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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Log-hub

AUGUST 5, 2024

Analysing these heat maps reveals patterns and trends in customer distribution, which can influence strategic decisions on warehouse placement, distribution routes, and inventory strategies. release, new KNIME Nodes have been introduced, including Location Planning, Network Design Plus , and Supply Chain Map. With the Log-hub 4.3

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Their responses revealed several emerging trends. Trend toward multiple DCs. This allows them to realize the benefits of a multi-node network without the associated overhead commitment. The post Omnichannel is Trending Toward Multi-Site Distribution appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News. Related White Paper.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 25, 2024

This sharp increase continues a trend of worsening congestion at the port this year. As a critical node in global supply chains , the increased congestion at Ningbo-Zhoushan underscores the port’s perpetual struggle with high traffic volumes. Out of 11 analysed ports, 5 reported MoM and QoQ increases. days this quarter.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, the rapid shifts that companies are going through given the aforementioned trends, progressive companies are laying a robust data foundation and enabling a digital twin of the physical supply chain so they can conduct Design exercises on demand with increasing frequency. We are indeed living in interesting times!

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Locus

APRIL 1, 2022

Market trends also continue to evolve faster than ever. Location intelligence – Provides the accurate placement of supply chain nodes, warehouses, and distribution hubs. Globally, the end customer continues to demand their deliveries in ever-shorter time frames.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2024

These initiatives are not only beneficial for the environment but also align with global trends towards more sustainable business practices, positioning Maersk as a leader in the green logistics movement.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Performance Leaders Have Greater Real-Time Inventory Visibility Across Supply Chain Nodes. Across virtually every supply chain node, a greater percentage of Above Average Performers reported having real-time visibility of inventory compared to Average or Below Performers.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Determine the ideal number of nodes and warehouse service level. The rising trend of express delivery demand requests from consumers has pushed businesses to improve their warehouse service levels. One way to achieve this is to add a warehouse in each of the major demand areas.

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Log-hub

JUNE 5, 2024

Integration with KNIME Nodes and APIs offers advanced freight cost calculation, simulation, and transport cost evaluation across various shipment levels. The Freight Matrix App has evolved from a pure Excel-based tool to a cloud-based platform, fostering collaboration, customization, and transparency in freight management. STILL CURIOUS?

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Log-hub

JUNE 5, 2024

Integration with KNIME Nodes and APIs offers advanced freight cost calculation, simulation, and transport cost evaluation across various shipment levels. The Freight Matrix App has evolved from a pure Excel-based tool to a cloud-based platform, fostering collaboration, customization, and transparency in freight management.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

One of the trends I’ve been writing and talking about is how the clockspeeds of every industry are accelerating and how companies are having a hard time realigning their processes, organizational structures, and technology platforms to keep up with this rapid pace of change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Globalization, nearshoring and friendshoring trends are amplifying the supply chain risks. There may be several nodes that are critical and single sourced thus elevating the risk profile of the supply chain. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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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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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Multi-node order distribution – A 3PL with multiple fulfillment center locations gives you the option to distribute inventory across the country, or around the world. ShipMonk’s first-party network of twelve locations puts your inventory within 2-day delivery of every major city in the US, the UK and Europe.

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Bringg

AUGUST 4, 2020

Over the last 30 years, I have seen dozens of technology trends predicted as the Next Big Thing, and then disappear into the abyss of innovation. Now more than ever, the challenge for logistics leaders is to capitalize on the right technology trends at the right time, to measurably improve their efficiency or revenues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2023

Limitations in modeling the real world Over the years products, consumers and markets have grown complex and this trend was accelerated by COVID-19 in terms how and where customers want to interact with brands and products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Concurrency combined with AI is the breakthrough, because it connects islands of isolation and aligns the nodes of your supply chain. One trend is AI moving from “artisanal to industrial,” as companies adopt platforms with the capabilities they need already built in.

