Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them. <br>- Organize sourcing events to address gaps.

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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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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

For example, if a person buying groceries online chooses to process the transaction via Shipt, the consumer is using the Shipt app, and interacting with Shipt people. Partnering with Via also means retailers can focus on their core business rather than trying ramp up a freight tech development group. It is not an easy choice.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

At some companies, these relocations involved moving groups of different sizes from different offices with hundreds of possible destinations. The groups themselves were non-homogeneous with people of different ages and interests. We will consolidate their characteristics to create representative groups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

4) AI in Inventory Management AI also plays a crucial role in optimizing inventory management by: Automatically segmenting products into groups based on sales volume, unit price, total profit, and COV (Coefficient of Variation) to establish service level and investment targets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let us take the example of direct materials, i.e., materials that are used as components in making a finished product, such as a hard drive or RAM in a personal computer. Bundled offers (if you buy X, Y, and Z from me, I can offer a 10% discount or in case of transportation, grouping of backhaul lanes at a discount along with inbound lanes).

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 11, 2024

I was part of a group that did days in local (to Seattle) ski areas; annual trips to Whistler, BC (my favorite place); Mount Hood and Mount Bachelor in Oregon; and a semi-fateful trip to Red Mountain in Trail, British Columbia in March of 1993. The expansion, examples and explanations are my interpretation. Whose Work Is It?

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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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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

America West Coast spot rates , for example, have spiked more than 70%, passing the $5,000/FEU mark and their previous 2024 high hit in February when prices first soared on the start of Red Sea diversions. Since the end of April, Asia – N. Learn more about Freightos Terminal here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, running a batch process that now takes 8 hours instead of 12 does not translate into supply chain agility. When evaluating new solutions, look for a unified data model that combines all the supply chain planning and manages real-time event data internally and externally. The post The (misplaced) need for speed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. Not only do you need to be able to know the full impact of events and decisions across your supply chain, you need to be able to shift plans seamlessly to maintain responsiveness. Why transparency is better than visibility. Agility to act on transparency.

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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. For example, East-West came up with this rule to help account for CNY delays: For orders normally received in March, take 50% of the volume and receive it in January. Receive the other 50% of that volume in February.

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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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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. I remember walking through a facility with a group of managers on the way to the area we were going to see. PDCA Thinking. Today we would use Toyota Kata to teach this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2021

For the first time since its inception, the 25th Annual ARC Industry Forum in February was hosted as a virtual event. The Forum had a record number of global attendees and speakers this year who took advantage of this “virtual,” online event to network, collaborate, and share actionable strategies for successful digital transformation.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The following is a compilation based on select speakers at the event. But as Bjorn Vang Jensen of Nanooq Consulting pointed out, recurring events shouldnt be thought of as black swans, but as the new normal.

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AIMMS

APRIL 20, 2015

At a time when Big Data and Analytics have the spotlight but still seem to be developing, it was inspiring to hear real examples of using analytics to drive cost savings, operational efficiencies and real tangible business value. For example, the 2014 Edelman winner was the Kid Risk Team at the U.S. Edelman gala.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Here are some examples of such use cases. Based on this intelligence, they can in turn collaborate with sourcing to create events in consideration of supply chain needs. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity. Prior to his role at LLamasoft, Dr.

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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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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

MTS Logistics recently held an educational environmental training and cleanup event on the beach in Izmir, Turkey. We equipped every event participant – young and old – on how to be the change they want to bring to the world, and how to actually perform the steps needed to make a difference. We had a lot of fun.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. Agility can also reflect a company’s ability to effectively deal with unexpected constraints caused by strikes, earthquakes, political strife, and a variety of other events.

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IoT World Today

APRIL 18, 2019

Larry De Shon, president and chief executive officer of Avis Budget Group, which owns Avis Car Rental, Budget Car Rental and car-sharing firm Zipcar, among others, has a fresh perspective on the car rental industry. ( Avis Budget Group is a finalist in the IoT World Awards for Best Enterprise IoT Deployment.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Sometimes hilarious examples of its “hallucinations” illustrate its failure to understand ( My Dinners with GPT-4 by Justin Smith-Ruiu is one of my favorites).

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Talking Logistics

JULY 16, 2021

There seems to be a growing trend of supply chain technology companies sponsoring sporting events and athletes. Earlier this week, for example, project44 announced that it is “entering into its first NASCAR sponsorship with Rick Ware Racing and BYRD Racing.” Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (July 16, 2021).

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Freightos

JULY 30, 2024

Longer lead times mean, for example, that shippers from Asia to the US East Coast need to move their last orders now to receive them before a possible port worker strike in October. Even as volumes have increased since May, destination ports in N. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

McKinse y, Cap Gemini and the Boston Consulting Group all suggest digital transformation is about applying digital technologies [such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain] to operational processes and creating improvements. Yield rates will vary.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If Supply Chain and Procurement teams are not working hand-in-hand, the orgaizations can be caught off guard by bad press, for example if a supplier is caught engaging in employing child labor or releasing pollutants into the water bodies surrounding their facilities. As an example, the new administration in the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up. For example, they reduced inventory planned for first quarter 2022 by $120M due to more accurate estimates of levels needed. Undoubtedly your company has grown and its competitive landscape have changed over the years.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest release of DCSA’s Just-in-Time Port Call Programme provides interface standards and API definitions for all 50 port call event timestamps. The interface standards allow carriers, ports, terminals and other service providers involved in a port call to exchange event data in a uniform way, enabling automated data exchange.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What follows are my top take aways from the event. OTM is a very mature application, for example. Oracle’s primary example of what they were doing to bring deeper industry solutions to market was what they are doing to support the healthcare industry. Oracle’s Technology Value Proposition. This demo’d beautifully.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2023

In terms of data and documents, we can identify three groups of functionalities: · Assemble: generation and management of compliant shipping and trade information. Audits: a complete document storage accessible anytime and anywhere, improved by blockchain advantages; thus becoming a key point at the moment of, for example, Customs audits.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API. Zvi Schreiber CEO, Freightos Group Zvi Schreiber is a serial tech entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Freightos.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The HAHN Group MOBILE.EXPO is picking up speed and presenting its technologies and products with its innovative exhibition and trade fair concept at 13 locations in Europe. The HAHN Group started its MOBILE.EXPO in Europe on 20th September. Interested participants can register for MOBILE.EXPO on the HAHN Group website.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, if milk wasn’t FDA-certified you wouldn’t have verification that the cows producing it are healthy. What these diverse groupings all have in common is how they’re protected within the US by the FDA’s high standards for them, and the facilities that handle them (like ecommerce fulfillment centers). Exaggeration?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

On June 20, Linde Material Handling literally laid out the red carpet for its customers and other interested parties for nine event days. The WoMH is an event that is second to none in the material handling industry. The international event created by Linde MH for this purpose sets an example in this regard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Disruptions often interrupt these patterns and produce rare events, which challenge the algorithms designed to learn from prior patterns. For example, giving people common information in real-time lets them see consequences of any decision and learn to collaborate to make better ones.

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