Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

The solutions to supply chain problems boil down to the right combination of three factors—technology, data and processes. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated. However, manufacturers, 3PLs and others in the supply chain often get lost in the details. That’s not true.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 18, 2022

While the pandemic was undoubtedly the catalyst for recent supply chain disruptions it’s not the only cause. Longstanding weaknesses in the supply chain like port infrastructure, outdated supply chain strategies and impacts of natural disaster and wars have all further affected global supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The transportation, logistics, and energy storage sectors are undergoing profound transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements, evolving consumer expectations, and the global pursuit of sustainability. In 2023 alone, over $100 billion was invested in EV and battery supply chain M&A deals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Getting started with AI in supply chain might not start where you think. Instead start with the foundation of your AI strategy, which should be an understanding of your company’s supply chain and your data. Since this advice on getting started with AI in supply chain may seem counterintuitive, let me explain.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When sales forecasts are accurate, companies know they’ll have enough product supply to meet customer demand for those goods. When forecasts are wrong, or when organizations don’t take the time to plan them out in advance, the exact opposite occurs: product outages surface and issues can’t be solved in time. Planning is King.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, technology has risen to dramatically alter the execution of supply chain functions. Technology poses the greatest opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of innovative tools to ensure end-to-end tracking, visibility , and processing of products. Consumers Demand More Now.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey shares responses from more than 630 companies, indicating there is a correlation between financial performance and the strategic importance senior management places on transportation. For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains are systems that can operate with little to no human intervention, and they use artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and sensors to optimize the flow of goods. The key technologies that enable autonomous supply chains are artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, sensors, and blockchain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. What is supply chain visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many risks and uncertainties in supply chain networks. Materials shortages , demand fluctuations and plan t closures have led many organizations to revisit their supplier relationships, as well as distribution and production locations. Read on for common use cases. . Stay tuned! .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. Why tell this story?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

Contrary to general opinion, the causes of the supply chain disruptions currently being experienced worldwide were prevalent long before the Covid-19 pandemic. . The current war in Ukraine will further destabilize the global supply chain. Technology, or a lack of it, also plays a key role.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Change can be a good thing, particularly when it comes to getting a better handle on your supply chain spend. Managing supply risk is not a new concept; however, with growing dependence on suppliers paired with more complex global supply chains, it comes with greater challenges. Digitization is Your Friend.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2024

Lucas Systems Offers Warehouse Optimization Warehouse management systems, once known as supply chain execution systems, have evolved significantly. They have transitioned from mere work executors to planning solutions with optimization capabilities. Optimization is no longer limited to WMS software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2021

Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for the future of business and the world as a whole. More recently, we have seen a push towards building a circular supply chain to eliminate waste and build a continual use of resources. The Sustainable Supply Chain. The Circular Economy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

Supply chain sustainability is a higher priority than ever. In MIT’s State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 , 80% of executives surveyed said the pandemic either had no impact on their commitment or increased it. We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Knowledge Graphs are emerging as an important tool for building advanced AI capabilities. According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. Agentic AI involves creating a system of interacting agents, each trained on a specific task or dataset.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Many companies were in the midst of digitally transforming their supply chain when the Convid-19 pandemic hits. In this part 2 article, let us continue to explore the concrete actions we can take in our Digital Supply Chain journeys. Plan and Execute for Success.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Staying up-to-speed in leading technology requires time and investments. With all the current and upcoming logistics technology, it can be confusing for shippers to identify what will have the best impact to stay competitive now and in the future. HOW LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP. WITH CAPACITY. WITH RISK MANAGEMENT.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation. The roots of IBP are in sales & operations planning (S&OP). Mr. Sorenson has studied integrated business planning for many years.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The following is an opinion article on AI in supply chains, written by Russ Felker , Chief of Technology (CTO) of Trinity Logistics. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow its presence in our everyday lives, businesses, and now, supply chains. AI in Supply Chains: We Need to Change Our Focus.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. Supply chain disruptions. For example: Japan earthquake 2016. New trends in supply chain management. Source: McKinsey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey shares responses from more than 630 companies, indicating there is a correlation between financial performance and the strategic importance senior management places on transportation. For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

For a few years now, supply chain professionals and pundits have been speculating on what the so-called “new normal” will look like. Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry.

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AIMMS

JULY 13, 2020

Integrated Business Planning (IBP), as defined by its creators at Oliver Wight , is “the business planning process that extends the principles of S&OP throughout the end-to-end supply chain, product, service and customer portfolios, customer demand and strategic planning, to deliver one seamless management process.”

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What’s on the horizon for supply chain professionals? Microsoft also announced they plan to be carbon-negative by 2030. . Many are relying on advanced analytics to optimize their supply chain for sustainability. 2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – sales & operations execution (S&OE) is used for short term horizon, sales & operations planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon, and integrated business planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is not a new technology, but widespread adoption and use of AI and machine learning in supply chain is still in its infancy. There are many forms of AI, but for purposes of this article I’m referring to systems that use machine learning approaches to solve specific problems.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ Reverse logistics, while not being the opposite of forward logistics, is still about products moving backwards in the supply chain. A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

Much has been written about what it takes to run a successful supply chain in the era of “get it to me fast and get it to me cheap.” Supply chain professionals are looking for ways to store goods closer to customers by investing in micro fulfillment centers and to optimize their facilities so orders can be processed faster.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Wishing your supply chain were strengthened rather than strangled under these conditions? There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. As much as we conflate digital transformation with technology, without these missing ingredients your initiative will fail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

McKinsey, the global consulting firm, has done research and writing on supply chain collaboration. In one McKinsey survey of more than 100 large organizations in multiple sectors, companies that regularly collaborated with suppliers demonstrated higher growth, lower operating costs, and greater profitability than their industry peers.

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Parade

MARCH 28, 2022

We’re back and shining our spotlight on one of Parade’s supply chain solution partners, Turvo. Turvo’s Collaboration Cloud and modern TMS applications help streamline people, processes, and data for global supply chains. As a true SaaS provider, Turvo delivers rapid ROI with speedy, CX-guided implementations.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 17, 2022

Manufacturers and distributors can leverage Cloud ERP to revolutionize the way they do business and manage disruption as the impact of the global pandemic, regional instabilities, and natural disasters continues to cause supply chain volatility. Cloud ERP for a resilient supply chain.

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