Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

The current AI landscape can be viewed as a series of wars,” where companies and organizations are battling for dominance across various technological and market battlefronts. Datacenter Hardware: The demand for powerful computing to train ever larger and more accurate AI models is insatiable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions. The prevailing strategy was to produce goods in low-cost countries and distribute them globally, optimizing for economies of scale.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Kevin is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Greenscreens.ai , a pricing platform specifically tailored for the truckload spot freight market. His expertise extends across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, energy efficiency, logistics, and technology applications. and Revenova, LLC. Greenscreens.ai Greenscreens.ai

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Enterprise IT is on the cusp of a transformation the likes of which we havent seen since the transition to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In fact, Id argue this transition to what is increasingly being dubbed Service-as-Software has more profound implications for industries and workforces than anything thats come before.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

From balancing cost-efficiency with ethical sourcing to enhancing transparency and integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR), businesses face mounting pressure to align their operations with sustainability, technology, and energy practices. The energy sector provides a compelling example of CSR-driven compliance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

manufacturer I know saw their import costs jump overnight, forcing a rethink of a decade-old sourcing strategy. An automotive company I collaborated with conducted detailed modeling of potential tariff impacts on semiconductor supply chains.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

ALOM operates out of 19 global locations to support its Fortune 500 customers in the technology, automotive, life sciences, and regulated industry sectors. Headquartered in Fremont, CA, USA, its teams of technology engineers and supply chain specialists operate globally from 19 locations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Let’s examine Amazon’s approach as well as the limitations of traditional supply chain planning, the operational benefits of AI, and the necessary steps for implementing AI-driven strategies. Organizations examine past sales trends, apply seasonal adjustments, and make forecasts based on historical models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Key strategies include: Electrification of Transport: The use of electric vehicles (EVs) for freight and last-mile delivery reduces emissions and operational costs. Retrofitting existing infrastructure with energy-efficient technologies further enhances sustainability efforts.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 9, 2022

Manufacturers rely on data and their ERP platform to answer critical questions: What are our inventory levels? Mid-market manufacturers need a tool that’s tailored to their needs. The BI tool needs to be able to easily pull all this data together for analysis. How much does it cost us to manufacture this product?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

All companies and agencies above are heavily investing in technology and tools to deliver packages faster and more efficiently. Companies will become increasingly dependent on digital tools to sort, track, and mitigate issues at the border. Gallium and germanium are used in semiconductors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Lean models alone are no longer sufficient. Resilience is the ability to respond to disruption while maintaining core operations, and more companies are shifting their strategies accordingly. Sudden tariff increases can quickly make a cost-optimized procurement strategy untenable, leaving companies scrambling to adjust.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. These are not static dashboards or simple visualizationstheyre living, data-rich models of real-world operations.

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Businesses managing complex shipping patterns can now structure freight costs using four matrix types, including weight-zone and weight-distance models. This advanced cost management capability offers a level of insight rarely found in route planning systems. Even more valuable is the synergy with the Freight Matrix App.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They promoted logistics to the level of core process and enabler of new business models and now view a thought-through logistics strategy as an opportunity to stand out by offering a better service level to their customers, such as same-day delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2022

The most common way to manage shopfloor complexity is to use a warehouse management system (WMS). The challenge is that traditional warehouse management systems on the market use 50-year-old scanning technology combined with sub-systems, like a labor management system, as a backbone to solve operational complexity.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As digital technologies embed themselves across supply chains, they will inevitably rewire existing business models into industry platforms. The question is not “if” or “when,” but “how” best to anticipate and get ahead of supply chain platform disruptions. The Role and Benefits of Supply Chain Platforms.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 30, 2024

Every ecommerce store relies on an assortment of vital components to survive and thrive, but ecommerce software is the heart of all these elements. Regardless of the size of your ecommerce brand, it doesn’t hurt to periodically reevaluate if the software tools you’re using are giving you everything you need.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For it to be an optimal solution, a mathematical model needs to be used. That model can then be used to analyze every new situation that arises. The model will help a company find a solution that is best for their relocated employees as a whole. Do we have a demand forecasting tool in place and, if so, how good is that forecast?

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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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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. The report outlines the tools with the highest transformational benefits and capabilities that are becoming standard business practices. Firefighting is the norm. What to prioritize.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As organizations continue to adapt to the roller-coaster ride of 2020, some leaders’ pre-pandemic IT strategies brought business resilience even as COVID-19 struck. Indeed, some organizations spent several years laying the foundations for data-driven strategy and remote operations even prior to COVID-19.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Technology for All In a retail era dominated by e-commerce giants, customer expectations have shifted towards instant product delivery at no cost. To meet these demands and ensure superior delivery experiences, retailers and carriers must leverage last-mile delivery technology.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2024

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.

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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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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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Locus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Despite the lessons learned from COVID-19, many businesses are yet to fully adopt strategies that would cushion them against such shocks. Companies relying on lean inventory models or single-region sourcing are particularly exposed. Platforms like Locus Control Tower enable proactive management of exceptions and delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

If there’s a bright spot anywhere it’s the fact that, as logistics challenges have grown, so has the availability of advanced technologies to manage these challenges. For logistics teams, digital control towers add maximum value when they’re integrated with the transportation management system (TMS). Warehouse Task Automation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Businesses today are required to deal with technological advancements occurring at a pace never experienced before. ERP systems continue to remain the epicenter of business systems. An ERP software system is often one of the most significant investments a company will have to make. Data insights.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Here are seven proven strategies every supply chain manager should explore to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive profitability. By leveraging predictive analytics and a just-in-time (JIT) inventory model, you can maintain optimal stock levels, which reduces storage costs and cuts down on waste from unsold items.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this blog post, we’ll discuss key strategies to help you navigate the shipping challenges of 2025 and beyond. Shifts in the Market: Pitney Bowes: In 2024, Pitney Bowes made headlines with aggressive pricing strategies. Strategies for Combating Rising Costs Don’t worry, though!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

(TSX: KXS) an end-to-end supply chain orchestration, today announced a new partnership that will deliver improved alignment of supply chain plans with business objectives and strategies for midmarket discrete manufacturing companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

The law requires importers to provide clear and convincing evidence of a forced-labor-free supply chain and tasks the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force with devising enforcement strategies. AI tools become more valuable when users can comprehend how the AI model arrived at its decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The transportation, logistics, and energy storage sectors are undergoing profound transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements, evolving consumer expectations, and the global pursuit of sustainability. As supply chains transition to a more circular and sustainable model, M&A activity in this domain is expected to intensify.

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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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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The goalposts are constantly moving due to factors like global disruptions, technological advancements, and evolving customer demands. Companies that rely on reactive strategies risk falling behind, while those that prioritize resilience are better equipped to thrive. Ensure ongoing training to adapt to new technologies and processes.

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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. Instead of static data, AI-powered systems continuously update matrices based on real-time inputs like demand fluctuations and shipping delays.

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