Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The supply chain nodes which were once deemed to be relatively static have become far more dynamic in the recent past. The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Users continued to work as they always had and then input data into SAP. Finally, customers are increasingly requesting transportation emission data. We would never get value out of SAP that way!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

The devices will improve visibility by transmitting data on a real-time basis from each container. Tracking devices from Nexxiot and ORBCOMM are being installed that will provide location data based on GPS, measure temperature, and monitor any sudden shocks to the container. It has so many data points.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Instead start with the foundation of your AI strategy, which should be an understanding of your company’s supply chain and your data. Those traits are essential for business, along with understanding of your supply chain and its data. Collaborative decisions are possible when everyone is on the same page at the same time, any time.

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

”) API calls to interact directly with blockchain contracts and enables fast searching on shipment data (by leveraging a relational database to cache a subset of the blockchain). Today, storing one megabyte of data on the Ethereum chain might cost up to 3.7 But is that enough to spur adoption?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

How are these advancements improving the way data is shared in ocean transportation? Andrew explains that, “Due to regulatory changes, every truck has to have an [ELD] device for tracking data. This data is collected via APIs, eliminating the need for EDI transactions. Timely data is an important factor enabling them to do that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, the rapid shifts that companies are going through given the aforementioned trends, progressive companies are laying a robust data foundation and enabling a digital twin of the physical supply chain so they can conduct Design exercises on demand with increasing frequency. AI plays a significant role in harnessing the power of this.

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Ship Monk

JULY 18, 2024

Data from each channel should be synced in real time, providing complete transparency throughout the fulfillment process. It should have robust tools for data analysis, reporting, tracking, forecasting and managing inventory. Distribute inventory across multiple shipping nodes to reduce emissions whenever possible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

But it applied them in greater detail to aggregate supply and demand across numerous nodes. What about the data quality? How about the variability in the data that is combined to create aggregates used as inputs? I learned while researching the SCP market that the data was very often the weak link in the planning process.

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AIMMS

JUNE 5, 2019

Tens of thousands of demand nodes, 2,000 supply nodes and industrial pricing are all synchronized to best effect every 15 minutes. Gartner states that “in 2020, 50% of organizations will have sufficient AI and data literacy skills such that they will achieve at least one AI project judged to deliver positive business value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. There are vendors that supply this data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

What makes the APQC data so valuable is the large pool of respondents and the rigorous process they go through to validate their data. The survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on best practices or performance drivers. All data has undergone statistical and logical validation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2023

Majority of IBP solutions in the market have significant limitations in granularity and variety of data that can be ingested and modeled – hampering the ability to model real world and leading to ineffective decision making. Capabilities you should be looking to real world data modeling.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have fantastically accurate information available quickly about all sorts of things in the supply chain — but these nodes of data-gathering are like narrowly-focused spotlights on an otherwise dark stage.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2018

Blockchain doesn’t erase the fact that supply chains still suffer from crappy data. In short, blockchain by itself does not solve the “garbage in, garbage out” data quality problem; you’ll still have garbage data, but in a distributed ledger that’s better encrypted and traceable. These nodes are distributed around the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Lack of adequate risk data and the non-strategic positioning of supply chain design within the organization has been a key inhibitor to success. There may be several nodes that are critical and single sourced thus elevating the risk profile of the supply chain. This is where AI can make all the difference.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 30, 2018

An integrated system enjoys the benefits of 100% visibility, almost zero data duplication, smooth flow of information from one stage to the other, incorporating scalable subunits at any stage, and data security. The empowering nature of data has long been established. Planning & Analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

But it applied them in greater detail to aggregate supply and demand across numerous nodes. What about the data quality? How about the variability in the data that is combined to create aggregates used as inputs? I learned while researching the SCP market that the data was very often the weak link in the planning process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But once this extended supply chain capacity data is available, supply chain models can model not just the internal supply chain, but the extended value chain. One week, the model may show the capacity of an upstream node as being 200 units, the next week it can show 700 units. In short, it allows for agility at a much lower cost.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 1, 2019

Microsoft Excel is arguably the most widely used supply chain and logistics application , while blockchain is one of the most talked about emerging technologies in the industry, promising to transform the way companies share data and execute transactions with their trading partners. That’s where blockchain technology comes in.

