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Data-driven Decisions for Flexible Supply Chain

Logistics Business Magazine

It can equip teams with better, more comprehensive data that can be used to make meaningful business decisions to maximise flexibility and opportunities for growth. Strategic stock management One of the crucial areas in which businesses can leverage data to enhance flexibility is stock management.

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Data Everywhere: AI in Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

Most shippers, carriers and logistics service providers understand the importance of data collection and data-driven decision-making. Data collected over time provides intelligence, enabling companies to enhance long-term decision-making. Artificial intelligence is a potent tool that helps companies get the most from their data.

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Autonomous Data Capture

Logistics Business Magazine

Real-time data, including inventory, enables structural visibility in logistics, which leads to better resource allocation, reduced downtime and improved customer service. Dexory’s robot (pictured) automated inventory management, providing instant, continuous data. She describes the machine as an ‘autonomous data capture unit’.

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Improve Data Quality in Air and Sea Supply Chains

Logistics Business Magazine

Nevertheless, there is still a lack of transparency in logistics, as data volumes are often insufficiently filtered and processed. BlueBox Systems is the first tracking platform in the air freight sector to deliver real-time visibility of the location of air cargo shipments with highest quality data.

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Precise, Comprehensive Data in Air Freight

Logistics Business Magazine

“Air freight forwarders should use this period to ensure that they can provide the airlines with the additional data required,” advises DAKOSY authorized officer Dirk Gladiator. In any case, the participating service providers must deliver more comprehensive data that meets a very high standard.

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Bigging up Data Analytics

Logistics Business Magazine

Big data presents supply chain and warehouse managers with an unprecedented opportunity to acquire real-time visibility of goods in transit and part of inventory, writes Tony Dobson -SnapFulfil CEO. There’s plethora of data in the warehouse now, with lots of dashboards to present the figures, but information overload is happening.

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Transporeon, Schmitz Cargobull aim to Deliver Data Visibility

Logistics Business Magazine

Transporeon , one of Europe’s leading Transportation Management Platform, and Schmitz Cargobull, Europe’s leading manufacturer of trailers, have announced a partnership that will provide Schmitz Cargobull’s customers an easy and secure data connection to Transporeon’s real-time visibility solution.

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