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Inventory Management vs. Warehouse Management

The Logistics of Logistics

Original article: Inventory Management vs. Warehouse Management. So, as an example, the IMS tracks and reports that there are 30 widgets in Warehouse A, 25 in Warehouse B, 48 in Manufacturing Plant A, and so on. Inventory Management vs. Warehouse Management. With that inventory visibility, the IMS can support two important processes.

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

Logistics Bureau

For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. As an example, let’s say that as a part of its customer service promise, your company guarantees its customers that they will receive their orders within 24 hours. Why does the C-suite want the three pillars aligned?

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. The full explanation is beyond the scope of this article.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Because supply chain planning is undergoing something of a technological revolution, this article will focus on o9’s technology and why their CEO believes it is differentiated. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. Gottemukkala asserts.

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Blockchain for the Supply Chain: Reality vs. Hype

Supply Chain Brain

The technology has been around for a long time, but many organizations and countries still require the maintenance of original signed documents, with all of their accompanying costs and inefficiencies. For example, approval by multiple parties to a transportation arrangement is required in order to issue an authorized bill of lading.

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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.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 14-18, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Here are more details from the article: In an email sent to shareholders last week and seen by The Loadstar, founder and chief executive Max Ward said the Hong Kong-based company had failed to raise enough capital to continue trading. That said, leading companies are still testing blockchain in various supply chain applications.