Talking Logistics

MARCH 8, 2013

Before I go back out to shovel, this week’s news… 3Gtms and Transite Technology Join Forces to Offer Innovative TMS for Mid-Market Shippers, 3PLs, and Carriers. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2013 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. Roadnet Technologies Unveils Roadnet Transportation Suite 3.60

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 29, 2015

Two years at Gartner Group , six years at AMR Research (now Gartner), two years at Altimeter Group and three years as the founder of Supply Chain Insights. Over this period, I have watched the acceptance of cloud-based supply chain solutions evolve. Users of Software as a Service solutions have higher satisfaction rates.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2017

When items are on the long tail of the supply chain, demand is lumpy and unpredictable. The Long Tail of the Supply Chain. Spairliners, founded in 2005, to provide spare parts for Airbus A380 planes (the largest passenger airliner in the world). Probabilistic forecasting in supply chain is relatively new.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It ceased to exist in 2005 when it merged with 1Sync. I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” At the time, the popular belief was that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies would build multi-tier capabilities. Transora had a short history. Clear governance.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 24, 2015

There was a lot of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it. Transplace Launches Supply Chain Consulting Practice. Transplace Launches Supply Chain Consulting Practice. LEGACY Supply Chain Services Launches Grader Tool and eBook to Evaluate Supply Chain Performance.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 5, 2017

The 1990’s technologies of Advanced Planning (APS) along with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) amplify the bullwhip effect within the supply chain resulting in the loss of agility and an inflexible response for the long tail. The Definition of the Supply Chain Long Tail.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2014

A problem or other situation arises in your supply chain and a decision needs to be made quickly on what action to take. But those technologies are worthless if companies don’t also transform and accelerate their decision-making processes. It’s the promise of Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics. Just ask Target.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 15, 2015

It was an appropriate theme for Descartes, a company that has grown and evolved its solution footprint significantly over the past decade, with 28 acquisitions since 2005, including 7 acquisitions since the last user conference in 2013. What are some “1+1=3” opportunities in your supply chain? If not now, when?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The Internet’s large-scale global penetration has spawned an increasingly large number of technology and web-savvy consumers, creating a huge opportunity for both industrial manufacturers and their end customers. Manufacturers will be able to improve their inventory due to the information presented by both supply chain and operations data.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 8, 2020

The world was abuzz with Y2K, the movie “Gladiator” reigned supreme on the big screen, cake pops were a new dessert, and what was to be known as “the decade of technology” was just beginning. Here are just a few of the many highlights: 2005 DELMIA wins the Automation Alley “Technology Company of the Year” award.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. As the economy reopens post-COVID, there are still supply chain shortages. How to Remain Profitable During Periods of High Inflation with Forward Buying. Forward Buying and Inflation.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. Supply chain risks are reduced. Since 2005, U.S. With wages rising abroad, automation , a.k.a. Reshoring Stats Since 2013.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). They had the vision, but they lacked technology. Sonoco established two supply chains. This supply chain focused on efficiency.

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Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). They had the vision, but they lacked technology. Sonoco established two supply chains. This supply chain focused on efficiency.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. For a long time now, corporations and their supply chains have been required to prove that they are acting in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way. We are in the middle of everyone’s supply chain.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Technology Services. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that to manage logistics you have to manage relationships with people in the supply chain, and I also learned that there is an informal network of relationships that had to be managed in the supply chain… this was in 2002. Underlying the tool, it is sophisticated in terms of the algorithms we built.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Technology Services. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Publishing Resources Industries.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Welcome to the second installment of Supply Chain Spotlight, Elementum’s interview series. We speak with the most influential people in today’s global supply chain. Each interview is a conversation about the most important topics and tasks facing supply chain professionals all over the world. Another issue?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Technology Services. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management.

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