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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. Walmart said at the end of 2021, it is 57 percent toward its 2030 goal and while that’s great progress, much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. percent in the third quarter, down from 3.8

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

Starting With Definitions. To help, I wrote a few definitions on the board: Demand-Driven Processes. A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. Definition of Outside-In Processes.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, when I used to ship ice cream by reefer container to China from the west coast, the time on the ship was 12-18 days. For this definition see my last post, Companies Chained to Traditional Processes Will Experience the Whip. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030. Are the port issues over?

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

They tend to have many pretty PowerPoint slide decks–full of acronyms, pretty pictures and E2E commitments–but they lack a common definition of supply chain excellence. Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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Logistics Predictions: How Did We Do in 2022 and What Will 2023 Look Like?

Logistics Viewpoints

The only bright note is that shipping costs will be a fraction of what they were over the last several years. 2030 call: Retailers will embrace sustainability for home delivery. The verdict would have been “definitely nailed it” if we were counting all of the “ML-washing” going on in the supply chain and logistics technology market.

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A River Runs Through It…

Supply Chain Shaman

As companies and teams mature, the definition of the word “flow” changes. The Maturity Model of Flow Definitions within Supply Chain Management. At the conference, we will be challenging supply chain leaders to focus on Supply Chain 2030 through a programmatic focus on five themes: Supply Chains to Admire.

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Navigating Freight Management Efficiencies with AI

ThroughPut

Increased labor costs, declining freight rates, high demand for quick shipping with reduced bulk orders, skyrocketing carrier margins etc. McKinsey predicts that AI will create an entirely new “logistics paradigm” by 2030 as it easily outperforms manual efforts not only at repetitive but also mission-critical tasks.