Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

The detentions have occurred across a variety of industries. But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. several countries have enacted legislation to ban products made with forced labor. Outside of the U.S.,

Supply Chain Optimization 233

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The consumer goods industry may have experienced tremendous growth, but figuring out what consumers want is an ever-evolving puzzle. From where they shop and how frequently they buy to what price points entice them, consumer behaviors have been challenging to predict over the past year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’m a supply chain industry analyst, so naturally my takeaways are influenced by my coverage area. 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. Oracle CloudWorld happened last week.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 19, 2024

Let’s delve into our three key takeaways, recognizing the profound impact of the retail industry on everyone, everywhere, every day. AI’s influence continues to grow, and consumers are now demanding sustainable actions. Industry leaders such as Walmart’s U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We get to take advantage of the comparatively higher productivity of others. Trade is still mostly dollar valuations of products and services. We consumers think about the insecticides, the water quality, the environmental impact. Where Does Nature Factor In? The missing party in the regular economics calculation is nature.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The continued growth in e-commerce retail sales has been largely driven by factors such as convenience, product selection and lower prices. However, the inability for consumers to initially see, feel or experience products they purchase online can create gaps between product expectations and what arrives at the doorstep.

Reverse Logistics 221

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

About Mike Newman Mike Newman , the CEO of Returnity Innovations, is a recognized authority in the field of transformational logistics platforms, specializing in shifting from single-use to circularity through reusable packaging solutions for companies and organizations. High Return Rate: Returnity achieves a remarkable return rate of 95.5%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

For industry, the ability to better connect machines, objects, and devices is what is driving excitement for this technology. Patrick Arnold, a research analyst at ARC Advisory Group, says that suppliers of industrial solutions are responding by investing in new product design and incorporating 5G into their portfolios. “5G”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

A recent conversation with a major distributor of consumer beverages encapsulated many of the most common issues. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

As an industry, linking supply chain planning and execution has been discussed for decades. Intelligent workflows offer a solution by delineating responsibilities based on impact and necessity. From order placement to product delivery, every stage demands synchronization to ensure fluidity and responsiveness.

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Stord

APRIL 24, 2024

Tony Scharff, WMS Super User Partner with AI-First Providers AI will be heavily utilized in Customer Service & Consumer Experience areas. Josh Monski, Solutions Architect, OMS & WMS Reporting With Ease I think AI will impact reporting and analytics in every industry. This is the "true magic" of great forecasting!

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The call to action in April 2016 was: Increasingly companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility ; but as companies work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. Defining a solution to close the gaps are not so easy. The gaps are large.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

One Network provides supply chain planning, execution and a multi-enterprise supply chain network solution. When a MESN solution is combined with planning and execution, the software solution is capable of reacting with much more agility than traditional supply chain software. Blue Yonder was acquired by Panasonic in 2021.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 233

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 7, 2024

Consumers are not so dumb that they fail to see when they are getting less product for their money. ” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes, “Shrinkflation is the practice of reducing a product’s amount or volume per unit while continuing to offer it at the same price.”

Price Reduction 130

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 19, 2024

Although much attention is given to the fact that we live in a technological, industrial world, agriculture remains a critical economic sector. It is a sector that copes with persistent tension between growers and consumers (i.e., growers want to earn as much as possible from their labors and consumers want to keep food prices low).

Food 130

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Rather than just offering consumers the choice of buying online or buying in the store, a retail omnichannel strategy involves a lot more paths to fulfill an order or to process a return. These different options offer consumers more choice and more convenience. Consumers did not want to go into stores. Then came Covid.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 24, 2024

USDA estimates : amount of food loss and waste from the food supply at the retail and consumer levels: in 2010 food loss and waste at the retail and consumer levels was 31 percent of the food supply, equaling 133 billion pounds and almost $162 billion. ” Those steps include: • Agricultural production (e.g. Distribution.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 3, 2022

Paula Natoli and Joe Lynch discuss the Google Cloud supply chain and the solutions they provide to their logistics and supply chain customers. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Google Cloud Supply Chain with Paula Natoli.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Bricz is agnostic to WMS vendors, providing objective insights to its clients from solution design, WMS selection, process and technology mapping, and even warehouse control system and robotics selections. Clarkston Consulting is focused on the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries. Oracle has high respect for Trinamix.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

In other Amazon news, the company says it helped stop 7 million counterfeit products from entering its fulfillment centers and reaching consumers last year– one million more than it did in 2022. In addition to stopping fake products from getting into the U.S., In addition to stopping fake products from getting into the U.S.,

Prescriptive Analytics Software 251

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For industry, the ability to better connect machines, objects, and devices is what is driving excitement for this technology. Patrick Arnold, a research analyst at ARC Advisory Group, says that suppliers of industrial solutions are responding by investing in new product design and incorporating 5G into their portfolios. “5G”

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2023

About DHL Supply Chain DHL Supply Chain , the global and North American contract logistics leader within DHL Group, offers a broad suite of integrated solutions, bringing greater flexibility, predictability, and speed to customers’ supply chains. ft in warehousing space. ft in warehousing space.

