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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

An operation that is optimizing the real time flow of goods is also well-positioned to manage unexpected events. Real-time insights allow the operation to rapidly make informed decisions. These vehicles can enable operating companies to reduce their number of required vehicles and lower cost structures.

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

Aligning strategy, service, and financial factors in your supply chain operation is essential to support your company’s overall business strategy , mission, and objectives. From an inventory perspective then, service means maintaining an appropriate level of stock to meet your promises to your customers. Procurement costs.

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Network Design in supply Chain

20Cube Logistics

Supply chain network design as a whole is the planning and implementation of supply chain operations in the most optimum way for long term benefits. This drives the whole supply chain and determines proper running of operational procedures. This involves the placement of supply chain nodes in the accurate locations.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Based on ARC Advisory Group’s recently released study of the market, this puts them in the top 5. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. And the models themselves were often not detailed enough to create a digital twin that represented how a company actually operated.

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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021

Logistics Bureau

Some retailers even refer to these operatives as personal shoppers. Notable companies operating them—or planning to do so—include: Walmart (USA). The company operates kiosks in its outlets at which Amazon customers can return eligible products without the need for labels or packaging—and at no extra charge. Tesco (UK).

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Polycrisis” was the talk of Davos at the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum, which defines it as “…a term used to describe the current global situation, where multiple complex, interconnected crises are occurring simultaneously.” A McKinsey study found that 90% of supply chain leaders expected to transform their planning systems.

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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. The benefits of applying such a proactive system in outbound automotive logistics operations are potentially highly significant.