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IoT – Internet of Things: Moving Supply Chain Logistics Ahead

20Cube Logistics

IoT innovations like Sensor data and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) provide information to enable real-time tracking and alerts for better decision making. Such data can be converted into vital information to help business improve operations and businesses. What is IoT in supply chain logistics? Improved visibility.

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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

The diamond and gold, tea and coffee, beverage, food, and automotive industries all have participants with blockchain applications under test, operating as pilots, or implemented as digital solutions to improve supply chain operations. It’s not that tracking and tracing tea through the supply chain is a new departure for the company.

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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

Here are some tips on how you can create an effective inbound freight management system: Utilize A TMS A TMS, or transportation management system, is a platform used in logistics that provides data about day-to-day transportation operations, trade compliance, and documentation. This system also ensures the timely delivery of your goods.

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What Is an Agile Supply Chain?

FourKites

No matter the size of your organization, the outcome is the same: supply chain operators are empowered to make quick, informed decisions without needing to waste time waiting for approvals from different layers of management. Reliance on manual processes and old-fashioned track and trace techniques is no longer enough.

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

This functionality then leads to supply chain insight which allows companies to learn about operational performance, strengths and weaknesses of a supply chain configuration, changes in supply or demand and customer service capabilities and cost. Track, Trace and Collect Data from Key Partners.

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Intelligent Logistics or Just Good Old Common Sense?

Blog on Log

Intelligence in Planning and Execution The foresight and responsiveness are essentials at all levels of the logistics – strategic planning, tactical planning, operational planning as well as execution. However, in reality most strategic planning exercises neither embed foresight, nor create responsive networks.

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Protecting Freight From Cargo Theft with Technology

Blue Grace Logistics

Even with these late changes in cargo theft operations, unsecured parking facilities are still noted as the cause of more than half of the total truck thefts in most regions. Increased security measures in warehouse operations and well-lit, secured parking facilities have been shown to decrease cargo theft figures significantly.