Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2022

Another way to solve operational complexity is by adopting new business models. One of the most compelling new models is software built upon location awareness and in-motion resource management that intelligently automates manual decisions to decrease complexity.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

ALOM seamlessly integrates digital and financial streams into the physical supply chain, deploying e-commerce and payment solutions, visibility tools, digital delivery tools, data management, and strong back-end systems, all while producing and fulfilling goods worldwide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 1, 2024

In an era where resilience and adaptability are key to survival, technology has become the bedrock upon which supply chain professionals build their strategies. These tools are helping businesses advance operations, enhance efficiency and drive growth, irrespective of the volatile economic market conditions. The answer lies in data.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 20, 2021

There’s always been tension with the optimization technologies used for fleets or common carrier transportation. However, not all companies have the fortitude or the skills internally to exploit more sophisticated optimization technologies. It’s not that any optimization vendor wants to create complex products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Similarly, UPS uses its ORION system, which integrates real-time and historical data to optimize delivery routes, saving fuel and enhancing delivery reliability. Real-time route optimization allows fleets to adapt to dynamic conditions such as traffic and weather, minimizing fuel consumption and delivery delays.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Optimizing truckload freight spend is essential in today’s freight market. Knowing the following key tactics and using the proper tools will help sustain long-term savings. Simultaneously, brokers may apply the index due to their unique blend of both shipper and carrier characteristics, depending on business model and demands.

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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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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Inventory Control Techniques that use Stock Optimization Best Practices. So we thought we’d focus on the lesser known topic of ‘stock optimization’ – this is an inventory control technique that’s becoming more popular with inventory managers to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. What is stock optimization?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Many companies are achieving this transformation by adopting modular, elastic DC technologies – including AI and robotics – that provide continuous warehouse optimization without replacing their current monolithic and static warehouse systems. Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 13, 2020

In a perfect world, supply chain managers would be able to foresee every possible risk and threat to their supply chain and have a strategy prepared to successfully address any challenges when the moment came. Optimize Inventory. Prepare for Upcoming Supply Chain Risks. What were your biggest challenges in 2020?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 9, 2024

Over the years, AI capabilities for prediction, clustering, segmentation, and more have accelerated supply chain strategies, automating daily operations and augmenting data-driven intelligent decision support. A basic form of probabilistic modeling has long been used in demand planning. The supply chain is no exception.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

For companies with any complexity surrounding products, channels, or customers, no IBP process can be considered robust without employing SCP tools. ARC defines supply chain planning (SCP) products as including supply planning, demand planning/inventory optimization, and network planning. An optimal plan is not a perfect plan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Test your resiliency through digital twins and scenario planning: Using a digital twin to model disruption scenarios, simulate and identify the most critical failure points as well as customers and products more exposed to external shocks in supply and demand. Conduct this resiliency test for all categories of products and suppliers.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2024

What strategies can businesses employ to optimize these costs, enabling them to streamline operations and enhance efficiency? By analyzing historical trends, demand patterns, and performance metrics, businesses can make informed decisions to optimize inventory levels, minimize excess stock, and enhance resource utilization.

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Stord

MAY 3, 2018

Amazon, Walmart, and other leading enterprises win by ensuring that their product is close to the customer, optimized for the best shipping time, and held in the correct quantity. To scale, an optimized distribution network is required to meet customer expectations and business growth targets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

What seems to be meant by many vendors is that their solution is a platform because they offer development tools that allow their customers or partners can use to build extensions to their solutions. In its ideal form, these planning processes should help leaders align strategy, financial considerations, and supply chain strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2022

A new generation of advanced solutions , enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) – has created new supply chain models and new work processes that are purpose-built for today’s extreme uncertainty. This might sound too good to be true, especially to companies still using outdated tools and manual processes.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

In a VMI model, part of the equation is the inbound & outbound flow of the inventory. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. It was a “win-win” partnership.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

However, advancements in technology have made it possible for any company to automate and optimize their last-mile delivery operations. The High Cost of Ignoring Delivery Optimization Failing to utilize technology for optimizing delivery processes comes with a steep price.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

AIMMS has been in the market of prescriptive analytics (otherwise known as mathematical optimization) since 1989. Prescriptive analytics is a type of advanced analytics that optimizes decision-making by providing a recommended action. C loud-based platforms like ours have made the deployment of optimization models easier.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2021

Marine optimization technologies help address all these issues. Applying optimization technology in a practical environment increases efficiency while lowering the pollution footprint across the marine supply chain. Marine optimization process technology provides end-to-end visibility and data capture. Any safety considerations.

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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. Green Logistics: Optimizing transportation routes, consolidating shipments, and employing energy-efficient vehicles to reduce emissions.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The supply chain division fulfills 40,000 individual customer orders every day, making sure that 32,000 engineers get the tools, parts and equipment they need to deliver support and services. It has helped us dynamically optimize our engineer sources as we go. It has helped us dynamically optimize our engineer sources as we go.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. It is critical that supply chain design tools model real world complexity to effectively model the risks. are most exposed to risk?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

Suddenly, the situation changes, whether because of a new company strategy, ever-present retail dynamics or possibly due to a completely new influencing factor. During periods of normal business, this means that our optimized warehouse only needs to perform at its highest level for a short period of time.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 2, 2024

AI is a term for computing capabilities that are perceived as representing intelligence, including image and video recognition, prescriptive modelling, smart automation, advanced simulation, and complex analytics. Recommendation tools: help workers identify the best methods for tasks, e.g. creating maintenance instructions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 17, 2023

BI is a powerful tool that can help companies drive informed decisions, improve their planning processes, and maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace. This can lead to improved quality, reduced waste, and optimized production processes. This enables managers to take swift action and keep production on track.

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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. If a company can specialize in core competencies with AI tools, it creates a high barrier for another company to compete against.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Unisys has unveiled ‘Unisys Logistics Optimization’ , a new quantum-powered solution designed to help organizations solve complex logistics optimization challenges in seconds. This is where Unisys Logistics Optimization steps in.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2015

Lean systems have provided a formidable operating strategy for leaders determined to achieve and maintain optimal operational systems and customer satisfaction levels. There are multiple good models for lean manufacturing operations. And, most models are applicable to any business size or integrated corporate structure.

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CLX Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

To meet these demands, shippers need the right supply chain management tools with the flexibility to grow and scale as needed. The right supply chain management tools help not only to enable shippers to provide better customer service and on-time deliveries but also to remain competitive with everyone else in the market.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 8, 2024

Choosing the right pricing strategy is essential for businesses aiming to thrive in competitive landscapes and secure a prominent position within local markets. In this blog, we’re going to cover why every service business owner needs to prioritize pricing strategies and discuss three of the most common and strategic pricing models.

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Log-hub

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s complex and interconnected global economy, managing supply chains has evolved into a sophisticated discipline that requires advanced tools and strategies. This blog post delves into the intricacies of multi-tier supply chain analytics and optimization, exploring its significance, methodologies, benefits, and challenges.

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Log-hub

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s complex and interconnected global economy, managing supply chains has evolved into a sophisticated discipline that requires advanced tools and strategies. This blog post delves into the intricacies of multi-tier supply chain analytics and optimization, exploring its significance, methodologies, benefits, and challenges.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 24, 2023

The Association for Supply Chain Management’s Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model provides seven primary processes that will ensure order fulfilment is carried out properly and efficiently — Orchestrate, Plan, Order, Source, Transform, Fulfill and Return.

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