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Interoperability in the Supply Chain: Leveraging the OSI Model for Seamless Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Physical Layer: Transmits data over a physical connection. Data Link Layer: Handles data transfer between connected nodes. Network Layer: Manages data routing. Transport Layer: Ensures dependable data transfer. Presentation Layer: Translates between data formats. These seven layers are: 1.

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Why So Many Supply Chains Are Stuck in the Past — and a Path Forward

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains have for many years tolerated a lack of accountability at nearly every node — from buyer-supplier relationships to outdated tools and data transparency issues — which has prevented businesses from operating cost- and time-efficiently and delivering on their promises.

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KRONOS Worldwide Improves Service and Reduces Costs with Managed Trans

Logistics Viewpoints

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. SAP was acting as a recording tool,” Mr. Musabasic said. “We We would never get value out of SAP that way!

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Peak Season Prep: 2024 Trends & Strategies

Ship Monk

Most importantly, it should fully integrate with your shopping cart, website, mobile app, social sales channels, marketplaces, retailers, payment systems, EDI and ERP systems, and any other app or tool you use to manage your business. It should have robust tools for data analysis, reporting, tracking, forecasting and managing inventory.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Q3 Tech Update: Alphas, Betas and Sidechains

Shipchain

When we started building our ecosystem last year, we knew that adoption of new technological paradigms is often slow moving and reluctant in the logistics space, and that we’d need to build tools to simplify integration for as many companies as possible. Today, storing one megabyte of data on the Ethereum chain might cost up to 3.7

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Intelligence…Sometimes Artificial

AIMMS

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.