Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

So, as an example, the IMS tracks and reports that there are 30 widgets in Warehouse A, 25 in Warehouse B, 48 in Manufacturing Plant A, and so on. First, as mentioned above, a WMS tracks inventory by location in real-time inside a distribution center or manufacturing warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Ethical sourcing is a fundamental aspect of social sustainability. The impact of supply chains on local communities cannot be overlooked.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The high-tech firm is more than a manufacturer of PCs, tablets, smartphones, and servers. The company has more than 2000 suppliers and operates over 30 manufacturing sites. An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. For example, we’re working on telling the solution that it has a budget.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just ask any manufacturer who’s had to halt production because a single critical component wasn’t available. Common examples of Supply Chain Disruptions So what are the main reasons that you need to consider supply chain resiliency in the first place? This really is a case where the saying, forewarned is forearmed applies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 12, 2021

In the past, there were clear lines between traditional retailers and manufacturers. Costco example: they sell different brands and market their brand Kirkland, which now accounts for approximately 25% of their revenue. Over 30% of ecommerce purchases are returned, which is an enormous cost and logistics problem.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, if an employee works 40 hours at regular pay plus 10 hours of overtime, they will not pay federal income tax on those overtime hours. These might include discounts for purchasing electric lawn equipment or energy-efficient pest control solutions. Similarly, service workers who receive tips will keep this income tax-free.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Manufacturers refer to it as the “shop floor to top floor disconnect.” This reflects manufacturers’ difficulty in synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing in the short-term time planning horizon.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

Other WCC Key Messages (Quotes from Key Slides) Superb manufacturing processes, delivering world-class levels of quality, are a primary source of competitive advantage. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. The new plane was also being designed with producibility in mind.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And even before they begin, they must realize these problems are too big for any single team—supply chain must connect with finance and procurement to treat the n-tier suppliers as an extended part of their network and become their preferred customer. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To demonstrate that classic (single time series demand input) optimization and stochastic (multiple time series demand input) optimization can yield substantially different results, we will analyze a network of a company A that has four manufacturing plants that need to service demand in every mainland US state.

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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

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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Jeff Erwin, VP of manufacturing at G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers , has been helping to accelerate the digital transformation while aligning with the company’s goals and mission to improve its operational efficiency and meet customer requirements and regulatory compliance challenges by tracking and measuring performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here are some different sources and their very different numbers: The first question is why the Department of Energy has these kinds of statistics. Retailers, manufacturers, and distributors own more warehouses than 3PLs. So, for example, if the back of a store is picking and packing ecommerce orders, that backroom is a warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

The digital twin, for example, can be subjected to numerous stress tests that mimic real-world conditions and observe how different variables interact and impact the entire network. Stress testing empowers manufacturers to anticipate and respond to disruptions, and to harness complexity as a competitive advantage.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

What are some examples of Supply Chain Automation? When stock reaches a certain threshold the system automatically triggers purchase orders to suppliers. It creates an unalterable record of every transaction and movement so you have complete visibility of your product from manufacturer to end customer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. GP, for example, has also had success in demonstrating that Causal AI can solve difficult sourcing problems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

Walmart announced that it will pilot agriculture technology with crop supply intelligence company Agritaskto get real-time information on crops and improve sourcing decisions around produce. The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price. This certainly sounds like a lofty goal. billion in 2015.

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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. Many supplier offerings lack an appropriate emphasis on cybersecurity, or they leave cybersecurity up to the end user, as a layer to be put on top of the system that is being purchased.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The example they gave me was to understand the yield for a burger with pickles at a QSR. Joule can analyze the sustainability practices of suppliers and manufacturers that a retailer partners with.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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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. Lastly, rigorously evaluate the generative AI solution for domain-specific understanding, source attribution, and enterprise security.

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