Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Understanding AI Agents At its core, an AI Agent is a reasoning engine capable of understanding context, planning workflows, connecting to external tools and data, and executing actions to achieve a defined goal. Integrate with External Tools and Data: AI Agents can augment their inherent language model capabilities with APIs and tools (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The logistics and supply chain industry is a critical component of global trade, responsible for moving goods and materials efficiently to meet consumer and business demands. Green Logistics: Optimizing transportation routes, consolidating shipments, and employing energy-efficient vehicles to reduce emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mr. Masson of ARC points out, “Each AI use case requires specific datasets and may necessitate different tools and techniques.” A ‘big bang’ approach, applying a one-size-fits-all AI solution, is not viable in an environment where industrial-grade solutions are needed to meet health, safety, and sustainability goals, Mr. Masson points out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

APS are complex, live production environments requiring extensive configuration to accurately model a business’s operational reality. This broad optimization across many objectives allows leadership to meet corporate goals and functional objectives, enhancing visibility into the potential outcomes and benefits of different planning scenarios.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This scale allows the company to address both regional and international logistics challenges, adapting its solutions to meet the unique demands of different markets and industries. These tools enhance transportation management by improving forecasting, optimizing logistics processes, and providing greater supply chain visibility.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 13, 2025

The food and beverage industry is a dynamic, ever-evolving sector in which manufacturers are continuously seeking ways to optimize production and reduce costs in the face of shifting consumer demand and preferences. Optimizing production is essential to addressing these challenges. For example, review the systems scalability.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The report outlines the tools with the highest transformational benefits and capabilities that are becoming standard business practices. In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Firefighting is the norm.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 21, 2025

Matrices are powerful mathematical tools that play a crucial role in supply chain management. In this blog, we’ll explore how they are used in various aspects of the supply chain, including transportation, inventory management, demand forecasting, and network optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Suppliers of smart contract development tools: Ethereum Foundation, Polkadot, Hyperledger, OpenZeppelin, Chainlink How Smart Contracts Automate Supply Chains 1. How Smart Contracts Improve Procurement Automated Payments: When a supplier meets predefined conditions (e.g., Because blockchains are decentralized (i.e.,

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this post, we’re revisiting the topic with a more holistic approach, focusing on six factors that can make the difference between an optimal and suboptimal distribution network design. Indeed, careful attention to data in the preparation stage is indispensable for delivering a simple yet optimal design.

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AIMMS

JUNE 20, 2017

Supply Chain Network Optimization is key to running an efficient and profitable operation today. But while the market has changed, network optimization hasn’t actually advanced much since the 1990s. Yet, network optimization is still just a richer version of the 90’s experience. Network optimization tools aren’t future-proof.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. So we thought we’d focus on the lesser known topic of ‘stock optimization’ – this is an inventory control technique that’s becoming more popular with inventory managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. What is stock optimization?

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Locus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Health-related absenteeism and operational challenges can disrupt output, leaving industries struggling to meet demand. Companies relying on lean inventory models or single-region sourcing are particularly exposed. Businesses that adopt multi-region manufacturing and fulfillment models are better positioned to manage disruptions.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Optimizing truckload freight spend is essential in today’s freight market. As the world of transportation continues to evolve, shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs) are effectively utilizing certain methods along with modern data platforms to meet the demands of today’s supply chains. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Essential Steps to Using Warehouse Modeling Software for Design 1) Understand the Design Objectives and Constraints The first step in your review should be to determine and prioritise the objectives for your warehouse facility and operation.

