Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. By March of 2017, the organization began implementing SAP Ariba solutions. Tramel was also complementary about the SAP Ariba services team.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

So, we deploy an agent on an SAP environment. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter. “If you want to digitize decision-making, you need 100% of the information required for a decision to be made available in a normalized data model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company relies on a solution from SAP called Global Trade Services (GTS). In the US, for example, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes lists of individuals and companies, and the addresses of those entities, owned or controlled by targeted countries. These transactions are flagged by GTS as potentially problematic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process. Musk smiled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. Perhaps the best example of this is Exxon Mobil.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. The large fines above are examples of this class of penalties.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2023

I’m sure many carriers, for example, are not celebrating the first half of the year. How would you characterize this year so far, from a supply chain and logistics perspective? Better or worse than expected? Any surprises? It depends on whom you ask, of course.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 26, 2020

Yesterday, for example, C.H. Transportation management systems (TMS) have never been more popular — not among shippers, but among other technology vendors and logistics service providers.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. Shippo raises $20 million to be the Stripe for shipping (Venture Beat). Convargo grabs $19 million to improve road freight (TechCrunch).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Mr. Botha does a lot of supply chain planning work implementing SAP supply chain solutions. CloudPaths implements solutions from SAP with a significant portion of their practice focusing on SAP’s supply chain planning solutions. An example of switchable constraint would be a factory that needs to close.

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LabelMaster

JUNE 10, 2021

For example: e-procurement. Many Labelmaster customers already take advantage of our support for e-procurement platforms including Ariba, Coupa, Hubwoo (Perfect Commerce), Smart by GEP, SAP S/4 and many. How you buy your Dangerous Goods transport resources isn’t as important as how you use them.

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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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2018

For example, let’s say a carrier arrives on time but isn’t allowed on site because the facility is too busy. Another example is when a carrier refuses to accept a load. Yet the consignee hits you with a detention or late charge. The right TMS can flag that as an exception and fight the detention automatically.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Take the transportation management system (TMS) market, for example. The two largest suppliers of enterprise applications – SAP and Oracle – had SI revenues that were less than 15% of their total TMS revenues. They implement the Blue Yonder warehouse management system (WMS) and SAP EWM.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For example, in the morning, we may want to maximize picking density to improve the efficiency of our pickers without much concern about shipping deadlines. Complicating the matter is that minimizing total travel time isn’t the only priority we need to take into consideration.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2020

Will COVID-19, for example, lead to an acceleration in digital freight adoption? COVID-19 is disrupting many aspects of supply chain management. The “glass is half full” perspective, however, is that the pandemic is also serving as a catalyst for innovation and digital transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, warehouse labor management has consistently been an important add-on to WMS. However, the ability to offer, support, and integrate adjacent and complementary technologies has escalated from a secondary consideration to a primary determinant of the WMS selection process.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

For example, a subtle change in hydraulic pressure may still permit the machine to operate. For example, a machine may need to have a specific part replaced every three months, but periods of increased demand could mean the manufacturing entity is placed at maximum capacity. Telecoms will also be significant.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Looking to adapt to business’ needs in a post Covid-19 world, The Config Team, working in conjunction with SAP, has developed a new pre-configured SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) solution specially designed for temporary warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile SAP jumped to an all-time high based on a bullish forecast of double-digit growth in cloud revenue. As reported by The Wall Street Journal , “Those jobs weren’t likely to return even when business picks up,” UPS said, adding that the reductions are part of what would be “ new ways of working.” Emphasis mine.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The example they gave me was to understand the yield for a burger with pickles at a QSR. SAP SAP showed off Joule, its generative AI assistant. Kinaxis is focusing on the QSR industry first, looking at replenishment for both food and the necessary durable goods. There were two use cases that I found interesting.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

With the seamless integration of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example, picking processes in the warehouse can be completely redefined. In addition to covering logistics process control with SAP EWM, SAP TM and SAP YL, inconso will include technological topics like SAP Fiori and HTML5 based on SAPUI5.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

For example, a carrier posts data to the blockchain and allows customers and agents to use the data. Before SAP, he was senior vice president and general manager for Descartes Systems Group’s supply chain, transportation and logistics applications business, and also had been vice president of product management for the company.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, in a poll conducted during an SAP webcast last year, 42 percent of the attendees responded that logistics is viewed as a cost center at their company and 31 percent said it’s viewed as “warehouses and trucks.”. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They are a shining example of business ingenuity, and we are proud to honor them.”. Discover more about our strides in technology and visions for efficiency today, for example our industry-leading 3PL platform , Virtual Carrier Network , and more ! About ShipMonk. National overall winners go on to compete for the title.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2017

For example, omni-channel, e-commerce and the Amazon Effect are some of the largest influencing factors right now in the shipper community. In other words, you’re not just solving their transportation problems; you must be able to map your offerings to a customer’s overall pain points.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Another example is a customer web service API for quotes. He was most recently at SAP where he was the solution principal focusing on SAP’s transportation, warehouse and event management offerings in North America and previously directed industry marketing for the company’s transportation and logistics business unit.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2020

Whether it is or not, though, you might find the following examples of AI application in supply chain operations interesting, intriguing—or even inspirational. For example, aside from enhancing the power and capability of systems like WMS and TMS, AI can enable computers to perform tasks traditionally reserved for humans.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

The greater availability of app-development tools for popular enterprise platforms such as SAP. Examples include SAP Fiori apps and SAP Mobile Platform. Increased awareness of the benefits of enterprise mobility (efficiency and productivity to name but a couple). 2018 Trend #4: Elastic is the New Lean.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. Yes, SAP had inbound ASN’s (advanced ship notices). The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example. But they were very basic.

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AIMMS

MARCH 2, 2021

Some examples: They have used the same source data, while for S&OP they would aggregate data into monthly and product group buckets , for S&OE they would use the product and day/week level of data. Have you encountered issues with SAP integrations? What about connections between S&OE and S&OP apps themselves?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2018

Here are a few examples: Maersk and IBM to Form Joint Venture Applying Blockchain to Improve Global Trade and Digitize Supply Chains. SAP Blockchain Initiative Expands to 27 Members. Over the past year, there have been plenty of announcements and articles about the potential role and benefits of blockchain in supply chain management.

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Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supply Chain Module WMS Providers: SAP ERP Warehouse Management. SAP ERP Warehouse Management. SAP ERP WMS. For example, heavy products are placed in the bottom bins while light products are at the top. As it ages, standalone WMS is increasingly difficult to integrate with other platforms and technologies. Generix Group.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Trinity Logistics is an excellent example of a 3PL that offers a TMS to its customers while also offering many other services. According to Intek , these are some of the top transportation management software providers: 3GTMS. CLOUD LOGISTICS. MERCURY GATE. TRANSPLACE. A TMS ALONE MAY NOT BE WORTH IT.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

Let’s take the example of inventory optimization. According to AIMMS VP EMEA Christophe Frère , there are 2 noticeable streams of technology implementation within European businesses today: The largest enterprises tend to focus on managing master data with one single integrated system, that being SAP in most cases.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

“The Danfoss project is an impressive example of how automated warehouses will be controlled, monitored and analysed in the future,” was the unanimous verdict of the international jury of experts. Transport orders are generated by the WMS in the SAP host and transferred to the control system. iGo insights.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

In short, Descartes is among the largest supply chain and logistics software companies in the market today (behind SAP, Oracle, Manhattan Associates, and JDA Software), and one of the first to embrace the network/software-as-a-service model (services revenues represented 97 percent of total revenues in FY 2017).

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