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FedEx CIO Attests to Data-Driven Strategies in Pandemic Times

IoT World Today

FedEx, for example, has been on a multiyear digital transformation journey that included cloud computing and work-from-home capabilities but also widespread sensor technology buildouts, robotics forays and continued support of blockchain technologies. And … you couldn’t fake it, and [these tools held up].”.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Steve: You mentioned your people were swamped and that they needed better tools to do their jobs. For example, to build that plant, the company would need to work with a construction company or companies.

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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. Another example, this time in the oil industry, would be an oil blending app. The trick of course is to combine these two approaches.

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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. Another example, this time in the oil industry, would be an oil blending app. The trick of course is to combine these two approaches. But what exactly is a Supply Chain Analytics app? Oil blending is not easy.

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Crisis-proof, customer-centric logistics in times of global pandemic

Forto

We use company chats such as Slack and project management tools such as Asana. Of course, our customers know where their cargo is even without us, because all parties involved have the same information about the cargo. All employees are mobile, so that work can be done from home at any time. . Building trust with continuous solutions.

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Industry View: Logistics HR in Western and Eastern Europe

Logistics Business Magazine

If we look at AsstrA’s “eastern” divisions in, for example, Shanghai and Istanbul, there is no such labour shortage. We need additional tools not only for bringing in candidates but also for keeping them over the long term. What HR tools are used to search for and discover talents? Every 7th CV goes to a logistics company.

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Takeaways from the IBM Watson Supply Chain Summit

Talking Logistics

I haven’t attended an industry conference over the past year, or participated in a client meeting, where blockchain — along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — hasn’t been part of the conversation. Of course, the most common question about blockchain is “What is it?” Take EDI, for example.