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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

Geopolitical events. The definition of agility and resilience will continue to evolve. The creation of a new digital ecosystem has enabled these and other changes that will shape the definition of supply chain agility and resilience in the 2020s and beyond. Natural disasters. Tariffs and trade regulations. The rise of ecommerce.

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Omni-Channel Fulfillment is Key for the Holiday Season

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group, the company that I work for, releases a number of market studies on a number of technologies. These studies utilize a comprehensive bottom-up process for evaluating markets. ARC’s definition of omni-channel fulfillment is end-delivery centric.

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Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

Another Statista study indicated that 44% of retailers expect delays and 40% expect inventory shortages given coronavirus disruptions on the supply chain. In order to build a correct demand plan, one-off events have to be identified and accounted for,” wrote Ralf W. And again, data quality is a huge concern.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

As a general definition, a 3PL helps a company to get its offering, conceived in place A, into the hands of its customers in place B. The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why. Why, then, should we bother studying the logistics-related issues pertaining to operations in East Timor if such issues are to be expected? What do we know?

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Breaking Down Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Trinity Logistics

Definitely no to the last one!) The conference is seen as the founding event of AI. This significant event was the first widely recognized successful application of Deep Learning. Like with Generative AI – at some point I know you’ve seen or heard something created by it and have had the thought, “This is definitely AI.”