Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

This means companies that normally operate in or have access to these countries have lost access to markets of about 180 million people. Such opportunities will involve switching modes of transportation, or skipping nodes of the network altogether, while increasing the speed to market and reducing the Cost-to-Serve.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Operating over three years, the UK Research & Innovation funded DUKFT Network, a collection of over forty academic, policy and industry organisation, undertook six research projects and two stakeholder events exploring how to mobilise investment that can enable UK freight decarbonisation whilst managing risk and maximising opportunity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. And the models themselves were often not detailed enough to create a digital twin that represented how a company actually operated. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America.

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Shipchain

MARCH 28, 2019

Through private dealflow sessions, exclusive networking events, mentor sessions, and more, these startups will have ample opportunities to land pilots, POCs, new customers, and investment.” – Plug and Play Official Press Release. To learn more about this initiative, visit our blog. ShipChain Testnet is now in Alpha phase!

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2018

To maintain control, it is critical that operational, product, and marketing strategies are very clearly set out, with defined priorities to guide decisions. However, it should not be forgotten that in traditional forecast-driven operations, inaccurate forecasts commonly create reactive situations that the supply chain is not prepared for.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

The EDI transactions would feed milestone events into the company’s transportation management system (TMS). Now ocean carriers as starting to realize the rich sources of data they have which they can use to improve their operations, and that will benefit shippers. They are adopting APIs and getting excited about the possibilities.”.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Its purpose is to serve as compensation for the multiple nodes within a network that are keeping copies of transactional data generated by supply chains. From OriginTrail’s perspective, Trace isn’t even the main event. But the tokens aren’t all being created for the same purpose.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, those within the logistics industry should continue to expect the unexpected and focus on collaboration and contingency planning within their operations as they work towards greater stability. Transportation costs—driven by increases in all modes and nodes—were up by 21.7%. According to the report, U.S. to $831 billion.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

A series of unfortunate events. With the help of strategic network designing for distribution and delivery operations, supply chain companies can reduce fuel usage and fuel costs significantly while reducing the time taken in transporting goods from one point to another.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2018

Hans Bert Bong, former head of finished vehicle logistics for Ford of Europe and now a logistics consultant, points to an evolution towards more proactive management of weather-related events in the automotive supply chain, much of which is already evident on the inbound side. Even for such response measures, St.

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Shipchain

JANUARY 23, 2019

Our incredible team of employees, across tech, product development, sales, biz dev, marketing, operations, etc. There are several other systems that we have developed which are also fully live and operational: Axle – Our Hardware Gateway. We recently wrapped on a launch event in Tokyo, Japan with the majority of our team.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. Response to node failures is robust.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Concurrency combined with AI is the breakthrough, because it connects islands of isolation and aligns the nodes of your supply chain. Asthma rates by region could be relevant for a life sciences company, whereas for a retailer festivals and events near stores might be more predictive.

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Bringg

AUGUST 4, 2020

These include the following: “Innovation Trigger – A breakthrough, public demonstration, product launch or other event generates significant press and industry interest;”. The reality is however, that the best way to deliver the optimal business and logistics performance, is to break down operational silos.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

And secondly, is it wise to build ever more distribution centres, vital nodes in the economy of the nation, on increasingly vulnerable, if attractively flat, flood plains? On the other hand, there are many firms that desperately need more warehousing storage or operational space. Then there are planned peak requirements.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Transparency into the inter-relationships of actions clarifies their systemic impact, not just the effect on a single node. Disruptions often interrupt these patterns and produce rare events, which challenge the algorithms designed to learn from prior patterns. A snapshot may optimize one link but won’t optimize the chain.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

A lot of data/information is communicated in batch and serial mode, sometimes hours or days after a transaction or event occurs. Within X hours of the event, we contacted all of these suppliers and determined that X supplier has shop floor damage. Low-tech / no-tech processes still exist, especially in developing countries.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2017

A smart company pays attention to the way their supply chain operates, and that means working with a proactive design over a reactive one. If existing scenarios and events have triggered an assessment of your supply chain flow, you’re operating with a reactive design. Times Have Changed For Supply Chains.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Even though lots of organizations have such planning solutions, yet the main question for any operations team still remains: - "In a forecast driven supply chain, where should be our d emand point and how to control bull whip effect due to variability in customer demand?" (i.e Keeping end retailers i.e

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 30, 2018

When this move becomes a norm, we might as well be waving goodbye to the logistics operators who would just be a redundant appendage to the entire supply chain. How can an app entirely replace a logistics operator? You do not need a third-party logistics operator. Dependence on legacy systems to manage complex operations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Today’s supply chains are operated by a fragmented ecosystem of legacy solutions, with many being stitched together over time with custom configurations and code,” said Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder.

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Chronicled

AUGUST 27, 2020

Capabilities These two solutions are great case studies of many of the capabilities that become possible when the blockchain technology is incorporated into the solution design: Immutable Record Keeping Capability: Having timestamped records of data, events, and transactions that can not be changed?—?even even by the originator of the data?—?without

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The Logistics Academy

JANUARY 23, 2017

Blockchain is a distributed database that holds records of digital data or events in a way that makes them tamper-resistant. Some supply chains are already using the technology, and experts suggest blockchain could become a universal “supply chain operating system” before long. – as they move between supply chain nodes.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

It exists in multiple copies spread over multiple computers, typically known as nodes. The nodes connected to the blockchain network get updated versions of the ledger every time a new transaction takes place. A smart contract can take input from a ledger and trigger an event. No fraud or other interference is possible.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2018

Kuebix Empowers E-Commerce Businesses with Profitable Transportation Operations. Manufacturers, shipping lines, freight forwarders, port and terminal operators and customs authorities can all benefit from these new technologies –and ultimately consumers. Cloud computing trends toward a single database that multiple nodes can access.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

Current Supply Chains don’t operate at the cadence of business. The distributed ledger component of blockchain provides an integrated digital platform for nodes in a supply chain system to share and query information as developments occur in real time. Integrating Blockchain within the Supply Chain could change that.

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