Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Value of a Common Platform More importantly, by having the largest 11 bottlers on a common platform, the bottlers can work together to meet customer demand efficiently. However, unexpected events do happen. For example, a large customer may place a large, unforeseen order that becomes visible at 9:00 a.m.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 21, 2025

This could limit businesses’ ability to meet demand, especially during peak seasons and potentially lead to higher labor costs and project delays. For example, if an employee works 40 hours at regular pay plus 10 hours of overtime, they will not pay federal income tax on those overtime hours.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

This was an intimate, packed 2-day event with executives, customers, other market analysts, and additional Infor team members. The event began with an address from the CEO, Kevin Samuelson, and CTO and President, Soma Somasundaram. Thirty percent of digital transformation projects meet expectations.

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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. For example, buying in large quantities from suppliers, to get a lower unit cost. As another trade off example, we might adopt a policy of allocating all stock on receipt. Often 60-70% of total sales.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 27, 2024

MTS Logistics today announced our 14th Annual Bike Tour with MTS for Autism, the largest biking event in shipping and logistics, taking place Saturday, June 8, 2024. Now in its 14th year, this annual charity bike event raised over $100,000 for autism acceptance last year.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.; Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S.,

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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. for storing and transporting food.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The frequency of RFP events is only one area that can be improved as shippers look for a better way to manage freight procurement processes. Flexibility to schedule rate bid events based on business needs. Some companies hold bid events quarterly, and others implement ad hoc bids to address issues within a specific geography.

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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. They have fixed machines that enable their production of large quantities of soft same-unit drinks to meet high demands. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

He suggested that businesses are more likely to prosper if they focus on meeting the needs of customers, instead of selling products. The first thing for any 3PL to do is to understand the nature of its market and the need it meets. Cloud computing itself is a prime example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today’s supply chains are fraught with uncertainties across demand and supply yet are tasked with adding incremental value to their organizations while also meeting commercial, working capital and sustainability goals. These events can range from minor supply disruption or canceled shipments to significant black swan events.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

Some changes are environmental—greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other factors contribute to climate change and an increase in severe weather events that impact the supply chain. Here’s how many companies are turning to their supply chains to meet their ESG goals. Others are societal. REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORATION.

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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. Let’s explore some example s. . Most often , these events force demand and resource usage to fluctuate.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

Integrated networks of “as-a-service” platforms, including analytics engines that predict demand dynamically, can enable businesses to scale autonomously to meet peaks and troughs. Because of the evolving need to provide customers with ever-greater choices and meet their requirements for customisation and personalisation.

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Morai Logistics

JULY 8, 2020

Typically, a single area is impacted by some sort of event. For example, if a supply chain is temporarily stymied by some extreme weather event. Whether it’s a flooding or a hurricane or an ice storm, the reach of weather events tend to be contained to a city or country or region. That is not so for COVID-19.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Machine learning also makes it possible to make more granular forecasts – for example, instead of forecasting demand for the company’s products in the Eastern Region of the U.S., Instead of monthly forecasts, for example, a weekly forecast can improve agility. forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores. This sounds obvious.

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AIMMS

MAY 22, 2018

New import tariffs being introduced across the globe, extreme weather events, Brexit… The list goes on and on. For example, we don’t know where the next tsunami or hurricane will hit. Let’s consider some examples. What happens if one of my manufacturing plants goes down due to an unforeseen weather event?

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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. 2] Commanders and logisticians at all levels will arbitrarily increase their demands, and others will do their best to meet the new requirement. Hoarding will occur.

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Log-hub

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here are some real-life examples of successful supply chain optimization across various industries. E-commerce Industry: Amazon’s Automation and Data Analytics Industry Overview and Challenges The e-commerce industry demands rapid order fulfillment, accurate inventory management, and efficient delivery systems to meet customer expectations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

A one-number forecast, for example, looks across the range of demand that might emerge in a period and decides to create a forecast that is mid-way between the most and the least demand that is apt to emerge. For example, in a trip to the airport, there is a chain of events that determines whether a person will arrive on time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

Or the impact of a tier 3 supplier delay on the part you need getting on a truck to your plant in time for you to meet the production schedule so you can deliver on time in full to meet your customer’s newest requirements?”. One example is an alert that a truck will be late based on a GPS feed. – mentioned above.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 23, 2022

These events have highlighted the importance of sustainable, resilient, transparent, and legally compliant supply chains. Such technology, for example, can help organizations identify the fastest, cheapest, and most sustainable shipping routes.

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Carter Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

An example of this would be a company that uses their own Dedicated Milk-Run route, LTL shipments, and the occasional Truckload Shipment. Companies that have an integrated supply chain increase their flexibility to adjust to client requests, competitors’ actions, and events within the industry.

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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. Only award up to a maximum of 80% of a supplier’s capacity so that they aren’t struggling to reach 100% throughput to meet the demand. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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MTS Logistics

MAY 13, 2024

I was at the TPM meeting back in early 2024. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the main guest at the event and had a different threat in mind. One major example is semiconductors. While everyone was mainly discussing the Houthi attacks on ships in the Suez Canal, Former U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

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. The ability to meet that demand can be less than expected. So, for example, a manufacturer knows what it has sold to a retailer. No plan is perfect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. An operation that is optimizing the real time flow of goods is also well-positioned to manage unexpected events. Look at the big picture. The only solution is to boost efficiency by optimizing processes for the long term.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

OpenAI’s “12 Days of OpenAI” event showcased its continued efforts to enhance its competitive position in the AI market. Key announcements from the event include: Introduction of ChatGPT Pro : This broadened the usage of frontier AI. For example, OpenAI has received $11.3 billion in funding.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This level of visibility not only improves operational efficiency, but also enhances the overall resilience of the supply chain by enabling rapid response to unforeseen events. For example, predictive analytics can forecast demand shifts, enabling businesses to adjust their inventory levels, reduce overstocking and avoid shortages.

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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. and Europe.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

I also had to ensure that I planned each route in such a way as to make it possible for the delivery crews to meet the customers delivery time windows. A good KPI dashboard can show you for example, the difference between planned and actual kilometers for each route. KPI dashboards and reporting: This is linked to tip #3 above.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This promises to be a very eventful year. Besides the risk of extreme weather and other climate-related events, supply chain professionals are bracing for more trade uncertainty this year. Companies are already realizing that for S&OP meetings to be effective, they need to get to insights faster.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2024

Another example of data normalization is accounting for lost sales due to stockouts or waste of perishable products due to overstocking of inventory. For example, the demand for the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup will behave much more similarly to the flavor of Chocolate than Rainbow Sherbert. Wouldn’t it be cool to know within minutes?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint. You could feel the energy in the air as 450+ people seemed to really enjoy being back at an in-person event. This includes weather events, port strikes, capacity shortages, and unexpected demand spikes.

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