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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

Our three pillars (or fundamentals) of great supply chain management excellence are strategy, service, and cost. Aligning strategy, service, and financial factors in your supply chain operation is essential to support your company’s overall business strategy , mission, and objectives. The Importance of Alignment.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Processing the order In this stage, the fulfillment team from the nearest warehouse retrieves the order from storage, prepares, packs, and organizes it for shipment, along with its documentation. Let’s fill in! What is Order fulfillment?

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead start with the foundation of your AI strategy, which should be an understanding of your company’s supply chain and your data. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Because it doesn’t understand, we need humans at the helm.

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Programming Languages Applied to Logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

1. Databases Companies store an enormous amount of information, which is of great importance when formulating problem-solving strategies. The scalability of Non-Relational Databases allows to distribute data into multiple nodes or locations, so it is common to apply them together with Big Data solutions.

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How to Successfully Implement a Transportation Management System

Talking Logistics

The cost saving and service improvement benefits of a transportation management system (TMS) are well documented. This is usually a three to six month process and may be part of a larger corporate strategy or transformation process that it has to plug into. What are the key ingredients to a successful TMS implementation?

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How is Your Supply Chain Positioned for the Ocean Carrier Mergers?

Talking Logistics

For example, XPO Logistics is still trying to digest the Con-Way and Norbert Denstressangle acquisitions from the last few years, while FedEx and UPS continue to expand their service offerings to compete more with freight forwarders, further blurring the lines between asset and non-asset based carrier service offerings.

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Blockchain Technology is Set to Transform the Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

It exists in multiple copies spread over multiple computers, typically known as nodes. The nodes connected to the blockchain network get updated versions of the ledger every time a new transaction takes place. Bitcoin as an Example of Blockchain. However, it also happens to be the most well-known example.