Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

An example of this is Vendor Management Inventory and Capacity Collaboration for contract manufacturing. By ensuring that POs are handled directly through the point-of-sale systems, salespeople can accurately align invoices with the corresponding orders, minimizing errors and discrepancies that once plagued the invoicing process.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, if delivery times consistently exceed targets, further analysis may reveal specific routes that require optimization or additional resources. Analyzing this data helps identify gaps in service, such as preferred delivery times or requirements for package handling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

MODEX is the leading trade show for supply chain, logistics, and material handling solutions in North America. Examples of Supply Chain Robots at MODEX 2024 Several exhibitors at MODEX 2024 showcased their innovative solutions for supply chain robotics, demonstrating the diversity and potential of this field.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They may not handle the complex data types encountered on the edge, which are often unstructured, time-sensitive, and critical for real-time decision-making. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter. Don’t recalculate the forecast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 18, 2024

And almost all the large material handling vendors and systems integrators that don’t include that word in their title were also displaying bots. For example, if the system has trouble picking a particular item, an alert can tell a planner not to allow that stock keeping unit to enter the robotic picking queue.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

It’s important to start with your product and understand your storage and handling requirements first – understand exactly how your inventory flows, what your peak seasons look like. For example, in some instances simply adjusting delivery windows can save more than you can through rate negotiations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. One example in the warehouse could be optimizing the path taken by pickers. our warehouse example, you would adjust the other elements of the picking process to support and align with the bottleneck.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2024

For example, if you are paying an hourly rate for deliveries, is that necessarily going to create the right behaviour in the transport company to get your deliveries done efficiently? In these cases, customers can benefit too, by reducing the number of inbound shipments they need to handle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

For example, using software, after batches are created, multiple algorithms can be applied to determine an optimized path for the user to take through the warehouse to complete their work. Instead of a single picker handling an entire order from start to finish, different stages are handled by specialized teams or automated systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

It’s also a great example of how the boundaries between what we traditional think of as “IT” and “OT” cybersecurity are blurring. Today’s integrated building automation systems can handle much more than just HVAC or energy management applications.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Common examples of Supply Chain Disruptions So what are the main reasons that you need to consider supply chain resiliency in the first place?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

A WMS needs a warehouse control system to control the material handling equipment. For example, the AMR zone may need additional inventory as work proceeds. For example, the WES may want the inventory picked from location X rather than location Y. Then, based on that control, the WES can appropriately orchestrate all the work.

Optimization Software 110

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

What lead time capability would let you routinely handle these issues so they weren’t even issues anymore, just normal operations? In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. The shop floor can’t, for example, transition from a push scheduling system to pull on their own.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

These robots can be repurposed at a moment’s notice to handle new tasks, navigate different routes, and adjust to varying workloads. For example, an AMR fleet can focus on picking operations during peak seasons and then shift to returns processing post-holiday.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Sometimes hilarious examples of its “hallucinations” illustrate its failure to understand ( My Dinners with GPT-4 by Justin Smith-Ruiu is one of my favorites).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2024

It serves as a compelling example of how retailers must reassess their inventory strategies to adapt to rapidly shifting market demands driven by trends. With tart cherry juice sales transitioning into a steady demand pattern, retailers must adapt their inventory strategies accordingly to meet this evolving consumer preference.

Inventory Reduction 111

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 9, 2024

Another example is commuting. Driven by advanced AI techniques, probabilistic planning leverages new math and machine learning algorithms to tackle uncertainty head-on, representing a significant leap forward in our ability to handle the complexities and fluctuations inherent in modern supply chains. Why Probabilistic, Why Now?

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, running a batch process that now takes 8 hours instead of 12 does not translate into supply chain agility. The traditional siloed and sequential planning approach can no longer handle the complexity, volatility, and scale of modern supply chains.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I will give you an example of predictive. Our position on that is there are two ways to handle that. Next, you are getting into this predictive, which is saying, “I can tell you where this is going to be at what time.” Predictive could be like, “Your truck has run for 40,000 miles.

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