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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Do You Want Visibility or Transparency?

Logistics Viewpoints

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?”. Or are you asking where your truck is?

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GreyOrange forms UK partnership with Logistex

Logistics Business Magazine

This is a strategically important development that meets the needs of UK warehouse operators facing the combined challenges of a rapidly moving ecommerce marketplace, rising costs and a reducing pool of available labour.”.

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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

This helps them understand what additional costs they might incur while meeting customer expectations, and then make the right decisions as they seek to find offset opportunities. Such alternates should be based on the gaps in capabilities identified while redesigning the supply chain.

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Do You Have a Proactive Supply Chain Design or a Reactive One?

Talking Logistics

If existing scenarios and events have triggered an assessment of your supply chain flow, you’re operating with a reactive design. If on the other hand, you’re considering events that aren’t in the process of happening right now, you’re proactive instead. Times Have Changed For Supply Chains. To Sum It All Up.

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Blockchain Will Solve, Save, Cure Everything

Talking Logistics

The IBM-Maersk joint venture, for example, aims to “digitize the global supply chain from end-to-end,” creating a “shipping information pipeline [that] will provide end-to-end supply chain visibility to enable all actors involved in managing a supply chain to securely and seamlessly exchange information about shipment events in real time.”.

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Locus Listed as Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools

Locus

And as supply chains continue to grow in scale and complexity to meet these demands, so do the costs. There is also the question of rising uncertainty caused by unpredictable events on supply chain performance. Location intelligence – Provides the accurate placement of supply chain nodes, warehouses, and distribution hubs.