Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

IBM’s Institute for Business Value found that 75% of CEOs believe generative AI will be key to competitive advantage. Infor Nexus is a supply chain network that connects businesses to their key partners and makes coordinating the flow of materials and information much more seamless. The digital assistant becomes that analyst.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2023

They are also one of the world’s best in terms of succeeding at integrating digital technology into all areas of business. S-curves have been applied to product development, returns from an IT project, a new manufacturing process, and other business activities as well. Unilever has applied the idea to global transformations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2023

Richard is Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Intelligent Audit , a cutting-edge logistics and supply chain technology company, dedicated to revolutionizing how businesses manage their shipping and transportation processes. Transitioning to sales and marketing, he mastered go-to-market strategies for driving growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Asena Yosun Denizeri, Vice President, Retail Solutions at Solvoyo. These decisions are made in a synchronized manner, using real-time or near real-time data, AI/ML and optimization technology, while having the humans setting the goals and managing the parameters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

Each box has an optimizer that drives output from a model based on a functional definition using enterprise data. There is no unifying data model; all items are treated equally, regardless of the flow. What is the data and process latency in current decisions? Is the plan feasible? What is the offset from the market?

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Heura® Foods was created in 2017 as a social mission-turned-business, focused on changing the current food system to one that fosters better health, nutrition, and sustainability. They had some real gems of advice, not just for growing companies, but for change management initiatives across enterprises and industries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing has spurred a revolution in private and business applications over the past decade. Today, data and software programs can be saved or run in any data processing center in the world. This business model provides many advantages: Processing big data efficiently. Rapid integration. Pay as you grow.

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Logility

JANUARY 12, 2024

Navigating the $5 trillion North American apparel market requires precision, especially when dealing with the intricate complexities of forecasting and inventory management. The Apparel Industry’s Forecasting Maze Mastering the art of forecasting is critical in the apparel industry.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Jim is the Vice President of Marketing at FRAYT , an on-demand, last mile delivery solution that enables businesses to meet their customers’ same-day expectations, comparable to Amazon’s level of service. Jim has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Marketing from Bridgewater State University.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

A MSCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. MSCN solutions provide supply chain visibility, network-based applications, and network analytics across an extended supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

According to data from a recent research survey, the following were on top of the supply chain headaches not addressed by their current systems: Supply shortages due to supplier’s inability to meet expected performance targets. Data cleansing and data robustness. Network cost modeling. Automated forecasting processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The pending effect of fuel on logistics costs is an overlay for all companies struggling to manage the bottom line. Only 29% of companies can see and manage total costs and prepare for the influx of fuel surcharges. Yet, transportation optimization products focus on managing price, not constraints.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the first installment of my two-part blog series, Ann Marie discussed the top priorities for LSPs who want to master the complexity of cold-chain logistics. Data analytics and insights. Manual analysis and spreadsheets just aren’t capable of managing all the complexities of modern cold-chain logistics,” Ann Marie pointed out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The cost of internet-connected devices has also dropped significantly making IIoT solutions more affordable at scale. Modern cloud-based solutions offer cost effective analysis of data and require no infrastructure setup, enabling faster adoption of new technologies. Modern consumers demand is more personalized.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

Price of Ocean Shipping Business Continuity. At conferences, I hear many discussions about risk management and control towers. Risk management concepts are largely passe, and many control towers are futile attempts in the face of spiraling variability. Focused on managing complexity. The data is available.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 22, 2024

Recently, Blue Yonder released the findings of its survey of wholesale distribution executives 1 , which focused on their order management challenges, goals and forward-looking plans. Blue Yonder has helped many wholesalers address these challenges with advanced order management solutions. Why did we conduct this study?

