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Top Transportation Technology Trends

Logistics Viewpoints

In transportation, digital freight procurement and asset tracking & data mining are in broad use. Around 80% of LSPs and 68% of shippers cited the cost/ROI analysis as the biggest challenge for transportation transformations. The post Top Transportation Technology Trends appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Who Cares About Data Integrity?

FreightWaves SONAR

Much has been made in recent weeks about supply chain data providers changing historical metrics. Well, maybe you should, since it’s the title of the blog…DATA INTEGRITY MATTERS! SONAR isn’t yet the longest-running or most-used data source in the trucking world (but we’re getting there!). Today, SONAR is made up of more than $1.7

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

quintillion bytes of data every day. For companies that want to go beyond the traditional spreadsheet, which cannot handle this ocean of information efficiently, statistical methods such as cluster analysis can help. What is Cluster Analysis? The retail industry is rich with data. On average, we humans generate 2.5

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How business intelligence can enable you to be a data-driven manufacturer

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing a rapid digital transformation, and as a result, companies are generating vast amounts of data. Unfortunately, without proper processing and analysis, this data is of little use to the organization. This enables managers to take swift action and keep production on track.

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Gartner's Market Guide for Data Analytics and Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain

Gartner observes several trends in this market for data analytics and intelligence. One overarching theme is the convergence of analytics & BI, data science and AI. This report covers market analysis on: Supply chain specific market trends - what are supply chain organizations looking for?

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Transportation cost analysis: Going beyond benchmarking for improved carrier pricing

FreightWaves SONAR

From a financial standpoint, transportation cost analysis remains focused on determining the value of the resources used to execute a given shipment and goes well beyond benchmarking. Moreover, this kind of analysis does not focus on who ends up paying which expenses in the end. The challenges of limited transportation cost analysis.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

It’s common to run into data overload throughout this process, leading to disparate systems, information silos, and the inability to navigate external challenges. The future of the supply chain industry will take the emotion out of decision-making by leveraging innovative technology to transform raw data into actionable intelligence.