February, 2022

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The Benefits of a Digital Twin

Logistics Matter

The Does LogisticsMatter? Podcast is all about trends and innovations in supply chain and logistics. This episode features Miguel van Asch, Head of Data and Analytics at Ahlers. In this episode, Miguel and I talk about the power of data. Miguel takes us through the steps of creating your digital twin and how you can run different […].

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It’s Not the Market, It’s Your Procurement with Andrew Haverkampf

The Logistics of Logistics

It’s Not the Market, It’s Your Procurement with Andrew Haverkampf. Andrew Haverkampf and Joe Lynch discuss it’s not the market, it’s your procurement. Andrew is the Vice President of Platform Solutions at Emerge , one of the fastest-growing startups in the U.S. and is transforming the $800 billion transportation and logistics industry with its digital freight marketplace platform.

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How Warehouse Layout Optimization Helps Improve Warehouse Efficiency

Cyzerg

When it comes to warehouse businesses, speed and accuracy are a few critical factors for long-term success. That is why a well-executed warehouse layout optimization helps you effectively organize your inventory, process your orders, and streamline your operations.

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Amware Fulfillment Adds 22 New Customers in 2021, Increasing D2C Order Fulfillment Volumes by 35%.

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Amware Fulfillment added 22 new customers in 2021 to increase the company’s total D2C order volume by 35%. Most customers will use Amware for both warehouse-based pick and pack services, as well as management of parcel shipping.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk.

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5 Ways COVID19 Changed Retail Supply Chains for Good

Logistics Matter

Whether a crisis lasts weeks, months or years, it is clear that the global response to the pandemic has fundamentally changed consumer realities & the retailers they do business with. Whether it’s political upheaval causing shortages in microchips for cars or electrical devices, volcanoes grounding international travel or more recently, a global pandemic, consumer behaviour […].

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What is the Difference Between a Trucking Company and a 3PL?

Food Logistics

With so many constraints happening in the supply chain, many shippers wonder if it’s better to select a 3PL or a trucking company.

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How AI Will Drive the Future of Auto Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

As the pandemic sent shockwaves through the global economy, the impact was felt across industries. Among the hardest hit sectors, the automotive industry experienced profound disruption, signaling the need for supply chain modernization.

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20 Tips to Reduce eCommerce Fulfillment Center Costs

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Even as retail stores emerge from their pandemic-induced hibernation, online shopping has held onto much of the market share it gained since the early days of COVID-19. Operationally, it requires far more labor to pick and pack individual orders than to ship out pallets of goods to retailers. Thanks to skyrocketing labor costs for warehouse workers, eTailers have experienced a marked increase in eCommerce fulfillment center costs – already their biggest warehouse expense.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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What Makes a Truly Agile and Resilient Supply Chain?

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year, many in the supply chain technology industry were warning companies all over the globe to prepare for the unknown. We didn’t know how long COVID-19-related shutdowns, and the ensuing port congestion and crunch on carrier capacity, would last. It now seems that port congestion and capacity issues will persist throughout the year. There is optimism around the corner, but a sunny outlook isn’t enough; it’s past time for supply chain leaders to transform their supply chains to become more

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Ocean Cargo Trends: Pandemic continues to wreak havoc

Logistics Management

Analysts predict that a number of factors will continue to make an impact on ocean shipping in 2022. A big one is the fact that there is a short supply of shipping services and containers at a time when the demand for the movement of goods is only rising. Sound familiar?

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ChargePoint, Wheels Donlen Focus on Fleet Mobility and Home EV Charging

NGT News

ChargePoint Holdings Inc., an electric vehicle (EV) charging network, and Wheels Donlen, an automotive fleet management company, are forming a fleet partnership to provide Wheels Donlen customers with fleet mobility and home charging solutions. The customers will gain access to the ChargePoint nationwide charging network, at-home charging hardware and cloud software that provides holistic management […].

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The pros and cons of low code tools for manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Every manufacturing organization is striving for continuous improvement, and for that to occur the workforce needs to come with solutions to existing problems. These solutions usually require the usage of software-based technologies that necessitate the participation of IT specialists and developers, resulting in bottlenecks in the deployment of new solutions.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Watch: You've Got Supply Chain Visibility. So What?

Supply Chain Brain

It's not enough just to know where your freight in transit is. You've got to be aware of multiple aspects of the shipment, says Sam Phillips, senior solutions manager with Here Technologies.

