The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 16, 2022

and with the increasingly high expectations of brands and their customers, it must be a NETWORK of fulfillment nodes located close to the end customer. Joe and Esther discussed the omni-channel fulfillment network ….and

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Data Link Layer: Handles data transfer between connected nodes. Network Layer: Routing Across the Supply Chain In supply chains, this layer corresponds to the routing of goods and information across different nodes in the network. Each layer serves a particular unique function and interfaces with the layers both above and below it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The supply chain nodes which were once deemed to be relatively static have become far more dynamic in the recent past. The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In the post Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your Operations (Harvard Business Review, May 2015), the authors write, “With the size and complexity of supply chains soaring, a daunting challenge is confronting companies: identifying the critical nodes hidden within the vast expanse of their supply networks.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2020

Ports are critical nodes in global supply chains. Making sure that port-related supply chains operate smoothly is imperative for companies and nations. ElMarie Hugo from BlueYonder is an expert on these supply chains. In this interview, she shares her thoughts on making these supply chains work much better.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. Over the years, individual locations—the company has several manufacturing locations in Europe and North America—have behaved increasingly autonomously.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The first is what may be called “soft inventory allocation,” which means as orders are placed, the system will reserve the needed quantities of inventory in each node (warehouse, etc.) With that inventory visibility, the IMS can support two important processes.

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Stord

JULY 29, 2024

This center provides additional excellent middle-of-country, single node coverage and complements Stord’s Atlanta Headquarters. “In The 640,000 square foot capacity facility is the largest warehouse in Stord’s network and includes significant climate control storage, a pick mezzanine, pallet racking and robotic automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There can be multiple lead times within a supply chain, typically between each node or process along the way from raw materials, processing, and finally getting the customer their shipment. Lead time in the supply chain is the total time from when a customer order, or purchase order, is placed and when the goods are received.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The effort to move closer to the customer – by virtually all businesses – means supply chain networks of old must be replaced with more links, more nodes, and smaller, more frequent shipments. It is forcing companies to rethink how they plan, optimize, execute, and collaborate with trading partners.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

Response to node failures is robust. The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. Attributes of sourcing strategies that focus effectiveness: High Adaptability. High Responsiveness.

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Shipchain

JULY 17, 2020

Validators operating nodes will have to fund their wallets with active SHIP and migrate to the mainnet. We are planning to set a minimum delegation fee on the network of 15% to avoid a race to the bottom by validators and to protect the security of the network. We encourage validators to remain at the 25% mark, however.

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AIMMS

JUNE 5, 2019

Tens of thousands of demand nodes, 2,000 supply nodes and industrial pricing are all synchronized to best effect every 15 minutes. AI’s probabilistic reasoning and optimization capabilities are expressed over a digital representation of 2000 machines to best meet demand, while simultaneously shaping demand through flexible pricing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

At each node – truck to port, offloading the truck at a port terminal, goods loaded on ship, etc. But what shippers need is visibility across all nodes and modes, and good predictive times of arrival that account for an end-to-end journey down to the purchase order and SKU level.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We call such a location a node in the supply chain. There is then a series of such nodes or locations to finally get to the end customer Transportation is moving whatever comes out of one location to the next location. That might mean transporting something from a manufacturer to a distributor, or from a distributor to a customer.

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Ship Monk

JULY 18, 2024

Build in redundancies, such as multiple quality checks, multi-node fulfillment, and multiple shipping partners to reduce errors and risk. Distribute inventory across multiple shipping nodes to reduce emissions whenever possible. Make sure your fulfillment team(s) have the capacity to scale, while maintaining speed and accuracy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The final design reduced the total order cycle time (order to receipt), changed order frequencies, changed order volumes, added an upper node, and implemented a cross-dock solution. The same “If” statement was repeated for a host of financial and operational metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Supply Chain Design: A process where nodes, modes, flows, and policies driving a supply chain are defined, reviewed, optimized, and aligned to business objectives. Here’s why, and what your organization should be thinking about instead. But first, let’s get on the same page: Supply chain design solutions and definitions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

Supply Chain Design wherein nodes, modes, flows, and policies driving a supply chain are reviewed and realigned to business objectives is emerging as a discipline to build resilience into S&OP. Hence, it serves us well to focus on making the S&OP process more resilient in addressing disruptions.

