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

JANUARY 9, 2025

Flexible solutions, however, allow warehouses to scale operations dynamically, whether through the rapid deployment of additional resources or reconfiguring workflows. As businesses grow or enter new markets, they need the ability to redeploy or adapt warehouse systems to minimize downtime and reduce reconfiguration costs.

Resource Reduction 116

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That strategy can lead to thousands of scenarios, and still no number of scenarios will answer all questions. Another strategy is to dedicate resources and build the best algorithm for demand forecasting. This means that pouring resources into better forecasting will not produce the anticipated result.

Supply Chain Design Software 116

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. Supply chain efficiency focuses on improving your processes whilst also reducing costs. What is Supply Chain Efficiency?

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of modern supply chains, one of the key challenges is the efficient management of resources to eliminate waste and enhance overall productivity. Standardized carton sizes also facilitate more efficient stacking and storage within the warehouse, reducing space utilization and improving overall operational flow.

Waste Reduction 111

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WorkWave

MARCH 5, 2025

By seamlessly integrating data from multiple sources across branches and business functions, organizations can eliminate data silos , ensure consistent and reliable information, and gain real-time visibility into operations. Missed opportunities: Businesses cant identify patterns or optimize strategies without cross-branch insights.

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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. dates several weeks in advance) based on real-time insight into existing commitments and delivery resources.

Cost Reduction 82

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Overlaying a dynamic layer on top of the WMS can sometimes be the the best and most efficient strategy. They can also manage order sequencing and task interleaving dynamically, making on-the-fly decisions to maximize throughput and reduce bottlenecks.

Optimization Software 79

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

So, while simplicity of design is a worthwhile goal, investment of time and resources in comprehensive and detailed data analysis can never be a waste. Competitor intelligence: Distribution strategies and network designs of your competitors. Time is another resource you will consume in analysing all this data.

Supply Chain Design Software 75

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You are Experiencing Rapid Growth : Changes in demand on your resources can make it difficult to maintain customer service levels. You are Making Significant Logistics Strategy Changes : When you realize that your current WMS cannot support new processes effectively or at all. Wide Range of Options and Costs.

Modeling Software 221

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it!

Reverse logistics 74

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Logistics is the management of the flow of resources between the point of origin and the point of destination. Business logistics is a crucial component of operational strategy and efficiency in the supply chain, involving comprehensive processes to manage the movement of goods from sourcing materials to delivering products.

Manufacturing Procurement 75

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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. Supply chain policies and configurations are tested and leverage reinforcement learning to yield the best possible strategies.

Scenario Planning 116

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

The challenges brought about by the pandemic made many rethink strategy when it came to inventory, stock on hand, secondary options and the ability to guarantee supply and resiliency. These types of technologies allow for greater visibility across all stages of the distribution process as well as more efficient use of resources.

Supply Chain Planning Software 113

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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. Optimize and maximize the efficiency of the constrained resource. One example in the warehouse could be optimizing the path taken by pickers.

Optimization Software 123

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” That’s a drag on time and resources. What stood out even more was the “subhead” of UPS’ announcement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To truly capitalize on automation and robotics, companies need a solution that matches all resources to volatile demand, strategically balances tasks across labor and robots, and replans work in real time as conditions change. It matches labor, equipment, and other resources accurately with order volumes, in real time. The result?

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 6, 2025

Customer Service When integrating your internal systems with the TMS, the customer service team is usually the best resource to describe their order entry process in your companys order management system (OMS). If the TMS integrates with your companys OMS or account software, you can drastically reduce the time it takes to process an invoice.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Changing Role of Procurement Highly successful organisations often see their Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) proactively driving global procurement strategy, sharing responsibilities with COOs and CFOs on value creation initiatives, and deploying global resources to achieve the ultimate supply chain targets.

Manufacturing Procurement 98

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” This article, which is focused on the different types of artificial intelligence used and the types of problems they are solving, is aimed at helping practitioners cut through the hype.

Supply Chain Planning Software 140

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

While some aspects of this article may be dated, the article speaks to a range of issues directly relevant to national security in a post-National Defence Strategy age. By David Beaumont Discussions about self-reliance, like many other conversations among defence planners, rarely begin with a conversation on supply and support.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, Walmart has aggressively expanded its marketplace of third-party sellers, following a strategy that has enabled Amazon to offer a mind-boggling range of products on its website. For example, the grocer released its first report on corporate social responsibility efforts last year. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

Material Savings 114

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2025

In the complex supply chain that links an enterprise with its supplier upstream and its customer downstream, coordination of planning, resources and processes between all three entities should result in less wastage, better margins and lower costs. In fact, you’ve probably experienced the Bullwhip Effect without even knowing it.

Supply Chain Design Software 75

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Perhaps the most valuable IT solutions for competitive fashion retailing are enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management (PLM), along with the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) to feed real-time inventory data to these systems.

Supply Chain Design Software 75

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

However, the classification parameter can be varied; for example, it is possible to use the velocity of turnover rather than annual demand value. ABC System: A cost management system that maintains operational and financial data relating to an organisations activities, resources, objects, drivers, and measures.

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