Pharmaceutical 217

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

It’s why our team and our solutions have earned the recognition of so many industry experts. Thank you to our customers and partners from across the supply chain industry! From Day One, our focus has been on developing and delivering the best supply chain solutions on the market.

ToolsGroup 295

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

For visualizing a products next life or “end of product life”, I will be focussing on packaging. #1 1 Your Input Channel In November 2022 my story To Realize the Circular Economy Dream – Reach Out to Your Community , I used the example of a company that takes bread crusts (a by-product of one industry) and uses it for making beer.

Optimal Sourcing 162

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2023

Teaming up with ToolsGroup, the Italian frozen seafood company chooses AI to advance its supply chain processes and guarantee a superior consumer experience. D.I.MAR produces, distributes, and sells frozen seafood and fish products.

ToolsGroup 156

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 15, 2023

There have been many more changes since then, including how products are produced and packaged, how they reach supermarkets, and how the consumer ultimately purchases them.”[1] Trends that emerged during the pandemic are persisting, reshaping the industry. The post-WWII era in the U.S. billion merger.”[4]

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

At the start of this decade, there have been many discussions centred on how electric vehicles (EVs) will help decarbonise the planet and transform the automotive industry. Let’s take a look at today’s vehicle production and distribution market and how companies are overcoming these challenges. million cars.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

While efforts to combat shoplifting have led many stores to put products behind glass or in cages, the threat of cart-based loss at the checkout lingers heavily.” Stores saw this as the next frontier… If they could get the consumer to think that [self-checkout] was a preferable way to shop, then they could cut labor costs.

Security 246

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 27, 2021

The food and beverage industry has long been highly competitive, and in order to stay ahead in the market, key industry players are always trying to figure out what consumers will want next. Consumers want brands to look towards reusable packaging or packaging that fully degrades in just weeks. Global vs. Local Food.

Food 177

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 23, 2022

With the growth of e-commerce sales comes an uptick in last-mile deliveries and they are the most costly leg of the retailer to consumer journey. Previously, e-commerce retailers would deliver a package at a consumer’s home and the transaction would be complete. Consumer Expectations for Last-Mile Delivery. orders per second.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Technology for All In a retail era dominated by e-commerce giants, customer expectations have shifted towards instant product delivery at no cost. Key Last-mile Delivery Technology Solutions How can technology directly impact last-mile operations and improve the customer experience? Another crucial factor is the pace of innovation.

Modeling Software 203

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2021

Traceability will be key in meeting consumer demands for sustainability. The short version: if you can’t track the complete history of a product, including material and labor inputs, you can’t make an ironclad claim about its sustainability. Irrelevance : Claims may be truthful but unrelated to the product or company.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In 2015, I joined Dassault Systèmes (3DS), more specifically the DELMIA brand, whose portfolio helps industries by connecting the virtual and real worlds of value networks to collaborate, model, optimize, and perform in the ambit of manufacturing and operations. What Does Sustainable Operations Mean? The Challenges.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 26, 2022

Raj is Head of Product for Uber Freight , a logistics platform built on the power of Uber with the goal to reshape global logistics and deliver reliability, flexibility and transparency for shippers and carriers. Local optimum is the best solution to a problem within a small neighborhood of possible solutions. About Raj Subbiah.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The retail sector continues to endure tectonic shifts as business landscapes and consumer behaviors change. … Consumers want an omnichannel, integrated experience, Meitiner says. … ”[2] AI in the Retail Sector Understanding Consumer Behavior. Changing consumer behavior is hard to gauge. Inventory Management.

Optimal Sourcing 130

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Transporting parts and materials to assembly lines and between manufacturing cells is one of the industry’s most complex and inefficient tasks, often resulting in production bottlenecks, Rockwell Automation noted. Garvis designed from the ground up an AI-first forecasting solution now called DemandAI+.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 11, 2022

Steel plays a crucial role in almost all industries—even in those where its application is not as apparent. The food industry, for instance, depends on steel for its use in building greenhouses. For example, old steel used in an industrial context can be recycled into consumer products such as home appliances, automobiles and more.

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