Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Trade barriers are beginning to go up, particularly between China and the US. Last mile logistics challenges is not just about ecommerce, it is also about urbanization. Descartes points out that for all but the simplest route planning problems, creating the best plan is not as simple as loading data and hitting the “optimize” button.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for transactions, communications, transportation, and search. Transportation costs became lower in two ways. Nevertheless, the globalization of business placed greater emphasis on lead times, transportation costs, and so forth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I was on the phone with Australia, China, Indonesia – really everywhere – trying to negotiate directly with suppliers. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 28, 2014

With growing consumer expectations for faster delivery, shippers are expecting value-added logistics services from 3PL operators. This increases the urgency for 3PLs to leverage on the best market trends to increase logistics flexibility. So how will logistics planning and optimization technology help 3PLs to overcome these challenges?

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

Emerging economies, those classed as part of the E7 (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey), are hitting the leaderboard of the top 10 countries with the most purchasing power. China already tops that list. Or changing your logistics channels? Realistically, it already isn’t. Uberization.

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. China’s booming e-commerce is a great opportunity for logistics providers given the potential for scaling. Amazon isn’t the only tech player interested in logistics.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I don’t think that they will step back from this big investment, and also, for example, when you look at China, China is in five years, I think the biggest economy in the world. There was a big peak. There’s also, let’s say, a rail track from China to Germany, which was increasing by 25%.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 27, 2016

For the future of logistics outsourcing , there are two possibilities: either guess it, or invent it. The choice for any given organisation depends on the strategic importance it attaches to its logistics. Customising logistics outsourcing to each business unit. In fact, Big Data still has to make an impact anywhere.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. ”[2] Pandemics halt production, snarl logistics, confuse demand signals, and disrupt every economic sector in some manner.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2013

UPS Bulks Up in China ( Wall Street Journal ). Transport Reaches for the Sun ( Wall Street Journal ). Transplace is among the relatively few 3PLs that use and provide to clients their own internally-developed transportation management system (for related commentary, see “ The IT Dilemma for 3PLs ”). Highly customizable, FAM 2.0

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 27, 2015

Roadmap , that identifies some of the major technology and logistics trends on the horizon. As noted in their publication, some of the trends have been around for awhile, including the growth of e-commerce, relentless competition, urbanization, and Big Data/predictive analytics. On page 21, the U.S. Supply Chain Management'

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Following on from its other two highly popular subway maps of supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the third edition of the Consulting Subway Map Europe showing the European supply chain consultancy sector. 34 | Mindmap Global Logistics Integration.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Missy shared some insights on automation in the logistics sector, in a conference that was awash with discussions on block chain, digitization, and new technology in logistics. But where is logistics going, if pilots can’t touch the planes on takeoff? Today, human’s are only involved in case something goes wrong.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 5, 2016

To the enthusiasts of ‘salvation by big data’ and the Internet of Things (IoT) – let’s consider the facts. The Google vehicle has collected 3,500,000 miles worth of driving data through a reasonably sophisticated array of IoTs, a massive amount by any stretch of imagination.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Brazil had an election that proved to be radically unpopular with the global business community, Russia has alienated itself and is hurting due to the rapid drop in the price of oil, while India and China are in a holding pattern, with tepid growth. Everybody seems to think that digital devices will somehow reduce all this complexity.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2016

In another customer example from China, a steel manufacturer –cameras measuring the quality of steel slabs and coiled steel were used to identify non-conformance with the sales order specifications still on the milling line, instead of leaving the discovery of non-compliance problems only at the finished goods lots.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to the 30th Annual State of Logistics Report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), companies spent $1.64 trillion on logistics and transportation services in the United States in 2018, an increase of 11.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4%

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I kicked off the meeting with an overview of the current dilemma facing supply chain executives, given the uncertainties of tariffs with China, Brexit in the UK, and the disturbances in Hong Kong and the Middle East that create a path with many risks in every direction. You can either ship it by boat from China (30 days) or by plane (FedEx).

