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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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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

A McKinsey study found that 90% of supply chain leaders expected to transform their planning systems. Transparency into the inter-relationships of actions clarifies their systemic impact, not just the effect on a single node. In a recent interview , Senge points to a study of HP, a company well-known for its technological.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Based on ARC Advisory Group’s recently released study of the market, this puts them in the top 5. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. o9 Solutions’ clients also have access to their partner PredictHQ’s event data, which drives improved forecasting. How did the company grow so fast?

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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.

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What is the Biggest Blind Spot in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

A lot of data/information is communicated in batch and serial mode, sometimes hours or days after a transaction or event occurs. What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. Within X hours of the event, we contacted all of these suppliers and determined that X supplier has shop floor damage.

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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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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

We partnered with GTX Corp, ParceLive, and a few others that will be announced soon, began working on case studies, aired our first webinar with major industry executives, graduated from the Plug and Play Spring 2019 Food and Beverage Accelerator Program, joined forces with the World Economic Forum to build the Blockchain Toolkit, and a lot more.