Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

Supply chain optimization ensures a smoother process and a more successful business model focusing on efficiency and profit. First, let’s define what supply chain optimization means, the different factors involved, and how the right supply chain optimization techniques and solutions can help you support your key business initiatives. . .

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ShipLilly

JUNE 23, 2021

As a consequence, NVOCCs, logistics service providers, warehouse operators, and freight forwarders can improve their operations in terms of service quality, efficiency, and pace. Those that have embraced artificial intelligence have reported reduced costs, improved productivity, and more controllable margins or error.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Today, the steel manufacturing leader has an ambitious digital transformation agenda and is leveraging AIMMS technology to optimize operations in its home country. Your team is currently using AIMMS for a supply chain optimization project. With the output from AIMMS models, we can improve our decision- making process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. Here are some examples of such use cases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Examples of Supply Chain Robots at MODEX 2024 Several exhibitors at MODEX 2024 showcased their innovative solutions for supply chain robotics, demonstrating the diversity and potential of this field. Here are some of the examples that caught our attention.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At the Port of Los Angeles, for example, a sudden rush of shipments overloaded the local warehouse market. With the threat of more trade tensions on the horizon in 2019, shippers should optimize their supply chains now to minimize disruption. This example highlights the dangers of international trade tensions.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Today, the steel manufacturing leader has an ambitious digital transformation agenda and is leveraging AIMMS technology to optimize operations in its home country. Your team is currently using AIMMS for a supply chain optimization project. With the output from AIMMS models, we can improve our decision- making process.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 2, 2022

To deal with the new challenges in managing and planning the supply chain , the procurement department is one of the functions that should look at changing. It is no longer sufficient for procurement to focus just on supplier costs, placing orders and ensuring goods are received. Risk management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

We had the pleasure to speak with Willem Vesters, Liberty Global’s VP Global Supply Chain Planning, to learn more about their optimization journey. These are all the set up boxes we use in the customer’s house, cable boxes and modems for example. If you’re still in denial as a company, you can’t improve. That’s a good question.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2018

We do strategic carrier sourcing and contract negotiation, but it isn’t always time to renegotiate your contracts. Data-driven Optimization. For example, a company may be using two- or three-day express shipping to ship parcels over a short distance where they probably would have arrived in the same time using ground.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time To Read: 3 minutes Efficient route planning is crucial for optimizing operations and ensuring timely deliveries. Delivery businesses operating in cities, for example, with consistent traffic patterns and stable delivery routes, rely on static routing to maintain predictability and allocate resources efficiently.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But in some industries, automotive is a prime example, these solutions enable optimal decision-making with respect to the impact of customs on business operations. Using GTC to optimize operations is the next step, beyond just using these solutions to ensure compliance to trade laws and regulations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has demonstrated an application of Causal AI to dramatically improve touchless commerce. A causal model graph represents a network of interconnected entities and relationships, enabling the system to understand how various factors influence each other to create an optimized outcome.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Source: Oliver Wight. Optimization is a form of advanced analytics that helps you solve complex decision problems, enabling you to make the best use of your business’ limited resources.* You can do all of this and more with an optimization technology. JBS: A case for integrating optimization in S&OP and IBP.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

To help build your understanding and navigate these waters, here are four critical factors to understand when working to improve LTL c hemical shipment rates. Lisa Carr is the Procurement Manager at CLX Logistics, responsible for over-the-road transportation procurement services for CLX.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain. In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 26, 2023

It unifies people and business processes to improve daily operations. It provides visibility into areas that are, or are not, working optimally. Data from the system can then be used to track how corrective actions are making improvements. Here are ten reasons how an ERP system can help manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

A supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply chain. But when ARC has done writing on SCCN, we have written about how this solution set can help a company optimize its own supply chain operations. A company buys these solutions to optimize their business.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

Whether you’re planning to benchmark your supply chain or simply trying to improve how you measure its performance, it makes sense to know a little about the most commonly used KPIs for each supply chain component. 7 Procurement KPIs You Should be Using. Supplier Defect Rate. Supplier Lead Time.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

Supply chain professionals responsible for transportation procurement at Fortune 500 companies focus on three things – budget forecast accuracy, service scores and primary tender acceptance. harder to procure capacity at the benchmark rate per mile ) in both the outbound and inbound directions.

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CLX Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Lutton delve into the integration of cutting-edge technologies advancing analytics into traditional supply chain models, like CLX Lanelogix — the chemical industry’s premiere benchmarking, bidding, and procurement tool.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory. Procurement teams play an incredibly important role.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The cloud also allows access to Big Data, which greatly improves the platform’s ability to do machine learning.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Source: Oliver Wight. Optimization is a form of advanced analytics that helps you solve complex decision problems that involve conflicting objectives and constraints, enabling you to make the best use of your business’ limited resources. You can do all of this and more with an optimization technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. For example, are you still a minority owned company?

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

We had the pleasure to speak with Willem Vesters, Liberty Global’s VP Global Supply Chain Planning, to learn more about their optimization journey. These are all the set up boxes we use in the customer’s house, cable boxes and modems for example. If you’re still in denial as a company, you can’t improve.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

1) Streamlined Data Flow and Process Automation Is all about AI At the heart of effective supply chain automation lies the seamless flow of data across various sources and digital platforms, akin to a well-constructed highway for data. Supporting optimal strategies for inventory investment and allocation to support your sustainability goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2021

That is changing as companies like Lucas introduce machine learning tools to improve planning and decision-making in the DC. New AI/machine learning applications will provide DC managers and industrial engineers with insights to: Dramatically improve workforce planning and management. Proactively re-slot products to improve efficiency.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Transportation procurement, the process of identifying and evaluating logistics providers, is a game of options. As a simple example, if you have 100 lanes with 10 offers per lane, that number would be 100 10 , or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is where combinatorial optimization can help. On behalf of a U.S.-based

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? The good news is many of the survey’s respondents recognize the potential of more advanced optimization solutions. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2023

In this article, we will explore how logistics concepts can be applied to the popular sandbox game Minecraft and how it can help players optimize their gameplay. One of the key aspects of logistics is supply chain management, which involves coordinating activities such as sourcing, processing, and delivery of resources.

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Stord

JULY 6, 2022

All of these other players build technology to augment the specific physical logistics services that they offer and/or give clients insights into exactly what these logistics companies are doing on their behalf (for example what orders were shipped). Stord is NOT a logistics company or a software company; we are an optimization company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jeff Tramel, the Vice President of Global Procurement, at NTT DATA Services. SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. Competition is key to sourcing savings.

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