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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the speakers was Abby Weisenberger, a distribution consultant at Kimberly-Clark. Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. FourKites is a leading provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions. This was an online event.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to driving supply chain agility there are several solutions that are important, but the key solution is a Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Network (MSCN). It is a solution built on a public cloud, many-to-many architecture that supports a community of trading partners. Stuff happens. billion transactions annually.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Over a relatively short period, a transport or fleet manager’s ability to support an efficient distribution network through route and delivery optimisation has shifted from almost nil to almost limitless. Simon’s employer was a supplier of beer, wines, spirits, and soft drinks to retail outlets in the United Kingdom.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturers and distributors want to dramatically increase their efficiency, productivity and accuracy through smart technologies, data analytics and connected services. Digitization: from analogue information to digital data. The first step, therefore, is to get all your information – documents and data – into a digital format.

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2021 Supply Chain Technology Trends to Watch

Logistics Viewpoints

But we can’t document the ROI or other benefits at this point. In this article, the main hyped, promising, and solid solutions but widely adopted technologies in supply chain management are discussed. These seem like technologies in search of a solution. Hyped Technologies. Blockchain.

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Digital Transformation of Operations Reshape Worker Experience

Logistics Business Magazine

Samsara’s Connected Operations Cloud is already contributing dramatic improvements to workers in these industries – using AI to prevent over 120,000 crashes in 2022 alone, and digitizing more than 23 million documents to save thousands of hours of paperwork. The next wave of digital transformation is happening now.”

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Avoiding Freight Damage & Using Empirical Stretch Wrapping Data to Troubleshoot Causes

GlobalTranz

The best solution is avoiding freight damage, but how do you measure for it? A major contributing factor is the inherent difficulty in measuring and documenting packaging suitability for LTL and over-the-road pallet load shipments. It’s easy to “over” wrap a load. It’s easy to “over” wrap a load.

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