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Shipchain

JANUARY 2, 2020

And because public blockchains are backed up by the whole Ethereum network, with the entire community required to verify every node, supply chain security is boosted. As new trends and technologies continue to come into play, so will new security threats to your supply chain. This can help make data breaches a thing of the past.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2022

So as it moves through each node in the supply chain, it’s akin to checking in, and you’re measuring these things like greenhouse gas emissions or water impact, or even material circularity. And 3 Future Supply Chain Trends. So those are the three key trends that I’m seeing right now in the future of supply chain.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 16, 2018

DHL in cooperation with Global Technology Consultant, Accenture have released a trend report on the potential to transform the logistics sector using blockchain technology.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transportation costs—driven by increases in all modes and nodes—reached $1.39 The major ocean liners saw combined global operating profits of $215 billion in 2022, but the trend has lost steam, and 2023 profits are projected at $43 billion, an 80% year-over-year decrease. trillion in 2022, representing 9.1% of the national GDP.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Its cloud-based Luminate platform seamlessly manages all nodes of the supply chain across planning, execution and commerce on one unified platform. The company counts more than 3,000 global customers including 65 of the top 100 retailers, 48 of the top manufacturers, and 9 of the top 10 global third-party logistics companies.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2019

Our 2018 study tells us a greater percentage of Above Average Performers have “High Confidence” in inventory accuracy across all supply chain nodes compared to Average & Below Performers. The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

What factors are driving this trend? The ability to connect the dots between the nodes in that ecosystem is the next step forward in visibility. Over the past few years there have been many advancements in freight visibility technology, particularly in trucking.

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 20, 2023

Transportation costs—driven by increases in all modes and nodes—reached $1.39 Major ocean liners saw combined global operating profits of $215 billion in 2022, but the trend has lost steam, and 2023 profits are projected at $43 billion, an 80% year-over-year decrease. trillion in 2022, representing 9.1% of the national GDP.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 20, 2021

It also means that disruptions at a single supply chain node can have a butterfly effect on all activities downstream. While demand can be reasonably forecasted based on historical trends, they are never as precise as auto supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2018

In a research brief about blockchain , CB Insights also highlights scalability as an issue: Nodes holding copies of the blockchain receive constant updates. These nodes are distributed around the world. Because of this, blockchains have high latency (latency is the amount of time it takes for data to move through the network).

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Costs have continued to fluctuate throughout 2021 and are currently trending up. In turn, logistics providers, too, must become more flexible, more customer-focused, better able to foresee change and propose alternative solutions across modes and nodes, and more strategic in taking advantage of opportunities," according to the report. "In

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Logistics in War

JUNE 29, 2023

A litany of problems leap out at us as the trend of the securitisation, if not militarisation, of supply-chains gains momentum. We, as military logisticians and a small proportion of larger discussions about national security in our own nations, are concerned with where things are made and by whom.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 12, 2018

At the same time, there is an acquisitions trend among competitors, with only four or five major companies expected to still be in the market by 2020. Blocks of information are distributed and accessed by several hub points, called “nodes”, that support a network. Blockchain is likewise advancing in the logistics industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

And secondly, is it wise to build ever more distribution centres, vital nodes in the economy of the nation, on increasingly vulnerable, if attractively flat, flood plains?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2017

Factors like global trade and a customization trend in manufacturing have altered the “straight shot” supply chain forever. What would happen if something catastrophic happened to that node? Times Have Changed For Supply Chains. Is there a point where multiple supply channels pass through a single location in your chain?

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Digitalization, as an industry trend in the logistics world, has emerged quite late. Digitalization refers to using advanced technologies to integrate physical and digital worlds through a seamless exchange of information occurring at different supply chain nodes.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 12, 2018

DHL has released a trend report in cooperation with Accenture, a leading global technology consultant, on blockchain technology’s potential to transform the logistics industry. DHL and Accenture created a blockchain-based serialization prototype with nodes in six geographies to track pharmaceuticals across the supply chain.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

They’re recognizing that a multi-node network can help to control costs and improve service to customers. Following is an excerpt from the 2018 Distribution Network Trends Report… Common DC Network Challenges. August 28, 2018 ·. By Saddle Creek Logistics Services.

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