Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Oracle’s recent global survey, No Planet B: How Can Businesses and Technology Help Save the World? Difficulty tracking their ESG progress due to a lack of data. Complexities integrating data from across global supply chains. Start with your supply chain. But cloud applications are just the start.

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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. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 18, 2018

Supply chain executives should take no comfort in being categorized as a support function. They need to ensure that their supply chain function ensures the sustained growth of their organizations. The research report, Drive Your Own Disruption: Is your supply chain in sleep mode?

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

The solutions to supply chain problems boil down to the right combination of three factors—technology, data and processes. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated. However, manufacturers, 3PLs and others in the supply chain often get lost in the details. That’s not true.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

That’s the question that continues to bedevil the global supply chain industry. As I detailed in a recent column , the answer to constant supply chain volatility is pervasive real-time visibility into the precise location, temperature or status of a shipment — at any point along the journey. Where’s my shipment? .

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In today’s fast-paced e-commerce landscape, last-mile delivery has emerged as a critical component of the supply chain. Table of Contents [Open] [Close] Significance of Last-Mile Delivery Optimization Implementing Innovative Strategies The Role of Data Analytics Sustainability: A Necessary Focus 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. planning offers an alternative to swinging the pendulum and as the strategy that provides the supply chain resilience leaders seek.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Michael Jacobs, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Ferguson. Mr. Jacobs is the senior vice president for supply chain at Ferguson. While nominally a distributor, “supply chain management is our core competency. In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Data overload and quality issues are common problems faced by all organizations. This makes it really difficult to start getting value out of data with analytics. That’s why 60% of the time spent in analytical supply chain projects is spent collecting data. Data architecture to fit a multitude of your needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2022

A recent survey of 200 supply chain management professionals across companies with 500+ employees, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, has found market insights, confidence levels and trends for this peak season and beyond. Supply Chain Confidence Remains Strong Despite Slight Setbacks .

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The supply chain, however, offers the most fruitful area for improvement. For companies to achieve reductions in carbon footprints, they should look to sustainable investments in their supply chains for the greatest impact. Benefits of Sustainable Supply Chains. The added benefit?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. The Celanese Supply Chain Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a global chemical and specialty materials company with revenues of over $10 billion.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Part I in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . How does you r network design compare to others ? Our findings show that most respondents rely on a combination of spreadsheets (nearly 60%), gut feel (15%) and previous experience (46%) to make supply chain network decisions.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The following is an opinion article on AI in supply chains, written by Russ Felker , Chief of Technology (CTO) of Trinity Logistics. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow its presence in our everyday lives, businesses, and now, supply chains. AI in Supply Chains: We Need to Change Our Focus.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

For a few years now, supply chain professionals and pundits have been speculating on what the so-called “new normal” will look like. Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many risks and uncertainties in supply chain networks. How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? Current Technologies in Use for Supply Chain Network Design . Read on for common use cases. .

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

What are companies looking for in supply chain network design technologies ? We commissioned Supply Chain Insights to conduct independent research about this topic and discussed the findings in a recent webinar. What is supply chain network design? . SCND is about two things: .

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AIMMS

JUNE 25, 2019

You have tough decisions to make about your supply chain network design. About 38% of supply chain professionals say it takes weeks and 18% say it takes months to get the answers they need. What are the top 5 barriers to supply chain network design adoption? . – Tweet this.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Indeed, some organizations spent several years laying the foundations for data-driven strategy and remote operations even prior to COVID-19. Data-Driven Strategies Become Core Value Proposition. This core principle of creating value through logistics data has ricocheted throughout FedEx’s IT restructuring and its future plans.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

What are companies looking for in supply chain network design technologies ? We commissioned Supply Chain Insights to conduct independent research about this topic and discussed the findings in a recent webinar. What is supply chain network design?

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Data overload and quality issues are common problems faced by all organizations. This makes it really difficult to start getting value out of data with analytics. That’s why 60% of the time spent in analytical supply chain projects is spent collecting data. Data architecture to fit a multitude of your needs.

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TransAudit

MAY 14, 2024

In today’s interconnected global economy, supply chain disruptions have become a prevalent challenge for businesses across various sectors. The Cost of Supply Chain Disruptions Recent studies, including one conducted by Accenture , have highlighted the staggering costs associated with supply chain disruptions.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Supply chains are messy. Blockchain in Supply Chain Can Help. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. The inefficiencies that plague supply chains have seemingly been around forever. Download white paper.

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CLX Logistics

APRIL 22, 2024

How to Elevate Your Logistics Operations with AI & ML Technology Global supply chain organizations are embracing digitization to propel their supply chain planning to new heights. What is Supply Chain Planning? Data informs transportation capacity and rates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is not a new technology, but widespread adoption and use of AI and machine learning in supply chain is still in its infancy. Machine learning is a process by which learning algorithms are applied to large sets of data to create predictive models. On the surface, that’s a bit of a surprise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Leading companies take a strategic approach, integrating digital technology throughout their value chains. The majority of time when people are discussing digital transformation, they are not directly referring to the digital transformation of supply chains. There are many areas of digital transformation within the supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Supply chain disruption is a fact of life for every company that moves any type of product. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. A resilient supply chain may be stretched to the max, but it doesn’t break.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Editor’s Note: Our “ Research in Focus ” series highlights research conducted by select partners on timely and important trends impacting supply chain and logistics professionals today. The findings were derived from an online survey of 250 executives at leading U.S. Sourcing decisions can complicate or simplify this process.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Imagine you’re an executive of a large international business who has just discovered an excellent opportunity of entering a new exciting market just in time when your product design team has developed a perfect product for that market. Do you think that your supply chain management is good enough for this market?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Reverse logistics, while not being the opposite of forward logistics, is still about products moving backwards in the supply chain. However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain. Forecast demand better.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For all the hype currently surrounding supply chain gamification, it is not an entirely new business concept. Many organisations have been using simulations, like the Beer Game , for years to help companies educate their management teams in supply chain dynamics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. Meanwhile, cloud technology enables companies to expand infrastructure without significant investment or use of resources, reports AXIT of Supply Chain 24/7.

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