Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

From balancing cost-efficiency with ethical sourcing to enhancing transparency and integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR), businesses face mounting pressure to align their operations with sustainability, technology, and energy practices. The energy sector provides a compelling example of CSR-driven compliance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. That may sound impossible, but new technology places this capability within the reach of every organization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

During COVID, this more agile and resilient model allowed the firm to grow their market share. Jack Fiedler : We’re unique in the technology industry. We’ve taken the same hybrid approach from a supply chain technology perspective. I’m responsible for the overall digital transformation, including technology.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To address these issues, companies are adopting innovative strategies, including dynamic route optimization, real-time tracking, and even leveraging emerging technologies like drones and blockchain. Route optimization software plays a significant role in decreasing travel distances and minimizing environmental impact.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lately the term “socio-technical system has been starting to show up more and I thought this would be an opportunity to weigh in on what I think it means. People who try to describe the meaning tend to describe a system “that integrates the social and technical aspects” or words like that. The Long Wall Method.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

One essential tool used by the supply chain team is supply chain design. Building automation is similar to industrial automation, except that instead of controlling a factory, the systems control a building’s entry, power consumption, and lighting. Initially, regions generating lower revenue were modeled.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matt Fain is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapcity , which provides a cloud-based platform that enables shippers and suppliers to seamlessly connect. Popcapacity leverages technology to simplify the process of sourcing warehouse space. Their cloud-based platform enables shippers and suppliers to seamlessly connect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2022

As anyone who’s experienced change in supply chain technology over the past five-to-ten years can attest, we’ve come a long way, baby. Artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, robotics, mobile apps, big data, the cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The software is still under your control.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Automate: utilizes technologies such as RPA, IDP, and IPaaS. iPaaS provides a comprehensive set of tools for connecting applications. Examples of automatable processes include Invoice Processing, Sales Order Entry, and Customer Account Creation. RPA automates manual and repetitive tasks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

It allows operations to remain competitive even in unpredictable market conditions and supports a variety of business models and client needs. As businesses grow or enter new markets, they need the ability to redeploy or adapt warehouse systems to minimize downtime and reduce reconfiguration costs.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From autonomous vehicles to predictive analytics and advanced tracking, AI technologies are reshaping how goods are moved, monitored, and managed across the globe. Machine learning algorithms, growing more sophisticated, will continue to refine forecasting and optimization models, allowing logistics firms to respond quickly to market shifts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. These are not static dashboards or simple visualizationstheyre living, data-rich models of real-world operations.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

1: From Support Role to Centre Stage At the point of sale, customers today enjoy an unprecedented degree of choice in the range, price, and quality of products on offer, primarily due to the development of mobile technology, connectivity, and platform-based commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2025

These advancements enable real-time tracking and monitoring, enhance automated systems, and support a larger number of connected devices. Implementing 5G requires careful planning and investment, as it involves upgrading existing systems and ensuring compatibility with new technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As automation continues to evolve in logistics, two technologies are becoming central to modern delivery methods: autonomous drones and autonomous vehicles. However, each technology serves different purposes within logistics, and the question remains: Which will ultimately shape the industry’s operational structure?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Managing available bandwidth efficiently among many connected devices remains a continuing issue, particularly when scaling systems to significant quantities of distributed resources. Optimizing AI models for edge hardware is another area of difficulty. Device management is another critical area.

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WorkWave

OCTOBER 3, 2022

WorkWave’s new platform brings the company one step closer to creating the field service SaaS model of the future through modern, end-to-end software solutions. WorkWave acquired TEAM Software, the enterprise software platform for cleaning, security and facilities management industries, in September 2021.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 22, 2022

Julien is the Vice President of Network Supply Chain at Attabotics , the world’s first 3D robotics supply chain system for modern commerce. Julien Seret is Attabotics ’ Vice President of Network Supply Chain, where he oversees the fulfillment and delivery services business model. About Julien Seret. About Attabotics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Duncan Angove, CEO Blue Yonder Blue Yonder , is one of the largest providers of supply chain software. In the fourth quarter, we delivered the second largest software bookings in the history of the company. That was driven, in part, by pivoting from selling point solutions to a set of applications on a common platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 7, 2025

