Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

For example, switching from air to ocean freight for non-time sensitive shipments can reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% per unit shipped. Success will depend on getting executive buy in, setting up governance and keeping stakeholders informed throughout. Do you want me to expand on any of these or talk about your specific situation?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. Data governance is critical. He did give one example, their ability to do effective preventative maintenance did increase by 15%. Celanese is an exception. At Celanese, JO.AI was built quickly. increased to 50.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather.

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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

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

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

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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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.

Sourcing Strategies 116

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

They have been seemingly unresolvable problems to Australian governments and strategists for decades, beyond the period in which self-reliance was ensconced in the strategic doctrine of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and to the interwar period where lessons from the First World War reminded them to be prepared for national mobilisation.

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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

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 116

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

Distributors are also governed by the 2013 Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which outlines steps to achieve interoperable, electronic tracing of products at the package level to identify and trace certain prescription drugs as they are distributed in the United States.

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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 22, 2024

Causal AI offers the tantalizing promise of being able to unravel the intricate web of cause-and-effect relationships that govern business operations. GP, for example, has also had success in demonstrating that Causal AI can solve difficult sourcing problems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process. We need to cut out as much of the machining as possible.” Musk smiled. At both Tesla and SpaceX, Musk put the design engineers in charge of production. You can’t hand it off to someone else.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Redesign the process, then use IT I’ll give you a recent example from my business, which enables real-time supply chain visibility, with AI-powered predictive insights and analytics, for the world’s largest shippers and their partners. I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Now, more than ever, communities and all levels of government must rally to support those affected, while rebuilding in ways that strengthen resilience and preparedness for the future. It unleashed severe flooding across unexpected areas of the Carolinas, submerging coastal homes under record-high water levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

The Houthis are creating significant supply chain disruptions for chemical companies and governments. For example, the grocer released its first report on corporate social responsibility efforts last year. It’s rearranging routes because the rates for containers have really gone through the roof,” Greenwood said.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2024

government, which it used nearly half of to cover past due payments to healthcare and pensions, payments on equipment and properties, and interest accrued by its other debts. A stint of other factors after that didn’t put them in a better position when COVID-19 rolled around in 2020.

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