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IoT – Internet of Things: Moving Supply Chain Logistics Ahead

20Cube Logistics

IoT innovations like Sensor data and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) provide information to enable real-time tracking and alerts for better decision making. Such data can be converted into vital information to help business improve operations and businesses. What is IoT in supply chain logistics? of jobs for each asset.

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

It will enable data sharing among all functions, highlight errors and outliers in the data, and speed up data analysis thus increasing efficiency, improving accuracy and lowering operating costs. Refined Analytics: Logistics is a data-intensive function.

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Gartner Announces Rankings of the 2018 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25

247 Customs Broker

In 2018, Cleveland Clinic continued improving its services and employed RFID technology for high-value medical devices and a less-expensive solution for commodity products. “In Where unavailable, latest available full-year data used. All raw data normalized to a 10-point scale prior to composite calculation.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. Data from barcodes, RFID tags, GPS systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT) mean that managers not only have to be good analysts, but they also have to be good at understanding the supply chain system instinctually.

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Top Supply Chain and Logistics Articles of 2019

PINC

nationally—the lowest since CBRE began tracking that data in 1989, Yearling also highlights the trade war/tariff issues and how PINC was seeing increased yard activity in its customer base and across all industry verticals. Managing inventory is a critical exercise that directly impacts the entire supply chain,” he explains.

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Protecting Freight From Cargo Theft with Technology

Blue Grace Logistics

Specialized data analysis firms such as Cargonet have found that cargo theft is peaking and the losses being suffered by manufacturers, shippers, and logistics service providers have reached historic highs. Watchdog platforms offer cargo theft prevention and recovery networks by analyzing big chunks of data provided by drivers and carriers.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

Once you have gathered the data relating to your customers’ needs, you should be able to see if a single logistics strategy will work for your entire customer base, or whether you need to take a segmented approach. Then, you can analyse your current supply chain capabilities using the research results and your data concerning customer needs.