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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

Let’s look at some of its real-world uses in 2020 across the public and private sectors to see which prominent players have embraced blockchain, to what end, and what kind of inroads it’s making into the supply chain environment. Examples of Blockchain in Food Supply Chains. Details of fish feed used.

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6 Ways Big Data is enhancing the global supply chain

The Logistics Academy

As global supply chains become more complex and customers more demanding, the race is on to develop software applications that can effectively manage and make sense of the zettabytes of data being generated by our digital world. By 2020, roughly 1.7 Descartes Systems Group. zettabytes). Infor Global Solutions. infor.com.

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Recognising Opportunities in Times of Crisis

Logistics Business Magazine

He is head of sales for the cement industry at BEUMER Group, a company which since its foundation in 1935 develops future-oriented solutions for the construction and cement industry. What happens if for example a packaging system in Indonesia or Peru fails? ” This means: recognising trends and offering the right solutions. .

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Upgrading Inventory Management Processes is Important

Logistics Business Magazine

These take a feed of inventory data, do the forecasting and replenishment calculations, and provide the intel that can be used to make smarter purchasing decisions. For example, items can be classified based on a wider range of factors, including their cost to sell or profitability, pick frequency and demand volatility.

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Companies Improve their Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

Planning applications don’t work well if the master data they rely on is not accurate; this is known as the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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Trusting the market will stay afloat

Automotive Logistics

BLG also operates the car terminal at Gioia Tauro port in Italy, the biggest ro-ro terminal in the country, where again, volume growth has been high thanks to new custom from FCA and VW Group, as well as the relationship with shipping line Grimaldi. Last year, GBA handled 1.8m A rising tide of inventory.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.