Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2023

But it must be quality data! Just as any chef will tell you that anything less than the best quality ingredients can render a dish inedible, so too, bad data can turn any data-driven IT effort sour.”. High quality data is critical. Remediation – The next step is remediation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 21, 2015

Growing practice of supply chain modeling requires more than just technology smarts What types of supply chain roles are on your company’s career webpage? What skills are important for new hires to possess in order to manage this increasingly critical area of the business?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

The former translates into a need for high quality data at the decisionmaker’s fingertips, while the latter incorporates a need for analytics tools and machine learning systems that can provide broad and deep insights into factors as diverse as supply chain, financial planning, human capital, and sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

I have my own favorite events, each for its specific qualities. Industry association events are being held in the winter, spring, summer, and fall. Meanwhile, technology providers’ user events are mostly packed into the spring, so plan accordingly. Some have great content for learning, while others bring superior networking opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2023

Raymour & Flanigan provides high-quality fulfillment services to its customers. Furthermore, quality customer service was not always delivered in the most efficient manner. It hired Alpine Supply Chain Solutions to assist the internal team with identifying opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

The trade with Asia we take for granted today was only possible by mitigating a significant supply chain trade-off – reducing costs without appreciable impacts to quality and service. AND with growing concern about climate change, trade-off considerations must account for cost, quality, service, and now sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

Each process required in the warehouse – from goods-in to quality control intervals to replenishment – is then finely adjusted through configuration. Here is an example: Three quality check stations are active in the morning which means three employees with quality check skills are required for the first shift.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2023

I personally have my own favorite events – each for its own qualities. Last year brought in a revival of events, but with a few still either provided virtually or postponed for one more year. This year I believe we will not only see a return to the prior number of events, but also record attendance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

In smart manufacturing, for example, the deployment of a multitude of sensors and devices for real-time monitoring of machinery, predictive maintenance, and quality control are primary use cases. Arnold explained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While working on this at Walmart, we created a hypothesis: if highly perishable produce is moved through a supply chain faster, it will improve the customer freshness perspective because the produce will be of a higher quality. A fairly simple and straightforward hypothesis but one that would require field-to-fork design and collaboration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

What about the data quality? These assumptions of data quality and flawless execution were critical oversights on my part. And this deeper level of understanding enabled me to see how generalized some planning applications can be – with broad scope but limited insight into details. I had always taken these “givens” at face value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Supply chain and logistics success is driven by the quantity and quality of the workforce. Interestingly, 26% of competitive weapon respondents characterized filling manager positions as very to extremely hard while 40% of necessary evil respondents did.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Food retailers as well as consumers benefit from this model, as they receive their ordered items quickly and in the best quality, which is complemented by flexible solutions for the last mile. Another reason why automation is booming is that highly automated concepts mean employees no longer need to do the heavy work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

First is data quality. The company’s philosophy is that the recommendations coming out of their engine would be of such high quality, that they would be executed without any touch. For retail companies, for example, understanding fast-selling SKUs and automatically adjusting safety stocks to avoid stockouts became extremely critical.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In smart manufacturing, for example, the deployment of a multitude of sensors and devices for real-time monitoring of machinery, predictive maintenance, and quality control are primary use cases. Arnold explained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

When products don’t arrive at the right place, the right time and the right quality, both in-bound supply chain planners and procurement buyers face unplanned plant shutdowns or upset customers. Legacy categorization of products into direct and indirect goods hamper the focus on identifying common grounds and gaining resiliency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2022

What about the data quality? These assumptions of data quality and flawless execution were critical oversights on my part. And this deeper level of understanding enabled me to see how generalized some planning applications can be – with broad scope but limited insight into details. I had always taken these “givens” at face value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the keys to better visibility is data quality. Molex has been working to improve data quality since 2012 when they first put in Nexus. Data quality has also been improved based on the fact they are using one global instance of an ERP to store most of their data. That in turn led to a faster go live.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Additionally, the company’s goal is a best-in-class focus on safety and quality, while optimizing inventory and cost. Additionally, the company’s goal is a best-in-class focus on safety and quality, while optimizing inventory and cost. The Supply Chain Was a Key Driver of the Digital Transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

When looking at a truckload visibility provider, the most important attribute is the quality of ETAs. While data quality and the ability to use analytics for benchmarking and understanding the completeness of data is also important, knowing when an order will arrive is most important.

