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China is Moving to Mexico with Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen

The Logistics of Logistics

Additionally, Jorge has leveraged his insights with students in Mexico, serving as a clinical professor of entrepreneurship for the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, where he taught an undergraduate course for students majoring in business, economics, and engineering. Jorge holds a B.A.

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Meet ShipMonk’s New CEO Josh McCarter

Ship Monk

I’ve always been engaged with businesses that leverage technology to disrupt an industry, whether that was being at the first automotive ecommerce company, Autobytel, or co-founding Booker, which brought one of the first SaaS models to wellness businesses around the world. to keep everyone connected and updated.

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

While predictive analytics seeks to answer questions such as “what might happen in the future,” prescriptive analytics goes beyond by recommending the best course of action going forward. Traditional slotting solutions require customized models, extensive engineering, measurement, and data collection.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

The supply chain planning market got started when supply chain models were put into in-memory databases in the early 1990s. The Power of Flexible Modeling Based on their background, o9’s cofounders understood the strengths and weaknesses of existing planning technology. A very powerful modeling framework was required.”

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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. These capabilities include Machine Learning and Prescriptive Analytics , and organizational models like Agile Teams. What to prioritize. Network Design.

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Mini Yellow’ sortation robots help ZTO meet the demands of ‘singles day’ 

Logistics Business Magazine

The company operates a highly scalable partner network model – in effect a ‘hub and spoke’ system ­­- that enables it to provide online retailers with cost-efficient, countrywide reach. LiBiao Robot recently announced that two models from the ‘Mini Yellow’ range are now available in Europe – a 5kg tilt-tray robot and a 30kg cross-belt model.

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Vehicle Specialist Says Brexit May Reform UK HGV Ownership Models

Logistics Business Magazine

And, of course, the cost of ownership of trucks is likely to increase substantially once the 16% import tariffs are factored in.”. If the price of imported vehicles increases by 16%, and we have a weak pound, that could change the whole model for cost of ownership,” says Middleton. However, that could now change.