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Advance Container Shipping Digitalisation

Logistics Business Magazine

The association was founded to accelerate digitalisation by streamlining and harmonising data standards, thereby creating an interoperable framework with reduced friction, cost and a better customer experience. DCSA standards aim to address needs such as paperless trade, cargo visibility, port call optimisation and equipment management.

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The Importance of Clear Data When Planning for Your Business’s Success

WorkWave

In the grand scheme of things, data analysis falls into the categories of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. While descriptive data presents existing figures, predictive data allows you to draw insights from trends in your descriptive data in order to make an educated guess about what might happen next.

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Case Study: The Order Fulfillment Group

Camelot 3PL Software

Known for its efficiency and quick turnarounds, the third-party logistics provider (3PL) offers comprehensive fulfillment and distribution services that include order entry, accounting, warehousing, and returns receiving to organizations nationwide. Documenting Added Tasks for Billing. Postal Service. The Order Fulfillment Group.

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Can Improving Forecast Accuracy Address Our Demand Planning Woes?

Logistics Viewpoints

Professors Robert Fildes and Paul Goodwin have spent a significant amount of their eminent careers studying the adoption of forecasting tools, which they describe in a recent case study. They document many reasons why this is the case, from observable human biases we readily discount to incentive misalignment to “algorithm aversion.”.

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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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FreightGate: The Gap Filler for Global Shipments’ Communications and Data Management

Forto

How the right communication process and data management style augment shipment handling and reduce risk. Multiple stakeholders, dozens of calls, variations of documents, process steps, and diverse transport management systems (TMS) complicate international shipping even further. . The supplier confirms scheduled pickup on May 29.

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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.