Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With the development of the digital wave, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology has gradually emerged as an important tool in the international logistics industry. Dora Zhu is a Senior Research Analyst at ARC Advisory Group China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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. The Ryan Air CEO Michael O’Leary said in his 30 years in the industry he has never seen capacity constraints to the current extent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to Colin Masson, a director of research at ARC Advisory Group, the opportunity to mine these vast quantities of data to achieve business value is “NOW.” Mr. Masson recently wrote the report “ Industrial-grade AI: Transforming Data into Insights and Outcomes.” Mr. Masson leads ARC’s research on industrial AI and data fabrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. The percentage of industrial companies broadly applying agentic AI and generative AI would be a small fraction of that number. ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Four key reasons why suppliers are critical for managing direct spend Innovation and Product Development: Suppliers often have deep knowledge about the materials, processes, and industry trends that can drive innovation. An example of this is Vendor Management Inventory and Capacity Collaboration for contract manufacturing.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. This all changed shortly after WWII. The Long Wall Method. The Mechanistic View. .”

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 26, 2022

Michelle Sodomka, a Senior Director at Open Sky Group. Michelle Sodomka, a Senior Director in charge of Open Sky Group ’s transportation management practice has 15 years’ experience in risk analysis and mitigation within the logistics industry. This is called freight under management (FUM) in the industry.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Charley is the Vice President of ZEBOX AMERICA, an international incubator and accelerator of innovative startups focused on two sectoral areas: transport, mobilities, logistics and industry. ZEBOX focuses on two sectoral areas: transport, mobilities, logistics and industry X.0 About Charley Dehoney. on the other hand. ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2024

Lucas Systems, a seasoned player in the industry, is a prime example. Ken Ramoutar, a senior executive at Lucas, said that when the company started, there wasn’t good voice technology for industrial environments like warehousing. “So, Kyle Franklin, a senior solution consultant at Lucas, gave a simple example.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

National fuel supplies , prioritised sovereign defence industries and national manufacturing capacity , economic resilience in an era of globalisation. The ADF, its partners in academic, industry and government, are at a point where the discussion has to get to the specifics of the problem. Whos to say these scenarios will be unique?

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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

America West Coast spot rates , for example, have spiked more than 70%, passing the $5,000/FEU mark and their previous 2024 high hit in February when prices first soared on the start of Red Sea diversions. Since the end of April, Asia – N. Learn more about Freightos Terminal here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

For industry, the ability to better connect machines, objects, and devices is what is driving excitement for this technology. Patrick Arnold, a research analyst at ARC Advisory Group, says that suppliers of industrial solutions are responding by investing in new product design and incorporating 5G into their portfolios. “5G”

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

ARC Advisory Group’s research on the warehouse technology markets ( WMS , Warehouse Automation , and Mobile Warehouse Robotic s) shows that 3PLs are prominent investors in technology. I had the opportunity to speak with Alan Prillaman, SVP of Client Services at Open Sky Group , about the 3PL market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For industry, the ability to better connect machines, objects, and devices is what is driving excitement for this technology. Patrick Arnold, a research analyst at ARC Advisory Group, says that suppliers of industrial solutions are responding by investing in new product design and incorporating 5G into their portfolios. “5G”

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

It’s not enough to just categorise by product groups; you’ve got to dig deeper into line item analysis. For example, in some instances simply adjusting delivery windows can save more than you can through rate negotiations. Distribution Network Distribution networks need regular health checks to stay healthy.

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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

Global congestion is estimated to be tying up about 7% of total capacity with the worst example currently in Singapore , where diversions have resulted in increased transhipment volumes for Middle East and Red Sea destinations or from intra-Asia containers as carriers omit other port calls to try and recover schedules.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. In process industries the supply chain models used for optimization are much more complex than those used in other industries.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 23, 2023

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). War Manpower Commission. It still does today.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, though there have already been examples of carriers offloading containers to meet draft restrictions, for the most part container flows have not been impacted significantly to date as container ship transits are prioritized through reserved slots booked in advance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

At some companies, these relocations involved moving groups of different sizes from different offices with hundreds of possible destinations. The groups themselves were non-homogeneous with people of different ages and interests. We will consolidate their characteristics to create representative groups.

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Freightos

JULY 30, 2024

Longer lead times mean, for example, that shippers from Asia to the US East Coast need to move their last orders now to receive them before a possible port worker strike in October. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox. Even as volumes have increased since May, destination ports in N.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Retailers’ understanding of these costs lags what has been achieved in other industries, or even that retailer’s understanding of their costs in their own upstream supply chain. One example of the detailed costing this is used in warehouse fulfillment, but not in store fulfillment, involves engineered labor studies.

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Freightos

MAY 1, 2024

Some West Mediterranean ports , for example, are now being used as transshipment hubs for East Mediterranean-bound containers, leading to some congestion there, and terminals in Colombo, Sri Lanka are also facing some backlogs as volumes have increased there for transhipment to the Middle East.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This is the only supply chain software company that the industry analyst firm ARC Advisory Group knows where AI Vision is core to the solution. For example, if you want to train a computer vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, Mars has been purposeful on where to focus their efforts. Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2022

For example, do all customers need to be serviced equally regardless of size? For example, in the building materials industry, many orders are scheduled for delivery at the beginning of the day. This includes how often customers are serviced, minimum order quantity and other factors—all of which impact fuel consumption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

Examples of Mobile Warehouse Robotics included in ARC’s Research. I recently completed ARC Advisory Group’s research on the mobile warehouse robotics market. This global market has been growing extremely fast and I forecast it continue growing at a rapid pace.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. For example, are you still a minority owned company?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Today’s article comes from Eric Mcpherson at Open Sky Group and looks at a WMS budget and preparing for implementation. industrial handhelds, and mobile units you have and what your operations will need. For example, monthly subscription fees, any software support charges, and data migration fees.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

These advancements are reflected in impressive User Acceptance Rates (UARs), leading to planner efficiencies that are significantly higher than industry norms. Tracking the sales behavior of each product throughout its life cycle and adjusting group membership based on changes in demand patterns.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Data is a big buzzword across industries, but how about when it comes to logistics? She works for Lean Solutions Group down in Columbia. I will give you an example of predictive. You worked with industrial companies, logistics companies and final miles companies. You could make it more efficient. We just give it to us.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. It’s the right goal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Here are some good examples: The Australian retailer Woolworths dominated Australian online trade in the sector food and personal care with a volume of about two billion USD and a market share between 15 and 20 percent within just a few years of entering the online market. One example is combining the IoT with cloud technologies.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

Then, I would start on another postal code, or group of postal codes, and carry out the same exercise, and so on, until I had assigned all the planning slips to routes. Finally, we arrived at what we can consider today’s industry-leading software, which we’ll look at now in more detail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Maritime Alliance, the group negotiating with for the ports has offered 50% raises over the six-year life of the contract but the union has signaled that it plans on sticking with its initial 77% pay increase over six years. CDC plans to turn the retired coal plant into an industrial port and staging area for the offshore wind power industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Most examples of warehouse robotics adoption in China are at operations in support of domestic consumption and these examples are predominantly consumer goods retail fulfillment operations. However, China is also transitioning from an export country to a more balanced economy with increasing levels of domestic consumption.

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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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