Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2022

As anyone who’s experienced change in supply chain technology over the past five-to-ten years can attest, we’ve come a long way, baby. Artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, robotics, mobile apps, big data, the cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The software is still under your control.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Curtis is on a career-long mission to advance LTL via technology, process and relationships while simplifying and demolishing the silos that have existed for decades. Curtis’ career has taken him through LTL operations – both driver and dock, Weights and Research, pricing, yield management, strategy, sales, and technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. As a result, the company had to lay off workers and reevaluate its entire strategy – even as tariffs are paused – due to a lack of supply chain flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlined their proposal for a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), emphasizing streamlined governance and technological transformation. Employees will increasingly focus on managing and optimizing automated systems, rather than performing manual tasks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

While ProMat has always been a showcase of cutting-edge technology, the 2025 edition felt particularly focused on solutions designed to alleviate the strain on human capital, with robotics taking center stage as a powerful and increasingly viable answer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But I was not well-informed on the breadth and depth of the company’s warehouse technology investments or the overarching technology strategy. In retrospect, I had been informed about a number of GXO technology deployments but hadn’t pulled it together conceptually. Source: GXO Logistics Q3 2021 Investor Presentation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The hype usually revolves around just one item and can easily be managed by a modern logistics system. The warehouse technologies for manual, semi- or fully automatic solutions are perfectly balanced, and all processes run smoothly. Logistics software is your ace in the hand, before, during and after the peaks.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 8, 2025

Manufacturers have adopted innovative solutions and technologies to deal with these issues. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in manufacturing ERP have recently added a new realm of technology that can address the complex operations found in manufacturing. What is AI and ML?

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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. End-to-End Supply Chain Planning Platform The end-to-end process begins with data.

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Ship Monk

JULY 25, 2024

Ecommerce brands selling through third-party marketplaces are able to expand their product availability and selection without spending extra on inventory while earning commissions from sales on those external platforms. Target’s Motivation So why would a large enterprise like Target make such a pivotal pivot in its selling strategy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2024

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, companies including Hyundai, Nikola , and Bosch presented their most recent fuel cells and hydrogen technology innovations, indicating a potential comeback for this environmentally friendly energy choice. This resurgence might be influenced by the announcement of a $7 billion U.S.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The integration of drone technology holds the potential to revolutionize how businesses approach pest management, presenting both opportunities and considerations. However, the adoption of this consumer-driven technology faces hurdles, including technical limitations and regulatory concerns that must be navigated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

For this reason, supply chain solutions have become an integral part of business strategies to cope with these ever-increasing complexities. However, there is the difficult question of which technology to implement to make better use of your warehouse. Use of technology. So, how can you tackle this task? Physical space.

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Freightos

JUNE 17, 2024

In the first issue of our AI popup newsletter series, Matt Motsick, CEO of Rippey AI and a long-time logistics technology leader, explores buying or building AI models. Matt was previously the founder/CEO of Catapult International, the industry leading ocean shipping rate management system.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Competitor intelligence: Distribution strategies and network designs of your competitors. The Importance of Time and Technology By gathering and analysing the data weve listed above, or as much of it as possible, you will gain credible intelligence to inform decisions about your distribution network design.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this blog, Max discusses everything you need to know about the marketplace model and why shippers should adopt it. The Marketplace Model: A Proven Model for Success & Why the Shipping Industry Should Adopt It. So what makes this model so successful for let's say, consumers? A History of Success.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

She is an MBTI Master Practitioner and is known as a thought leader in integrating psychological type theory with other coaching models. Through coaching and proven assessment tools, Ann helps people become aware of their personality, emotional intelligence, and how they manage their brain energy. Strategy 1 – Be present!

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But beyond that, shippers today also expect their logistics partners to provide them with technology solutions, timely and accurate data, and business intelligence and analytics capabilities. What capabilities are most important, especially from a transportation management system? TMS enabling technology.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Ultimately, your voice must become one with B2B e-commerce technology if you want to retain a working relationship with B2B companies. Businesses Want Platforms, Not Individual Systems. In the past, software-as-a-service (SaaS) grew to dominate the manufacturing and warehousing industries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Körber Supply Chain Software (Körber SCS) hosted its 2023 Elevate User Conference in Orlando this week. Körber acquired enVista’s Enspire Commerce platform and its Freight Audit and Payment (FAP) service in 2022. Körber acquired enVista’s Enspire Commerce platform and its Freight Audit and Payment (FAP) service in 2022.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 21, 2025

Matrices are powerful mathematical tools that play a crucial role in supply chain management. Applications of Matrices in Supply Chain They serve as a versatile tool for solving a wide range of challenges in supply chain management. Matrices can model stock levels, reorder points, and safety stock across multiple locations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Machine learning (ML) techniques can be applied to provide more accurate transit information and estimated arrival times (ETAs) by analyzing the historical shipment data in your transportation management systems. The model learns continuously and can adapt to changing conditions in the network.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

What could and should you do with this technology? with its familiar integration of technology and automation, were beginning to fade. Alex had seen the wonders of electronic data interchange, warehouse management systems, and transportation management systems. As the industry pivots from Logistics 3.0 to Logistics 4.0,

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

With the aid of modern supply chain technology applications, you can create better visibility within your supply chain , which will enable you to have more control over your business and stay ahead of the competition. Computerized Shipping and Tracking. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. Just a handful of optimization and operations research experts ran models of the network and made recommendations. The technology is reaching such an inflection point. This capability will be game changing.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. History of Supply Chain Management: Logistics Comes of Age.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 17, 2023

This time last year artificial intelligence (AI) was an obscure, mainly academic, technology to most of us. In the last few months, however, there has been an avalanche of stories and articles about amazingly powerful AI tools that use everyday language. The potential and challenges of generative AI are upon us.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

She knew the company was innovative; after all, Coupa created a new software enterprise category: business spend management. Coupa’s BSM platform is based on a public cloud that connects 3500 buyers to ~10 million suppliers. Coupa also has a supply chain collaboration solution that runs on the platform. Turner said.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

upper management supply chain professionals were asked to assess the impact of issues relating to costing systems and practices. The report uncovers common barriers to creating useful costing systems and presents a solution that more closely aligns the supply chain and accounting and finance business units.

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

More Resources Home TPM24: Key Takeaways on Geopolitics, Technology and Other Drivers of Ocean Freight in 2024 Judah Levine March 27, 2024 S&P Global’s TPM24 is the major annual North American gathering of shippers, forwarders, carriers and logistic technology providers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Unlike some of the other trends articles we have covered at Logistics Viewpoints, which take a deeper dive into technology and application specific trends, this article looked at the top trends executives need to be paying attention to before their strategic planning meetings commence. So what can we do to make models more useful?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

In fact, transportation management is our specialty as we’ve been providing our shipper customers with a web-based transportation management system and managed transportation services since 1998. Finally, as expected, technology and transportation management systems were also a popular subject. Read the Full Blog Post.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll summarize some key learnings I drew from the event and share some insights on Demand Driven supply chains and the industry’s technology landscape. . The underlying theme in all presentations, and my conversations at the event, was digital transformation. Technology and priorities.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Our goal is to not only talk about how they can make transportation management more effective through our blog articles about technology and best practices but to also inform them about their own industry and how they might use this information to better their companies. 1850: American System of Manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology. Moving data between systems was complex and laborious. In other words, visibility is an enabler. Lesson learned.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management. What does this mean from a technology standpoint?

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