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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Complex supply chains generate more data, which companies can use to drive greater efficiency or engage in innovation that disrupts an entire industry—think Amazon. More data is coming in than ever before.

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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

While COVID did see some modal shifts of everything from wheat to Peloton exercise bikes, there are certainly products that are less likely candidates for shifts. With more easily accessible data and bookings, alternatives to, yes, historically alternative routes suddenly become far more viable.

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New year’s resolutions: Accelerating digital transformation with ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For manufacturers and distributors, it’s important that before you digitally transform your organization you realize that you need data to convert existing business processes into digital. However, if your data is still analogue it cannot be collected or digitally manipulated, whereas digital data can be collected and analyzed easier.

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How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks

3PL Links

Image source: Flickr | How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks The management of data intelligence in the supply chain presents an enormous challenge to those involved. Global IT professionals have faced challenges related to data decentralization. However, there is a “but” to this tale.

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Combating Illicit Cargo

Logistics Business Magazine

The key points follow below: • Deceptive Shipping Practices: Malignant actors utilise deceptive shipping practices to conceal illicit cargo by manipulating location data, tampering with vessel tracking systems, falsifying documentation, and using false identities.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, if a retailer stands up a number of micro fulfillment centers to support a spike in eComm demand, this translates into changes to the flows and possibly modes of transportation, and accordingly master data changes. Design can help test such ideas before implementing changes to the master data. He received his Ph.D.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Big Data and Analytics With the latest analytics technology, you can further refine your fleet’s efficiency and plan more accurately.