Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. Their associate engagement survey allows Ferguson to understand the driver’s impacting engagement across their 31,000 employees. 56% of employees surveyed were engaged. Conclusion.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 25, 2018

This tech-savvy group can be a great source of new ideas and innovative solutions for managing the supply chain of the future. Make sure you consider this to make your recruitment and retention efforts effective among this target group. . Millennials aren’t the only ones who prefer easy to use tools. Source: SCM World.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, where I work, publishes an analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. This survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on practices or performance drivers. Final Thought The APQC survey gives an interesting look at digital transformation in logistics.

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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. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well.

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Freightos

MARCH 4, 2020

Using digital tools to help deliver great customer experience. . Robinson all rolled out new digital tools in 2019. Both of these groups are showing progress and seeking to pose a threat to traditional freight forwarding, but likewise still have a way to go. . Here’s What This Has To Do With Freight. More than You Think.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

Manufacturers need to focus on their core in order to stay competitive, and technological tools, such as our Cerasis Rater, a transportation management system , allow for streamlined process in managing transportation, giving back precious time, money, and focus to our manufacturing customers. Run War Rooms for Daily Battle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2024

The frontier of AI strengths Recognizing this challenge, last fall leading academics from Harvard Business School, Wharton, MIT and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published an illuminating paper, which they artfully named “ Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier.” AI is a tool in human hands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2022

Research from ARC Advisory Group in 2021 on the Convergence of AI and IoT (AIoT) report and The State of AI Research by research specialist Vanson Bourne accurately describe the current state of AI in the process industries. The Current State of Industrial AI in the Process Industries.

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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.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But a recent Freightos Group survey of industry leaders found that fixed price agreements are far from fixed: 75% of forwarders report paying a peak season surcharge to get on the right sailing . A common response or protection against price opacity and volatility is the long-term fixed price contract. . The FBX Daily Difference.

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Transporeon

AUGUST 8, 2018

To find out more about the transformational journey of digitization in the chemical industry, Transporeon Group recently joined forces with Germany’s largest technical university, RWTH Aachen, to conduct a unique survey of the current status and future of digital logistics. “In Photo credit: Jay Phagan on Best Running / CC BY.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to a survey conducted by Transporeon and ARC Advisory Group, more than one in 10 loadings (11%) at warehouses need to be rescheduled throughout the day. The survey also reveals a considerable technology gap in yard operations: Nearly two-thirds of respondents handle their rescheduling completely manually.

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Blog on Log

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey. government to secure their international supply chains?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Recently Cerasis asked in the Manufacturing Leadership Community group on LinkedIn, run by Manufacturing Executive. Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been synonymous with factories, machine tools, production lines and economies of scale. Read Full Post. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. A year later their survey revealed that companies were more likely to have increased inventory than originally planned and less likely to have made other planned changes to suppliers and networks.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . Only about 22% use network design software and 18% use network design software with embedded analytics among this group. . It’s time to kick the spreadsheet habit. Spreadsheets are inexpensive and familiar.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 25, 2018

This tech-savvy group can be a great source of new ideas and innovative solutions for managing the supply chain of the future. Make sure you consider this to make your recruitment and retention efforts effective among this target group. Millennials aren’t the only ones who prefer easy to use tools. Source: SCM World.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of RFID which has become a problem-solving tool for front-line workers in warehouses and other industries. In fact, both groups — 82% of associates and 76% of decision-makers — acknowledge they need better inventory management tools to achieve better accuracy and determine availability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2023

This is called ChatGPT, a natural language processing (NLP) tool that runs on artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct human-like discussions in order to assist you with various requests. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today. We’re already seeing it in diverse applications, such as writing emails or essays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

To begin the journey, GEON needed a better supply chain planning tool. They needed an end-to-end platform to connect data, decisions, and operations; a solution that would systematically align actions to goals and then track how well the plan was executed; finally, the tool had to support the creation of multiple robust scenarios.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2022

Companies must also offer a healthy workplace which listens to their workforce and offers modern tools that keep workers happy in addition to being productive. Survey your users to avoid unseen pitfalls and make sure you’re actually purchasing a solution that provides a good user experience. What is missing from their workflow?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

In 1942, a group of GE engineers, known as "The Hush-Hush Boys," working non-stop for ten months built America's first jet engine. These concepts become widely adopted in the 1990s as Lean Manufacturing. 1942: Jet Engines Developed. In the year that began the start of America's involvement in World War II, Jet engines were developed.

