Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

brings together the global intralogistics community in ten packed exhibit halls and the open space between Halls 8 and 10 in an event running April 25–27, 2023. The products, systems, and solutions on display there meet the demands of today’s marketplace. “As

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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. A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. Visibility to Events. There is a vintage television commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. If there is interest, I’ll put something together. Every tool, technique, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. These solutions were proven to increase productivity significantly. Risk management had been a hard sale.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“We luckily were never in a situation where our staff had to go without personal protection equipment or had to use makeshift products.” And then, trying to make sure we were getting quality products.” “Our I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. But there was a cost to this. I have 1000s of them.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

With ten technically improved models of pallet trucks, pallet stackers and double stackers, customers of Linde Material Handling (MH) can now make their loading and unloading processes even more productive. This ensures a high level of safety and increases productivity. A characteristic feature of the 2.0- tons) can be folded up.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand forecasting is the process of making future estimations of how much of a given product will sell by location and time period. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. This sounds obvious. Sadly it is not.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

These events also caused supply chain disruptions — although not all the effects may have been fully realized yet,” he said. Hurricane Maria, which slammed into Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, is a prime example of a catastrophe that reverberates through supply chains. Economic situation can cause product or labor shortages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. The instances of extreme weather events continue to grow on a yearly basis. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Greenwashing is a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization’s products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly. A notable example of greenwashing is when McDonald’s introduced paper straws to reduce plastic pollution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. Generative AI is a major topic at all the enterprise events this year. The Supply Chain Command Center product demos beautifully.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Large swings in supply and demand for different product categories and changes in distribution patterns left logistics managers grappling with the biggest challenge of their careers. For example, improved transportation lead time predictions enables more informed decisions on which carrier, route and service level to use for any given order.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

There are many different models that ensure success in any company, but for the purposes of simplicity, we have chosen one model: the 4 Ps of logistics (product, price, promotion, and place). Product The P for product can simply refer to the product itself or can be present in more subtle ways.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2024

AI also enhances manufacturers’ ability to collect, aggregate and analyze sensor data in real time for production analytics. Enable innovation and transformation by creating new opportunities, products and services and by helping manufacturers adapt to changing market conditions and customer expectations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Poland, for example, the unemployment rate was as close to zero as you can get in an advanced economy, with earnings approaching those of Western Europe. To compete in this environment, increased remuneration needs to be targeted at the best performing staff, and to be funded from savings made through improved productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US. Depending on the product, their customers are consumer goods companies, retailers, food service distributors and restaurant chains. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the same time, a retailer whose product demand drops sharply has less need for transportation capacity and therefore tenders lower volumes to contracted carriers. The frequency of RFP events is only one area that can be improved as shippers look for a better way to manage freight procurement processes.

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Stord

MARCH 13, 2024

For example, G.O.S.S. Stord’s WMS also supports a range of customers through its highly configurable billing engine, supporting charges for all relevant events that occur in the WMS - without any restrictions. Since Stord’s inception, it has developed best-in-class technology and supply chain capabilities in tandem. Industries.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

On June 20, Linde Material Handling literally laid out the red carpet for its customers and other interested parties for nine event days. In addition, the vast expertise of the company’s product experts and consultants is available to visitors. The WoMH is an event that is second to none in the material handling industry.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, if milk wasn’t FDA-certified you wouldn’t have verification that the cows producing it are healthy. Accordingly, our US ecommerce fulfillment centers have the FDA registration needed to safely store and handle these products. As you can imagine, the list of products that fall under FDA regulation is extensive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For example, we can have “Texas Small Volume” customers and “Florida Peak Season” customers, or “East Coast High Margin” customers and “Carolinas High Priority” customers. For example, a model for a company with twenty distinct customers with unique buying patterns, who are located all around the world, might not require aggregation at all.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2022

Omnichannel provides a seamless and convenient shopping experience, by simply clicking consumers can place orders anytime, anywhere and get the products the same day or next day. Meanwhile, livestreaming is becoming the hottest trend in selling products online, and is expected grow by 95.5% In the past the event was only held on Nov.11

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Exhibitors from nearly every sector of the industry are coming to LogiMAT 2024 to present their latest products and solutions for ergonomically optimized intralogistics processes, healthy workplaces, and injury prevention. Visitors to LogiMAT can look forward to experiencing innovations in equipment and assistance systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2021

For the first time since its inception, the 25th Annual ARC Industry Forum in February was hosted as a virtual event. The Forum had a record number of global attendees and speakers this year who took advantage of this “virtual,” online event to network, collaborate, and share actionable strategies for successful digital transformation.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, there’s yet one more disruptive event to get through before that can happen: Chinese New Year. Good forecasting is equally as critical at this time of the year, when knowing exactly how much product your company will need through the first quarter of 2022 may give it a leg up on its competitors. Use Good Forecasting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. All these things add costs to products. A Different Way to Think About Integrated Planning.

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Kanban Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

You want to make sure that your provider is doing all that it can to protect the integrity of your products while adhering to GMP guidelines. In this article, we’ve listed several specific questions that you should ask your current or prospective 3PL provider to make sure that your pharmaceutical products are in good hands.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Ford has resumed production of the F-150 and Super Duty pick-up trucks at its facilities in the US, following inbound supply chain disruption caused by a fire at its components supplier Meridian Magnesium Products earlier this month. FCA confirmed this week that production was now returning to normal, however.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Thanks to industrialised production and standardised components, STILL will offer a broad portfolio of automated vehicles with short delivery times and a wide range of customer-specific equipment options – and at the same time can further improve the speed and flexibility of service for automation solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As physical stores opened, shut down and re-opened again, consumers became more flexible in the way they shop for, and purchase, just about every product. For example, they might browse products online, but visit a brick-and-mortar store to finalize their selection. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape.

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Kanban Logistics

JUNE 16, 2022

As stewards of your precious products, your logistics provider should ask the important questions and take the important action steps before an emergency event. Preventing supply chain disruption begins with careful planning as soon as a major weather event is forecasted. In this article, we’ll examine how Kanban does just that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, if a trading partner with products/services to sell is on a network, and a buyer of those products/services joins the network, the IT effort involved in facilitating collaboration between those two companies is greatly diminished. This saves a seller time and can accelerate the speed with which two companies can do business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What follows are my top take aways from the event. OTM is a very mature application, for example. Oracle’s primary example of what they were doing to bring deeper industry solutions to market was what they are doing to support the healthcare industry. Oracle’s Technology Value Proposition. This demo’d beautifully.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Visitor registration is open for Intermodal Europe 2022 , the leading container shipping and intermodal transport event which returns 8 – 10 November to the RAI, Amsterdam. There are delays and bottlenecks, but the focus on driving efficiency to resolve these bottlenecks is a great example of the industry’s adaptability,” continues Press.

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EazyStock

JULY 22, 2021

If you analyzed the historical sales data of every product in your warehouse, you’d find that the demand for different items varies considerably. It makes statistical sense to use a different equation to calculate the demand of a product with an erratic demand type, to one with slow demand. Inventory Demand Trends.

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