SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 23, 2022

Whether you are a large manufacturing company or a small, specialized firm, there is no escaping the fact that regulators, investors, and consumers are increasingly concerned about companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices being in line with the standard requirements and expectations. What is ESG?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For example, logistics companies are to employ Level 2 and 3 autonomous vehicles that assist drivers by adjusting speed and steering based on road conditions. For example, logistics companies operating older fleets are faced with upgrading their vehicles to meet the requirements of SAE J3016 standards for automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Although I do not have formal confirmation, I believe that warehouse robotics may be an area where China’s government is supporting research and development efforts to accelerate the country’s competitiveness. Government subsidies would certainly support domestic development of warehouse robotics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2021

Government mandated restrictions on brick-and-mortar business operations, social distancing requirements, and lock-downs greatly limited consumers and business’ ability to conduct commerce. In another example, KNAPP helped one of its drug store retail customers transition a cross-dock facility into an e-commerce fulfillment center.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, if a vehicle ahead brakes suddenly, the following vehicle receives an instant alert, enabling timely braking and preventing rear-end collisions. Regulatory frameworks must govern the use and sharing of V2V data to gain public trust and ensure widespread adoption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

As large companies embrace environmental, social, and governance goals, they also need to revamp their reverse supply chains to disassemble returned goods apart, save valuable materials, and reuse them. The apparel industry is a prime example. A prime example of a fast fashion brand is Zara. This waste could fill more than 1.5

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IoT World Today

MAY 24, 2021

The global supply chain, for example, has been hit hard over the past 15 months, creating supply shortages and imbalanced demand. China and Russia lead the way in digital authoritarianism – where governments used digital information technologies for information control within their borders through blackouts, surveillance and other tactics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

States and local governments are likely to step in to fill the void, imposing their own rules on emissions, freight operations, or autonomous vehicle use. Furthermore, the absence of clear federal direction may lead to regulatory fragmentation. Additionally, this shift incentivizes innovation in compliance strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company surveyed 225 executives whose jobs included environmental, social, and governance issues. The Japanese pension fund, the Government Investment Pension Fund (GPIF), owns 7% of the Japanese equity market and about 1% of the world’s equity. 56% of respondents said their company does NOT measure its carbon footprint.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 10, 2020

One example is the Australian Strategic Domestic Munitions Manufacturing contract, which allows industry access to government-owned/contractor-operated (GOCO) facilities to produce the most critical explosives and ordnance. The forms of the munitions industrial base take up many forms and depend on the country. Transportation.

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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 Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Example: A surgery center or aviation company will focus more on effectiveness, while a company selling high-volume novelty items will focus on efficiency. Sourcing strategies that focus on effectiveness can withstand disruptions. A sourcing strategy’s focus on effectiveness or efficiency is determined on the company’s unique needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Organizations will exploit the government incentives and avoid penalties: Governments around the globe are looking to secure the supply chains for their citizens. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 9, 2022

For the foreseeable future, the relative contributions of aviation will increase relative to the rest of the transportation sector because other modes of transportation—for example, road vehicles—are able to shift to alternatives such as electric vehicles. Southwest has the largest fleet of Boeing planes in the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

An interest group of the Singapore-based Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society (LSCMS), the Shippers Council is a professional association that counts members from organizations with a vested interest in logistics, including end users, technology and service providers, government and academia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

It is commonly believed that Europe leads the US in environmental, social, and governance legislation and enforcement. For an online order that needs to be delivered within 24 hours, for example, the rule might state that the goods should be shipped to the consumer from the closest location. Rules were used to make these decisions.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

The lessons that prepare defence forces and government institutions for crisis responses need not come from history books. Buffers, insurance and assurance (through planning and governance) are important for resilience, but there are intangible factors that need to be understood. By David Beaumont. Hoarding will occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One of the companies she holds up as a positive example of a big company addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is Walmart. A few years ago, for example, my oldest child explained to me that Walmart was a malignant force. Rebecca Henerson’s formula for fixing capitalism was a business best seller.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. These are just a few examples of how climate change can impact supply chains. Similarly, the EU has implemented a tax structure to cut emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2023

For example, it can look like imports from China are cheaper than the same goods imported from Mexico if a company is not relying on analysis produced by an advanced good global trade compliance (GTC) system. At its heart a GTC is not just a governance tool, it is a critical tool for risk management. For example, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, Mars has been purposeful on where to focus their efforts. Last year, The COP26 global climate change summit took place in Glasgow, where 190 world leaders and thousands of government officials, business representatives, and nonprofit groups made commitments to address climate change threats.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2024

For example, the development of autonomous vehicles will require sophisticated GIS systems to navigate and operate safely. As the need to collect and analyze spatial data rises across industries, GIS will become even more pertinent to companies and governments. Field visits to scout for business opportunities are now unnecessary.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. Global trade services is one of 4 pillars of GRC at SAP, the others being enterprise risk and compliance, identity and access governance, and cybersecurity. The large fines above are examples of this class of penalties. For example, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Paying the right tariffs is necessary to avoid government fines and calculate the true landed cost of products. For example, if you want to train a vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. It is used by customs authorities worldwide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is an ongoing journey requiring clear governance and ongoing attention. A decentralized approach – for example, when sales owns customer data and the supply chain owns supplier data – sets an organization up for failure. For example, FourKites relies heavily on latitude and longitude coordinates for freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Successive governments have determined that applying zero duty on wine is the best strategy to help winemakers keep producing and selling. For example, in the UK, duty on a bottle of wine is currently £2.23, and on top of that, there’s a 20% VAT. For example, Ryanair was supposed to get 20 deliveries before the end of December.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Here are some examples of such use cases. Sourcing teams can help understand the total land costs and various supplier attributes supporting the company’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and diversity efforts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application. So, for example, in the purchase-to-pay process, this tool may show that 76% of the time, the process proceeds from beginning to end as it was designed to do. Process Intelligence is used to check whether the users are adhering to the end-to-end process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. A customer of the risk solutions begins by listing key suppliers. Then the risk solution fills in the gaps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time. First, it is done through surveys.

Supply Chain Software 161

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, confectioner Mars is building deeper relationships with fewer palm oil suppliers to increase their ability to monitor and impact deforestation. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patagonia serves as an excellent example of this approach, incorporating recycled materials into its products and offering repair services to minimize waste while maintaining a strong brand commitment to sustainability. Collaboration has also emerged as a key enabler of economic sustainability.

Supply Chain Design Software 146

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

For example, one of the key decisions that a manufacturer needs to make is should they continue to buy goods from one of their suppliers. For example, are you still a minority owned company? For example, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) publishes reports on the creditworthiness of companies. Supply Chain Financing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

The ability to gain broad and deep insights—including into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements—is nothing short of mission critical. For example, it’s critical to identify where to focus advertising and how to allocate it for specific products across countries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2022

For younger workers, however, the financial payments from the government did give many a buffer that could last several months. Fewer companies are requiring college degrees, for example. But this argument can be an oversimplification for a more complex reality. These workers will have more choices.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 10, 2024

government) or is selling at a price that is lower than the manufacturer’s production costs. Simply, a countervailable subsidy is when foreign governments subsidize certain industries by providing financing to produce, export, or manufacture certain goods. government’s definition.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

After all, this aggregate number hides the numerous examples of goods that are fully out of stock and cause lost sales to the merchants. For example, on September 24, there was a new record of 157 total ships in port. This shows that aggregate inventories are especially low across the economy.

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