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

Logistics Bureau

From an inventory perspective then, service means maintaining an appropriate level of stock to meet your promises to your customers. Hence it’s critical to balance inventory levels and deployment strategy to meet availability and cost requirements. Too many nodes will result in excessive warehouse cost and inventory levels.

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The Dispatch Report | March 2019, Issue No. 11

Shipchain

Our goal is for our clients to have one unified platform for Track and Trace visibility, with our document/data management for immutability and provenance, and Business Intelligence dashboards to quickly identify bottlenecks and/or KPI performance. To learn more about this initiative, visit our blog. ShipChain Testnet is now in Alpha phase!

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. In the monthly business planning meeting, a plan can be created, that if executed, will generate a certain profit, cash flow, or even keep greenhouse gas emissions below a certain targeted level. Gottemukkala asserts.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

Processing the order In this stage, the fulfillment team from the nearest warehouse retrieves the order from storage, prepares, packs, and organizes it for shipment, along with its documentation. Using stores as distribution nodes This is the latest advancement in order fulfillment.

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The Cold Chain is a Top Opportunity for Third-Party Logistics Providers

Logistics Viewpoints

Cold chain logistics is a complex problem because of the multiple nodes and parties involved in moving chilled or frozen goods. The report points out that “there are several services 3PLs must have to meet shippers’ cold chain requirements. Over 730,000 documents are processed per day. Cold Chain Logistics is Challenging.

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Do You Have a Proactive Supply Chain Design or a Reactive One?

Talking Logistics

What would happen if something catastrophic happened to that node? Planning for unexpected issues like these is a major part of a proactive approach; make sure you always have a well-documented “Plan B” for your supply chain. Is there a point where multiple supply channels pass through a single location in your chain?

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From the Desks of the Entire ShipChain Team – 9/25/2020

Shipchain

These primitives will enable us to begin documenting and tracking supply chain interactions before a purchase has even occurred. Fairly early on, we determined that traditional API data integration services would meet our needs by providing a scalable, cost-effective, and predictable means of data sourcing. .