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The Logistics Trend Behind The Latest Trend

Freightos

The Logistics Trend Behind The Latest Trend. Are You Up With The Trends? Rapidly emerging trends demand a flexible supply chain that can harness new technology and find new efficiencies. These trends have pushed innovation, and the need for new logistics technology up and down the supply chain. Contributed Article.

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ERP for mixed-mode manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Discrete manufacturing makes distinct ‘things’, process manufacturing makes ‘stuff’ (for example, fertilizer). In situations where the process manufacturing stage has a long manufacturing timeline (beer fermentation), stock would be created based on forecasts using history and trend data.

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How Cold Chain Logistic Providers Build Trust with Traceability

Logistics Viewpoints

This leads to the need for traceability, the ability to track a specific item along every stage of the workflow, which is increasingly required due to regulatory, ethical and environmental issues. Take tracking produce, for example. Temperature-sensitive products beyond food also rely on traceability.

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ERP addresses the challenges of Make to order manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

With the recent stress placed upon the supply chain in recent years and the changing political alignment across the globe, we are seeing a trend for supply to be bought closer to home which has resulted in Australian MTO manufacturers attracting significant capital input and flourishing.

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Ingredients of a Successful Supply Chain: Transparency, Visibility, and Traceability

Talking Logistics

Since each transaction is recorded in sequence, trading partners have a permanent audit trail that can verify a product’s quality and trace it through its chain of custody. For example, the materials that people in the Construction sector make, haul, or buy are almost always on the critical path for the end customer.

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Integration of Supply Chain Systems: Let RPA Do the Virtual Heavy Lifting

RPA Labs

As market trends continue to change and customer needs remain fluid, proper integration and utilization of platforms and tools that support RPA in the shipping industry will be one of the dominating factors that separate shippers from each other. Examples of RPA at Work Within the Modern Day Supply Chain.

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Managing Operating Costs in the Chemical industry

Trinity Logistics

According to an American Chemistry Council report, 96 percent of all manufactured goods trace back to chemical manufacturers. For example, raw agricultural materials have increased 117 percent since 2000 , rubber has seen an increase of 359 percent, and steel is up 167 percent. Rising Raw Material Costs.