Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

At supply chain and enterprise application conferences, software companies have talked about using generative AI to create user manuals. A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” This check involves connecting carrier contract data and shipment dwell times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Sean Elliot, Acting Co-CEO kicked off the conference with a keynote that highlighted what Körber did in 2023, but more importantly, where the company is going in 2024. Data Visibility. Workforce Efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. For example, a supply planning solution may create a model that says a plant can produce 20,000 units of a product in a week. Creating a bottom-up plan requires that data be transformed intelligently.

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AIMMS

MAY 28, 2015

This month, I had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix. In almost every way this is a large and very professionally run conference with over 1500 attendees, everything you would expect from a Gartner event. In this post, I will summarize some of my favorite takeaways from the conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020. What accounts for FourKites Growth? The network has grown in size.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. For example, I learned that there’s a difference between cement and concrete, even though many people use the terms interchangeably.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. All key Suppliers are called into your operation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. Allocation is a good example of this. These crawlers never stop working.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2023

I recently attended Körber Supply Chain’s user conference, Elevate 2023. Secondarily, many of the assets are linear, rather than discrete, requiring different forms of location and measurement data. For example, SMECO wanted RFID capabilities to track the movement of high-value items as they entered and exited the yard.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wednesday was Day Two at the Reverse Logistics Association’s annual conference in Las Vegas. That was certainly the case with Optoro and goTRG, two companies that are using the data they’re collecting about returned items to determine the best channel for resale and the best price for a returned item. About the Author.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

Increasingly, supply chains are all about the data. In the most memorable scene in The Graduate not featuring Mrs. Robinson, Dustin Hoffman is offered a one-word piece of advice about how to succeed in business: “Plastics.” If I were writing that scene today, I’d substitute the word: Data. Plastics.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. Right now, we are looking for a giant breakthrough, giving examples such as the emergence of Google and FaceTime. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let’s add Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference. . It’s easy to think of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics as four distinct things. The post Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. The cloud also allows access to Big Data, which greatly improves the platform’s ability to do machine learning. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Red Bull’s Formula One HQ in Milton Keynes is an appropriate and impressive backdrop to learn why data is fuel in logistics. David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. High performance in logistics can be maintained by extracting insights from data and taking practical steps. Machine help?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Implementing the solution involved cleaning up master data and mapping their complete global supply chain. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API. That is a huge success story for the air cargo industry and as promised it has brought significant efficiencies.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

From social media, public opinion, company-specific data, and political forums, there’s an unlimited number of news sources available, so finding trusted information is as important as ever. Participating in Organizations and Conferences. Tips to Make Sure Your News Source is Trustworthy. Check out our YouTube channel.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There are delays and bottlenecks, but the focus on driving efficiency to resolve these bottlenecks is a great example of the industry’s adaptability,” continues Press. But it doesn’t compare to live, real-time asset and cargo data. We simplify and optimise the electronic data exchange between stakeholders.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) One example of more autonomous planning is the ability for the system to automatically update key parameters using in planning, like supplier lead times. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

At its San Francisco customer conference, ‘Beyond’, Samsara Inc. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, an integrated platform that enables customers to access, analyse, and act upon real-time data to digitally connect their physical operations. This year’s economic environment is one for the books.

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AIMMS

APRIL 20, 2015

This was my first INFORMS Business Analytics conference and I was not sure what to expect. These sessions were incredibly valuable, but there is much more to the conference – there is the time between the sessions as well. For example, the 2014 Edelman winner was the Kid Risk Team at the U.S. The AIMMS team at INFORMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. The single data cloud runs on Snowflake, one of Blue Yonder’s partners.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

With the BlueBox Systems platform, in addition to real-time tracking and analysis of air freight data, aircraft type-accurate CO2 emissions are now available. For example, a Boeing 737-400 with 1t of cargo produces a good 10t of CO2, whereas a Boeing 777 produces only 4t on a distance from Frankfurt to San Francisco.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passion for safety Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel kicked off the conference by sharing some statistics about his organization’s work: The Philadelphia fire department handled more than 300,000 medical emergency care incidents per year. In EHS, we are part of an energetic, committed, intelligent and innovative community!

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 27, 2019

As the car industry moves toward a more responsive manufacturing system producing connected and customised, autonomous vehicles with electric powertrains, its supply chain is transforming from something linear to more of a supply network based on real-time data sharing.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The conference, organized by Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere and her team, was structured around a compelling theme: “imagine the supply chain of 2030.” One use case I found particularly interesting was using data coming out of AI and Machine Learning (pattern recognition) to create what-if scenarios and actionable insights on the fly.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The shortage of skilled and unskilled labour is now a major concern for the automotive industry whether in the transport, warehousing or IT parts of the business as delegates heard at this year’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit. To access the full report, please complete the form below.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . The further out you book freight, the less expensive it is,” explained Cicerchi in a video interview I conducted with him at the user conference.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The limiting factor is still getting timely and accurate data. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2023

1: Have Access to Data and Know It The first part of this tip should be simple. Once you’ve found your source, a great tip is to make your own printable data slides or documents that you can have on hand to share as needed. The second part takes a little more work. When we’re unsure, it just means we don’t know enough.

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AIMMS

JUNE 23, 2016

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. Another example, this time in the oil industry, would be an oil blending app. Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways.

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