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In our increasingly interconnected supply chains, potentially valuable information is hidden in plain sight, obscured by the chaotic flood of structured and unstructured data a business generates and consumes. As such, c ausal f orecasting is much more than basing inventory positions and replenishment schedules on shipment data.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Both consumer confidence and business confidence graphs look like rollercoasters. But we believe it’s possible to purposely and intentionally build a resilient supply chain that’s capable of mastering disruption. Supply chain resiliency requires process alignment, a unified data model and an integrated, interoperable solution suite.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

is knocking on the door of every logistics business in the world. As Spinnaker SCS group vice president George Fowler explained in our ‘Be Ready for Anything’ podcast , one of the keys for supply chains to withstand remarkable business disruptions is through implementing strategic digital transformation initiatives. Data Analytics.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What’s your Greatest Supply Management Challenge Today? Stepping out of the shadow of the past few years, procurement leaders are having to rapidly master the art of supply continuity as organizations undergo major changes that demand more agility, innovation, and collaboration to survive. . Build a Solid Data Foundation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions. Getting independent business units to operate in a centralized supply chain structure would allow the company to have better leverage in procurement negotiations. Myers Industries ended up selecting the Atlas Planning Platform from John Galt Solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Before the session, I sat by a young data scientist. I question why companies accept existing taxonomies as a given and challenge bright data scientists to only improve engine outputs within the current definitions. In Figure 2, each box, of the traditional planning solution, has an engine. Bi-directional Orchestration.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 11, 2022

However, there are still barriers in the technology domain, which revolve around business process factors that each steel producer can (and should) start to tackle immediately. Steel manufacturers need digital tools to drive better, faster and data-driven decision-making as well as implement more sustainable practices.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

In most cases, their legacy ERP or supply chain solutions cannot support the real-time, frequent forecasting and inventory planning needed to get ahead of margins pressures, rising costs, and shifts in consumer demand. With the data we get from Logility, we challenge our internal processes and say, ‘Does this make sense as a business?’

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

As such, ToolsGroup is happy to announce our second release of 2023 for our Service Optimizer 99+ Supply Chain Planning solution. With v8.61, SO99+ will be delivering enhanced transparency and accuracy across the entire solution while increasing the overall strength of the solution’s forecasting engine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

This is because most classical planning solutions lack the modeling capability and computing power to accommodate different data sources, large SKU count, and detailed constraints and contingencies to build an immediately executable plan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2022

The pandemic has exposed flaws in business practices across industries, which have been acutely felt in their supply chain and procurement operations. Gap between supply chain and procurement execs and middle management. Solutions for master data management. Supply chain visibility solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

quintillion bytes of data every day. Cluster analysis is a statistical umbrella term for methods that classify data points according to their attributes. Cluster analysis is a statistical umbrella term for methods that classify data points according to their attributes. The retail industry is rich with data.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 18, 2024

As the Harvard Business Review puts it, “Even as Walmart, Amazon, and a few other leading retailers operate at the leading edge of the analytics frontier, . . . What’s the takeaway for your retail business? If you want to flourish, your company must ingest and analyze the huge volumes of data available to you.

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Logility

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Supply chain organizations are like any other part of a business – they’re always moving, changing, and trying to produce and deliver outcomes faster, more efficiently, and to everyone’s satisfaction. Your business can take ownership of these savings by treating every change as an opportunity to evolve your supply chain design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While prior risk management disruptions occurred and quickly established a new normal, in the COVID-19 pandemic, the only normal is constant change. The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Against my friends’ advice, I decided to drive to speak to 120 business leaders at the Gains Systems event. At the session, we discussed why companies have not made more progress on inventory management. When we ask business users open-end questions in quantitative surveys, shown in Figure 2 are the most common responses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

Despite their best efforts, current events and market dynamics caught up with them, leading to issues managing their suppliers and sourcing the materials needed for their products. Challenges in managing and meeting sustainability and compliance goals/requirements. in advanced economies — causing a potential slump in demand. [2].

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

The increasing need for constantly analyzing these trade-offs across the supply chain networks has highlighted the need for digital twins and what-if capabilities in network design solutions. Over the last year, with the rise of ChatGPT, planners’ exception management capabilities have been augmented by chat-based digital assistants.

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