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NRF 2024: Supply Chain Data

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. The single data cloud runs on Snowflake, one of Blue Yonder’s partners.

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How Can Supply Chain Leaders Use Big Data as a Tool to Continuously Improve?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain leaders are enthralled with the idea of using big data, but they tend to fail to understand how to disseminate big data in their organization properly. True, they may know how to roll out big data in a single warehouse, or they may have heard their competitors used branded systems for implementing this new technology.

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What is Order Picking?

Logistics Bureau

Order Picking is the productive operation in a warehouse operation. Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. When we Order Pick, we are essentially “manufacturing” what the client is going to pay us for.

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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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Top Tools for eCommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

Every fairy godmother needs her magic wand, every knight needs his shining armor, and every eCommerce business owner needs their tools. Tech tools, that is. Tools for Marketing (and Sales). Drift , a tool we use daily here at ShipMonk. The digital gadgets that allow for a smooth operation, day in and day out.

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How data kickstarts the supply chain flywheel

FreightWaves SONAR

This is for a few reasons: There might have been a delay during fulfillment, and the original method picked would actually miss the promise. Small but meaningful at scale: Sometimes orders are canceled, and if you pick a method and print the label up stream, you are wasting money on canceled orders. The importance of data.

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Do Capacity Management Tools Work for Freight Agencies?

Parade

Here’s Why Many Capacity Management Tools Don’t Serve Freight Agencies Not too long ago, capacity management simply didn’t work for freight agencies that provide logistics solutions to their agents. That’s less than ideal since it can mean that less scrupulous agents will use the data to poach business from other agents in the group.