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This Week in Logistics News (February 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

We have all seen the math, and even with her concert in Tokyo on February 10, she still has time to get to Las Vegas for kickoff thanks to the magic of the international date line. In a strange twist, all the parking spaces for private planes in Las Vegas are currently booked, according to the Associated Press.

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Five Reasons Why Are We Not Making Progress on Inventory Management

Supply Chain Shaman

In the case of Apparel and Automotive industries there are slight improvements, but they have shifted inventories to suppliers. Today, since many do not test the solutions and often buy based on IT standardization, the probability of success is about the same as playing the tables in Las Vegas. The default?

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QAD Explore 2019: Vertical Market Round-up

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Automotive. Terry Onica – Director, Automotive. One of the top five rated sessions at Explore that drew a lot of interest and discussion in this area was entitled, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors’ (YFAI) Rapid Upgrade to EE and Move to the QAD Cloud. Join Us Next Year in Las Vegas!

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Toyota's Vision for Self-Driving Includes Amazon Collaboration

Supply Chain Brain

Toyota President Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the carmaker’s founder, debuted the e-Palette vehicle and e-Palette Alliance to a packed crowd at CES 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday. Companies including Navya, a French developer of autonomous shuttles, has deployed a similar vehicle for public rides in Las Vegas.

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QAD Labs Collaboration Expands to RPA

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QAD is working in the Labs with a well-known tier one automotive supplier to develop an RPA-based approach to a data collection challenge. The tier one supplier receives information relevant to demand from the various automotive OEMs in a variety of ways. RPA Drives a More Efficient Harvesting of Order Data.

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Technology Diffusion: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

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Do we have alarms that go off when a vehicle is driven to Las Vegas for the weekend (assuming Las Vegas is out of the territory)? The observations they made watching automotive customers using their sandpaper, led to new products like masking tape. Do we use the data to understand the driving patterns of our fleet?

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Bet There’s Something for You on the Explore 2020 Agenda

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This year, QAD will host its Explore customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (May 11-14) with a focus on the ever-increasing disruption global manufacturers are facing now and into the future. It has roots as an automotive stamper, then it moved into electronic gear shifts, and now it is providing components for major appliances.

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