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Data-driven Decisions for Flexible Supply Chain

Logistics Business Magazine

Although back-office accounting systems are rarely a focus for logistics leaders, modern cloud finance platforms can knit seamlessly together with other fundamental business systems to provide valuable features and insights. This insight and data can be leveraged with individual expertise to deliver a better overall business outcome.

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How Big Data And Analytics Are Transforming Supply Chain Management

The Logistics Academy

Supply chain management is a field where Big Data and analytics have obvious applications. Until recently, however, businesses have been less quick to implement big data analytics in supply chain management than in other areas of operation such as marketing or manufacturing.

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How to Build Cyber Resilience in Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

This digital transformation is providing new opportunities for growth and transformation, but it also opens new opportunities for cyber-attackers to target businesses. Logistics organisations make for particularly tempting targets for hackers. The SolarWinds hack of 2020 is a prime example of this.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Business logistics costs as a percentage of GDP is currently 7-8% in United States. Economic development is both measured by and based on logistics. Volvo’s POD in Sweden is a great example. What applies to personal information, also applies to information sharing across business value chains.

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State of Logistics Report Released: 3PLs Continue to Foster Resilience and Drive Investments in Supply Chain

Penske Move Ahead

Global volatility has continued to disrupt supply chains, and flexibility, efficiency and resilience are vital for companies throughout the logistics sector. Overall Logistics Costs In 2022, the market swung back sharply in shippers’ favor, and supply and demand largely rebalanced across all modes of transit. of the national GDP.

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How eCommerce companies can benefit from logistics management systems?

ShipLilly

A reality check for contemporary business. Logistics is defined as a series of processes and procedures that facilitate the movement of an item or person from location to location. The use of logistics systems reduces the impact of any interruptions in your supply chain. How to get help in managing your logistics.

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4 Important Benefits of a Sustainable Reverse Logistics Strategy

GlobalTranz

A reverse logistics strategy provides a path for removing the existing equipment to make way for the next era of equipment in the case of end of life products or new upgrdes. In a sense, reverse logistics could be considered the “greenest” part of any business logistics strategy.