Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A study by E2open – the 2021 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study: Supply Chain Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic – provides the answers. I look forward to this study every year. Because of this architecture, E2open can access, aggregate, and anonymize the data across their customer base.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. The order management system now must account for not just the sale of the product, but the details and timing of the related services.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

a How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - November 21, 2023 In the realm of ever-fluctuating food prices, a pragmatic revolution is quietly taking place in the shopping carts of budget-conscious consumers.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the holiday shopping season reaches its peak, ecommerce business owners everywhere are crossing their fingers, hoping they have enough product in stock and that they didn’t order too much. In truth, demand forecasting, or estimating how much product you’ll sell in the future, is one of the toughest challenges for any ecommerce business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Based on ARC Advisory Group’s recently released study of the market, this puts them in the top 5. Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. How did the company grow so fast?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Here’s how you can improve manufacturing floor data collection, long-term. A key component of any manufacturing process is data collection. However, are you starting to outgrow your manufacturing floor data collection system ? A case study, published by Modern Machine Shop several years ago, caught our eye recently.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 5, 2024

The process involves collecting quantitative and qualitative data concerning vendor-provided goods and services, and analyzing this data for opportunities to improve (or reasons to end) the relationship. Of course, it wouldn’t be a business strategy if there weren’t a couple more acronyms to learn. If so, good on you!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

It includes all of its elements: customers, sales channels, products, warehouses, logistics network, and the interactions between them. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. This includes internal and external data sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2023

At current production rates, terrestrial mining will be 30-40 per[1]cent short of the rate of demand in 2050. In 2018, a study conducted by MIT students on the impacts of deep-sea nodule mining found that sediment released from midwater plumes mixed rapidly with surrounding ocean water due to the turbulence of the release.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

US-Mexico Trade Trends Indicate Nearshoring Has Momentum Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - December 7, 2023 ‘While Mexico Has Surpassed China as the United States’ No. While Mexico has surpassed China as the United States’ No. billion from $40.4

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2020

The aim was to define the factory of the future and to implement its products in the digitised factory. What matters is speed, a complete overview of complex processes, and, of course, a maximum focus on the customer. The post RFID Case Study: Can a Supply Chain be Digitised? Solution: RFID hardware components.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

It’s taking semiconductor firms more than twice as long as their peers in other industries to hire personnel such as technicians or mechanical engineers, with the typical process stretching to about three months, according to an analysis of the top 50 chip producers in the US by Revelio Labs, a labor-market data analyst. percent to $65.5

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. One study shows that one in three companies in the United States has jobs that are taking nine to 12 months to fill. You could also get a role in product reception and dispatch.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, we’ve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. It would be folly not to take advantage of data availability and accessibility.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 11, 2018

"The long-term trend of manufacturing products for the US market in countries such as China and other low-cost Asian countries has not been curbed, as the increase in products being imported from there has only accelerated last year,” said A.T. Kearney study. Kearney partner and co-author of the study. Study Findings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson PLC, value added distributor of plumbing and heating products, came out with their third quarter results on June 14 th. of in-stock products ship the same business day from our DCs; that is best of breed for any industry.” They sell over a million products that range in size from very small copper fittings to 40-foot pipes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company will attain this goal by having operations that are significantly less carbon intensive and by producing products that are significantly better for the environment. These avoided CO2 emissions from their products, they argue, are around 40 times the Group’s own total carbon footprint. and Data Science.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 12, 2021

For that reason, companies will usually establish one warehouse on the east coast and another on the west coast, depending, of course, on the service offer. You might ask the following questions: What’s the total amount of product we may have to move across the country? You don’t have to launch into something very data-intensive.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As work becomes automated, jobs are proliferating – ones that require employees to work alongside machines, analyze and interpret data, solve problems as they arise and communicate with a diverse range of organizational stakeholders. These technologies hold the key to exponential growth in efficiency and productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2021

