IoT World Today

MARCH 27, 2020

From shortages of personal protective equipment to a variety of grocery items to electronics and apparel, coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) has hit the global supply chain in expected and unforeseen ways, and it seems likely that it could take many months to recover. Bringing Analytics to Supply Chain Management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

Supply chain risk solutions are hot. Exiger’s CEO, Brandon Daniels, told me they were larger than their three largest supply chain risk competitors combined. Modern supply chain risk solutions are marvelous pieces of technology. First, it is done through surveys. Lately, Exiger has been in the news.

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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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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective? . The era of globalization has enabled supply chains to be broader and more connected. First reaction s to the outbreak . questions.

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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 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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 21, 2022

The supply chain management uncertainty in the post-COVID world shows no signs of letting up. With current conditions, it looks like there may never be a return to the pre-pandemic era of supply chain stability. How Supply Chain Management is changing. Benefits of a Supply Chain Management solution.

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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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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

So when a COVID outbreak hit the port of Yantian – which services factories in the Shenzhen area and handles about 13 million TEU (20’ containers) a year – supply chains were already teetering. For example, with the current steel shortage , factories aren’t able to produce as many cans as usual. The answer?

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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. planning offers an alternative to swinging the pendulum and as the strategy that provides the supply chain resilience leaders seek.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’ve argued over the past few years that we have a trust problem in supply chain management. For example, in a survey we conducted with our Indago supply chain research community in September 2021, more than half of the respondents (56%) either agreed or strongly agreed that “you can’t be too careful when dealing with.

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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.

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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

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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

For global businesses, supply chain resilience is the name of the game. As a result, supply chain leaders have been exploring alternative, more predictable options. The key will be to leverage available opportunities and address gaps to ensure the SEA supply chain can compete on a global level.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, technology has risen to dramatically alter the execution of supply chain functions. In a Logistics Viewpoint survey , 50 percent of businesses reported sharing inventory across all channels or engaging in omni-channel practices. What’s Causing the Shift Towards Greater Use of Technology in Supply Chain Functions?

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

“As they cope with the seismic changes brought about by COVID-19, businesses of all sizes and types have needed to adapt to remote work, reconfigured physical workspaces, and revised logistics and supply networks.”. Don’t Go it Alone.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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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 Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While your company undoubtedly has sustainability on its supply chain agenda, creating momentum can be tricky in what is after all, a fairly new way to approach performance improvement. How to Develop a Sustainable Supply Chain. But how do you get started on sustainable supply chain development?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. The sudden onset of COVID-19 only reinforced a lesson that supply chain professionals had already realized: uncertainty is the only real certainty. The Road to Agility and Resilience.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Then multiply by 10 for the Tier 3.”

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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. GEON Embarks on a Digital Transformation GEON Performance Solutions is embarking on a supply chain transformation.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s even starting to be integrated into many industries especially supply chain. Below are examples on how AI is used in logistics. Plus, they can work at night, survey the warehouse multiple times and compare results for a more accurate picture. Autonomous Technology. IoT Technology.

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, you may want to consider how your operations have gone over the last 12 months. He suggests that building supply chain resilience is the appropriate response. If the global supply chain was unstable in the past, it will only become more challenging this year. The supply chain must be streamlined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For example, shippers spent much of last year bemoaning soaring ocean shipping rates and ships waiting for days to unload once they reached their destination port. inflation rate will go down by itself, because the cause is mostly caused by supply chain issues? Inflation is Broad Based (Graph from Joseph Politano).

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Despite frequent discussions about AI’s potential impact on jobs, the majority of logistics workers are untroubled by automation, according to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by SafetyCulture. The industry is already seeing successful applications of AI, which many workers believe will help tackle labor and skills shortages.

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