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TransLogistica Romania Bucharest

Logistics Business Magazine

Representatives from these media outlets will offer comprehensive coverage and analysis of key developments shaping the logistics landscape, enhancing the visibility and impact of the event on a global scale. Logistics Business will also be exhibiting.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended the Blue Yonder ICON conference. Tractor Supply Company has gone big in Arkansas, opening its most high-tech distribution center yet. The nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer has opened its tenth and largest distribution center yet, in Maumelle, Ark. million-sq.-ft.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use. Today, Supply Chain Design is becoming more operational and real-time, as companies have to respond more quickly and intelligently to fast-changing forces impacting their business (e.g.,

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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. For example, a suggestion from the system might be to transfer 96,154 units of a stock keeping unit to a distribution center in Denver to fill a projected backorder. I believe this claim.

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Sexify Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. For example, the Dexory View dashboard enables pick face analysis of volumes. Supply chain design, of the number and location of distribution centres , leads to a tech-based materials handling approach. Gaps can lead to out-of-stock or over-stocking issues.

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How Red Sea Security Issues are Affecting Insurance Risks for Commercial Ships

MTS Logistics

According to an assessment published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in February, many ships are now avoiding the canal and changing their routes from the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to the Cape of Good Hope and choosing a longer route. ” Expressions were used.

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Logistics Business Show attracts strong audience

Logistics Business Magazine

Running in tandem with the conference was the online exhibition, which drew 4,500 visits. Depending on analysis of the visitor and exhibitor feedback, and in consideration of the situation regarding real-word events over the next 12 months, plans are being laid for a third staging of the Logistics Business Show in Spring 2022.