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Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations

Blue Grace Logistics

Case Study. For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. The Logistics Blog®. Whitepaper.

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Advanced Analytics Continue to Get a Bigger Plate at the Manufacturing Dinner Table

GlobalTranz

a chart from a TATA communications study of why manufacturers are using more advanced analytics: Accessing Data Is Becoming Easier. For example, a warehouse management system that is not currently connected to the other warehouses in the network cannot accurately generate a demand forecast for a given time period.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. For example, Apple cannot launch iPhone production in the U.S. And, after building the new U.S.

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What is the Hyperconnected Era & “The Internet Of Things” and What does it Have to Do with Manufacturing & Logistics?

GlobalTranz

What is an Example of Internet of Things? IBM’s Smarter Planet team created a 5-minute video that wholly explains Internet of Things and provides a brilliant example. In fact, he said IoT had the potential to change the world, just like the internet did (or “even more so”). According to Gartner, Inc.,

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From The Desk of the CEO & CTO – 6/27/19

Shipchain

Can you share some feedback outside companies had on the recent webinar? People are finally starting to get more comfortable with the idea of blockchain, but there’s still a technology hurdle to overcome for many – a recent study by SupplyChain247 found that 25% of shippers still have no TMS or software, and are doing manual processes.

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The Most Popular 16 Transportation Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Just as in the following five examples that reveal interesting data related to the trucking industry. Having evolved significantly over the last 30 years, such systems are typically available as standalone software packages, as part of a larger Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, or in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) formats.

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7 Key Supply Chain Leaders’ Skills and Why You Need Them

Logistics Bureau

Nevertheless, few supply chains run successfully today without the support of sophisticated technology tools, like warehouse management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Today you’re expected to find your way around the modules of your company’s ERP and business intelligence applications on your own.