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LTL in a Post-Yellow World with Curtis Garrett

The Logistics of Logistics

About Understand LTL The Understand LTL education brand is a new initiative that is focused on simplifying the LTL industry and helping people to build the mental models in their mind to think about LTL clearly. For carriers, it presents an opportunity to expand their market share and increase their profitability.

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At St. Luke’s, Supply Chain Excellence Depends Upon Doctor Involvement

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Wengert explained that medical chains have two types of procurement models. The first is the command-and-control model.” In this model, “the supply chain goes out and negotiates a contract on spine implants and says to doctors, ‘You’re now going to use Medtronic.’ You cannot sustain that” model. “No

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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations examine past sales trends, apply seasonal adjustments, and make forecasts based on historical models. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. This reduces excess inventory while maintaining service levels.

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Gemini’s Hub and Spoke Model and the Risks Associated With It

MTS Logistics

This year, I attended the TPM conference, where I listened to details during the presentations where the new alliance is aiming for 90% schedule reliability. The model that Gemini will be using is called the “hub and spoke” model which is used widely in different industries. The push for 90% is quite ambitious.

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WMS Past, Present and Future: Where Is the Technology Heading?

Supply Chain Brain

Predictive AI models will power smarter inventory distribution, greater pick path efficiency and dynamic order grouping, thereby improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating throughput.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? I understand your team took ownership of this model. Yeah, so there was an existing Brewing Capacity Model which lived in an Excel file. I’m curious to learn more about your vision for the model. How did the model come together? .

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Looking to the Military Model to Improve Commercial Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Military operations have always had an urgency to their supply-line management, something that has not always been present in commerce.

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