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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

The resulting insights enable optimal transport and route management: Which routes within the distribution network should be utilized? Transportation from these new distribution centers to their final destination must also be balanced using data transparency across all nodes. How can the fill level of goods be optimized?

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

To align the financial pillar of supply chain excellence, you and your team should focus on costs and financial performance in four key areas, namely: Distribution network costs. Distribution Network Costs. We’re going to look at transportation shortly, so for now let’s concentrate on the “distribution nodes.”

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The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”

Talking Logistics

Our 2018 study tells us a greater percentage of Above Average Performers have “High Confidence” in inventory accuracy across all supply chain nodes compared to Average & Below Performers. For more research results, including insights on the role and importance of distributed order management (DOM), download the full report.

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Network Design in supply Chain

20Cube Logistics

Placement of distribution centres and warehouses. This involves the placement of supply chain nodes in the accurate locations. The size of the warehouses and distribution centres should also defined according to the need. The cost and time required also needs to be studied well.

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6 Critical Success Factors in Distribution Network Design

Logistics Bureau

If you’ve followed our blog over the years, you’ll know that we’ve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why it’s vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Based on ARC Advisory Group’s recently released study of the market, this puts them in the top 5. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. When it comes to the constrain-based models, Mr. Gottemukkala continued, it’s not just about modeling the factories and the distribution centers.

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Blockchain Will Solve, Save, Cure Everything

Talking Logistics

In short, blockchain by itself does not solve the “garbage in, garbage out” data quality problem; you’ll still have garbage data, but in a distributed ledger that’s better encrypted and traceable. These nodes are distributed around the world. Although we share the enthusiasm for its potential, we worry about the hype.