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cardinal Health made the decision they needed enhanced visibility into PPE shipments as demand for these products surged. The pharma segment distributes branded and generic pharmaceutical, specialty pharmaceutical and over-the-counter healthcare and consumer products to retailers.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 30, 2023

According to an ongoing study of 3,036 Shopify stores, the average conversion rate (visits that resulted in purchases) in 2022 was 1.3%. In fact, studies show that the more expensive your product or purchase type (such as a subscription), the more visits they will make before purchasing. Anywhere between 0.2%

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a recent Forrester study, they found the problem to be poor quality data. Digitization is your friend, but quality data is your foundation. It’s easy to get caught up in new innovations like AI, but the success stories are lacking due to one major problem: foundation! Believe in Darwin (change is a good thing).

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 11, 2018

Parcel shipping is growing worldwide, and Austria is no exception of course. The system can assign the parcels to the right destination because it is equipped with barcode recognition and with a laser system that continuously detects the parcel’s volume and reports the result to the superordinate data processing system.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Sitma has always kept a close eye on sustainability and has been leading the way in studying solutions to reduce the environmental impact deriving from the use of its machines. However, the company wanted to go a step further and look for tools able to provide objective data and values.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There are a million products that are not one size fits all. 1 Study the Data It’s no happy accident that ShipMonk was adamant about including complete, real-time transparent data in the 3PL software our fulfillment services stem from. Of course there’s the part where orders come in and get picked, packed, and shipped.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As physical stores opened, shut down and re-opened again, consumers became more flexible in the way they shop for, and purchase, just about every product. For example, they might browse products online, but visit a brick-and-mortar store to finalize their selection. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recent studies have shown that among the challenges frustrating warehouse and distribution centre managers this year, rising energy and labour costs are two of the most often cited. Do We Understand Where Efficiency and Productivity Needs Improvement? Does your company use incandescent, halogen, or HID lighting in its warehouses?

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Prescriptive Analytics platforms , as defined by Gartner , “primarily focus on creating optimization solutions,” providing “data prep, prescriptive model building, model management and model deployment in various business processes.” More investment in data science . Diversification has been the theme of the last decade.” .

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With so many analytics applications available and all the hype about big data, a lot of companies are drowning themselves in supply chain data to the point where it’s hard to see the wood for the trees. Of course, manual systems allow small business owners to manage inventory with limited investment in systems.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The first steps, of course, are to understand the challenges you face, prioritise them for action, and consider the resources and help you need to meet and overcome them. There are, of course, several ways to achieve a logistics knowledge infusion. Product Availability. How to Improve Product Availability.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 31, 2019

The course was not easy. It was overwhelming, studying and raising kids at the same time. I was really suffering but my mother motivated me find a course and continue my education. The course has turned my life around and I found new motivation. I learned a lot of social skills during the course too. It’s funny?—?I

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With so many analytics applications available and all the hype about big data, a lot of companies are drowning themselves in supply chain data to the point where it’s hard to see the wood for the trees. Of course, manual systems allow small business owners to manage inventory with limited investment in systems.

Supply Chain Planning Software 62

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 19, 2021

It would, of course, be what the winning time was when this race was last run in your district. Case Study: An Automotive Parts Business. They had a little issue with their picking productivity in the warehouse. This helped us realise that their picking productivity should be three times better than it was.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The world needs more data-driven, tech-savvy logisticians to manage the flow of goods and services in a technology-obsessed world – and that’s exactly where a pragmatic education can help. Robots, drones, tracking technology, increasing automation and other cutting-edge technologies are increasingly prominent in production and distribution.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2016

The studies of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) have shaped the logistics industry into what it is today. Emerging Technical Studies. Students studying the field of logistics work with innovation in mind , always striving to improve current logistics processes and eliminate product inefficiencies.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Prescriptive Analytics platforms , as defined by Gartner , “primarily focus on creating optimization solutions,” providing “data prep, prescriptive model building, model management and model deployment in various business processes.” More investment in data science . Diversification has been the theme of the last decade.” .

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