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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

This was an online event. One of the speakers was Abby Weisenberger, a distribution consultant at Kimberly-Clark. Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. Earlier this summer, FourKites held a Carrier Visibility Summit. What made Ms.

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The unspoken risk that’s hitting businesses. Hard

Logistics Business Magazine

Greater visibility and greater collaboration. Siloed communication across a supply chain, missing or misaligned documentation, the inability to track shipments and so on and so on. Say your Procurement Manager is managing contracts across all collaborators – and an invoice comes through with a discrepancy. Not even a ballpark.

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Transporeon’s Raft of Platform Innovations

Logistics Business Magazine

Fully integrated into its neutral platform that serves the entire industry, the new capabilities will help its network of +1,400 shippers and +158,000 carriers and logistic service providers to enhance adaptability, collaboration and sustainability, enabling them to thrive in today’s world in motion. Watch this space!”

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) is the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics messaging network. billion transactions annually.

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Most Popular Logistics Stories from 2021

Logistics Viewpoints

I took the viewpoint that as the need for supply chain resiliency becomes front and center, CSCOs and CPOs will need to collaborate very closely; and shared the reasons why this is more important than ever. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. On the surface, that’s a bit of a surprise.

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Cold Chain Shipping: The Winning Characteristics of Vaccine Carriers

Turvo

As reported by Jeff Berman of Logistics Management , vaccine distribution is not merely frozen shipments. Vaccine distribution losses could put people’s health at risk by delaying doses, so “getting it right” matters for reasons far beyond margins and revenue. Intense and Accurate Document Management. That’s the distinction.

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Why FMCG Supply Chains are about Balance

Logistics Business Magazine

billion by 2026, largely due to the growing preference for eCommerce online distribution. The good news is there’s a drive within the industry to replace them with e-documents and digital processes. Indeed, the future prognosis for the global FMCG market is generally positive. It is predicted to grow by €284.4 Realising FMCG 2.0