The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2020

Betsy is the CEO of The Congruity Group and has years of experience in helping other companies improve their customer focus. Betsy attended Western Kentucky University where she studied Journalism, Public Relations, and Business Administration. About The Congruity Group. The Congruity Group. About Betsy Westhafer.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Beagen received a Bachelor’s degree in International Political Science and International Studies from Hope College, a Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Rhode Island, and a Juris Doctorate from Roger Williams University School of Law.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the E2E exception-base autonomous planning, the system automates decisions from demand forecasts, production plans, and order fulfillment strategies to delivery with minimal need for manual intervention. The post How Technology Makes Continuous Innovation Possible: A Case Study with Unilever appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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IoT World Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, products are often most useful and profitable when offered as services. . The product-as-a-service shift has compelled Michelin to study its customers to better meet their needs. For Michelin, studying customers has led the company to provide tires as a product-as-a-service offering based on distance traveled.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

ThroughPut’s AI-powered Supply Chain software predicts Demand, reorients Production Capacity, reassigns Warehouse Space, and reorders Materials optimally, so businesses minimize overpromising and under-delivering. About ThroughPut Inc.

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Camelot 3PL Software

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Background: InterChange Group in Harrisonburg, VA performs cold-storage warehousing and distribution for major U.S. Deploying the technology investment with temperature and time-sensitive food-products, in an accelerated timeline, presented many challenges. food producers and other suppliers around the world.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 29, 2021

Ryan Mann is the Director of Marketing at Lean Solutions Group. Ryan studied at Texas Tech University, earning a degree in General Studies, and has 3 minors in Psychology, Sociology, and Human Resources Development. About Lean Solutions Group. Lean Solutions Group. About Ryan Mann.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In a recent MPI Group study, Industry 4.0 is giving many 88% manufacturers a head-start by introducing intelligent assets and processes to increase productivity across a range of business functions, including: R&D that is delivering individualized, smart products that customers value at a premium price.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the late 1940s the industrial engineers turned this craft production system into a factory system with the tasks divided between three shifts. Productivity plummeted. The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. The machine operator is measured on his hourly rate of production vs. a standard expectation.

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Camelot 3PL Software

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Order Fulfillment Group (TOFG) specializes in providing fulfillment services to business-to-business and business-to-consumer clients ranging in size from Fortune 1000 corporations to small enterprises. The Order Fulfillment Group. Challenge: Replace an Outdated Legacy Warehouse Management System. One adjustment involved packaging.

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MTS Logistics

JULY 5, 2019

A majority of the cargo consists of crude oil from Texas and foreign oilfields coming to the refineries; and petroleum and other oil based products leaving these refineries. Energy companies formed a group called the Coalition for a Fair and Open Port to address the issue of growth in container shipping restricting the growth of oil exports.

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Stord

APRIL 16, 2025

A study by Edelman found that 81% of consumers need to trust a brand before making a purchase. It is a strong buying consideration across all demographics, regardless of geography, age group, gender, and income level. Trust is currency in e-commerce. It starts the moment a customer interacts with your brand.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost-reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. With each Atom product being a single component, there was also no way to reduce duty payments. Lay the groundwork for future capability in the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. Fast forward 5 years, and ARC’s 2019 base-year study estimated the market at $11.9 I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. billion in 2019. Well, I am saying it.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Materials shortages , demand fluctuations and plan t closures have led many organizations to revisit their supplier relationships, as well as distribution and production locations. The company modeled scenarios and performed simulations in AIMMS Network Design Navigator with all their products grouped together.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2024

We spend a lot of time researching products before we buy, but in the end we may still feel uncertain. Humans have a natural attraction (psychologists call it a cognitive bias) toward products and services that other people like. Interestingly, the less your customers know about your product, the more important social proof becomes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

NC Nielsen, AR Racking’s Danish strategic distributor, carried out the design and installation of the new warehouse of the multi-brand fashion group DK Company in Ikast (Denmark) in an extraordinary time of just nine weeks leading the comprehensive management of the project. In total, 4,000 pallet positions, of which 60% will be for picking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

