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Making strategic investments in digital supply chain in a downcycle

FreightWaves SONAR

At its annual Investment Community Meeting in April in Tampa, Florida, Walmart’s management team took the opportunity to lay out an ambitious transformation of its supply chain. So we built an ambient supply chain that served stores. Walmart U.S. As our store footprint grew, that network grew. Now that’s changing.

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5 More Transformative Supply Chain Technologies Supply Chains Will Focus on in 2018 to Move to the Next Level

GlobalTranz

Supply chain technology is a difficult, exhilarating topic to cover in detail. Supply chain managers will focus on several key supply chain technology implementations or considerations which will impact consumer spending habits, consumer-business interactions and performance measurement.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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[Chart of the Week] Shippers take to the sky as ocean shipping congestion grows: Maneuvering past the bottleneck

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chains have fractured under the weight of recent maritime import demand, forcing shippers like Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) to find pricier alternatives in order to not miss their window of opportunity. Restructuring supply chains will have a lasting effect on logistics networks.

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Mastering Profitable Omni-Channel Logistics, Despite Disruptions

Logistics Viewpoints

These e-commerce trends are placing increasing pressure on logistics teams to keep up with demand volatility, provide incredibly fast delivery, and reliably fulfill all their promises to customers and consumers. It’s challenging for logistics providers to keep up, even in perfect supply chain conditions. The next step?

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Transportation Management System ROI: What Other Business Areas Can Benefit?

GlobalTranz

Let’s take a closer look at how Transportation Management System ROI actively strengthens supply chains. Cloud-Based Data Analytics Identify Trends and “Concerns.”. Cloud-based TMSs utilize analytics to identify key trends that not obvious. Both Inbound and Outbound Logistics Benefit From Implementing a TMS.

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Supply Chain Management: It’s IoT Time

The Logistics Academy

Companies keep finding new ways to gain supply chain improvements with help from the Internet of Things. billion in 2016, according to a BI Global Intelligence survey. The future of IoT is intimately bound with the future of the supply chain. By 2021, 22.5 The world will invest $4.8 WAXING POETIC.