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Can Supply Chain Visibility Make Your Company King?

Enterra Insights

It’s the doing, the actions taken to improve your transportation and logistics operations, for example, that ultimately delivers value.” However, an insight system is only one of the essential tools in the supply chain visibility kit. This is invaluable for all the different stakeholders involved.”. And visibility begins with data.

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5 Ways to Cope with Changing Logistics Demand in 2024

Locus Robotics

Data Analytics and Automation The use of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning within warehouses thanks to tools such as robotics could increase to optimize your supply chain and reduce operational costs. Automation for Peak and Beyond Since 2020, there has been a significant evolution in the nature of peak periods and bid times.

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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 managers will focus on several key supply chain technology implementations or considerations which will impact consumer spending habits, consumer-business interactions and performance measurement. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper.

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How manufacturers can enable innovation on the factory floor

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The past two and half years have certainly brought a variety of challenges and opportunities that have made innovation not just a preference, but essential for manufacturers and distributors to thrive into the future. Automation, the first step towards digital transformation. Optimizing the use of data for manufacturers.

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Trends 2022: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

According to Antony Francis, a consultant at Endava, high on the list of things to which supply chain managers need to pay attention is supply chain visibility. This has triggered a new wave of technology investment focusing on building supply chain intelligence, resilience and agility to better respond to events, risks and opportunities.”[6].

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7 Core Competencies for Optimizing Global Transportation and Freight Spend

3rdwave

Managing a global supply chain network requires the ability to manage and control both global transportation execution and the associated freight spend. While global freight cost varies significantly by industry and transportation mode, it is a major cost component of internationally sourced products.

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Can Your Supply Chain Afford to “Wait and See” Before Becoming Digital?

Enterra Insights

Yet many supply chain managers are operating in a ‘wait-and-see’ mode when it comes to digitalization.”[1]. The companies that had the sophistication to automate their order flows and the capacity to respond to volatile customer demand were winning big, while others were suffering significantly.”[2] ”[1].