Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The company, heavily invested in Canadian manufacturing, faced a crisis because its raw materials were sourced from outside North America, disqualifying it from USMCA tariff exemptions. Design product flexibility to include materials sourced for US and non-US markets or quickly adapt to different sources of materials.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

This white paper presents five best practices for companies to leverage trade programs and maximize their benefits.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Question 3: Are the conditions required for success present? Identify process failure points and sources of variation. Adjust the process to address those failure points and sources of variation. What do you want the team member to do is he can’t or didn’t carry out the process as defined?

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 8, 2021

The digital age has presented a wealth of opportunities for the over the road trucking market. The abundant data sources can make the process of assessing the market more difficult than necessary. Shippers and carriers should make more definitive decisions in selecting their data sources. Download the White Paper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source: mainebiz.biz In today’s rapidly evolving logistics and supply chain sector, warehouses are increasingly turning to innovative technologies to gain a competitive edge. This presents a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking warehouse owner/operators to create a competitive advantage. According to JLL, the U.S.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By analyzing real-time data from various sources, companies can make proactive decisions that improve collaboration among stakeholders, boost operational resilience, and increase customer satisfaction. Despite its transformative potential, the path to full AI integration in logistics presents challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is fueled by several factors: Solar photovoltaics : The largest source of new grid power, solar panels inherently produce DC electricity. The rise of renewable energy sources presents new challenges for grid stability and reliability, as these power sources are inherently intermittent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Each presentation was exceptional, and the event viewed ESG from a holistic but pragmatic perspective. They will handle providing accurate data across their operations, including product sourcing, procurement, and transactions, to name just a few.

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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?)

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing. In this model, you are presenting the surgeons with all the options. In many healthcare systems, the costs of these supplies and services were not closely examined. The costs were passed down the line to patients and insurers. We built strategic supplier partnerships.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 1, 2024

Network Analytics: Understand past, present, and future market conditions. Source capacity with precision using supply and demand metrics and forecasts. Gain full visibility into spot and contract rates by viewing average rates paid by brokers and shippers on more than 68,000 lanes.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2023

Author’s Note: At the ProMat conference earlier this year, I delivered a presentation at the Locus Robotics booth titled “Warehouse Robots: What We’ve Learned So Far” based on research results from our Indago supply chain research community and other sources. Below are some excerpts from the presentation and research.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies find it difficult to fully trust the data from suppliers, complicating efforts to ensure product authenticity, safety, and ethical sourcing. This will enable diamond jewelry consumers at scale to engage with the unique journeys their diamonds have taken from source.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These impacts to the road infrastructure and expected congestions are already presenting delays and disruptions for retailers. “A A major general merchandise retailer we work with has delayed all non-perishable inbound freight into Tampa for a week,” Byrne told Sourcing Journal. It stayed, and it’s helping.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Supply chain management The international sourcing of automotive components is now a common practice but it can still present challenges. To avoid this, distributors need an ERP that gives them visibility across the supply chain by tracking materials from source through to final destination.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Brad brings it all to the table from characterizing Emerge’s brand and culture, presenting Emerge’s value proposition to the industry, and determining pivotal insights to enhance customer experience. Smart Freight Sourcing with Andy Semisch. Brad’s higher education includes a B.S. The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Big Data and Analytics With the latest analytics technology, you can further refine your fleet’s efficiency and plan more accurately.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Presenting he case for an integrated procurement strategy that supports greater transparency and service.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 20, 2020

Steve’s proposal was a Current / Target condition template that includes more than the “blank generic version” but doesn’t focus so much on the cadence and timing: From Steve Medlin’s KataCon presentation. We have to attack a source of variation and work on stability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions. AI integrates external data sources such as weather forecasts, geopolitical events, and social media trends to refine demand projections. Challenges and Constraints AI adoption presents several challenges.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, pesticide products or machinery sourced from overseas might face higher costs due to tariff proposals on imports, particularly from China. While tax cuts, deregulation and incentives for domestic investment present opportunities for growth and operational efficiency, proposals may also present challenges.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 6, 2020

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves’? FreightWaves is made up of three interconnected pillars: FreightWaves’? Learn More: . Tim Dooner.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 28, 2025

This is a video of Gerd’s presentation to Kata School Cascadia on the process of developing problem-solving capacity and cascading goals. Instead of obstacles, we have things like sources of variation, but those are still the problems we need to better understand and solve.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

It proactively corrects malfunctions and autonomously reports potential sources of error. The post TGW Presents the Future Fulfilment Centre appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Initially, relevant data are gathered and used for a digital representation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Planners need the right information at the right time, presented with the proper context, to make meaningful decisions. While the abundance of data is seen as an asset, the real question is: What do you do with it?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. Data security at the edge also presents risks. Environmental factors present additional challenges.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Image Source: [link] Most Popular Features Route Optimization: Streamline fuel usage and enhance field technician productivity with a modernized user interface and efficient scheduling tools. Image Source: [link] Most Popular Features Customer Portal: Allows clients to view reports, make credit card payments and book services online.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Image source: Pexels | How can Lean Logistics Transform your Company? The Lean method was created by the Japanese company Toyota with the aim of optimizing manufacturing flows and eliminating everything that generates errors, delays, and bottlenecks. Implementing the Lean methodology in your company with the help of 3PL.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 7, 2022

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves TV and podcasts are informed by FreightWaves’ freight data analytics and presented in interesting and engaging shows.

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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. Doing so helps organizations detect market shifts and makes supply chain decisions more forward-looking than an analysis of the past, present, and at best, a tactical view of the future.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 15, 2024

Multiple teams were present with several small boats pulling up alongside the massive ship. In a statement, an FBI spokesman said: “The FBI is present aboard the cargo ship Dali conducting court authorized law enforcement activity.” What exactly is the FBI investigating regarding the Baltimore bridge incident?

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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. Because of the pandemic, risk management surrounding sourcing has become top of mind in supply chain organizations.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Source: Company Reports, Linerlytica 2. Source: Clarksons, ING Research 3. Source: Drewry, ING Research This excess capacity can only be managed or at least tried to be managed by carriers scrapping older vessels, slow steaming, and blank sailings, which will affect shippers supply chain performances.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JULY 31, 2021

The methods instigated will eventually show in the quality of data in the final report presentation and therefore should be carefully selected. Primary sources are original materials from the survey period and have not been filtered by a third party be this through interpretation or evaluation. Supporting software will be required.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. trillion records from 47 data sources in the Cognite platform. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources to make it usable and actionable for various business use cases. Industrial data is voluminous.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

New generation of CPOs will present themselves as key drivers and enablers of long-term corporate strategy. Here I want to share eight key procurement challenges that we and consultants are facing in today’s global sourcing world. The good old theory of “total cost of ownership” should always prevail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA.

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