Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

ARC’s definition is that a supply chain collaboration network is a “collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. What is this Market? The solution is called a supply chain collaboration network (SCCN).

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For example, the New York Times is out with a new article on wind energy and how it can help shipping in the near future as climate change becomes a major focus. According to a Cargill executive profiled in the Times, the turbines can reduce fuel usage by 3 tons per day, which definitely makes an impact on emissions.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. C-Suite Themes For the C-Suite, there are three main themes where supply chains make a definitive impact: increased customer retention, revenue growth, and lower costs. According to Ms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Definitions of agility, resilience, visibility, and end-to-end collaboration are all very much tied together. And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. Resilience is About Planning for Agility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in January 2021, “ The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World ”, I highlighted that modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness. The Key to Long-Term Success: Build Agility, Resilience and Profitability Together.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI). It is also worth pointing out, that based on this definition, not all forms of machine learning are particularly complicated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chain collaboration networks, which provide wide ranging visibility to events occurring upstream and downstream in supply chains, can help companies be more agile. A warehouse worker that receives an advanced ship notice (ASN), for example, can use that information to make sure a dock door is ready to receive an inbound truck.

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10xLogistics

MARCH 26, 2017

To listen to music, for example, I merely plug into an amp and headphones and through the power of Amazon, Spotify or Pandora I have just about every song ever recorded at my fingertips. Security: This is an unfortunate part of life these days but it is a fact - the more the aggregation of people occur at events, the more risk there is.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2021

In September, for example, warehouse employment reached the highest level ever recorded, with 1.25 Reflecting on the events of 2020, Franco says the automotive sector was among the first to take a hit on the supply chain front, with many other industries following it down that path during the early part of the year.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 8, 2024

Definitely not. For example, if milk wasn’t FDA-certified you wouldn’t have verification that the cows producing it are healthy. For example, Coffee, Food for Animal Consumption, and Cosmetics are all different category types. Exaggeration?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database. Maintaining outlier events that have influenced demand patterns or supply availability . Modeling the impact of weather events. Automatic identifying and removing outlier events from the historical data. Having accurate stock-out data.

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EazyStock

JULY 22, 2021

But first – let’s get a definition: What is inventory demand forecasting? Below is an example of the different demand factors that can impact or inflate your normal base demand. For example, in the growth phase, the trend in demand will be upwards, while in the decline phase, the trend will reverse. Inventory Demand Trends.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

In the run-up to the recent LogiMAT event, Bernard Biolchini ( pictured ), Executive Vice President EMEA at Dematic , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of integrated automation technology , software and services for supply chain optimization, spoke about the new era. Q: Can you give some specific examples?

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The trouble with this definition is that it doesn’t explain what exactly changes in supply chain management—that is, what gets “transformed”—when digital technologies are adopted. Since there didn’t seem to be a clear definition of digital supply chain transformation available, I developed one from first principles.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2017

This example generates a huge amount of data that can leverage in the supply chain. While this example may still be a few years off, it is important that you understand how the top emerging trends in automation will shape supply chains and transportation processes in the coming years. The truck never stops until arriving for reloading.

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Sabinext

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has served as a pivotal event in this, accelerating our need for digital readiness, resilience, and agility. More resilience requires moving away from a single sourcing strategy to diversification (China +1, for example) and more distributed safety stocks enabled by central visibility. Hybrid Mode of Working.

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Globalior

MAY 15, 2020

What is artificial intelligence The definition of artificial intelligence(AI) is one that has evolved with the passage of time. As far as its definition in academic circles is concerned, opinions differ. For the purpose of this article, we will consider this lay man’s definition when talking about AI. What is supply chain?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for that special class of disruption, the low-probability, high-impact events like natural disasters, epidemics and other upheavals, organizations don’t know how to mitigate the risk and successfully manage their supply chains, and are now trying to find their way through the minefield of issues and challenges with no clear solution.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