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This means we’ll rely on public validation nodes, which typically requires that network transaction fees (in SHIP) will be used to pay validators for performing work. Target # of nodes. Our blockchain will be decentralized, censorship-resistant and trustless. Delegated Proof of Stake. Delegated Proof of Stake.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 30, 2022

We’re going to look at transportation shortly, so for now let’s concentrate on the “distribution nodes.” ” Distribution nodes are the warehouses, distribution centres, and perhaps cross-dock or flow-through facilities that make up the static part of your network. Warehouse Costs.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have fantastically accurate information available quickly about all sorts of things in the supply chain — but these nodes of data-gathering are like narrowly-focused spotlights on an otherwise dark stage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Retailers can enhance the use of their many omnichannel nodes to accommodate returns, using technology to determine which products should be sent back to where. Route orchestration and optimization can increase capacity utilization for trucks carrying less than a full load to take on return deliveries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Transportation from these new distribution centers to their final destination must also be balanced using data transparency across all nodes. This requires intelligent urban logistics networks consisting of various regional and urban warehouses. This is a requirement to effectively satisfy today’s consumer demands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

But it applied them in greater detail to aggregate supply and demand across numerous nodes. It utilized these linear programming concepts I found so impressive in business school. And these were enterprise applications, not spreadsheets. I thought to myself, “this stuff is great.” And I still think it is great.

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Bringg

JANUARY 23, 2018

As a timely example, this week Alibaba announced the launch of their own cryptocurrency mining platform called “P2P Nodes” as a way to make sure that their sheer scale doesn’t hold them back from innovating – trying and testing new technologies that could redefine the future of e-commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Having such options allow them to get to the market faster, turning adversities into advantages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Identify where your nodes and suppliers’ suppliers are located, and even your third-tier suppliers. However, APQC identified four key steps that successful organization took during the Covid-19 pandemic to help mitigate supplier risk. Map your supply chain. This is a good process to do even when there is not a crisis.

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Stord

MAY 14, 2024

It has consolidated V Shred’s prior three-node model into a more efficient two-node network, with more delivery carrier options and competitive parcel rates, resulting in inventory cost savings while still improving time-in-transit. V Shred also expects further savings from its packaging spend with Stord.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 1, 2019

We’re taking people off the email copy list and making them nodes on the blockchain,” explained Lars Ulrich from IBM. With so many people revising the document and so many emails going back and forth, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of the changes made, who made them, and which attachment is the most current version.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

A blockchain is made up of a network of computers, otherwise known as “nodes.” A node, or computer, is connected to the network through authorizing and communicating transactions through a client (which completes these transactions). This simple question has a very complex answer, one that can be difficult to understand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There may be several nodes that are critical and single sourced thus elevating the risk profile of the supply chain. There might be millions of possible combinations for adding lanes, changing modes, or consolidating volume, making it difficult for modelers to identify which scenarios will provide the highest cost savings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One week, the model may show the capacity of an upstream node as being 200 units, the next week it can show 700 units. But once this extended supply chain capacity data is available, supply chain models can model not just the internal supply chain, but the extended value chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Such opportunities will involve switching modes of transportation, or skipping nodes of the network altogether, while increasing the speed to market and reducing the Cost-to-Serve.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

“We find companies increasingly saying ‘My planning system is solving the problem that it was put in place to solve, but it’s not really answering the questions and solving the problems that we have today,’” said Allison Fowler, Senior Director of Planning at LLamasoft in a recent episode of Talking Logistics.

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Logistics Manager

JUNE 15, 2020

” GEODIS can tap on CALISTA ’s global connectivity to more than 60 Customs nodes to fulfill their compliance requirements. Using CALISTA , GEODIS can better ensure timely and accurate submission of trade declarations and permits, thus facilitating cross-border freight activities and expediting the release of goods.”

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