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Supply Chain Software’s Best Return on Investment

Logistics Viewpoints

The goal was to consolidate redundant distribution center (DC) locations, store the parts from both brands in all the DCs, and service the dealer networks while achieving an unprecedentedly high customer satisfaction target of 95% across the board. 6,000 people were working in those DCs that housed close to 400,000 active unique SKUs.

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

Predictive and prescriptive analytics have emerged as valuable tools that enable warehouse operations managers to streamline processes, minimize costs, and enhance productivity. They learn the spatial characteristics of the DC, and predict task time based on activity-level data captured in the DC.

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What are Digital Twins and How Can They Drive Warehouse Efficiency?

Logistics Viewpoints

How the digital twin concept drives benefit By using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, digital twins can provide real-time insights and recommendations to optimize operations, reduce costs, and increase productivity. As a suggestion, perhaps the WMS can be an initial digital twin for the DC. come with any of them.

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Navigate Shipping Landscape with Proactive Analytics

Talking Logistics

Relying on proactive rather than reactive analytics, and the ability to make specific actionable callouts from these data sets, will be key to navigating the ever-changing shipping landscape both now and in the future. Although very informative in their own right, retrospective analytics cannot undo the past. Enter proactive analytics.

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Invest in These Capabilities to Drive Supply Chain Excellence

AIMMS

These capabilities include Machine Learning and Prescriptive Analytics , and organizational models like Agile Teams. Gartner mentions us as a Sample Vendor in two categories: Network Design and Prescriptive Analytics. Prescriptive Analytics. AIMMS in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Network Design.

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Make Your DC More Productive Without Sweeping Changes

Logistics Viewpoints

DC operations in many companies are becoming more complex and changeable, with new business requirements, which are now coupled with new forms of modular automation and robotics. The post Make Your DC More Productive Without Sweeping Changes appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

The distribution center (DC) hadn’t released the order, but customer service didn’t have access to the right systems to see exactly what was wrong. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses. Only persistent calls got my order back on track.