Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. The visibility solution must be built in such a way that it can download order quantity and inventory data from a customer’s systems. That data then gets put into an advanced ship notice for the retailer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. This means connecting these different stakeholders and facilitating data sharing that will make the entire supply chain run more efficiently.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Indeed, some organizations spent several years laying the foundations for data-driven strategy and remote operations even prior to COVID-19. Data-Driven Strategies Become Core Value Proposition. This core principle of creating value through logistics data has ricocheted throughout FedEx’s IT restructuring and its future plans.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

At supply chain and enterprise application conferences, software companies have talked about using generative AI to create user manuals. A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” This check involves connecting carrier contract data and shipment dwell times.

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AIMMS

MAY 28, 2015

This month, I had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix. In almost every way this is a large and very professionally run conference with over 1500 attendees, everything you would expect from a Gartner event. In this post, I will summarize some of my favorite takeaways from the conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020. What accounts for FourKites Growth? The network has grown in size.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. For example, I learned that there’s a difference between cement and concrete, even though many people use the terms interchangeably.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. All key Suppliers are called into your operation.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It also matters because federal and state agencies and competitive pressures will also demand it (see, for example, the Federal Highway Administration’s e-Construction and Partnering initiative). Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. Allocation is a good example of this. These crawlers never stop working.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2023

I recently attended Körber Supply Chain’s user conference, Elevate 2023. Secondarily, many of the assets are linear, rather than discrete, requiring different forms of location and measurement data. For example, SMECO wanted RFID capabilities to track the movement of high-value items as they entered and exited the yard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Planning applications don’t work well if the master data they rely on is not accurate; this is known as the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wednesday was Day Two at the Reverse Logistics Association’s annual conference in Las Vegas. That was certainly the case with Optoro and goTRG, two companies that are using the data they’re collecting about returned items to determine the best channel for resale and the best price for a returned item. About the Author.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

Increasingly, supply chains are all about the data. In the most memorable scene in The Graduate not featuring Mrs. Robinson, Dustin Hoffman is offered a one-word piece of advice about how to succeed in business: “Plastics.” If I were writing that scene today, I’d substitute the word: Data. Plastics.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. Right now, we are looking for a giant breakthrough, giving examples such as the emergence of Google and FaceTime. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I have learned so much from our sponsors and readers, both through their commentaries and user conferences, and look forward to more of the same in 2024. For example, FedEx’s upcoming levy is based on an EIA-established price that is at least $4.09 Today marks the last news round-up of the year. a gallon but less than $4.18

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let’s add Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference. . It’s easy to think of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics as four distinct things. The post Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. The cloud also allows access to Big Data, which greatly improves the platform’s ability to do machine learning. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API. That is a huge success story for the air cargo industry and as promised it has brought significant efficiencies.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Red Bull’s Formula One HQ in Milton Keynes is an appropriate and impressive backdrop to learn why data is fuel in logistics. David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. High performance in logistics can be maintained by extracting insights from data and taking practical steps. Machine help?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Implementing the solution involved cleaning up master data and mapping their complete global supply chain. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

From social media, public opinion, company-specific data, and political forums, there’s an unlimited number of news sources available, so finding trusted information is as important as ever. Participating in Organizations and Conferences. Tips to Make Sure Your News Source is Trustworthy. Check out our YouTube channel.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He gave examples of how large companies are acquiring digital startups.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There are delays and bottlenecks, but the focus on driving efficiency to resolve these bottlenecks is a great example of the industry’s adaptability,” continues Press. But it doesn’t compare to live, real-time asset and cargo data. We simplify and optimise the electronic data exchange between stakeholders.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

trillion, about 30% of world GDP, according to a 2021 report by UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. For example, there has been significant growth in imports from India over the last two years, largely by growing capacity at Indian airports and an increase in the number of direct links to Heathrow.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. According to one software executive, a major stumbling block is the extraordinary growth of data systems is expected to process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) One example of more autonomous planning is the ability for the system to automatically update key parameters using in planning, like supplier lead times. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts.

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AIMMS

JUNE 20, 2017

Something struck me after spending a few days in Phoenix at Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference. What I heard at the Gartner conference is growing frustration with these large packages that have become cumbersome to use, too difficult for the average supply chain expert, lack flexibility and have high price tags.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

At its San Francisco customer conference, ‘Beyond’, Samsara Inc. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, an integrated platform that enables customers to access, analyse, and act upon real-time data to digitally connect their physical operations. This year’s economic environment is one for the books.

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AIMMS

APRIL 20, 2015

This was my first INFORMS Business Analytics conference and I was not sure what to expect. These sessions were incredibly valuable, but there is much more to the conference – there is the time between the sessions as well. For example, the 2014 Edelman winner was the Kid Risk Team at the U.S. The AIMMS team at INFORMS.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

His statements are based not only on numerous conversations with economic experts and scientists, but also on data from Setlog customers who use the SCM tool OSCA. In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passion for safety Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel kicked off the conference by sharing some statistics about his organization’s work: The Philadelphia fire department handled more than 300,000 medical emergency care incidents per year. In EHS, we are part of an energetic, committed, intelligent and innovative community!

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