This includes the debut of a new highperformance ServiceNow reasoning model, Apriel Nemotron 15Bdeveloped in partnership with NVIDIAthat evaluates relationships, applies rules, and weighs goals to reach conclusions or make decisions. But the model is just one part of the innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

CONA Services Provides a Common Platform for Supply Chain Collaboration CONA Services LLC is an IT services company owned and governed by the 11 largest Coca-Cola bottlers in North America. CONA is a strategic partner that provides its bottlers with a common set of processes, data standards, and technology platforms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It is a brilliant tool.” The enterprise software company also announced a new analytics solution covering external workforce management. SCCN solutions allow trading partners to collaborate across defined trading partner processes based on a common data model. Those types of disagreements disappear in a SCCN platform.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

One of the key approaches to simulating warehouse operations is based on employing discrete event simulation (DES) techniques and tools. DES allows the modeling of complex warehouse operations at various levels of detail. Typically, modeling is done by highly trained engineers with an industrial engineering background.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

There are some young supply chain technologies that are getting a lot of buzz. But how mature are these technologies? There are also promising technologies that we expect will deliver great value. Finally, there are technologies that do generate value that few people have heard of. Hyped Technologies. Blockchain.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Over the past year, global supply chains have faced relentless disruptions across multiple fronts, writes Matt Gregory (pictured), Managing Director Northern Europe, Körber Supply Chain Software. Adapting to Thrive One key technology driving challenge mitigation is a digital twin. Geopolitical tensions, including the prolonged U.S.-China

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

As logistics leaders face growing pressure, from tighter delivery windows to environmental mandates, geopolitical instability, and driver shortages, one technology is proving to be a game changer: V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication. This is a working model for connected urban freight corridors.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Disruptions have become the norm, rather than the exception, and the only organizations that can thrive in this new reality are those with the right tools. One consistent theme emerged from these discussions: the need to move away from disconnected logistics technology silos toward a much more connected ecosystem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Körber is a leading provider of logistics software, material handling, voice, and consulting solutions. Technology Can Aid in Hiring the Disabled. Part of the story of this retailer’s employment of the disabled in their DCs is a story of technology adoption. There is a service level agreement that the system will be up 99.9%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

Lets break it down with some examples that hit home: Supplier Diversification : Reflecting on the disruptions caused by the pandemic, companies heavily reliant on Chinese suppliers faced significant challenges. An automotive company I collaborated with conducted detailed modeling of potential tariff impacts on semiconductor supply chains.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Essential Steps to Using Warehouse Modeling Software for Design 1) Understand the Design Objectives and Constraints The first step in your review should be to determine and prioritise the objectives for your warehouse facility and operation. Order and picking profiles should be examined too.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 30, 2024

Every ecommerce store relies on an assortment of vital components to survive and thrive, but ecommerce software is the heart of all these elements. Regardless of the size of your ecommerce brand, it doesn’t hurt to periodically reevaluate if the software tools you’re using are giving you everything you need.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 13, 2025

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can help these challenges by providing a single, integrated platform for managing all aspects of the business and ultimately optimizing production. When assessing ERP systems, its important to evaluate more than just general software capabilities and prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of SAP agent technologies and Databricks data fabric solution, sets the stage for end-to-end enterprise orchestration. Every ten years or so, there is a technology that truly shakes up the enterprise and supply chain software markets. Vendors that embrace the new technology take market share.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Knowledge Graphs are emerging as an important tool for building advanced AI capabilities. What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. Agentic AI involves creating a system of interacting agents, each trained on a specific task or dataset.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I was familiar with GXO as the former logistics segment of XPO and knew about select examples of its warehouse automation investments. But I was not well-informed on the breadth and depth of the company’s warehouse technology investments or the overarching technology strategy.

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