Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2025

As vehicle exports from Mexico to North America surged, Volkswagen Mexico found itself confronting a significant supply chain crisis. Capacity shortages, service unreliability, and inventory congestion threatened to disrupt VWs production flow and delivery commitments to U.S. and Canadian dealerships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The company, heavily invested in Canadian manufacturing, faced a crisis because its raw materials were sourced from outside North America, disqualifying it from USMCA tariff exemptions. Establish inventory reserves in key markets to avoid supply chain disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

Businesses are responding with production shifts, supply chain diversification, inventory stockpiling, and trade route adjustments in efforts to lessen the financial burden and avoid long-term instability. Retailers and e-commerce giants like Amazon are stockpiling key inventory, preparing for potential further trade restrictions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 14, 2024

trillion distortion inventory problem. Trillion Inventory Distortion Problem In this podcast, Karl Swensen, CEO and Co-founder of Pull Logic, discusses how their AI-enabled technology helps retailers, brands, and manufacturers reduce lost sales by addressing supply chain and selling process failure points. Summary: Solving the $1.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This article is from Zheyuan Du at Kinaxis and discusses unconventional solutions to excess inventory challenges. According to recent statistical data, vacancy rates for industrial real estate across North America have been declining since 2020 and reached an all-time low in the third quarter of 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

While consumers may see some short-term benefit in the form of discounted goods, many retailers have had to reset investor expectations , reflecting the expected hit on margins from carrying so much inventory. Inventory management is challenging enough in normal times. So, what is it going to take to enable better inventory management?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As the modelers gained skill and projects delivered savings, the firm modeled its most important regions—Europe and North America. Interestingly, the inventory analysis often shows that for slow-moving products, centralizing those SKUs in a central storage location increases reliability despite the increase in lead times.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 29, 2025

As the supplier to leading restaurants, hotels, and catering businesses throughout Central America, the company faces significant challenges in managing its complex food distribution network. Stay in touch with ToolsGroup on LinkedIn , X , and YouTube , or visit www.toolsgroup.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Blyncsy’s map utilizes crowdsourced dash camera imagery from over 1 million vehicles, which, combined with its AI image analysis capabilities, can detect more than 40 different road conditions and asset inventory issues in near-real time. This includes identifying hazards like guardrail damage, missing signs, and improper road striping.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 20, 2019

In adidas’s recent earnings call, CEO Kasper Rorsted warned that adidas would miss its 2019 growth target because its supply chain was unable to meet the huge demand for its mid-priced apparel, especially in North America. The CEO went on to imply that losing sales was preferable to building excess inventory.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Verusen utilizes advanced data science and artificial intelligence to harmonize disparate material data across multiple enterprise systems to provide complex supply chains with material truth for supply and inventory planning and procurement intelligence. Greenscreens.ai’s dynamic pricing infrastructure built to grow and protect margins.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

At the same time, companies have been forced to pull forward inventory purchases, creating a squeeze where carrying costs are up while cash flow is tight. Until a trailer is unloaded and the warehouse records that inventory, it’s not reflected in the companys warehouse management systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

Kinaxis Planning One for Infor CloudSuite incorporates demand, inventory, and supply planning in one view with powerful scenario management, enabling manufacturers to model different demand and supply scenarios and select the best plan based on revenue, cost, time, or sustainability drivers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. North America Simulation Output.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This shift has led to a growing need for agile inventory management and quick delivery systems. The Challenges of Inventory Management in the Aftermarket Managing inventory in the aftermarket is uniquely challenging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

As the bricks and mortar retailer is attacked by eCommerce pure plays—Amazon in North America, Alibaba in China, and Flipcart in India—assortment and excitement in the store become paramount to lure customers. Current State of Perpetual Inventory. Replenishment is fueled by an effective perpetual inventory signal.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 6, 2022

Dhruv came to America (from India) in 2007 to pursue an undergraduate engineering degree. Founded in 2014 by Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati, ShipBob has become one of the fastest-growing tech companies in America. In the podcast interview, Dhruv shared his own personal story along with the ShipBob Story. Dhruv’s LinkedIn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The impact of complexity on inventory is not quick. To help, today I want to share some of the insights from our recent Inventory Optimization study. Inventory management is a hot issue. Companies invest in project after project, yet inventory levels remain the same. What Drives Inventory Effectiveness?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In SCP, they have one of the largest practices in North America. They have developed a proprietary inventory analysis tool that can not only help companies achieve service level goals with less inventory, but the inventory analysis can also flow into helping design an efficient warehouse layout.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2019