Real-time Visibility 213

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Supply chains depend on the flow of information to facilitate the flow of goods, but since information is never perfect supply chains must be trade-off machines, constantly weighing cost against quality, cash, and increasingly carbon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2021

To ensure quality, they have a mystery shopper program, and they benchmark themselves against their competitors. Quality, and pizza, allows them to become the neighborhood restaurant in many of the communities they serve. The average store is about 4,000 square feet. During the pandemic, store cleanliness became very important.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2021

The measurement process takes planning, machine capacities, system capacities, and quality measures into consideration. Dematic has formalized the use of an OLE (overall logistics effectiveness) measurement into the grading and measuring of each functional element of a facility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If underlying data models, data governance, and data quality are not reliable, then decisions are questionable. Supply chain digitization —Organizations are increasingly integrating physical processes with digital data and implementing digital workplace tools. Data management —This trend was added this year, and it jumped into the third spot.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

The ability to unify key processes is closely tied to making timely, informed decisions – and the speed and quality of decision-making are crucial factors that significantly impact overall company performance. Why, in 2024 are we still talking about it and what can be done to move in the right direction?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But that depends on the quality of the carrier’s safety and compliance operations and giving insurance providers additional transparency (more on that to come). This is based on a cost of $0.125 per mile for a small fleet and a per-mile cost of $0.037 for very large fleets. It is possible to get the proper coverage at lower costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I am looking for good quality beer crafted to remove gluten. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This year, Mr. Ellison spun a vision of how the global agricultural industry’s value chain could be reconstructed to improve the quality of food while making the industry much more sustainable. According to Mr. Ellison, food grown indoors with AI powered greenhouses has the potential to use 98% less water and 90% less land.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Also, when evaluating an automation project, Carl cautioned practitioners to look at factor beyond labor costs, such as quality measurements and process reengineering potential. Therefore, select areas of plant operations are a better introduction point for automation trials.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

There is also a quality check involved in implementations. Global integrators collaborate with Blue Yonder’s own services teams on validating that the right combination of resources, regardless of how they are “badged”, can be assembled to ensure a quality implementation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

The simplifying assumptions small companies make don’t significantly impact the quality of the plan produced. The desired operational outcomes include delighting customers with the price, quality, services, and delivery performance. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

The port closure affects the availability, quality, and cost of goods and services, as well as the competitiveness, productivity, and innovation of businesses and industries. The port closure also affects the social and environmental aspects of supply chains, such as employment, safety, health, and sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has increased the importance of home delivery, but also decreased the quality of home delivery performance. Home delivery strategy, tactics and performance is one of the most hotly-debated areas of logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Their micro verticals need solutions that support shelf-life logic, seasonality, achieving high quality despite variability in raw materials and ingredients, traceability, and attribute-based stock keeping units. In contrast, the Infor food & beverage solution supports micro verticals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Instead, they have to wait and hope, only to find out when the order arrives at the warehouse that they are missing 1/3 rd of the order, or there’s a quality issue. But most companies can’t afford to do that. This is exactly the kind of situation real-time systems are made to address.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

Adoption of modern technology in these ways can increase the quality of work, offer the development of more transferrable skills, and increase labor retention. These functional improvements, in conjunction with more competitive compensation, will likely be necessary to attract and retain workers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2022

With high delivery demand, chronic driver shortages, ongoing COVID-related disruptions and escalating costs, consistent, high quality home delivery service is a challenge; however, ignoring current market woes could result in grave consequences at the consumer level. Figure 3: Consumer action associated with home delivery failures.

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