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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. Simmons has corrected this problem; they are now using a TMS from Kingsgate Logistics for inbound freight. The post Freight Procurement is a Different Game appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Reverse Logistics: Who Does it Well?

Logistics Bureau

It would be tempting to think of reverse logistics as forward logistics done backwards. Reverse logistic isn’t simply a reverse gear. Reverse logistics can also have a dramatic effect on steering a company’s fortunes. Reverse logistics is therefore worth doing, and worth doing properly.

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Smart logistics underpins Audi e-tron assembly

Automotive Logistics

Patrick Danau (left), managing director of Audi Brussels, with Peter Kössler, board of management member for production and logistics. A spokesperson for Audi said that every day, 27 of the electrically powered vehicles navigated routes through the factory halls delivering components, such as the front and rear axles, and the electric motor.

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The water in the well – how much readiness is enough?

Logistics in War

Logistics is one of those topics where it easy to get lost in the magnitude of largely organisation-spanning problems. Logistics is one of those topics where it easy to get lost in the magnitude of largely organisation-spanning problems. Logistics and preparedness. At present, they aren’t.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I could understand how trade data would allow the solution to detect potential suppliers in the extended supply chain, but not how the solution would know that it was the supplier’s factory in Xian China – as opposed to Tianjin – that was the source for a component that eventually ended up in a product.

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S&OP in Agribusiness: How to Harvest the Benefits with Advanced Analytics

AIMMS

The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Decision-making goes from a highly tedious and error-prone exercise to a process that combines computational intelligence with the business knowledge needed to analyze the optimizer’s results.