The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2024

Kelly is the VP, Product Management of Trimble Transportation , a technology company that offers a suite of transportation technology solutions, including fleet management, route optimization, and freight visibility tools, to improve efficiency and safety.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

Companies leaning heavily on global sourcing? Theyre feeling the heat most, as sudden trade policy curveballs throw procurement plans into chaos. manufacturer I know saw their import costs jump overnight, forcing a rethink of a decade-old sourcing strategy. What Is Agile Procurement? Agile procurement is your lifeline.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Predictive analytics, fueled by vast datasets including historical sales, market trends, and weather patterns, enables businesses to optimize inventory levels with precision, reducing overstock or shortages and ensuring customer satisfaction through accurate demand forecasting. AI’s role in sustainability is particularly noteworthy.

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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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3PL Links

JANUARY 8, 2025

Image source: iStocks | The Ultimate Guide to Fleet Management: Strategies to Control and Optimize Your Processes Investing in a fleet management system results in an improvement in internal processes, which directly reflects the quality of the service provided to the end customer.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 3, 2024

From COVID to geopolitical tension, the past five years have emphasized the need for procurement agility. From COVID to geopolitical tension, the past five years have emphasized the need for procurement agility. These external factors are near-impossible to predict, forcing more frequent tender updates to remain inline with the market.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If you can identify with one or more of them, you’ll find a tip or two here to help remedy the situation and improve warehouse layout efficiency. 5 Ways to Achieve Efficient Warehouse Design: Improve Layout Efficiency & Save Costs! 2 Meandering Pickers Time is money and distance is time.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 28, 2021

Additional opportunities can be reached through transportation optimization whether using a 3PL or 4PL. It's important to understand how transportation optimization can work well with managed transportation service providers to attain that goal. Defining Transportation Optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we will delve into strategic ways for warehouse managers to eliminate waste, with a focus on not only optimizing the use of cartons and packing, but labor resources and warehouse space as well. One effective method to optimize packing is the standardization of carton sizes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We remind why suppliers are critical for supply chain success and what CEOs and business leaders can do to improve supplier relationships. When companies collaborate closely with suppliers, they can co-develop new products and improve existing processes, leading to competitive advantages in terms of product differentiation.

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WorkWave

MARCH 5, 2025

A single, centralized source of truth for your organizations data is no longer a luxuryits a necessity for businesses seeking to scale efficiently, enhance profitability, and make informed, data-driven decisions. Missed opportunities: Businesses cant identify patterns or optimize strategies without cross-branch insights.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 1, 2022

However, effectively dealing with these challenges and optimizing a manufacturing business’ processes is challenging without adopting and implementing a Bill of Materials (BOM) to accompany an organization’s ERP system. It identifies constraints in the business processes, providing guaranteed improvements.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Senior leaders must think beyond incremental improvements, embracing systemic innovation to achieve significant environmental impact. Meanwhile, advances in AI-driven route optimization reduce unnecessary mileage, cutting emissions and costs. Ethical sourcing is a fundamental aspect of social sustainability.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, an ERP for automotive distributors needs to include not just a standard sales function but also allow for automotive-specific processes like call-offs and contract pricing, as well as other processes like returns and lot traceability. There are several business processes that an ERP must have to support automotive distribution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Innovation Pillars: Diagnose: primarily powered by Infor Process Mining, this capability helps organizations gain visibility into business processes, uncover non-conforming variants, identify critical bottlenecks, and optimize operations based on data. Smart Import is also being leveraged to accelerate data integration from various sources.

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WorkWave

APRIL 15, 2025

A data warehouse, like Wavelytics’ Data Factory, works to connect to your existing systems and bring all of your data together under one roof, creating a single source of truth that provides your business with a significant edge over competitors still struggling with fragmented information.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

AWS , Google , and Microsoft are also investing heavily in custom AI chips to reduce their dependence on NVIDIA and optimize performance and cost. Google has developed multiple generations of its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) , which are custom-built ASICs optimized for TensorFlow and used by Google Cloud for machine learning workloads.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Spend Management Takeaways SAP continues to invest in using generative AI to improve the user experience. SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matt is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapacity , which is dedicated to simplifying the process for sourcing warehouse space. Popcapacity leverages technology to simplify the process of sourcing warehouse space. Our platform was designed to reduce amount of time and cost associated with sourcing new warehouse and fulfillment space.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Image source: Pexels | 7 Cost-Saving Tips Every Supply Chain Manager Should Know Managing costs effectively is crucial for success in the competitive supply chain world. Optimize Inventory Management Inventory often represents one of the largest expenses in a supply chain. Cost Saving Tips for Every Supply Chain Manager 1.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This trend, known as reshoring , is driving the emergence of regionalized freight networks , optimizing supply chains for efficiency, cost savings, and resilience. By optimizing freight routes, companies can lower transportation expenses while improving efficiency.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

They are applying predictive analytics and data science to choose an optimal response quickly, driven by facts and pre-defined business outcomes. A team of interactive, AI-enabled optimization engines, or agents, are trained in specific logistics tasks like order prioritization, warehouse picking or load-building. billion to $23.07

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

These virtual replicas of physical assets, processes, or systems allow leaders to simulate, analyze, and optimize real-world performancewithout incurring real-world risks. From reducing cost-to-serve to improving service continuity during disruption, the impact is real and repeatable.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 8, 2025

These tools can transform your supply chain, helping you predict inventory needs, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize delivery routes. Companies that have successfully implemented AI have seen improvements in logistics costs by 15%, inventory levels by 35%, and service levels by 65% compared to competitors. Why it matters?

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Image source: Pexels | Top 5 Benefits of Outsourcing Logistics to a 3PL Provider In today’s fast-paced and increasingly competitive market, businesses are continually seeking ways to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. Scalability and Flexibility As your business grows, so do your logistics needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

This collaboration allows for better optimization of the supply chain, ensuring the right products are available at the right time. For example, the application sends three auto reminders to a buyer if a PO they cut does not have a corresponding purchase order confirmation associated with it. Training is critical.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Image source: Pexels | How can Lean Logistics Transform your Company? The Lean method was created by the Japanese company Toyota with the aim of optimizing manufacturing flows and eliminating everything that generates errors, delays, and bottlenecks. All professionals remain focused on the same objective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. Optimizing AI models for edge hardware is another area of difficulty. This fragmentation of connectivity often delays edge deployment initiatives.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 20, 2025

If you were tasked with procuring the best supply chain IT system, what would you look for? On top of this, APS uses the data from your ERP to create optimized plans. Let me explain the typical integration: ERP serves as your foundation – it handles all your basic business transactions and maintains your master data.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

Why Modern Data Warehouses Are No Longer Optional A centralized data warehouse is becoming an essential solution for businesses looking to scale efficiently and optimize operations. A well-implemented enterprise data warehouse allows for the integration of multiple disparate sources across different operational systems.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Image source: Pexels | Everything You Should Know About Automation in Fulfillment Logistics Introduction to Automation in Logistics Have you ever thought about how Amazon delivers packages quickly and efficiently? For example, an automated system can better organize delivery routes, saving fuel and time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Supply chain network design (SCND) is a powerful tool for improving business operations. Optimization and simulation are the two main branches of SCND. Optimization accounts for over 90% of all work that is being done by SCND teams. It can be used to solve a wide variety of supply chain problems. But it has gaps.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 2, 2022

To deal with the new challenges in managing and planning the supply chain , the procurement department is one of the functions that should look at changing. It is no longer sufficient for procurement to focus just on supplier costs, placing orders and ensuring goods are received. Risk management.

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