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization The Future of Matrix-Based Optimization AI and machine learning (ML) take matrix-based analysis to new heights.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 20, 2021

As demand for faster fulfillment surges, the sweet spot where customer experience meets cost efficiency gets smaller. Ballooning trip volumes, LTL capacity crunches, increasing fuel consumption, lack of driver availability and the need to scale self-service type delivery models pose significant operational challenges for 3PLs/carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Many companies are achieving this transformation by adopting modular, elastic DC technologies – including AI and robotics – that provide continuous warehouse optimization without replacing their current monolithic and static warehouse systems. Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 20, 2021

There’s always been tension with the optimization technologies used for fleets or common carrier transportation. However, not all companies have the fortitude or the skills internally to exploit more sophisticated optimization technologies. It’s not that any optimization vendor wants to create complex products.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This has paved the way for innovative models such as Delivery as a Service (DaaS), which promises to streamline the delivery process. Delivery as a Service (DaaS) is a logistics business model where businesses utilize specialized service providers to handle their on-demand delivery needs without the need to maintain their own delivery fleet.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS to optimize flight routes for families in need. It’s proved to be a valuable tool during camp season.

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Stord

MAY 3, 2018

Amazon, Walmart, and other leading enterprises win by ensuring that their product is close to the customer, optimized for the best shipping time, and held in the correct quantity. To scale, an optimized distribution network is required to meet customer expectations and business growth targets.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Being aware of innovations enables you to anticipate market trends, optimize operations, and provide a unique client experience. Route optimization: Route optimization ensures fast and affordable deliveries. Personalized service: Providing an improved customer experience.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To do this, we built two representative models of a business. When the models are built, running scenarios with these large businesses can be a lot of fun. Extrapolating to smaller, simpler businesses, it’s likely that an entity needs to be scaled at around $500M annual revenue and above to meet this first ROI hurdle.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Use tools to automate root cause analysis and reduce dependency on manual reporting. The war for talent has always been prevalent, said Dritz, emphasizing the importance of aligning skilled teams with the right tools. Steps to prioritize talent and technology: Provide employees with robust analytics tools for decision-making.

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Locus

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With the supply chains of all businesses going through a transformational shift, it is important for them to make tough decisions concerning logistics models. After the pandemic hit, flexible logistics models helped businesses to easily penetrate into dense urban markets at economical costs. What is fixed logistics?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

For companies with any complexity surrounding products, channels, or customers, no IBP process can be considered robust without employing SCP tools. ARC defines supply chain planning (SCP) products as including supply planning, demand planning/inventory optimization, and network planning. An optimal plan is not a perfect plan.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. These are obviously confidential meetings in a closed office by Supplier Conference Team Members.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The introduction of smoke-free products made the use of spreadsheet tools far less efficient in the capacity and sourcing planning as the new product categories had rapid growth. “We What PMI needed, considering the long planning horizons, was a digital and analytics network design and supply optimization tool.

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Log-hub

MARCH 7, 2025

The Key Elements of a Circular Supply Chain A successful circular economy model integrates multiple strategies to reduce waste and maximize resources. This model helps reduce e-waste while increasing product longevity. According to McKinsey, new business models like leasing and sharing could generate up to $4.5

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. It was a “win-win” partnership.

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AIMMS

JULY 27, 2015

However, many are finding that it is not the optimal technology for Supply Chain Planning and Optimization. Why ERP is Not the Best Technology for Supply Chain Planning and Optimization. When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

AIMMS has been in the market of prescriptive analytics (otherwise known as mathematical optimization) since 1989. Prescriptive analytics is a type of advanced analytics that optimizes decision-making by providing a recommended action. C loud-based platforms like ours have made the deployment of optimization models easier.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS to optimize flight routes for families in need. It’s proved to be a valuable tool during camp season.

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Parade

MARCH 7, 2022

We love to shine a spotlight on transportation and logistics companies that are making waves with new technology, bringing the supply chain into the future, and helping companies meet their goals. Web-Based SaaS Many of the big-name TMS systems are on-premises, but Tai TMS uses a software as a service model (SaaS). Even better?

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AIMMS

JUNE 20, 2017

Supply Chain Network Optimization is key to running an efficient and profitable operation today. But while the market has changed, network optimization hasn’t actually advanced much since the 1990s. Yet, supply chain network optimization technology is still just a richer version of the 90’s experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This business model provides many advantages: Processing big data efficiently. Data can be easily used for various applications such as detailed monitoring and analysis of operations, planning, optimizing stocks and use of resources or preparing recorded master data for other locations. Rapid integration. Access to latest features.

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