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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

RPA can automate critical yet repetitive processes, driving increased efficiency, error reduction and faster throughput. For an industry that increasingly requires higher logistics pipeline velocity without sacrificing accuracy and at lower costs, RPA is a natural choice for high performing supply chain organisations. Procurement.

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10 Trends in Supply Chain Management & Logistics for 2022

Unleashed

Automated delivery : Delivery drones are the final piece of the logistics puzzle, automating the last mile of delivery using either driving or flying robots. Starship Technologies is a company that uses small, six-wheeled drones to move goods within a small radius , and has completed 2 million deliveries as of 2021.

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Retail Logistics: What It Is & How to Improve

ShipBob

From managing inventory flow to ensuring that customers receive shipments on time, retail logistics streamlines the different stages of your ecommerce supply chain to keep your business running smoothly. The optimization of a solid retail logistics strategy is key to operating a sustainable direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail business.

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3 Critical Steps to Up Ecommerce Delivery Performance in 2020

Multichannel Merchant

From the Amazons and Alibabas of the world, to B2B suppliers like Grainger and Readerlink, to other niche and specialty suppliers and retailers, delivery is a crucial component of any ecommerce company’s success. On Black Friday alone, retailers chalked up a record $7.4 Update Inadequate Legacy Processes.

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Trends 2021: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Occasionally, a year comes along to which we gladly bid adieu — 2020 is one such year for many individuals and companies. Irish-American author Stewart Stafford summed up the feelings of many when he wrote, “You don’t need 20/20 vision to see that 2020 is a giant caca burrito getting forced down our throats.”

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Supply Chain Analytics: What It Is & Why Its Important in 2021

ShipBob

From how quickly you can fulfill orders to how cost-efficient your logistics operations are, supply chain efficiency is a crucial part of growing a sustainable online business. Supply chain analytics allow you to keep a close eye on supply chain performance, from warehouse receiving to shipping. What are supply chain analytics?

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis caused unprecedented disruption in supply chains around the world. A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. “All of this has the potential to drive up transportation cost noticeably.”