comes from factory slowdowns and, in some instances, factory closures due to many reasons. RISING FUEL PRICES. per gallon, a $.05 05 increase from one month ago.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

SCND is about two things: Defining your footprint – what your supply chain should look like, where you should build your next distribution center, where you should locate your next factory. You need technology to crunch the numbers, manage data and run optimization models for decision support. What’s hindering them?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Data-driven decision making to maximize value for manufacturing. Manufacturing is no longer about chasing low-cost countries but rather integrating a set of sophisticated and data-driven tools to help evaluate decisions based on risk – many of which are now made at the board level. Cloud ERP to reshore supply chains for manufacturers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 24, 2023

Every factory runs on the back of hundreds of specialized skills, some of which take a long time to master. On the workforce side, a PwC survey reported that while 36% of employees agree that the skills needed in their jobs will change over the next five years, only 43% have a clear sense of how the skills will change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Apple may consider re-routing production out of Shanghai and Kunshan to factories elsewhere, such as Shenzhen, which currently is not under lockdown. A spike in COVID-19 cases in some countries, which is causing factory shutdowns and port delays, added to corporate woes as soaring freight and transportation costs are pinching profit margins.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2023

A larger share of freight forwarders and supply chain professionals this year in 2023 are expecting disruptions owing to COVID outbreaks in China and the Chinese New Year factory closures as compared to the last year (2022). “We Amidst this, in the coming weeks, we foresee prolonged factory closures and bearish market conditions.”

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

On top of all that, billions if not trillions of dollars worth of potential working capital are tied up in illiquid assets such as 90-day invoice payouts or even the real estate value of, say, a warehouse or factory building. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 26, 2022

In a world where the only constant is change, manufacturing and distribution businesses now need three essential ingredients (including specialist ISV solutions) to set sail on the right path: The reliability of a core ERP system that provides centralized and real-time data insights.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

In intelligent factories, machines and products communicate with each other, cooperatively driving production. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision of a world where almost any kind of object can and many will carry some kind of transmitter to send and receive data from the internet. According to Accenture, they define Industry 4.0

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Honeywell has launched its latest family of rugged enterprise mobile devices designed for workers that pick, pack, sort and deliver e-commerce orders to keep the retail supply chain moving smoothly from factory to consumer.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. A lot of data/information is communicated in batch and serial mode, sometimes hours or days after a transaction or event occurs. Inbound deliveries to factories/warehouses. View Results.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chips attached to individual items will transmit data such as identification, location, temperature, pressure, and humidity. Not only that, they will also be able to transmit traffic conditions and drive-specific data, such as average speed and driving patterns back to the central office.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

The four logistics service providers the licensee works with will transfer transport notifications and tracking data directly into the Setlog platform to thus supporting a single point of access. All partners in the supply chain are informed simultaneously and in real-time as soon as delivery data changes or delays occur. Background.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 3, 2024

introduces smart factories where interconnected systems enhance agility and responsiveness. This holistic approach extends connectivity beyond the factory floor, fostering seamless communication across the entire logistics network. Industry 4.0

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Cloud computing is the new wave change in the field of data monitoring It goes without saying that the manufacturing industry has to deal with a lot of shared data, send across data, and make critical business decisions based on various aspects and information extracted from various geographical territories across the globe.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2016

In a 2012 survey by Forrester and Zebra Consulting, reports Cigniti Technologies , only 15 percent of manufacturers had implemented at least one Industrial Internet of Things solution. New products and services will enable a new host of KPIs and real-time data. However, this mindset has changed. Tracking of Performance.

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3PL Links

JULY 20, 2023

Transportation delays, cargo theft, a lack of monitoring, human errors, and data failures due to obsolete information are just a few of the frequent problems that harm business profitability and customer relationships, whether B2B or B2C. When it comes to perishable goods, small errors might result in significant losses.

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