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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Mr. Niebur’s and Thiessen’s presentation was taped in November of 2021 and then played online in February.

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Digital twins help postal and logistics companies plan for the future

Logistics Business Magazine

Consequently, companies are looking for tools to mitigate uncertainty and assist in contingency planning. Contingency planning for every scenario Take, for example, an increase in parcel or letter volumes. An analytical dashboard is also required to present results. Mature logistics operations are highly automated.

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Evaluating Innovative Technology with Warehouse Simulation

Logistics Viewpoints

Areas can include: In- and outbound workflows. Examples of use. If you are using warehouse simulation as an improvement tool to current operations, the first step is to create an exact computer model of your present end-to-end processes. Staffing requirements. Material handling. Vehicle movements. Aisle widths.

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High-quality freight data is vital for supply chain automation

FreightWaves SONAR

Third-party supply chain and freight market data has become an important tool for retailers, manufacturers and suppliers who want to redesign their networks, improve strategic planning, benchmark their transportation spend and the service they’re getting in return, and measure the efficiency of their facilities.

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8 Ways to Make Your Fulfillment Center Run More Efficiently

EazyStock

If you can’t keep an accurate count of inbound, outbound, and in-stock inventory, it’s hard to keep everything else together. Once you know what’s in your inventory, make sure you don’t let it slide back into chaos by investing in an inventory management tool. A WMS is a critical tool for optimizing any warehouse operating at scale.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. Sevatas acts for many in developing these and is presently engaged with OEMs at different levels.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Underpinning this approach will be a global transport management system (TMS), which Richards is responsible for implementing, as well as developing an enterprise visibility tool with predictive analytics for freight movements around the world. “We There are similar worries in both the inbound and outbound sector in Europe.