A 2023 study of over 8,000 consumers across 10 geographies, including the UK, central Europe and North America reviewed the state of ecommerce and home delivery performance. In fact, 39% of respondents in the 18–34 age group prioritise speed, compared to just 19% of early Gen X and Baby Boomers. What about Millennials and Boomers?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That’s exactly what the recent study “Retailers: Sustainability is Not a Challenge, It’s an Opportunity” concluded. Conducted by Descartes and SAPIO Research, the study surveyed over 8,000 consumers in North America and Europe for their perspectives on retailers’ sustainability practices around delivery operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. ARC has been actively studying industrial AI for over two years. The percentage of industrial companies broadly applying agentic AI and generative AI would be a small fraction of that number.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 7, 2022

Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, has released the results of a consumer sentiment study of ecommerce home delivery. To learn more, read the full study: Descartes Research Report: Ecommerce—Is Retailer Fulfilment and Delivery Performance Keeping Up with Sales Growth?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 14, 2023

Last week, I sat down to speak with Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry and Services at Descartes Systems Group about sustainable home delivery. For the last two years, Descartes has been doing a benchmark study around consumer sentiment, where the company is trying to gage interest in sustainability and home delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2024

A Tier 1 WMS Should be Capable of Complex Optimization ARC Advisory Group does global market research on the warehouse management system market. We write about trends in this study. I am the author of this year’s study. They must focus on optimization and other functionality that drives labor productivity.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2019

One of the biggest sources of financial uncertainty in 2019 will be international tariff policy and its impact on product demand. The Sloan School of Management at MIT, gathered together a group of experts for their take on what 2019 will look like. Human Capital Management. Technology will continue to transform how we work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. The survey’s results suggest a series of misalignments where gaps in process, technology and information flow can be a drag on productivity and optimization. Gap between supply chain and procurement.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the Utz Group believes that – in addition to its technological innovation and local service – it is the company’s culture of focusing on people and fostering a sense of community that drives its success. Utz recently held a group-wide conference (pictured) to mark its 75-year milestone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, the company that I work for, releases a number of market studies on a number of technologies. These studies utilize a comprehensive bottom-up process for evaluating markets. Our research focuses on the end-consumer receiving their product, whether from home delivery, in-store pick-up, or other means.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2018

They were staring at a petition, signed by 21,000 consumers, who said that if they knew that the company used products that were produced by slave labor, they would all be drinking Red Bull from now on. The group will be working with Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo and Unilever to find new policies to deal with the issue.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 23, 2023

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). Therefore, leaders intercede when something threatens production. We have two groups that are identical. War Manpower Commission.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

The feasibility study has been launched within the framework of this large-scale project, which corresponds with the national drive to promote BioLNG as defined in France’s Mobility Orientation Law. The post BioLNG production project at French port appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2022

As a pioneer in warehouse technology and the development of solutions that empower warehouse workers, Lucas Systems recently commissioned a research study and developed the first Voice of the Warehouse Worker Insights. Workers want to stay at their jobs but need improvements to make their jobs easier and less stressful. Reduce mental stress.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

So his group, which is a service advisory firm supporting businesses in the raw materials value chain, released a study on July 12 to provide the data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You were smart enough to invest in a tier one labor management system (LMS), but is your LMS smart enough to deliver the productivity you expected? Or are you strictly measuring productivity based on cases or units per hour per worker? An SVS represents a static snapshot in time. What to Measure. Think of it like this.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In 2020, Myers Industries began looking for a way to integrate its planning function across six business groups serving multiple markets and product types.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

The erosion in the cost advantage has been driven by a confluence of sharp wage increases, lagging productivity growth, unfavorable currency swings, and a dramatic rise in energy costs, states the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based on a study of 25 nations that account for nearly 90 percent of global exports of manufactured goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My colleague Clint Reiser has completed a study on warehouse management system (WMS) boutiques. We are teaming up to bring you the coolest supply chain boutiques, listed alphabetically, that we identified through those studies. Open Sky Group is perhaps best known for being Blue Yonder’s largest dedicated WMS partner.

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

A recent Freightos Group survey on long-term ocean container contract reliability found that at the start of the pandemic when ocean spot rates first surged, importers saw 34% of their contracted containers rolled by carriers prioritizing more lucrative spot shipments. But a far more acute problem shippers face today is rolled cargo.

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