Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

The industrial sectorparticularly supply chain management, is facing unprecedented complexity. Lets delve into the core concepts of AI Agents and multi-agent workflows, their relevance to what ARC Advisory Group calls Industrial AI , and their potential to revolutionize supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It has led supply chain vendors to discuss how they currently use artificial intelligence. Further, virtually every supplier of supply chain solutions is eager to explain the ongoing investments they are making in artificial intelligence. When it came out, ChatGPT seemed like magic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Imagine a world where supply chains run with complete transparency, efficiency, and automationwhere every transaction, shipment, and payment are executed seamlessly without intermediaries slowing things down. For decades, supply chain management has encountered bureaucratic bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and trust issues.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

If youve followed our blog over the years, youll know that weve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why its vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for companies facing expectations from investors, regulators, customers, and employees. Integrating ESG across supply chains presents clear operational and strategic challenges that require focused attention. Data collection and verification remain areas of concern.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Autonomous systems are designed to reduce the risks of human error, improving both safety and reliability in fleet operations. Autonomous vehicles will also facilitate greater integration across the supply chain, improving real-time communication and collaboration between suppliers, carriers, and dispatchers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Brad is the Founder of JBF Consulting , a supply chain execution strategy and systems integrator to logistics-intensive companies of every size and any industry. Brad is a highly recognized senior supply chain leader with over 23 years of managing, designing, and implementing freight transport technology.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many risks and uncertainties in supply chain networks. How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? Current Technologies in Use for Supply Chain Network Design . Read on for common use cases. .

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

How to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Your Supply Chain 1. Supplier Integration and Collaboration Building relationships with suppliers who are committed to sustainability is key to reducing your supply chain carbon footprint. These will require thinking through your specific supply chain, resources and organisation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

In most industries, supply chains have become increasingly complex. This complexity has introduced gaps in visibility and responsiveness that traditional systems werent designed to handle. As a result, many organizations are moving toward supply chain orchestration as a structured method for improving coordination.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2023

Trey Closson is the Co-founder and CEO at Amplio, an Atlanta based tech firm builds supply chain resilience for electronics manufacturers. Trey and his Co-founder Taha Zinifi started Amplio in Summer 2021 to help solve one of the most critical supply challenges facing the industry. Access diverse sources of supply.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Global supply chains have been tested repeatedly by a series of disruptive events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S.-China In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 22, 2023

About Matt Hertz Matt Hertz , the Co-Founder of Second Marathon, established the ecommerce logistics consulting firm after a successful career building and scaling intricate supply chain operations. Their mission is to guide brands in finding the ideal partner to build, scale, and manage their supply chains.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Supply chain professionals know it can be extremely challenging to drive day-to-day operational excellence and pursue innovation at the same time. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. Network Design.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2023

Rik Schrader and Joe Lynch discuss logistics and distribution transportation, which is one of the specialties of Rik’s company, Körber Business Area Supply Chain. About the Körber Business Area Supply Chain Supply chains are growing more complex by the day. Conquer supply chain complexity – with Körber.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 4, 2024

Andy is the Vice President of Product at MVMNT , a Chicago based TMS firm that is developing technology to meet the needs of smaller brokerages, giving them access to features typically only available to large enterprises. Andy is a graduate of Iowa State University’s Supply Chain Management program.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions with Shanna Greathouse and Tony Nichols. Tony Nichols , Shanna Greathouse , and Joe Lynch discuss overcoming supply chain disruptions. Tony and Shanna work at CarrierDirect , a company that specializes in helping companies minimize supply chain risk. About Tony Nichols.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

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 Now for those statistics I mentioned. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In his current role, Erez is managing few departments including industrial real-estate, product development, engineering design, maintenance, and the Maersk Innovation Center. Erez enjoy meeting and learning new cultures and can speak Hebrew (native), English & Thai fluently and he is at a beginner level in Japanese. About Maersk.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Chris Caplice and Joe Lynch discuss MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a wide range of logistics and supply chain topics. He is also the founder of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that focuses on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. He received a Ph.D.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2024

Supporting hypergrowth while reducing supply chain logistics emissions is not an easy feat. Microsoft Datacenters comprise a globally distributed infrastructure designed to power the Microsoft Cloud. Meanwhile, Microsoft opened roughly 100 new datacenters in 2023, and now has over 300 of them.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

Its services range from the “shelter” model, where the company provides real estate, administrative, and legal services while the client manufactures their goods, to “contract manufacturing,” where the company manufactures the client’s design and specification.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We often get asked what kind of return on investment you should expect to see when using our network design technology. Justifying the investment: AIMMS Network Design ROI. 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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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2021

Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares. Eric Ristow , Luis Pajares , and Joe Lynch discuss reimagining the food supply chain. In this role, he ensures custom-built software, as well as SaaS applications, meet the needs of Lineage’s customers. About Eric Ristow. Luis holds a B.A.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares. Eric Ristow , Luis Pajares , and Joe Lynch discuss reimagining the food supply chain. In this role, he ensures custom-built software, as well as SaaS applications, meet the needs of Lineage’s customers. About Eric Ristow. Luis holds a B.A.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Luke is the Chief Growth Officer of The Rubic , a warehouse-agnostic, autonomous robotic system, designed to operate seamlessly within existing facilities. With AI-driven vision systems, unique arm designs, and state-of-the-art mobility, Freedom Pick ensures faster, safer, and more reliable warehouse operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Per $1 billion in company revenues, no supply chain application has a better return on investment (ROI) than network design! The larger the supply chain, the bigger the payout. This company had undergone a network design project in 2018 with Solvoyo. This supply chain spanned across 24 nations.

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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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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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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

John’s vision also includes the Pathfinder program, designed to onboard and continuously educate candidates throughout their careers. This talent shortage is a significant contributor to disruptions in global supply chains. Education and talent resource company for supply chain industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

According to Bloomberg , the coffee supply chain is struggling with constrained supply and increase in prices is inevitable. Traditional, linear supply chains struggle to adapt. This article explores how adaptive supply chains can help businesses thrive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. The pandemic brought home the need for companies to run agile and resilient supply chains. Supply chain agility reflects a company’s ability to respond quickly to surges or plummeting demand. No plan is perfect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2022

Supply chain sustainability can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. As I have written about before, supply chain sustainability , or the notion of going green, is a hot topic as companies and countries look at their overall carbon footprint and look for ways to be more environmentally friendly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Supply chain management has been in the news. But the intricacies of supply chain management are beyond the grasp of most. One key solution used to help manage complex supply chains is supply chain planning (SCP). Supply chain planning is a complex solution.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2020

Naval Sabharwal and Joe Lynch discuss why using one integrated suite for all logistics operations is the best approach for driving logistics and supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. When looking for a technological and digital partnership you have to take into account design capabilities, flexibility and investment capabilities.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2024

Tom Curee and Joe Lynch discuss TIA Technovations, a logistics and transportation conference designed to explore technology trends and innovation driven by logistics industry leaders. There’s no other event out there designed by 3PLs for 3PLs, so don’t miss it. When: April 10-13, 2024.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 20, 2025

In today’s competitive ecommerce landscape, a streamlined supply chain is crucial for success. A well-optimized supply chain can help you reduce costs, improve delivery times, and enhance customer satisfaction. This blog post will explore key strategies for streamlining your supply chain from sourcing to delivery.

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