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FLEXE

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But, your delivery promise and logistics strategy is more important than ever. From a logistics standpoint, you can gain a lot of momentum by teaming up with technology providers that reduce traditional costs of warehousing and moving goods from point A to your customers’ doorsteps. Retailers—of all sizes—are jumping on this trend.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We follow an exhaustive list of supply chain and logistics blogs to make this possible. If you want to start learning, we suggest you check out these top logistics and supply chain blogs. Top Logistics and Supply Chain Blogs We Love. China carrier relations and much more. Logistics Management. Logistics Viewpoints.

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Turvo

JULY 31, 2020

The pressure to better manage and evolve peak season logistics before the holidays has never been higher in this era of uncertainty. Meanwhile, uncertainty remains the name of the game in peak season logistics planning. As a result of more data sharing and collaboration, supply chain leaders will be able to work together better.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

For all the talk about Big Data, omni-channel fulfillment, and other sexy technology, at the end of the day, bad data (and in many cases, store-level execution) remains the Achilles heel of supply chain management. Ryder Announces New Transportation Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry. Freight Shipments Fell 0.2%

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

We are used to operating in functional silos that involve managing people and keeping them in buckets, and the data these people are exposed to reinforces these silos. The mechanism must be at a far more finite level to extract data showing events that impacts the overall efficiency and throughput of our supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

tariff on China electronics is seeing a rise in demand for these products from other countries within Asia. Logistics is a whole other ballgame. Companies looking to contain logistics costs have to use creative solutions, like digital technologies to overcome price increases and capacity shortages.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 27, 2021

At these large warehouse transfer points, goods are moved from one form of transportation to another and passed to fulfillment centers or big box stores. Ultimately, distribution centers are one part of the larger logistics network designed to reduce shipping costs and accelerate transit times.

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2020

China, the world’s second-largest economy and several internal supply chains plunged as the Coronavirus spread from here to other countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Studies suggest that AI and Machine Learning (ML) can deliver unprecedented value to supply chain and logistics operations.

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2020

China, the world’s second-largest economy and several internal supply chains plunged as the Coronavirus spread from here to other countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Studies suggest that AI and Machine Learning (ML) can deliver unprecedented value to supply chain and logistics operations.

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ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2020

China, the world’s second-largest economy and several internal supply chains plunged as the Coronavirus spread from here to other countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Studies suggest that AI and Machine Learning (ML) can deliver unprecedented value to supply chain and logistics operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

But in terms of transportation, the impacts won’t just be on fuel prices. FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation. They apply their own human expertise plus machine learning to this Big Data to predict estimated times of arrivals and pricing.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

A report published by PwC states, “As the crisis evolves, complexities and vulnerabilities in global supply chains, which extend beyond China’s central role in manufacturing and goods trade, are coming to the fore. ” Manufacturing & Logistics IT , 14 March 2020. [4] ” Footnotes. [1] Just A Hype?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

China was locking down hundreds of millions of people and closing manufacturing facilities. As China is the largest manufacturing country in the world the economic repercussions were really starting to be felt. It is not by accident that China has become the highest manufacturing output country in the world.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It is that time of year again where we feature the most viewed articles on the Cerasis blog in each of the six main categories we write about: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. . e-Book] The Future Of Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing: How Technology Is Transforming Industries.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s why we’ve created this list of the top logistics and supply chain journalists and thought leaders that we follow and suggest you check out in 2020. . Top Logistics & Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders We Follow. Adam Robinson is the Marketing Manager for North American Third-Party Logistics Provider, Cerasis.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

“As the logistics industry faces extraordinary pressures, maintaining a culture of compliance is more critical than ever. “When US–China trade tensions flared last year, leading companies already started to rethink the cost of network risk and invest in more resilient supply chains. EY; Twitter: @EYnews 6. “The U.S.-China

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Its future growth is driven by new routes and China. This will have a significant impact on the ramp-up in aircraft production and environment, on the shortage of pilots and also on new entrants in commercial air transportation, the drones. They invited partners looking for innovation.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Cloud & Big Data. Similarly, China and the rest of Asia have felt the repercussions of the European market slowdown, and their economies are not as robust as they were in 2011. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The head of supply chain for DCG is Tim Carroll, with direct reports of John Gannfors (CPO), Howard Katowitz (Planning and Execution), and Jerry Gross (Global Logistics). Planning and Execution (Howard) owns planning, inventory and production, with Logistics (Jerry) owning inbound and outbound.

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