BOSTON (December 13, 2019) ToolsGroup, a leader a global leader in supply chain planning software, has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Inventory Optimization 2019 Vendor Assessment. Our customers overcome demand volatility and supply chain complexity for outstanding service levels with reduced inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This follows the recent announcement by the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience launching 30 proposed actions to strengthen America’s supply chains and the ASCM recent publication on resilience. I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

As I work with teams to envision the new tomorrow, I find fewer people know the basic concepts of manufacturing planning–cycle inventories, freeze duration, slush period, bottlenecks and constraints. And, the service supply chain can be redesigned to have less inventory and more uptime. I feel lucky that I have. Medical Device.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

The airline lobbying group Airlines for America announced in March that its member carriers will all go green by 2050. For retailers, supply chain sustainability is part of the conversation about inventory. More and more large U.S. This is part of the social and environmental responsibility of supply chain stakeholders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2022

Amidst ongoing uncertainty caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Asia, war in Europe, scarce raw materials and steep inflation, companies are stockpiling inventory as never before in the hopes of mitigating future supply chain shocks. As soon as inventory hits the yard, it gets lost in a shuffle of trailers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Markus Schmidt, President of Swisslog Americas , about warehousing in today’s environment of rapid and often unpredictable change. For example, some technologies allow for scaling of throughput and inventory needs independently. Words of Advice for Companies Evaluating Warehouse Automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2023

It was believed a SCP transformation would reduce inventory, improve service and free up cash flow. Unilever started in North America in 2020. The experience from North America allowed the company to create a global standard template for planning. North America represented the first of the new regional hubs for planning.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

McDonald’s Mesoamérica, like restaurant operations around the world, experienced a significant change in demand as the Coronavirus supply chain effects spread through Latin America. If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month. Decisions were made within 24 hours. We had to close within one day.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Improved delivery times: Shipium’s platform helps customers to improve their delivery times by providing them with real-time information on inventory levels and carrier transit times. Greenscreens.ai’s dynamic pricing infrastructure built to grow and protect margins. The Greenscreens.ai

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp Corporation, headquartered in Peru, manufactures cosmetics and personal care products for women in 14 nations across South and Central America. This digital twin contains network costs – the inventory carrying cost is X for this product, by Y for this one. In 2018, they implemented a LLamasoft inventory optimization solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

I believe our findings capture the pulse of North America logistics operations and the executives’ perceptions and priorities going into the second half of 2023. In fact, pressures are very similar with warehouse labor cost inflation, labor shortages, and inventory shortages at the top of the “concerns” list.

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Logility

APRIL 28, 2025

It’s a natural fit for an environment built on orchestration across vendors, partners, inventory, and data. Immediately, the agent reoptimizes inventory routes in North America and updates the customer in Europe all without human involvement. ” What makes supply chains an ideal proving ground for this evolution?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. An average margin of 21% with inventory turns of 1.58

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 9, 2019

05:12] Latin America has so much opportunity because of their growth, but they’re hard to work with. The difference with Latin America is that every country has their own culture and consumer behavior. There are many countries in Latin America that are growing. We serve global multinationals, typically US-based. [05:12]

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

The Role of Technology and Strategy in Multi-Tier, Regionalized Supply Networks Multi-Tier and Regionalized Networks To reduce risk exposure, companies are increasingly expanding sourcing and production capabilities across multiple regions, including North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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PINC

JANUARY 5, 2021

Leaders in yard management services and technology to collaborate to bring transparency and efficiency to hundreds of facilities in North America. Founded in 1996, Lazer Spot provides yard spotting , shuttling, trailer rentals and specialized yard services in 400+ locations in North America. To learn more, visit www.lazerspot.com.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 17, 2025

As companies across North America and Europe reconfigure their supply chains to reduce dependency on overseas operations in the wake of recently announced tariffs, there is a growing need for fully transparent, granular, and holistic visibility into manufacturing and supply chain operations as a whole. ThroughPut.AI

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