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This Week in Logistics News (September 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Transporting parts and materials to assembly lines and between manufacturing cells is one of the industry’s most complex and inefficient tasks, often resulting in production bottlenecks, Rockwell Automation noted. Garvis designed from the ground up an AI-first forecasting solution now called DemandAI+.

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A Tale of Two Industries: Surprising Demand Spikes amid Supply Chain Disruption

ToolsGroup

sells and deploys ToolsGroup software to companies in The Netherlands, Belgium and Turkey. At first the planners were sceptical as the forecast looked almost too good to believe. You will not have a chance to do this when a crisis hits and it is absolutely essential for reliable forecasting and stock supply planning.

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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Keyence, a company based in Belgium, specializes in the design and supply of machine vision systems for automated inspection in different manufacturing facilities. Automating internal transportation activities eliminates production bottlenecks and increases productivity. Computer Vision. Wondering how to spot those gaps?

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

Many of these stores are recognised under banners such as Apollo-Optik in Germany, Générale d’Optique and GrandOptical in France, Pearle in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria and Vision Express in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, the Middle East and India to name just a few. It is a very significant change.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Forecast says US drayage rates will continue to rise in Q1. High freight volumes and tight capacity are forecast to continue through most modes in 2022, and that trend will also apply to maritime port drayage , according to a report from transportation software provider BookYourCargo (BYC).

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

As the number of items being sold grew, they became increasingly more difficult to forecast. The block chart below tracks the relationship between the stable, forecastable product, the variable product, and the unpredictable product. By definition, in traditional MRP, the forecast is input into supply planning, and integrated into MRP.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

And of course, there’s the relentless challenge of accurately forecasting demand. Our forecasting has always been a nightmare because it’s not seasonal. Alex shared some final advice for those worried about the accuracy of their demand forecasting. But all that information and knowledge is in that [manager’s] head.