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How Analytics Can Cure Supply Chain Woes!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Fortunately, the newest versions of analytics or big data are already demonstrating their potential for helping move merchandise and raw materials from Point A to Point B, wherever those points happen to be. Visual Analytics. In fact, narrow margins have long been a main feature of the grocery segment.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. AND with growing concern about climate change, trade-off considerations must account for cost, quality, service, and now sustainability.

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Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

However, achieving and maintaining visibility poses several challenges, including data availability and quality, technological limitations, and interoperability issues. but when demand slowed, the pressure to reduce inventory becomes a lot higher. What is supply chain visibility and why it is important?

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products. For example, an agile supply chain may have real-time data, advanced analytics, decision support tools, and cross-functional teams to monitor, diagnose, and solve problems.

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Best Logistics Management Software: Everything You Need to Know Before Making a Purchase Decision

ThroughPut

Ambiguity in Inventory Visibility, Tracking and Management The Challenge For a manufacturer, inventory acts as a foundation for a successful and efficient supply chain. However, in mid-sized to large scale businesses, it may be difficult to track inventory status and movement due to lack of detailed, real-time visibility.

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Molex Prizes Agility

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Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example. Infor Nexus is an orchestration solution.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

billion, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. The technology is made up of three separate high-res camera systems: One scans a vehicle’s undercarriage, another checks tire quality, and another focuses on the vehicle exterior.