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How Order Fulfillment Impacts the eCommerce Customer Experience

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

The eCommerce customer experience has become an essential part of the online shopping process, especially for luxury brands and high-end goods. Online sellers in this realm don’t just sell products; they sell a brand experience. Therefore, when creating an experiential online sales encounter with consumers, eTailers need to focus on more than just the website design or the efficiency of the ordering process.

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Companies Improve their Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

Machine Learning, a Form of Artifical Intelligence, Has Feedback Loops that Improve Forecasting. Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supply chain application to help manage their supply chains. Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry.

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Time for Shippers and 3PLs to Innovate Together

Logistics Management

A strong collaboration between 3PLs and shippers can help to bring innovative solutions that will benefit both in the future. To do so, shippers must express their needs and challenges, and 3PLs must listen and find paths to address and adapt—and both must recognize the value of these partnerships.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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An assist for avoiding brake adjustment violations

Overdrive Online

Though the national rate for brake-adjustment violations has been decreasing in recent years, small fleet owner Bryon Stoll found (the hard way) a state where that's definitely not the case. That led him to this simple adjustment indicator assist device.

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ERP for mixed-mode manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In past blogs, we have discussed different types of manufacturing – discrete and process. Discrete manufacturing makes distinct ‘things’, process manufacturing makes ‘stuff’ (for example, fertilizer). There is a third type that combines both discrete and process production – mixed-mode manufacturing. Operating and planning for mixed-mode production is complex and requires an enterprise system that specifically caters for the unique process and issues of mixed-mode manufac

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Can Blockchain Solve the Problem of Food Recalls?

Supply Chain Brain

Food-borne illnesses can be deadly. Yet when people hear about a food recall — even for something serious like E.coli — they usually determine whether or not they recently purchased that item and move on, not stopping to consider what the situation implies about the U.S. food supply chain.

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Building a Strategy for National Fulfillment Services

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If your company ships products nationally, you know the fulfillment environment has never been more demanding. Customers’ expectations for rapid delivery have risen to never-before-seen levels, and their impatience and frustration when you fall short of those expectations can send them looking at your competitors with fresh eyes. Those expectations apply heightened pressure on the need to have national fulfillment services that are efficient and fast – without coming attached with higher costs.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Manhattan Associates Talks Global Supply Chains, Trends, and Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Eddie Capel, CEO of Manhattan Associates. During our conversation, Eddie and I spoke about the changing nature of global supply chains in the face of the ongoing Covid pandemic as well as the continuing surge of e-commerce. I asked Eddie to give his insights on a few key points. First, what is the current state of supply chain technology?

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Klochubar and Thune introduce Ocean Shipping Reform Act in the Senate

Logistics Management

The main objectives of the bill, according to Klochubar and Thune, is to update federal regulations for the global shipping industry, adding that the bill “would level the playing field for American exporters by making it harder for ocean carriers to unreasonably refuse goods ready to export at ports, and it would give the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) greater rulemaking authority to regulate harmful practices by carriers.

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Key Supply Chain Trends for 2022 and Beyond | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

As the supply chain industry is constantly evolving, it can be challenging for business leaders and supply chain managers to stay on top. So, this year, instead of reacting, companies will be proactive and stay in front of the global supply chain disruption with these top supply chain trends to look for in 2022.

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Sellers' market: Owner-operators adapt to skyrocketing used-truck prices with tight volume

Overdrive Online

Despite used trucks being the preferred route for many owner-operators, finding a used truck today at a comfortable price is more challenging than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic and delays in new truck production caused by component shortages.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Energy Firms Snap Up Russian Gas as Europe Seeks Alternatives

Supply Chain Brain

European leaders talking up plans to wean the continent off Russian natural gas are facing a harsh reality: energy companies are buying more as the war rages in Ukraine.

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VIDEO: How many fulfillment warehouses does your business need?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

"How many B2C warehouses does your company need?" It's a simple question with a not-so-simple answer. In fact, we've written extensively on the topic.

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Supply Chain Planning for Dummies

Logistics Viewpoints

S upply chain planning requires constraints to be mapped. This configuration screen shows how Solvyouo maps transportation constraints. Supply chain management has been in the news. Because of the pandemic and resulting product shortages, the topic has never been more discussed. But the intricacies of supply chain management are beyond the grasp of most.