It’s worth remembering that despite tragic events we’re seeing in the headlines, overall these were the most peaceful 75 years in history. This is our actual growth and a textbook example of the marketplace flywheel where sellers attract buyers and buyers attract sellers. But it doesn’t always work.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Direct mail, while not as eco-friendly and far more expensive, can be used to deliver a coupon to infrequent shoppers, or communicate big events, such as an annual sale or new product drop. Like email, if abused, customers quickly learn to say STOP. All ecommerce businesses should be engaging in targeted advertising.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 27, 2021

Although it might be easy to pin these closures solely on the eCommerce piñata, there are other factors that contribute to a store’s decision to shut down, namely: Events outside of our control , such as the economic effects of a global pandemic The shift from a service to an experience-based economy A shrinking middle class Poor management.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Having in-depth conversations was an obvious outcome of the events of the last two or so years, where many parameters have undergone fundamental changes where there is no going back. Q: Can you give some specific examples? Spatially constrained warehouses in urban environments, for example, rely on high scalability of picking systems.

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Trinity Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now, there’s a lot of definitions out there, but here’s how I define it. That is one example of a public version of Generative AI. For example, a robot in a warehouse that results in a physical action, or it could just be something as small as, if this event takes place, then make this phone call or change this data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While the concept isn’t new, its application to supply chain is emerging, albeit without clear definition yet. Disruptions often interrupt these patterns and produce rare events, which challenge the algorithms designed to learn from prior patterns. Climate change is biggest crisis of all, the ultimate example of interconnected systems.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 27, 2020

In order to build a correct demand plan, one-off events have to be identified and accounted for,” wrote Ralf W. Tire companies, for example, now use sensor data to monitor tire pressure and proactively alert customers about maintenance. The good news about that is these were changes they were going to have to make in any event.”.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Degradation occurs when a balanced status of systems, business processes and people organization is disturbed by some event and then over time the unused potential degrades to a new level where all three dimensions are in balance again. Another example is where a major customer suddenly demands a change in the way its orders are handled.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Remanufacturing and refurbishing activities also may be included in the definition of reverse logistics.”. For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business.

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Forto

MARCH 4, 2021

An example of an application using the micro frontend technique – image of vertical teams can be found here. We definitely didn’t want our deployments to involve more manual steps, so we wanted to be able to update both places with a single deployment. The solution: micro frontends were our salvation. Conclusion.

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Forto

MARCH 1, 2021

An example of an application using the micro frontend technique – image of vertical teams can be found here. We definitely didn’t want our deployments to involve more manual steps, so we wanted to be able to update both places with a single deployment. The solution: micro frontends were our salvation. Conclusion.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Higher throughputs, managed, picked and delivered more accurately, improving service levels with less inventory (and waste), better transport utilisation, all with lower levels of labour and a more flexible and agile response to changing market conditions, whether there be one-off events or longer-term trends. Has anyone mentioned promotions?

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Camelot 3PL Software

JANUARY 14, 2021

But it is possible to reposition inventory to better respond to such events. According to a report by the Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), global warming is not a direct cause of droughts or hurricanes, but it increases the frequency and exacerbates the risks of such events.

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Forto

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Major calendar events are – quite literally – casting their shadows ahead for the supply chain: Golden Week in China, Black Friday and Cyber Monday on November 26 and 29, and of course Christmas holidays and also Chinese New Year are already just a few logistics steps away. But what exactly do these seasonal events entail?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

The term means different things for different organizations, so supply chain leaders must first find their individual definition. For example, retailers utilize CI to automatically react to customer behaviors when they shop online. For example, some organizations have adopted driverless forklifts for their warehouses.

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EazyStock

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Let’s introduce Mary’s Plumbing Warehouse as an example. For example, Mary may end up with unnecessarily large amounts of capital invested in excess stock of Showerhead C, whereas she could easily run out of Showerhead B. This basic approach is easy to set-up and manage, but often leads to stock imbalances.

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Transporeon

MARCH 22, 2018

In the example, the lanes 1 and 2 would be 100% awarded to "Carrier B." In our simple example, this step could have been done manually. However, the example clearly shows that the calculation of an allocation scenario without considering capacities may lead to impractical results.

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