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

Logistics Viewpoints

A recent survey conducted by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) industry association shows that this bottleneck has exacerbated worldwide over the past two years. This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. Look at the big picture.

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Potential solution for drone collision avoidance

Logistics Business Magazine

These include security surveillance tasks at ports, critical infrastructures, border control and oil and gas industry as well as (intra)logistics, surveying, and asset inspections. ship-to-shore delivery), environmental monitoring and surveying grounds and buildings. structured and repeatable data collection), to delivery (e.g.

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Best Practices in Supplier Risk Management

Logistics Viewpoints

The survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on best practices or performance drivers. Identify where your nodes and suppliers’ suppliers are located, and even your third-tier suppliers. For this research alone, there were over 600 valid respondents. Map your supply chain. Supply Chain Disruption.

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The Dispatch Report + Full Product Launch | January 2019, Issue No. 10

Shipchain

Almost two years ago with knowledge of the problems of the freight industry and some rough ideas of how to solve them, we’ve been able to plot, survey, and develop the systems we’ve now launched. We recently wrapped on a launch event in Tokyo, Japan with the majority of our team. Upcoming Events. But that’s not all.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Planners are buried in tedious tasks using legacy, fragmented technology, which 48% say doesn’t help them do their job effectively, according to a survey by the boom! Concurrency combined with AI is the breakthrough, because it connects islands of isolation and aligns the nodes of your supply chain. Global Network.

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

A survey by boom! 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.

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What is the Biggest Blind Spot in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. A lot of data/information is communicated in batch and serial mode, sometimes hours or days after a transaction or event occurs. At 9:05am today, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck Vietnam.