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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Now, Walmart is also implementing robotic automation in its Canadian distribution network, with goals including making the process of getting products from trailers into the facility 90% faster than doing it manually in an effort to boost productivity, reduce strain on associates, increases shipping accuracy, and enhance data and analytics.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and/or advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics. E2open was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g.,

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Can Your Supply Chain Afford to “Wait and See” Before Becoming Digital?

Enterra Insights

analytics) to improve supply chain processes. ”[4] Oliver Freeman, Senior Editor at Supply Chain Digital , asks, “Where would the modern world be without analytics and the detailed analysis of them?”[5] Use data and new metrics systems to free the organization from the ball and chain of corporate politics.

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Highlights of Kinexions 2022 Customer Conference- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Our commentary focused om major announcements including a reported new breakthrough in advanced supply chain analytics which is being termed Kinaxis Planning.AI , along with other announcements. Morgan Swink , West Chair and Professor of Supply Chain Management, Texas Christian University. Pascal Van Hentenryck , A.

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How Can Paper Producers Rise to the Production Challenge?

USC Consulting Group

According to the piece published in North Carolina State University journal BioResources, the growth in demand for pulp and paperboard thus far in 2020 has been unprecedented, with production topping 419 million metric tons and consumption reaching over 423 million metric tons worldwide. ” Out of an abundance of caution. .

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The State of Holiday Shipping & Learnings for Next Peak Season

Intelligent Audit

UPS parcels heading to Texas had a 10.3% That’s why partnering with a world-class shipping data platform and analytics solution like Intelligent Audit is invaluable. FedEx packages to Illinois had a 15.3% UPS to Houston has experienced the most delays—8.9%, followed closely by New York and Los Angeles.

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With New Year Underway, Key Players Look Back On 2022

Intelligent Audit

As rates continue to fall, industry metrics are beginning to reflect a new reality for the transportation market. for December, marking the metric’s fastest decline ever recorded. Walmart now offers customers drone delivery service through these vendors in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. .