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Ship Monk

MAY 8, 2023

Sun Sentinel’s Top Workplaces lists are based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous third-party survey administered by the employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. As we continue growing, we’ll keep learning from the industry, and you , about how to best do business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A survey by boom! of supply chain professionals found that their number one wish to increase work satisfaction is better, integrated tools. The three legs of a digital transformation stool – people, process, and technology Technology as one leg of the stool is foundational.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Charles Marrale from Exfreight is using AI to make front line customer support faster and more scalable by “using the trained LLM developed for our chatbot, combined with filtering tools, to automate responses to various email inquiries.” Turning these into structured inputs gives existing tech systems superpowers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the recent Lucas Systems Voice of the Warehouse Worker survey, nearly 3 in 4 (74%) warehouse workers were at least somewhat likely to take a pay cut to work at another company with more technology tools to help them do their job. That meant things like voice systems, as well as scanners, conveyors and robots.

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IoT World Today

APRIL 12, 2019

Our survey incorporates feedback from 670 people about their companies’ IoT efforts. We hope you use this report as a tool in planning your own IoT projects. In fact, we may look back on the past year or so as a time when the type, scale and success of IoT projects exploded.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2024

Humans have a powerful need to fit in with whatever group they’ve joined. Now that we’ve established that social proof is an important tool for influencing consumer behavior, it follows that smart ecommerce companies can, and should, take advantage of these natural biases. Psychologists call this phenomenon, “conformity bias.”

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

And more promising news: 76 percent of female 18- to 26-year-olds have a favorable impression of professional driving, according to a recent nationwide study by the Adcom Group, a marketing and communications firm. Ultimately, driver pay needs to be at least $75,000 to reduce turnover, according to 80 percent of recruiters surveyed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Woodland Group’s sustainable supply chain management support is based on the use of its carbon calculation tools, which align with ISO 14083 and GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting Standards. Creating legitimately feasible routing options is a key step in delivering sustainable supply chains, and in achieving net zero by 2050.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This type of data must be actively gathered by researching market trends, analyzing the competitive landscape, conducting consumer surveys and focus groups. Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. Qualitative data is more subjective.

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Globalior

APRIL 4, 2020

Our findings suggest that… There is a good chance the Customs broker classifying your product was never properly trained, does not know enough about your product and does not have the necessary tools needed to classify your products for import correctly. A brief note on how this survey was conducted.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

That’s according to a survey of 150 fleet managers, commissioned by Samsara, which reveals key priorities include upgrading vehicles (98%), increasing the sustainability of the fleet (82%), and moving to electric or hybrid vehicles (82%). As this report shows, fleet managers are moving to embrace technology to modernise their fleets.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2016

Analytics tools help global manufacturing engineers optimize use of machinery. By 2014, 11 percent of manufacturing companies had adopted 3-D printing, according to a PwC survey. A PwC survey found that 59 percent of manufacturers are already using robots. from overseas, says Boston Consulting Group. billion to $4.8

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

For this reason, the Alpega Group , the leading logistics software company offering modular solutions to cover all transportation needs, backed by 35 years of experience in the market, conducted a macro-survey where more than 1.200 logistics and transport companies across Europe participated through its freight exchanges, Teleroute and Wtransnet.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . Only about 22% use network design software and 18% use network design software with embedded analytics among this group. . It’s time to kick the spreadsheet habit. Spreadsheets are inexpensive and familiar.

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Transporeon

AUGUST 8, 2018

To find out more about the transformational journey of digitization in the chemical industry, Transporeon Group recently joined forces with Germany’s largest technical university, RWTH Aachen, to conduct a unique survey of the current status and future of digital logistics. “In Photo credit: Jay Phagan on Best Running / CC BY.

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