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How to Successfully Implement a Transportation Management System

Talking Logistics

The reason is that TMS is one of the most highly integrated applications in an organization because it touches every node in the supply chain,” he says. Of course, no matter how well you plan and how good your people are, things always can and do go wrong to derail the project.

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

In this post, we explain what those pillars are, why they matter, and how to align them in a way that supports supply chain management excellence. Of course, the aim should always be to serve customers proactively, and that’s where the third element of service alignment—planning—comes to the fore. Warehouse Costs.

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How to Mitigate Risk in Demand Driven Supply Chains

Logistics Bureau

The desire to avoid data falling into the wrong hands is, of course, understandable, but digital security measures are improving all the time. A buffer maintained at each supply chain node should be independent, autonomously replenished as it depletes, and should not generate acute demands on other nodes upstream.

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Retail Trends: The Growing Demand for Click and Collect

Bringg

To justify the price of square footage, retail locations must now serve as a node in eCommerce fulfillment. Existing fulfillment models like ship-from-store and click & collect have become retail trends that highlight how to use local retail footprint to reduce the cost of eCommerce fulfillment and improve efficiency.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Getting started with AI in supply chain might not start where you think.

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Virtual Carrier Network – Your Shipping Carrier, Rate, & Service Solution

Ship Monk

Of course it would, and that’s why ShipMonk exists. We can change course at the drop of a hat. How to Implement the Virtual Carrier Network? We may split nodes or divvy up inventory, slotting it more appropriately in terms of warehouse/fulfillment center and geography. What about Rate Shopping?

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Q&A: Srini Muthusrinivasan

Automotive Logistics

There is a timeline, or a runway – especially for the current generation – to be prepared to run the course and take off. I want to re-emphasise the creative engineering part of it, which is what to do, when to do, how to do, and writing a playbook for these machines. .