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JANUARY 1, 2025

By maintaining specific temperature conditions, the cold chain ensures that everything from perishable foods to beverages remains in optimal condition until they reach the hands of consumers. To illustrate this better, imagine the following example: a perishable food supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Developing Models : Building and scaling AI models in a manner that ensures they are reliable and understandable. These new data fabrics will need to go beyond traditional enterprise data fabrics, which are optimized for cloud environments, to be able to embrace complex supply chain data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

Through the story of a plant manager, it offers insights on how to improve efficiency, which also includes optimizing the production process as a whole, instead of focusing on individual parts. In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2019

Optimization is a ubiquitous term in the supply chain and logistics industry. We all talk about how we need to optimize our operations. In practice, however, relatively few companies are using optimization technology, particularly in transportation. Why is transportation optimization key today? Types of optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

Before a potential customer buys an autonomous mobile robot solution, Locus Robotics often uses different types of simulation to determine the type of robots needed and the number needed to optimize productivity at a warehouse. DES allows the modeling of complex warehouse operations at various levels of detail.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 13, 2025

The food and beverage industry is a dynamic, ever-evolving sector in which manufacturers are continuously seeking ways to optimize production and reduce costs in the face of shifting consumer demand and preferences. Optimizing production is essential to addressing these challenges. For example, review the systems scalability.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Today, the steel manufacturing leader has an ambitious digital transformation agenda and is leveraging AIMMS technology to optimize operations in its home country. I belong to this second division and work mostly on mathematical modeling, simulation and supply chain analytics. . When did you join Tata Steel? .

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Optimize Inventory Management Inventory often represents one of the largest expenses in a supply chain. By leveraging predictive analytics and a just-in-time (JIT) inventory model, you can maintain optimal stock levels, which reduces storage costs and cuts down on waste from unsold items.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Companies including Amazon and Wing are developing drone delivery systems to optimize logistical processes within restricted urban spaces. For example, self-driving trucks could deliver shipments to regional hubs, where drones would then complete last-mile delivery.

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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. Product slotting is a complex problem.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 31, 2024

This eBook provides customer examples, actionable strategies and highlights real-world benefits such as improved inventory turnover and reduced production costs. Explore this exclusive resource and gather ideas on transforming your supply chain into a model of sustainability and innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Meanwhile, advances in AI-driven route optimization reduce unnecessary mileage, cutting emissions and costs. Smart energy management systems further enhance efficiency by tracking and optimizing energy use in real-time. Reducing carbon emissions is a cornerstone of this effort.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For this reason, it is increasingly common to see companies investing in specific storage models, aligned with their product portfolio and the profile of their target audience. For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. The traditional warehouse model is more conventional and widely used.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. So we thought we’d focus on the lesser known topic of ‘stock optimization’ – this is an inventory control technique that’s becoming more popular with inventory managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. What is stock optimization?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These tools enhance transportation management by improving forecasting, optimizing logistics processes, and providing greater supply chain visibility. The company shared examples of its long-term collaborations with businesses such as Texas Instruments and Home Depot.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Before we look at the barriers to optimal inventory and the possible ways to eliminate or overcome them, let’s be clear on what inventory optimisation means—because misconceptions do abound. For example, you can optimise for cost, profit, or service, but not for all of them. Service as a Barrier to Optimal Inventory.

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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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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. These capabilities include Machine Learning and Prescriptive Analytics , and organizational models like Agile Teams. What to prioritize. Network Design.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The onus is on ecommerce retailers to control the controllables, and focusing on eliminating uncertainty from the consumer fulfillment process and optimizing the last mile is a smart approach. By mapping customer delivery personas to the delivery choices they offer, retailers can improve fulfillment certainty to protect margins.

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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. An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. Factories serve local markets.

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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. For example, is an SKU typically ordered by the pallet, carton, split carton, or individual unit?

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WorkWave

MARCH 4, 2025

By ranking prospects and customers into ten groups, from least likely to buy to most likely, green industry businesses can pinpoint high-value clients, optimize marketing campaigns and allocate resources more efficiently. For example , let’s consider a dataset of 100 lawn measurements in a given town. Heres another example.

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization AI and machine learning (ML) take matrix-based analysis to new heights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

The WMS solution optimizes productivity and throughput in distribution centers and warehouses. For example, if a promotion plan has not been correctly modeled for the warehouse, there may not be enough storage capacity, dock doors, or workers to execute the days work. Supporting modules include labor and yard management.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this post, we’re revisiting the topic with a more holistic approach, focusing on six factors that can make the difference between an optimal and suboptimal distribution network design. Indeed, careful attention to data in the preparation stage is indispensable for delivering a simple yet optimal design.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. The key solutions are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. Each time horizon usually has its own model associated with it. Supply and network design models are constraint-based models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2021

Optimize automation/robotics alongside human workers. As a DC planning tool, machine learning represents an alternative to traditional engineering and process modeling. For example, the traditional approach to workforce planning is to use an engineered labor standards system. Engineered Standards vs. Machine Learning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. Further, when they began thinking about a platform to detect and react to equipment anomalies, they realized those capabilities would support safety, better product quality, and production optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand if the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated. For example, a large customer may place a large, unforeseen order that becomes visible at 9:00 a.m. However, unexpected events do happen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Machine learning is a process by which learning algorithms are applied to large sets of data to create predictive models. By contrast, other supply chain optimization problems often require data that resides in disparate systems, some of which may be controlled by other entities or may not be accessible in real-time.

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Log-hub

MARCH 7, 2025

The Key Elements of a Circular Supply Chain A successful circular economy model integrates multiple strategies to reduce waste and maximize resources. H&Ms Garment Collecting Program is a perfect example of reverse logistics in action. This model helps reduce e-waste while increasing product longevity. from 2023 to 2030.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

For example, signs that a company is moving in the right direction, talent-wise, might include: The deployment of staff in new roles, absent the traditional supply-chain-centric titles and instead, hybridizing across data-science and logistics skill sets. Bringing Production Closer to the Customer.

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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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Log-hub

AUGUST 14, 2024

3 min read Supply chain optimization is crucial for businesses to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Here are some real-life examples of successful supply chain optimization across various industries. Sustainability and resource management are also critical concerns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As supply chains transition to a more circular and sustainable model, M&A activity in this domain is expected to intensify. For example, the global logistics automation market is expected to grow from $50 billion in 2023 to $120 billion by 2030, according to Allied Market Research.

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