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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

Our recent survey showed that only 17% of organizations make it a priority to invest in innovation. The report outlines the tools with the highest transformational benefits and capabilities that are becoming standard business practices. Network Design. Firefighting is the norm.

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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

AIMMS

A recent online survey conducted b y MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics aimed to understand how companies are reacting to the Coronavirus outbreak. Research conducted by AIMMS found that 38% of supply chain professionals require multiple weeks to address their network-related?questions. we need q uickly.?

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. A year later their survey revealed that companies were more likely to have increased inventory than originally planned and less likely to have made other planned changes to suppliers and networks. A change to one link (e.g.

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New Smart Pallet Mover promises performance boost

Logistics Business Magazine

It represents a mobile and autonomously acting material flow system that can be used, for example, as a cost-efficient supplement or substitute for forklifts or automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Networking capabilities based on global data standards such as REST API and JSON ensure maximum compatibility and ease of use.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Customer Has Spoken

Logistics Viewpoints

Real-time visibility tools are generally most effective for over-the-road shipments. Ocean ETAs, for example, are much different because the macro-factors are a lot different than over the road. Air cargo is also easier for predictive ETAs based on the network and speed of transportation when compared to ocean cargo.

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Email Tips for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

Email vs. Other Forms of Communication For many years, email has been the gold standard of communication tools for DTC businesses. Your products are different, your sales cycle might be longer or shorter, your customers are different — so it’s useless to compare your conversion rate, for example, to an industry average. The downside?