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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

While getting personal protection equipment was difficult, 2021 was an even more challenging time for the supply chain team. But in 2021, “all of a sudden there were just completely random shortages that occurred with no warning.” Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time.

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Freight Market Data To Assist in Negotiations With Carriers

FreightWaves SONAR

SONAR data show that the freight market for inbound Detroit loads is highly volatile based on auto production trends – inbound Detroit loads should be less expensive when OEMs are sourcing a lot of components as assembly volumes ramp up. The post Freight Market Data To Assist in Negotiations With Carriers appeared first on SONAR.

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Demand Forecasting in an Inflationary, Supply-Constrained, Semi-Post-Pandemic Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

At that time, I wrote about the COVID pandemic, and how similar events occur that elevate the uncertainty of the market. These events make accurate forecasting very difficult. Review of Prior Impactful Events. Well, here we are just two years later in another highly unusual market context. Final Word.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. COVID of course taught companies the need for agility. Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g., Stuff happens.

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Service-Level Agreements Maximize Efficiency, Preserve Relationships

Blue Grace Logistics

Published July 16, 2021. These agreements should include measurable expectations while leaving enough room for flexibility and agility on both sides in the event of extreme market disruptions like those seen over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. If you don’t have that data, you may not have that opportunity,” he said.

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Service-Level Agreements Maximize Efficiency, Preserve Relationships

Blue Grace Logistics

Published July 16, 2021. These agreements should include measurable expectations while leaving enough room for flexibility and agility on both sides in the event of extreme market disruptions like those seen over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. If you don’t have that data, you may not have that opportunity,” he said.

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The American trade imbalance and port congestion

Shipping and Freight Resource

The data indicates that export volumes are going down month on month and import volumes are increasing, making it detrimental to the US economy and concerns have been raised by several quarters in the media. As per data from Shifl.com, the import rates did come down slightly at the end of October but seems to be rising slightly again. “