Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

For instance, many distribution centers (DCs) face challenges handling rising e-commerce order volumes alongside wholesale orders because their WMS or ERP systems only support wave-based picking. Warehouse optimization solutions enable DCs to implement waveless picking or dynamic order prioritization, even with legacy systems.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

With its Web Events, WABCOWÜRTH offers customers and interested parties an informative service about its products and the opportunity to ask questions live. The next free web events will be offered in German on October 24th, 2022 from 09:30 to 12:30, and in English on October 25th, 2022. CLICK HERE to register to attend.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. Since the suppliers are likely making a low margin, there is less of a relationship and probably little or no loyalty. High Responsiveness.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. For example, we’re working on telling the solution that it has a budget.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While this creates tremendous value , it also br ings the inevitable risk that certain event s can have far-reaching consequences that influence supply chain s more than ever before. The study include d firms in the retail, manufacturing and distribution verticals. Let’s explore some example s. .

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

Nor did they talk about executive bonuses or using excess cash for stock buybacks to raise the price of outstanding stock rather than investing that money into developing new aircraft; improving existing products or processes; or distributing that profit as dividends to the shareholders. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

From 22 to 25 March 2022, the global air cargo and logistics industry will meet at the 2+2 event in San Francisco. At the face-to-face event, leading industry representatives and experts will discuss the lessons learned from the pandemic and other current topics such as digitalisation, sustainability, and UAVs directly in Silicon Valley.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Large swings in supply and demand for different product categories and changes in distribution patterns left logistics managers grappling with the biggest challenge of their careers. For example, improved transportation lead time predictions enables more informed decisions on which carrier, route and service level to use for any given order.

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Conger

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of automation range from a household thermostat to a large industrial control system, self-driven vehicles, and warehousing robots. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines. For example, full warehouse automation to support event-driven, mission-critical system delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. The resulting insights enable optimal transport and route management: Which routes within the distribution network should be utilized? Look at the big picture. How can the fill level of goods be optimized?

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Log-hub

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here are some real-life examples of successful supply chain optimization across various industries. Optimize Logistics: Walmart uses a network of strategically located distribution centers and employs cross-docking, where products are directly transferred from inbound to outbound trucks, reducing time and costs. Explore NEED SUPPORT?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Retail Supply Chain Costs These costs will of course vary by company and sector and are just an example. These are the costs associated with getting product into the retailer’s distribution network from suppliers. For example, buying in large quantities from suppliers, to get a lower unit cost. Often 60-70% of total sales.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 1, 2025

To illustrate this better, imagine the following example: a perishable food supply chain. For example, exposure to higher temperatures than recommended can lead to the proliferation of bacteria, and consequently, increase the risk of food poisoning in consumers.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, there’s yet one more disruptive event to get through before that can happen: Chinese New Year. Once you understand that China shuts down nearly everything for CNY and nothing, absolutely nothing will get out of China during that time, the better you can plan,” the design, manufacturing and distribution firm advises.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Companies can also test-drive their supply chains by introducing the uncertainty of events that are difficult, if not impossible, to predict with accuracy. These events can range from minor supply disruption or canceled shipments to significant black swan events. suppliers impact your ability to deliver.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As Josh Dritz, VP of Operations Technology and Automation at Messen Medical Surgical, pointed out, Geopolitical factors, extreme weather events, labor issues, and pandemics are just a few of the challenges that constantly threaten supply chains. Examples include: Labor Planning: Optimize workforce productivity based on real-time data.

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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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ECW

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Were all dealing with the same issuesgeopolitical instability, economic fluctuations, and extreme weather events. Take the Panama Canal, for example. Were also seeing more frequent extreme weather events, which used to be “once in a century” but are happening a lot more often now.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

At our Blue Yonder ICON event later in April this year and 3PL Execution Forum in June, 3PL and 4PL companies will explain how they are leveraging innovations as an advantage. An example is carrier network services for executing a cohesive set of first-, middle- and last-mile operations and optimizing common carriers and fleets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Let’s replace “people” with “customer orders”, “family members” with “SKUs” and “housing” with “distribution locations” and you have the components of a common supply chain design problem. How easy is it to open and close distribution centers or move products across manufacturing facilities?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper has one main distribution center roughly three miles from their largest hospital in Camden. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. Then the risk solution fills in the gaps.

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Kanban Logistics

APRIL 30, 2020

Makers of all types of products turn to third-party logistics (3PL) providers to optimize warehousing and distribution operations in order to meet modern supply chain demands. Confectionery products are a good example of a product that must avoid hot and cold extremes. Additional food distribution warehouse considerations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Automation efforts will accelerate: As labor shortages persist, automation efforts in the manufacturing and distribution will accelerate. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI is a major topic at all the enterprise events this year. Many retailers have implemented complex distributed order management solutions in long, costly implementations to support new last mile capabilities. Oracle has several use cases for how this technology can be used to improve their applications.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

We presented networked distribution and showed how it connects shippers with our network of warehouses across the country. For example, speakers from Walmart and Best Buy shared how they they gained better freight visibility and created a shorter returns cycle.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2019

He cites as current examples capacity issues, the need for efficient supply chains, which Jim says, “are great until they break,” and customer empowerment, such as customers’ desire to have their orders delivered next day. For manufacturers, the ability to do coast-to-coast intermodal transfers using rail schedules can save quite a bit.

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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 . On-time-in-full performance of distribution centers. Modeling the impact of weather events. Automatic identifying and removing outlier events from the historical data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. We will manage by exception only.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

This was an online event. One of the speakers was Abby Weisenberger, a distribution consultant at Kimberly-Clark. Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. Earlier this summer, FourKites held a Carrier Visibility Summit. What made Ms.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

For example, if sales typically spike in December, then the expectation is that sales will again spike in the coming December. . For example, ML algorithms may show that once temperatures drop below a certain number, demand significantly drops. For example, if yields are down, then more lots are started to get the throughput required.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 18, 2017

A blockchain is a distributed, digital ledger. Let’s look closer at the real-life example of bitcoin. However, it also happens to be one of the best-known examples. Entirely digital, it exists thanks to the distributed ledger of transactions on computers across the world. It is also just one (special) example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Their operations include bulk gas storage and delivery, cylinder filling and community distribution gas systems. When it comes to distribution, primary distribution involves getting big bulk deliveries by pipeline and truck to their manufacturing sites. The forecasting projects were focused on secondary distribution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. Resilience comes down to planning for agility.”

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