Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

That being said, this innovative tool has been instrumental in identifying clear indicators of market fluctuations and how that intel has helped shippers prioritize business strategies. Q3 reveals a positive trend in anticipated revenue, with only a 4% decrease reported across all shippers surveyed. Inventory optimization.

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 18, 2024

Revolutionizing Fleet Management with Real-Time Fleet Comparisons Penske unveils Catalyst AI™ – an industry first AI platform set to revolutionize fleet management with instant access to actionable insights that optimize fleet performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

It is crucial for organizations to understand the importance of Purchase Order collaboration to effectively manage their direct spend, optimize operations, and mitigate risks. Configure to Order: This strategy involves customizing standard products based on customer specifications.

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Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

To meet the new demand, companies will have to adjust their operations for greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost reduction. Supply chain optimization ensures a smoother process and a more successful business model focusing on efficiency and profit. What is supply chain optimization? . The three phases of a supply chain : 1.

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 30, 2023

Recent market insights found the following: “According to a latest global shipper survey, 75% of shippers who use LCL plan to continue or increase it in 2023. And 52% are looking to consolidate more shipments overall, a strategy for which LCL can play an important role.” Diversify the shipping portfolio.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

Making the situation worse, trucking companies haven’t been able to hire back enough drivers to meet demand. A recent SYSPRO survey shows that only 45% of businesses have looked at systems to address supply chain disruptions and just 44% have investigated technologies that enable collaboration with external suppliers and customers.

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Morai Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2019

In March of 2018, Morai Logistics presented some of the optimized solutions third party logistics (3PL) providers offer shippers. While the capacity crunch isn’t expected to go away anytime soon, 3PLs continue to develop optimized solutions to help shippers become proactive to industry demands. 3PL Solutions. 62% say customer service.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Technology tools that are easy to use were cited as critical features among 93% of survey respondents. Technology tools, notably desktop and mobile-enabled capabilities, were listed as in-demand benefits of 3PL partnerships among 86% of survey respondents. Download the Report: 2021 Peak Shipping Season Survey.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Accelerating Modernization to Manage Returns The survey showed 74% of European warehouse decision-makers (73% globally) have or will be accelerating timelines of modernization projects. Meanwhile, eight in ten warehouse associates agree using more technology and automation helps them meet or exceed productivity goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By introducing route optimization, green-vehicle fleets and crowdsourced delivery, companies can reduce the amount of people, fuel and effort required to operate their supply chain. Carriers can not only achieve sustainability goals but also meet their OTIF targets. The added benefit? Reduced costs and improved profitability.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 4, 2015

Our job at Cerasis is to optimize transportation management for these manufacturing shippers so that in turn, they can focus on their own core, the process of manufacturing. In order to optimize manufacturing operations, or really just about anything, you need to have at your fingertips the best and most accurate manufacturing metrics around.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 26, 2022

A fully-integrated ERP solution enables manufacturers to tackle the immense challenges they face by optimizing their business operations, meeting and satisfying customer demands, and increasing factory output without having to add additional headcount to meet these goals.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Logistics stakeholders are continuing to digitalize operations—and supply chains—through new technologies that meet customer expectations and keep up with global trade challenges. It can ensure the business’s survival, enabling channels and capabilities to meet the new customer expectation and endure future crises.

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Stord

JANUARY 30, 2019

This new strategy is the company’s latest step in a series of initiatives to optimize its network and improve service. These plans could mean increased reliance on technology to meet demand or expansions in traditional offerings like ground delivery. FedEx pursued both strategies in 2018. The survey results 7.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 2, 2023

To provide a comprehensive overview, the author draws from various academic studies, reports, and surveys to shed light on the latest trends and best practices in supply chain management. Despite these differences, both SMEs and startups share a common interest in harnessing technology to optimize their logistics operations.

