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This Week in Logistics News (September 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Logility , a provider of prescriptive supply chain planning solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Garvis, a visionary SaaS startup founded in Antwerp, Belgium that combines large language models with AI-native demand forecasting. The new center will employ more than 300 part-time and full-time workers.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2019

Talking Logistics

Here are some posts I wrote this year sharing my takeaways from various conferences: The Secret of Getting Ahead (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2018 Conference). Go Boldly Together: Takeaways from Nulogy xChange 2018. Competing on Customer Experience (Takeaways from BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2018 Conference).

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Is Google the most innovative supply chain company in the world?

Freightos

billion by 2018 with 2.3 through 2018. The service was originally launched in the Netherlands and Belgium in early 2013 and called “Staples Easy 3D.” According to 3Dprinting.com, 3D printing is the “process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file”. Gartner expects 3D printer sales to reach $13.4

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Tyson analysts report, “Since 2014, consumption of beef, chicken, pork and turkey have each been on a steady incline, reaching record highs in 2018 in the U.S. In contrast, 75% of consumers in Belgium or the Netherlands said that they would be willing to try the products.” .” Diversified protein. With more U.S.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium. In 2018, Amazon represents perhaps one of the finest examples of successful automation in warehousing, having transformed from a company that automated only where necessary; to one that now pursues the latest and greatest in warehouse robotics.

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Data Quality is as Important as Data Quantity

Enterra Insights

Wilfried Lemahieu, Seppe vanden Broucke, and Bart Baesens, academics from KU Leuven (Belgium), note, “Data quality is often defined as ‘fitness for use,’ which implies the relative nature of the concept.”[5] Footnotes. [1]

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This Week in Logistics News (November 26 – December 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

TradeLens emerged during the “enterprise blockchain” era of 2018 as a high-flying effort to make inter-corporate trade more efficient. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) will be using 30 electric trucks for last-mile deliveries to local Belgium customers, with the first five rolling out last week. That’s all for this week.