Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. My great-aunt Ione, who lived to be 103, quit smoking at 97, which prompted the question “why now?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And third, it is the starting point for understanding the level of an organization’s GHG emissions at a given point in time. FourKites , the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, has launched a Sustainability Dashboard where companies can see miles traveled to create a baseline for emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Increasingly, large enterprises have decided to do just that. It would be cheaper to build just one multi-tenant solution,” Kevin Samuelson the CEO of Infor explained. “But This in turn rests on developing solutions far more industry-focused than their competitors. But it would not be as good for our customers.” Infor does as well.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

There are just a few suppliers that offer both solutions – E2open, Infor, Kinaxis, One Network, and SAP. It is just visualized differently. The plans are made at a daily level, and then rolled up into the time horizon a planner wants to see. There is a vintage television commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Let’s just come right out and say it – without the ability to capture, aggregate, and understand your supply chain data, you have gray area within your organization. In the supply chain, accurate data is what alerts you to delays due to weather emergencies and other calamities upstream in enough time to adjust your plans.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place. Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

This new ecosystem will: Offer “real-time, multi-enterprise optimization, orchestration and collaboration both inside and outside an organization – across multi-tiers from customers to carriers to suppliers to the suppliers’ suppliers.” This is a significant acquisition that will change the supply chain software landscape.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

But rip and replace is expensive, time consuming, and risky. Their large footprint stores sell a wide variety of goods besides just healthcare items. Instead of rip and replace, why not just augment the existing solution? That means different things to different people. Isn’t there a better way? Walgreens thought so.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, personal care or beauty items also cracked into the top five most popular gifts. The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. In fact, to kick off the holiday shopping season, a record 200.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 31, 2023

When it is time to choose the next trailer to pull into a dock door, yard and warehouse management work together to select a trailer and door combination that minimizes travel distance for the eventual put away tasks. Over time, the intelligent dock door selection increases efficiency by reducing put-away travel time and distance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In some sort or another, Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather since 1890, and let’s just say that his record is iffy at best. ” I assume that Phil tries to ignore the pomp and circumstance of how his shadow would determine the upcoming weather pattern, and just wants more sleep (like the rest of us on a cold winter’s day).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The adult themed boxed meal will be available for a limited time from October 3 – 30. And for those of you that care about more than just collecting the toy figures – customers can choose between a Big Mac or a 10-piece McNuggets meal that comes with medium fries and a drink. And now to this week’s logistics news….

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

FourKites is a leading provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions. Hot loads can also reduce on-time-in-full fines used by major retailers to make sure they get what they ordered when it was promised. Now planners can just pull up transportation visibility solution and know when the load will really arrive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But, at the same time, labor shortages represent a crushing obstacle to getting daily work done. To truly capitalize on automation and robotics, companies need a solution that matches all resources to volatile demand, strategically balances tasks across labor and robots, and replans work in real time as conditions change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why I value the time I get with CIOs every bit as much as I value time with CFOs, CSCOs and supply chain professionals of every stripe. We’re just not meeting customer expectations. What’s needed is a modern platform approach to supply chain tech — with the specific objective of enabling effective real-time execution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Elon Musk is not just the CEO of Tesla, the market leader in electric cars and trucks, he is also the CEO of SpaceX. Where other CEOs spend a large portion of their time on finance, marketing, and sales, Musk spends a much higher percentage of his time on product design and manufacturing. Musk smiled.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2023

