Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. Cardinal Health, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical, surgical and laboratory products, is focused on continuous improvement of service. It is incredibly rare.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Henry Hwong, the vice president of product marketing at Aera, told me: “The supply chain is full of messiness and volatility. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. Allocation is a good example of this.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Yesterday, we talked about delivery of a product,” Hughes added. Today, delivery is the product.”. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today. It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2021

On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supply chain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supply chain conference Elevate. The company’s experience in hiring people that self-designate as disabled in their distribution centers (DCs) has been positive. Körber ranked the highest.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Interruptions to the cold chain create problems such as spoilage, changes in the appearance, taste, or smell of a product, growth of harmful bacteria, or lost potency. Some examples of these are: U.S. When it comes to pharmaceutical products, many regulations affect the cold chain. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the U.S.,

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February. “P&G

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Contracted storage: In this scenario, the manufacturer merely leases the actual space needed to arrange the products. Outsourced warehousing: Lastly, our content’s main focus is the option where an outsourced logistics company handles all of the product management and administration tasks.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

Through implementing LoRa devices and LoRaWAN, asset tracking has never been more simple and cost effective,” said Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. CLICK HERE to register for the conference.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Intermodal’s group director, Rob Fisher, commented: “Nothing compares with the power of face-to-face meetings and the opportunity to engage with product demonstrations and industry experts that a ‘live’, in-person event provides. We simplify and optimise the electronic data exchange between stakeholders.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As the long- standing intralogistics supplier, STILL is ahead of the game with a smart brand orientation, an expanded product portfolio and a focus on customised solutions. In addition, the range of warehouse technology products is to be expanded. This product range is to be successively expanded into a complete product portfolio.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

This is a public, multinational providing different types of electronic and machinery products for different industries. The company has over 300,000 products. On any given day, 150,000 order lines flow through 90 distribution centers across 50 nations. The company also needs to drive cash efficiency and improved productivity.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, with a substantial decline in the availability of forklift drivers recognised as a major problem, a growing number of warehouse and distribution centre operators see driverless forklift truck technology as the solution to the recruitment and employment cost challenges they face.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Transport management and visibility specialist Transporeon recently staged an online conference which very neatly replicated the format of the real-world version with a quirky navigation that allowed attendees to enter different rooms in a faithfully reproduced virtual ‘venue’. The same concept will apply in Distribution Centres on land.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, in a poll conducted during an SAP webcast last year, 42 percent of the attendees responded that logistics is viewed as a cost center at their company and 31 percent said it’s viewed as “warehouses and trucks.”. Amazon is the best example today of a company that is leveraging logistics as a competitive weapon.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Many of these have now moved from test stages into series production and practical operation. We will always have some proof of technology, concepts and pilots in production, however there will be a point in time where we say the basis is set,” he said. “BMW Autonomous and wearable technology.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Close to 90 experts from the disposal sector as well as HSM’s distribution partners travelled from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Indonesia and many other countries to convene at Lake Constance. Conference participants were able to observe this machine live and in action in the Salem plant.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016. Will this include drone deliveries?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. VMI is an opportunity for suppliers to refine inventory control for their distribution channels, and ultimately, lower costs to the end user.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nutritious food enjoyed at school feeds the bodies and minds of children.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. The dates on POs and MOs should be (if managed correctly) offset respecting lead times, and the due dates must meet the Master Production Schedule (MPS). Production Control managed the WOs and SFC. The next phase of MRP was MRP II.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

As delegates at this year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta heard, that is causing disruption across the industry, including in the transport, logistics and retail models underpinning the traditional push model of production. Sven Dharmani, global automotive sector supply chain leader at Ernst and Young.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Jovan Cosmetics : Bensenville, IL: “Musk” Cologne, Ladies Cologne, Beecham Cosmetics, Underarm Deodorant, and Cassini Products along with other special cosmetics. These finished goods can be sold directly to consumers or to other manufacturing businesses that use them for making a different product. What is Manufacturing?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

Trend Metrics Collected per Product: Confirmed Product Quality Complaint Rate by Product. Batch Reject Rate by Product. Confirmed OOS (Out-of-Specification) Rate (Drug Substance & Drug Product) by Product. Confirmed OOS Rate (Drug Substance & Drug Product) by Site. Quality Metrics by Product.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. Turning to academia.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. Once foreign carmakers start making lower cost models in China for export, production in the country is expected to boom.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. It measures the cost incurred by an organization to manufacture a quality product. Percentage of products in compliance. Cost of quality.

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Bringg

AUGUST 4, 2020

These include the following: “Innovation Trigger – A breakthrough, public demonstration, product launch or other event generates significant press and industry interest;”. Carrier and Supplied Appointment Scheduling is a great example of the need for a centralized platform to orchestrate each step supply chain logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2019

Through self-learning and natural language, AI capabilities can help automate various supply chain processes such as demand forecasting, production planning or predictive maintenance. “AI Analysts Will Explore Top Industry Trends at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, 17-19 June in Barcelona, Spain. Digital Supply Chain Twin.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

Dematic’s suite of high-intelligence iQ software, for example, ranges from a top-level Warehouse Management System, through Warehouse Execution and Control Software to a cloud-based Asset Performance Management platform which offers live-updates on KPIs across multiple distribution sites.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 18, 2019

At this week’s Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference, delegates heard about how they were adjusting their strategies and adopting state-of-the art technology to do so. Automating greater productivity. In the 1950s the cargo container transformed the logistics industry. That is the first step.”.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

For example, Napoleon’s ability to organise his Army on the basis of administrative necessity by dividing it to support local subsistence shows cognisance of logistics concerns in designing the French Army – at least until he seemingly ignored it all and nearly led his armies to their end.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

That is why Clark Europe, with its extensive distribution network of 168 dealers in 58 countries, is doing everything in its power to be there for customers even in this extraordinary situation: “You Can Count On Us” Rolf Eiten, Clark President & CEO, addresses his customers and business partners with this message.

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