Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. Supply chains need to be more agile than ever, yet much of the advice circulating in the industry remains high-level or less than ideal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Autonomous delivery vehicles (ADVs) are bringing significant changes to last-mile logistics, an essential component of the supply chain. However, integrating these systems will require careful planning, particularly regarding regulatory compliance and managing workforce changes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

By setting new benchmarks for efficiency and promoting decentralized technologies, DOGE could significantly influence manufacturing and supply chain logistics. Transforming Supply Chain Logistics DOGE’s principles could also revolutionize logistics by addressing inefficiencies in government-managed operations.

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Cyzerg

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In today's interconnected world, supply chain disruptions have become a common challenge for businesses across industries. From natural disasters to political unrest and global pandemics, the modern world presents many obstacles that can disrupt the smooth flow of goods and services. Read the full article to learn more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Part of their transformation includes a journey to implement and improve their connected planning capabilities. Connected planning, based on the Anaplan solution, improves both their profitability and their service capabilities. Tata Steel Europe has a complex supply chain. So, what is “connected planning?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations must prepare their supply chain for the present and the unknown challenges and opportunities in the future. Integrating external factors like consumer price indexes, GDP trends, climate change, and others into the forecast can improve signaling for supply chain design.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Thinking back on the many presentations, panel discussions and conversations over the course of the conference, a few unifying themes come to mind. As the logistics technology sector continues to mature, the number of tools, solutions and platforms that supply chain stakeholders are using (juggling?) are growing too.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 31, 2023

Peter is Vice President, Journal of Commerce, the Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain division of S&P Global , a global data, analytics and business intelligence organization serving sectors including maritime, energy, automotive, petrochemical and financial. He has degrees from the University of Maine and Fordham University.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation. The roots of IBP are in sales & operations planning (S&OP). Mr. Sorenson has studied integrated business planning for many years.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The pandemic was a wake-up call for many industries, exposing vulnerabilities in global supply chains and highlighting the need for greater supply chain resilience and adaptability. By spreading your risk, you can better navigate unexpected challenges and maintain continuity in your supply chain.

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Logistics Management

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It is crazy, in a way to see that the calendar is telling us we are in the first week of December, the homestretch of what has truly been a year for the ages, specifically from a logistics and supply chain perspective.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 21, 2025

Matrices are powerful mathematical tools that play a crucial role in supply chain management. In this blog, we’ll explore how they are used in various aspects of the supply chain, including transportation, inventory management, demand forecasting, and network optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s human nature to want to start a new year with new goals—the ever-present new year’s resolutions. Typically, we make it at least one month into the new year before we have to revise our plans. However, it’s only early February 2024, and we already have several major disruptions impacting supply chains.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming logistics and supply chain management, driving an era of heightened efficiency, innovation, and sustainability. The future of AI in logistics promises even greater advancements, with emerging trends pointing toward a more intelligent, responsive supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2024

In this blog, I will explore the use of AI/ML inventory planning for fresh products to optimize sales while minimizing waste and stockouts. This approach goes beyond traditional ABC segmentation , considering variability in both supply and demand and continuously adjusting product segmentation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, robotics, and machine learning, to name a few. This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2021

I was excited to place the order right away so my present would arrive in time for Father’s day. Why should we consider Promotion Planning in Inventory Management? This is where promotion planning software plays its part. I browsed and eventually found quite a few sweaters in green, my father’s favorite color.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

.” Toyota’s additional investment reflects the continued aim of Toyota Motor Corporation’s founding family, starting with Kiichiro Toyoda down to present-day Chairman Akio Toyoda, to realize the dream of air mobility for personal or daily travel as part of its transformation into a mobility company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Marisa Brown, Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) recently gave a presentation at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. In her presentation, Ms. Map your supply chain. Create scenario plans. Create plans B, C, and beyond.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Despite all of the advances in route planning technologies, most logistics organizations still see a wide discrepancy in the results that their planners produce. Some planners consistently generate route plans that are lower cost, better utilize resources, and deliver the best customer service. This is where RPA can make a difference.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given that we are a data-driven (math-loving) company, we wanted to test this range by running some scenarios to see what kind of results companies can expect across a variety of verticals. When the models are built, running scenarios with these large businesses can be a lot of fun. Looking into opportunities. Summing up.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Lizet Tymon, the senior supply chain management director at Jabil. Lizet Tymon, the senior supply chain management director at Jabil, has an interesting story to tell about how she advanced from being one of hundreds of managers at Jabil to being a senior director at this Fortune 500 company. Jabil is a big company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Recent supply chain disruptions are forcing organizations to challenge the prevailing wisdom and look for newer approaches to decision making. The simultaneous shocks to demand and supply, and the magnitude of these shocks are not something the world ever experienced.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Association for Supply Chain Management ( ASCM ) hosted its annual conference, ASCM CONNECT , on September 18 – 20 in Chicago. I found the presentation by UScellular especially interesting. As such, I assumed that supply chain wasn’t a core competency. Network Supply Chain Restructure. But I was wrong.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 21, 2025

Supply chain: Proposed tariffs on foreign imports could lead to increased costs for uniforms, supplies and equipment. Supply chain: While the primary focus for human guarding is labor, many security companies still require essential equipment that may be imported.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2023

And with the new year comes an increasing return to in-person supply chain conferences and trade shows. You name the provider, and they are present. The post Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023 appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. Welcome 2023! Email creiser@arcweb.com.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

It’s not a short list, so we’ll set it down here as a summary to help you with plans for analysis. “What-if” data: Scenario simulation to assess the impact of design options under various conditions. Fixed costs: Distribution centre fixed costs, such as rent, utilities, and equipment.

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WorkWave

MARCH 13, 2025

The last mile of delivery is often the most unpredictable and expensive part of the supply chain. Factors such as traffic congestion, incorrect addresses, weather conditions and customer availability can disrupt even the best-planned routes. This capability allows for order adjustments and customer notifications to occur without delay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Better planning can help companies mitigate the effects of this crisis. Sandy Evett, the vice president of distribution and supply chain at Dawn Foods, gave a presentation on how her company has responded. Companies have been whiplashed by the combination of a long running pandemic and the recession it kicked off.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 10, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to global supply chains. The pandemic has shown us the fragility of commercial supply chains; it gives us a reason to think about what a disruption to supply chains might have for the outcomes of military operations. Supply Chains. By Mike Lima.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 15, 2023

Knowing about her blogging side hustle, the executive team allowed her to take on the additional responsibility of the company’s digital marketing initiatives where over the course of 5 years, orchestrated two website redesigns, implemented an inbound marketing initiative, and established a sales outreach plan.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A freight forwarder is an agent in the supply chain whose objective is to organize a shipment, acting as the intermediary between the exporter or importer and transportation companies. 4. Present and obtain quote confirmation to win business and proceed with booking. 7. Modify the delivery plan as necessary.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

years on planning and operating through a hub model. For sure, these three carriers have plans on improving the cargo fluidity despite the current shipping environment. Forecasting for advance planning. This year, in contrast to 2024, we are not expecting a volume rush into US when we compare with 2024.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Global supply chains face numerous challenges impacting the efficient movement of goods and services worldwide. Disruptions and Resilience Natural disasters, such as pandemics (like Covid), geopolitical conflicts, and labor strikes cause supply chains to be vulnerable to disruption. Some of the key challenges include: 1.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

The solutions to supply chain problems boil down to the right combination of three factors—technology, data and processes. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated. However, manufacturers, 3PLs and others in the supply chain often get lost in the details. That’s not true. Trouble finding skilled labor”.

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