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World’s Fifth Fastest Growing Retailer Automates Replenishment Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

lu explained that fruit and vegetable is harder to plan because spoilage and write-offs lead to lower inventory accuracy in these categories. Further, Solvoyo’s planning is also dependent on the shipment packaging hierarchy – this SKU ships in a carton containing 4 items, or perhaps, the SKU cartons make up a layer on a pallet with 16 items.

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Using Intelligence Over Scale: The Power of AI and Machine Learning in Supply Chain and Logistics

Talking Logistics

These topics are getting a lot of attention today, but they’re also generating a lot of questions from supply chain and logistics executives. Compain shared more on this topic in a recent guest commentary, The Takeaway from CSCMP Conference: The Data Problem Runs Deep. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. Predictive Logistics.

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

Here are some real results from such “Digifund” initiatives: Significantly improved on-shelf availability for one category for one country for one retailer. Manufacturers that are used to shipping pallets and cartons to retailers will need to be prepared for the world of shipping eaches to consumers and do so economically.

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The 12 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

We conclude our “Most Popular” Blog posts series, where we have been giving you the most viewed blog posts in 2014 from our main content categories. It’s the precious goods, the supplies, or a customer’s new order wrapped in shrink wrap and on a pallet which then needs a carrier to pick it up and deliver the goods.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 24-28, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In short, as the WSJ reported at the time, Amazon had set up operations inside at least seven P&G warehouses worldwide where “each day, P&G loads products [such as paper towels and diapers] onto pallets and passes them over to Amazon inside a small, fenced-off area. And with that, I’m off to the airport. Have a happy weekend!

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Artificial Intelligence Drives More Efficient Goods Handling in Retail

RELEX Solutions

As retailers struggle to find store workers and see wages increase, in-store productivity is more topical than ever. In the worst cases, store workers spend a lot of time moving pallets around the store while stocking shelves and have to make frequent trips to and from the backroom storage area to fetch products. Aki Ali-Vehmas.

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5 Supply Chain Mistakes that Handicap Business Performance

Logistics Bureau

While each of these categories of product, customer, or combinations of both, demand different strategies, it’s clearly those in the “WHAT?” For example, your company could be: A) Paying unnecessarily for pallet spaces which might then be used for another shipper’s pallets.