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20Cube Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A Control Tower is a Central Hub in the supply chain which comprises of required technology and processes to capture transportation data and provide complete visibility in real-time to customers to make short-term and futuristic decisions for the business. The control tower data also helps in monitoring performance and controlling cost.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Such opportunities will involve switching modes of transportation, or skipping nodes of the network altogether, while increasing the speed to market and reducing the Cost-to-Serve. He received his Ph.D.

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Logistics Manager

JUNE 15, 2020

By integrating its system with CALISTA , trade data is processed, transformed, and mapped according to in-country compliance requirements automatically with the export declaration in the origin country and import declaration in destination country populated based on Customs regulatory formats and submitted to the respective Customs authorities.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 5, 2019

Conversely, if the factory has no such data and the shipment fails to arrive on schedule, its ability to process the materials and deliver goods out to its own end customers could be severely hampered. All of the data that is being collected can be fed into a blockchain.”. It’s Not Just About Location. Feeding the Blockchain.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

A blockchain is made up of a network of computers, otherwise known as “nodes.” A node, or computer, is connected to the network through authorizing and communicating transactions through a client (which completes these transactions). What kinds of transactions are we talking about? Where does the blockchain fit in with 3PLs ?

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Shipchain

AUGUST 29, 2018

A blockchain may be public or private, allowing specific groups the ability to view and edit data before it enters the chain. Once registered, the data cannot be changed which means that any suspicious activity can be identified almost immediately. There is not a single authority over the chain, nor does a limit to its length exist.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

The GreyMatter Fulfillment Operating System uses advanced fulfilment science to instantaneously evaluate order data and compose the best decisions in real-time to efficiently orchestrate people, processes and robots.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

They have real-time data transfer, flexible communication, and Big Data analytics. This was mostly driven by the surge in e-Commerce in response to the pandemic and restrictions, as well as by the industry’s need for efficient warehousing, inventory management and real time data to deliver efficiencies and cost savings.

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Shipchain

JANUARY 23, 2019

We have even more to announce on the Blockchain and decentralization side: Our Sidechain – Layer 2 sidechain launches late 2019 with the validator nodes, early testing on Loom. 2019 has a lot more in the works, including: Business Intelligence – Custom Dashboards using data from public/private/internal.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But when you think about the massive amount of data that is needed to make these [planning] decisions and the inability to use [holistic] optimization and run scenarios in a truly collaborative way outside of just a spreadsheet has been difficult for companies.”.

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Shipchain

MARCH 28, 2019

Our goal is for our clients to have one unified platform for Track and Trace visibility, with our document/data management for immutability and provenance, and Business Intelligence dashboards to quickly identify bottlenecks and/or KPI performance. This partnership allows us to enter into the European market. TRUCK WRAP PILOT.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2021

Data in supply chains remains frozen within siloed operations, as companies continue to cut off their data streams and not gain insights by feeding them to data-driven algorithms. In many ways, digitalization within the freight industry can be inferred as the direct consequence of e-commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

Optimization has often been applied too narrowly, because as AI and supply chain expert Professor Nada Sanders articulates , analytical techniques applied to just one node only create highly-efficient silos. A plan is a point in time, so any solution must be paired with agility to adjust when the inevitable changes occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Pure Storage, a public company headquartered in Mountain View California in the US, manufactures flash-based storage for data centers. Pure Storage operates the hardware with proprietary deduplication and compression software to improve the amount of data that can be stored on each drive.

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Shipchain

JANUARY 2, 2020

Nowadays, you must also consider digital threats like data breaches and hackers. Because blockchain is nearly impossible to tamper with, you will no longer have to worry about anyone hacking your data. . With blockchain, no one can access your data unless you allow them to. This can help make data breaches a thing of the past.

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