Third, what is the impact of real-time data on supply chains? For example, for parts that would typically arrive in five days, you might get a lead time of five weeks. Supply Chain Disruption Trends There has been a mindset shift especially from technicians and ground floor folks from just in time to just in case.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

o9 Solutions has grown from a small company to a significant player in the supply chain planning (SCP) market in a short period of time. o9 Solutions has grown from a small company to a significant player in the supply chain planning (SCP) market in a short period of time. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The chart below shows that the index decreased to a value below zero earlier this year, for the first time since 2020. Price Inflation Container prices was just the tip of the iceberg with respect to rapid price increases. The last few years have been anything but typical. Today these factors appear insignificant.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The good news is that these peaks come at about the same time every year and can therefore be easily planned for. The hype usually revolves around just one item and can easily be managed by a modern logistics system. These key figures can be determined and used to help establish the right conditions to shorten lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” ZF sends the call-off, along with the forecast, not just to their suppliers, but to their carriers and 3PLs. at the ZF Group. How many parts do we need?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

At the same time, their relative independence supports the third-party objectivity that is so valuable to companies embarking on strategic projects. It morphed into solving customers’ call center volumes by providing a self-serve portal to address issues that occurred in real time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

But it is not just service level and costs that can be traded off. Supply chain planning takes place at various time horizon s. Each time horizon usually has its own model associated with it. S upply chain planning requires constraints to be mapped. This configuration screen shows how Solvyouo maps transportation constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These components have combined to make transportation spend optimization not just important, but a strategic imperative for businesses to remain competitive. Through TSO, businesses can do more than just move goods, they can also do good. As challenges increase, technology continues to evolve to meet demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 6, 2022

Retailers’ Inventories – Just Keep your Returns? Michael Burry’s tweet was referencing the CNN article Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items. In turn, there is the possibility that some stores may not want to handle your returns, preferring to let you just keep the items.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this morning I was thinking about something different, yet interesting to discuss in the intro paragraph of this week in logistics news. Then it occurred to me, why not talk about what I want to discuss? So I will. I will use this paragraph as an inquiry for my own selfish interests. Also Geary’s Ixnay is great, but only available in Maine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – sales & operations execution (S&OE) is used for short term horizon, sales & operations planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon, and integrated business planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon. This is known as the “black box” problem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, an air conditioning manufacturer might sell not just the air conditioner but a yearly service agreement. The order management system now must account for not just the sale of the product, but the details and timing of the related services. This is a relatively minor piece of new functionality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Without this safety stock, planners need to scramble to try and figure out if there are alternative suppliers that might be able to provide the components they need in a timely well. Historically, companies assumed suppliers would be able to supply raw materials or that the lead time from China to deliver those materials was three weeks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. We conducted ARC Advisory Group’s survey at the same time as the Conference Board updated its C-Suite Outlook for 2023. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Accurate transit time predictions have become more crucial than ever given customer demands and expectations, the cost impacts of late shipments, and dynamic nature of today’s supply chains. Shippers and logistics service providers are faced with multiple challenges when trying to determine accurate shipment transit time estimates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

This can cause massive flooding for coastal cities, impacting manufacturing and shipping times. Day in and day out, my newsfeed is full of headlines about companies that are looking to make sustainability an integral part of their business. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

These trends and technologies include the network effect, innovation in transportation management systems, time slot management applications, autonomous trucks, and the future of last mile deliveries, specifically looking at autonomous mobile robots and drones for home delivery. The Benefits of Time Slot Management ; Chris Cunnane.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

Or the impact of a tier 3 supplier delay on the part you need getting on a truck to your plant in time for you to meet the production schedule so you can deliver on time in full to meet your customer’s newest requirements?”. Mere visibility might just help you ‘admire’ a problem – ‘gee, those parts are going to be late.’

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The survey is structured to determine the relative importance of competing objectives, how the importance has changed over time and why; the degree to which certain external factors (resource shortages, cost inflation, etc.) However, supply chain resilience is more than just a concept to practitioners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. These are just a recent indication of the disruption from weather events and natural disasters that your supply chain may encounter. Your supply chain must be capable of adapting to all types of threats.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

SaaS solutions are becoming the norm in the industry, and this does not just apply to smaller companies that are targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers. Improve Real-Time Visibility. Real-time visibility solutions are more important than ever. Look to the Cloud. Invest in Last Mile. Turn to Machine Learning.

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