Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

They can then use the data to provide an apples-to-apples benchmark on a variety of innovative supply chain metrics applicable to the grocery supply chain. These extreme error events “are the supply chain equivalent of the highway washout or bridge closure.” During the pandemic, extreme error events rose to 38%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. Descartes provides multi-tenant, cloud-based solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

Ben is Vice President of Managed Services at Coyote Logistics , a leading global third-party logistics provider. About Ben Steffes Ben Steffes is Vice President of Managed Services at Coyote Logistics, a leading global third-party logistics provider. Ben Steffes and Joe Lynch discuss 3PL outsourcing trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Management practices such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory management, along with globalization, have made tremendous impact on cost and service, but have accentuated risk. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming. are most exposed to risk?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Supported by partners Heriot-Watt University, Pedersen & Partners and RV Consultancy, the full-day agenda featured a stellar line-up of speakers presenting and discussing key issues facing logistics and supply chain management practitioners. MORE FROM THIS EDITION. LogiSYM Magazine – January/ February 2018.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As a retailer, so much of your time and energy goes into managing your inventory , streamlining your logistics, building partnerships, and curating the customer experience. By monitoring particular metrics over time across your online sales, in-store sales, and operations, you’ll gain quantitative insights into your business performance.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This week, I spoke at a University of Wisconsin event on responsiveness and ASCM on the future of supply chain planning. While I am tired, shaking hands with others in-person at events feels good. I have not been home since the end of August. This speaking tour ends the first week of October. These concepts are new.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the UN Environment Program’s Food Waste Index, 923 million metric tons of food is wasted globally every year. With the right solution and strategy, food manufacturers have the potential to create a major impact in reducing the scale of our global food waste crisis. The Right Approach to Food Waste Reduction.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Medical Devices.

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BlueYonder

MAY 7, 2024

Companies across the manufacturing, retail, and logistics service provider industries are facing several major chronic challenges that impact their supply chains. Our customers trust in our ability to help enable their digital initiatives and simultaneously improve their key performance metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Then we are pulling out of an animal nutrition production facility and taking those finished products to a pet food manufacturing facility. That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. Speed is of the essence.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

In the below article I propose to have a look at the main benefits and advantages of the cloud-based logistics management. Each industry has its peculiarities, among the others, in the logistics, manufacturing, and supply. It incorporates your resources from every stage of the logistic process in the real-time.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. Therefore, it is paramount for you as a logistics and supply chain professional to have a keen sense of how to properly evaluate a supplier.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

The Flex CEO, and board members are corporate leaders of this competitive event. While Kaizen events and continuous improvement (CI) projects provide breakthrough results, these are often not sustained. These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. Specific metrics: process metrics and outcome metrics.

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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. Supply chain visibility often means “where’s my stuff,” or the ability to trace parts in transit from the manufacturer to the final destination. What is supply chain visibility? Agility to act on transparency.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We are a bit past the halfway mark for 2015, but since this marketing manager's vacation is this week, we have decided to make sure we still have our usual "Top Posts for the first half of the year" annual event (read, these are easier to schedule while we are out!). . 5 Most Popular Blog Posts from the Logistics Category.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Logistics teams have a hard time optimizing warehouses for cost, service, sustainability, and other metrics even in the most stable business environment. These questions were the focus of a recent LinkedIn Live event called “Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative.” And today’s landscape is anything but stable.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logistics Processes to Plan For. Tips for Logistics Planning. No army should go into battle without a plan for attack; similarly, no ecommerce merchant should go into business without a plan for handling their logistics. What is logistics planning? Why logistics planning is important for ecommerce businesses.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 6, 2017

Defining Smarter Logistics. Milestone events (like inland ETAs) as well as behaviors (such as cancellations) can now be predicted with high accuracy. The shipping industry is highly complex and nuanced; improving predictions requires a platform custom built for the logistics industry. . Its value is limited in this form.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Descartes is a global leader in providing on-demand, SaaS solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses. The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) is the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics messaging network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. The pending effect of fuel on logistics costs is an overlay for all companies struggling to manage the bottom line.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all recognize that the world’s supply chains need to operate in a sustainable manner and minimize their environmental impacts — but recent events have brought this closer to home than ever. What’s happening at the Panama Canal is far from an isolated event. In a recent earnings call, energy company Avance Gas admitted to paying $2.4

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Silvon Software

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply chain challenges stemming from the pandemic and other global events continue to plague manufacturing and distribution companies. Logistics disruptions, production delays, an over reliance on 3 rd parties, and labor market shortages are just some of these challenges. Let’s take product quality as an example.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series addressing logistics imperatives necessary to manage uncertainly and disruptions heading into 2022. The entire world owes a huge debt to the drivers , warehouse associates and other essential logistics workers who kept supply chains moving during the worst months of the pandemic.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

In their time lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts. Sudden demand spikes, precipitous demand drops, supply disruptions, production line shutdowns and other events can only be managed by early prediction and real-time responsiveness. In 2021 it is an entirely new game. Detection and Response Challenge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. Nari Viswanathan is currently Sr.

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Adexa

JULY 17, 2023

Even real-time decision making is being replaced with before-the-time decision making by predicting events. Collaborative partnerships: Digital transformation facilitates better collaboration and information sharing among supply chain partners, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 12, 2024

Notion and Challenge of Traveled Work Again Surfaces Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published a report: Behind the Alaska Blowout: a Manufacturing Habit Boeing Can’t Break. Paid subscription). This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To marshal worldwide objectives of scalable and transformative urbanization, cement manufacturers need to look at intelligent supply chain logistics. Conventional mechanics of cement logistics planning no longer apply in a situation that demands exponentially high delivery rates to match its consumption estimates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Weather events might also be factors. With Russia exporting many critical commodities, Deloitte explained, there are insufficient raw materials for supply and manufacturing use. Yes, all parties have metrics and KPIs that help them know when to switch carriers or where to throttle ordering, but that’s not acceptable to customers.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It can be practically zero—as is the case with earthquakes and fires—or even negative, when a disruption is detected after the event. However, the number of extreme events appears to be on the rise, and companies are becoming more sophisticated weather watchers. Watching the weather is one option.

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OptiProERP

APRIL 17, 2022

The shop floor is the cornerstone of the manufacturing process. In this blog, you will learn how a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), also known as a Shop Floor Execution System (SFES), embedded in an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system transformed an industrial machinery manufacturer’s shop floor to help grow their business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. Doing this, increases the benefits.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

As the fabric suppliers require the longest lead times, ZARA approves designs & initiates manufacturing after it gets feedback from its stores. Implement Risk assessment upstream in Value Chain : Proactively engage with supply chain ecosystem partners, like suppliers and logistics service providers to conduct a risk assessment regularly.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Parcel reverse logistics and returns management can be strenuous tasks for any company. With such a steady growth in parcel volume and revenue, shippers need to ensure they have the proper tools and practices for parcel reverse logistics. . What Is Parcel Reverse Logistics ?

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QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sustainable manufacturing refers to the ability to manage manufacturing operations “in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sustainability Objectives for Manufacturers. Where Does ERP Come into Play with Manufacturer Sustainability Efforts?

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