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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

Definitely not. It will enable data sharing among all functions, highlight errors and outliers in the data, and speed up data analysis thus increasing efficiency, improving accuracy and lowering operating costs. Refined Analytics: Logistics is a data-intensive function.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1

Logistics in War

Strategic failures emerge when ‘thinkers’ are separated from ‘doers’, ‘strategists’ from ‘planners’ and ‘soft data’ from ‘hard data’. Rather than using intuition to inform decisions, people often retreat behind analysis to avoid choosing between difficult options. Strategic failure. This is especially the case with logistics.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Strategic failures emerge when ‘thinkers’ are separated from ‘doers’, ‘strategists’ from ‘planners’ and ‘soft data’ from ‘hard data’. Rather than using intuition to inform decisions, people often retreat behind analysis to avoid choosing between difficult options. Strategic failure. This is especially the case with logistics.

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Why Benchmarking In Its Current State for Transportation is Dangerous

10xLogistics

What I find about benchmarking is it is often an internal exercise to justify what someone is doing to higher management. The question is, from a "should cost" analysis, are you as good as you should be? I would advocate you should spend a lot of time on innovation and by definition if you are innovating you cannot benchmark.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

Strategic failures emerge when ‘thinkers’ are separated from ‘doers’, ‘strategists’ from ‘planners’ and ‘soft data’ from ‘hard data’. Rather than using intuition to inform decisions, people often retreat behind analysis to avoid choosing between difficult options. Strategic failure. This is especially the case with logistics.

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Data standardization and its benefits – Executive Insights with Thomas Bagge, CEO of DCSA

Shipping and Freight Resource

Executive Insights is a series by Shipping and Freight Resource that provides useful insights and thoughtful analysis on what is happening in the maritime, shipping, freight, logistics, supply chain and trade industries. But just data alone is not going to assist. SFR : Ok, it seems like DCSA has definitely been doing a lot of things.

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Happy New Year: Here’s the 7 things shippers need to know about the Q1 2021 freight market

FLS Transport

And that definitely applies to the freight market. And while retailers were able to modestly re-stock going into peak, data now shows that they lack adequate inventory. One data point shows inventories declined 9% year-over-year while sales increased 9%. It seems most everyone is ready to put 2020 in the rear-view mirror.

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