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The FreightTech Dilemma with Brad Wheeler

The Logistics of Logistics

Brad serves as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy at Emerge , the leading freight procurement platform. in Exercise & Wellness from Arizona State University and M.S. Founded in 2017, and located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Emerge is one of the fastest-growing technology startups in the U.S. About Brad Wheeler.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. For it to be an optimal solution, a mathematical model needs to be used. That model can then be used to analyze every new situation that arises. Do we have a demand forecasting tool in place and, if so, how good is that forecast?

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

Technology will provide significant assistance in this arena by helping design sustainable networks and having risk indicators for ecological, financial, or judicial factors for the multi-tier supplier network. Following technologies will play a major role. Well designed supply chain finance programs can set companies apart.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. Just a handful of optimization and operations research experts ran models of the network and made recommendations. The technology is reaching such an inflection point. This capability will be game changing.

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Cost-To-Serve Analysis Should be Core Planning Tool

Logistics Business Magazine

The hidden costs “Whether determining channels to market, or setting up or revising fulfilment and distribution strategies, the retailer needs a deep understanding of where the Costs-To-Serve are generated, how these vary across orders, and what actions can be taken to improve profitability on every order,” Adcock says.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

More recently the technology has evolved to a point where such processes can be conducted at a faster cadence than a typical monthly cadence that was the norm. Optimization based technologies can maximize the leverage from existing assets before considering expansion. Does this mean at some point in time we move on from S&OP?