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Stord

JULY 21, 2019

Not all are convinced of this extreme, but the increased focus on and higher expectations around delivery times has forced businesses and supply chains to evaluate their e-commerce and last mile strategies. To learn more about how STORD can optimize your last mile distribution, contact us.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Our recent survey showed that only 17% of organizations make it a priority to invest in innovation. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. AIMMS in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

A recent survey of global supply chain leaders suggests to me that the industry risks losing momentum. Interestingly, even while many of McKinsey’s survey respondents said they had “visibility in place”, nearly half also said they had zero visibility into their upstream supply chain and couldn’t see past first-tier suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap ; Justin Ritter and Dan Keller ( Lucas Systems ). A separate survey of retail and CPG supply chain leaders found that AI usage is more prevalent in DCs and warehouses than elsewhere in supply chain – 54% in distribution/fulfillment centers vs. 36% in other supply chain functions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 21, 2022

Unless manufacturers change, they will find that their ability to forecast demand, and determine what to do to meet it, will be challenging. Several surveys have reported how SCM in recent years has moved from being a cost center to one responsible for offering superior customer experience and delivering competitive advantage.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A recent online survey conducted b y MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics aimed to understand how companies are reacting to the Coronavirus outbreak. By dynamically adjusting capacities and utilizations within the app, they were able to optimally reallocate volumes and develop a new production and distribution plan.

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CH Robinson Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to Gartner research, most chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) view access to top-tier talent as a bigger barrier to innovation than access to capital*, and only 27% of these leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements**. Gartner, 2019 Digital Talent Gap Survey.

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Locus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Let’s find out the three key strategies for brands to enable last-mile excellence during this Diwali season! To compound the concern, the study reveals that a sizable 48% of customer interactions with Indian firms don’t meet the mark. So, what’s the takeaway for forward-thinking brands and retailers?

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 6, 2021

Logistics stakeholders are continuing to utilize digital transformation to meet customer expectations and keep up with global trade challenges. 5 steps to define and implement a proper strategy for digital transformation. 5 Steps To Defining A Successful Digital Transformation Strategy.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 6, 2021

Logistics stakeholders are continuing to utilize digital transformation to meet customer expectations and keep up with global trade challenges. 5 steps to define and implement a proper strategy for digital transformation. 5 Steps To Defining A Successful Digital Transformation Strategy.

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Negotiating uncertainties is still the name of the game, and in a quest to meet the same-day delivery expectations of customers, retailers rolled out omnichannel capabilities in record time last year. E-commerce is among the most promising omnichannel retail strategies. for the United States in 2020. growth last year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The hyper-focus on meeting customer expectations is also creating pressures upstream in the supply chain, as manufacturers extend visibility and collaboration beyond their own walls to avoid any disruptions. To meet customers’ growing expectations for personalized offerings, the typical company’s product lines have grown exponentially.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

And while this definitely points to an industry making strides, a recent Procurious survey found that 75 percent of women in supply chain experience gender-based adversity. A central part of Amazon’s ultrafast delivery strategy is its network of warehouses that the company calls same-day sites. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Many are relying on advanced analytics to optimize their supply chain for sustainability. The Institute of Forest Management from the Technical University of Munich developed an AIMMS model that helps forest enterprises consider risks and strategies for carbon mitigation. AIMMS is used by several organizations for this purpose.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

S till, most companies are “not very far” when it comes to implementing analytics and garnering benefits from data, as a recent survey from CSCMP suggests. PTT , Thailand’s largest oil and gas company, leveraged analytics for network optimization using an AIMMS App. Don’t underestimate change management.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2022

GlobalTranz works with manufacturing shippers every day to move their goods and streamline their logistics strategies. In an ever-changing landscape, the ability to be flexible and adjust your strategy as needed is what makes a manufacturer successful. This is putting pressure on manufacturers to overproduce to meet the new demand.

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WorkWave

MAY 16, 2023

Additionally, a recent survey from the U.S. Benefits of the 34-Hour Reset Rule Challenges with Implementing the 34-Hour Reset Rule Strategies to Overcome Challenges by Implementing the 34-Hour Reset Rule Why You Should Embrace the 34-Hour Reset Rule Now. Table of Contents [Open] [Close] What is the 34-Hour Reset Rule?

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2018

And according to a recent survey by Kenco, 94% of survey respondents feel that it’s important for their 3PL provider to have a competency in technology and innovation, and more than half expect their 3PL provider to be investing in innovative technologies (another 32% want to co-invest). – David Caines, chief operating officer, Kenco.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 5, 2016

Sixty-five percent of surveyed 3PL Logistics Companies identify capacity as their customers' biggest concern (see Figure 1), followed by technology investment (58 percent), recruiting and retaining labor (57 percent), and regulations (47 percent). International Shipping Optimization.

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EazyStock

JUNE 21, 2022

Many more traditional supply chain strategies originated in a steadier business environment. In an Accenture survey , supply chain leaders said they would continue to invest more in cloud computing over the coming years. Inventory optimization software helps you improve stock availability, boost efficiency and optimize stock levels.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. Supply Chain Strategy. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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