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China’s WMS Market Has Significant Potential

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the past decade, the main battleground for China’s WMS market has been in the consumption industry; but more recently the battleground has returned to the manufacturing industry. In terms of revenue, the manufacturing industry creates about 1/5 of the overall market for WMS.

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Network Investment. Defining the ROI.

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply network–shipments and production of trading partners–represents over 70% of the environmental impact of supply chain decisions. Approximately 32% of manufacturing, across industries, is outsourced. Many systems without interoperability. Networks take three forms–demand, design, and supply.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products.

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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Orders come in, and customers expect their product to be delivered when they want it.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

The solutions, as with so many supply chain industry inefficiencies, lie in digital transformation, process reengineering and collective action — of all the links in the chain, yards are one of the least digitized. Some yards adjoin production centers; others adjoin warehouses. The net result? Higher expenses. Dissatisfied customers.

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Taming the Supply Chain Beast: Tech Solutions for Smoother Operations with Kendra Phillips

The Logistics of Logistics

Kendra is the VP of Global Transportation Management leading the managed transportation and brokerage divisions of Ryder System, Inc , a Fortune 500 Transportation and Logistics company. She has proven success developing and implementing new tech products and leading large P&L driven organizations.

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AI Enthusiasm in Fashion – Our Top Three Takeaways From the eP Summit in Florence

ToolsGroup

The recent eP Summit conference, the Pitti Immagine event focused on the latest digital and technological innovations tailored for the fashion industry, featured approximately 800 specialized operators and an extensive program of roundtables and presentations. Here are our top three takeaways from the conference: 1.