Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve said it before (right here in Logistics Viewpoints), but it’s worth repeating: the digital transformation of our complex global supply chains is an ongoing journey. The entire supply chain industry was caught flat-footed by the seismic disruptions wrought by the pandemic. Why is this shift such a big deal?

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - November 21, 2023 Market conditions play a crucial role in shaping challenges professionals face when managing their organization’s supply chains.

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Port of Los Angeles will begin distributing and publishing key dashboard data from Wabtec’s Port Optimizer™so that all supply chain stakeholders have easy access and can use the forward-looking information to better plan and prepare for inbound cargo.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an engineer, former solutions architect and now CEO of a leading supply chain technology company, I have a real affinity and respect for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their teams, without whom successful enterprise technology deployments would be impossible. What’s more, today’s supply chains operate at lean levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

ARC Advisory Group did a study on the supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) a couple of years ago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. To get visibility to whether a load will be on time and in full, a lot more data is required. That is fast growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 13, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies run two types of supply chains. There is the commercial supply chain where drugs that have been approved for use on patients are shipped to distributors, drug stores, and hospitals around the world. Then there is a clinical trials supply chain. dollars on drug development.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Manhattan Associates, a supplier of supply chain management software solutions and the market share leader for warehouse management systems (WMS), had their Momentum user conference a couple of weeks ago. These models can understand and generate answers to text prompts because they’ve been trained on huge amounts of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

Infor is one example of a supplier that offers both advanced visibility and supply chain planning. Supply chain practitioners are beginning to understand the same is true for supply chain planning (SCP) and multi-enterprise supply chain network solutions. MSCN and SCP are better together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

But there is a type of solution known as multi-enterprise supply chain networks (MSCN). Metcalf’s law does not apply to these supply chain networks. Yes, these supply chain networks advantages do improve as more companies and users join. TraceGains’ solution digitizes the food ingredient supply chain.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 15, 2022

Today, we’re talking about the difference between inbound logistics and outbound logistics. At a glance, inbound logistics and outbound logistics refer to the different stages that goods go through while moving down the supply chain. Inbound Logistics. Each logistics aspect is tied to transportation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Unlocking customer experience is the critical role of your supply chain, writes Roy Arguelles, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Sales, QAD. To deliver seamless experiences, businesses must break down silos, fostering cross-departmental collaboration and data sharing.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Supply chain industry leaders have access to more information today than ever before in history. Thanks to data gathering programs, supply chain software , and data entry applications, this represents a mountain of data, which has the potential to provide ground-breaking insight into how to improve business-model efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

There have been extensive supply chain disruptions caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. These disruptions have elevated the supply chain function to the boardroom level. It is now understood that supply chain agility is imperative. What is a Supply Chain Collaboration Network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve only just entered the second half of the year and people haven’t even taken their summer vacations yet, so why are we talking about holiday supply chains now? Shouldn’t this alleviate the pressure on holiday supply chains?”. Last year, retailers started encouraging holiday shoppers to shop early. Not really.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

There have been massive supply chain disruptions since the pandemic began. China’s stringent COVID lockdown in critical port cities has impacted global supply chains. The devices will improve visibility by transmitting data on a real-time basis from each container. It has so many data points.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2023

Joe Oliaro is the Vice President of Sales and Chief Real Estate Officer at Wagner Logistics , a leading provider of supply chain solutions. Joe is a force to be reckoned with in the world of logistics and supply chain strategy. Wagner Logistics utilizes advanced technology to provide end-to-end supply chain management.

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FreightWaves SONAR

AUGUST 14, 2023

Supply chain optimization is often presented as a choice between resilience and responsiveness — between being able to withstand and operate normally under conditions of disruption and stress and being able to quickly flex capacity and throughput up or down opportunistically.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 30, 2021

Establishing a practical freight routing guide helps outline essential rules of engagement for vendors, clients and supply chain managers. Maintaining good compliance to these informational guides is critical to supply chain management and relies heavily on current data and automation. Download the White Paper.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Blue Yonder, a leading supply chain solutions provider, today announced the release of its largest product update in the history of the company, launching the first set of interoperable solutions across the entire supply chain – from planning to warehouse, transportation, and commerce – delivered on the company’s Luminate® Cognitive Platform.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Manufacturers often rely on inbound freight to transport all the materials and machinery they need to produce their products. This is why your inbound freight management must be smooth and foolproof. So how do you optimize inbound freight management? Why should you optimize your inbound freight management?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 9, 2022

This may include choosing software for managing the enterprise (an ERP system), for supply chain management (SCM) or for customer relationship management (CRM). Because information is centralized in one system, an ERP eliminates duplicate entries and maintains the latest, most up-to-date data on a single platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 14, 2023

There are a lot of moving parts to managing an ecommerce supply chain. It’s called a supply chain for a reason; there are many links, and if any one of them breaks, the chain no longer functions. Today we’re going to take a look at a typical ecommerce supply chain from beginning to end.

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Turvo

JULY 27, 2021

Of all the components that make up the modern supply logistics and shipping network, the one that can significantly impact operational efficiency is visibility into the supply chain. Keeping this focus continues to be essential for the management of the supply chain. . Narrow Visibility Leaves Money on the Table.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Supply chains are messy. Blockchain in Supply Chain Can Help. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. The inefficiencies that plague supply chains have seemingly been around forever. Blockchain in supply chain changes that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain. ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago!

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Supply chain leaders are enthralled with the idea of using big data, but they tend to fail to understand how to disseminate big data in their organization properly. Ask Traditional Questions, and Let Big Data Provide Answers. Ask Traditional Questions, and Let Big Data Provide Answers. Demand forecasts.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, our advanced 3PL platform looks after every aspect of your supply chain in an efficient, effective way and our Virtual Carrier Network safeguards your shipping by always applying the best rates and speeds while not handcuffing you to any carrier. Of course we’re talking about your ecommerce store’s data security.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2016

We invite you to download the all new Cerasis e-book "Big Data In The Supply Chain & Transportation Industry." In this e-book, you'll learn the following: What is Big Data? How do supply chain & transportation leaders get started in collecting & using Big Data? No, hold on.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Faced with anemic demand growth and persistent margin pressure, CPG, retail, and food and beverage companies are being forced to make their transportation networks and supply chains more nimble in the face of recession. For visibility into rate fluctuations, use SONAR’S Inbound Tender Rejection Index (ITRI).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As global supply chains continue to tackle ongoing disruptions, one major headwind that most organizations are faced with is the inflationary environment we are living through. The post Why Digitalizing Sourcing is a Must for Supply Chain Resilience appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. He received his Ph.D.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Michael Jacobs, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Ferguson. Mr. Jacobs is the senior vice president for supply chain at Ferguson. While nominally a distributor, “supply chain management is our core competency. In particular, Ferguson’s supply chain is built for speed and to provide high service levels.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations Show Submenu Resources. Supply Chain Brain. Ever-changing supply chain complexities can be a significant distraction from core market focus. The Logistics Blog®. Whitepaper. Case Study. BlueGrace Logistics. September 15, 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

The SVP of Supply Chain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. Following their fourth quarter results, top executives talked about their supply chain and omnichannel strategy at a high level. Mr. Guggina talked about how Walmart is approaching their supply chain transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Many companies were in the midst of digitally transforming their supply chain when the Convid-19 pandemic hits. In this part 2 article, let us continue to explore the concrete actions we can take in our Digital Supply Chain journeys. The Key to Long-Term Success: Build Agility, Resilience and Profitability Together.

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