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How AI Helps Build the Supply Chain that Thinks for Itself

Logistics Bureau

Are production, warehousing and transport ready to become lights-out operations, where no human being is needed? Transport network unpredictability. Create a knowledge base that new workers can access, and based on the knowhow of older workers, as in the Campbell Soup Company example. The following are examples.

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Cart Before the Horse: Digital Freight Matching, A.I. and Machine Learning for Freight

Parade

and digital bookings, on-top to increase firm productivity, defensibility and valuation. Now, a lot of brokerages have their own Transport Management Systems (TMS) and their own freight matching algorithms. However, brokerages must first have a robust knowledge base of data, which includes data on thousands of carrier organizations.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

As of right now, top lines have been essentially wiped out for industries like air transportation, freight, gastronomy, tourism, travel, and many more. These are uncertain times for businesses that are used to having cash flow, steady top lines, and predictable bottom lines. Toss them or loss them, and you’ll be ill prepared.

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‘Digital Freight Matching’ Isn’t a Product— It’s a Strategic Methodology

Parade

From calling to automated tender notifications, there is a wide spectrum of tools to help inform your carriers about available freight and inviting them to book those loads. If the carrier can do it, then the load is booked. How do you notify them about freight opportunities?

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‘Digital Freight Matching’ Isn’t a Product— It’s a Strategic Methodology

Parade

From calling to automated tender notifications, there is a wide spectrum of tools to help inform your carriers about available freight and inviting them to book those loads. If the carrier can do it, then the load is booked. How do you notify them about freight opportunities?

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The 5 Levels of Supply Chain Transparency!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The book sparked consumer concern, which prompted the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act ( Linich 2016 ). Strategic transparency is contingent upon the gathering of existing data, and building a knowledge base for existing supply chain activities and suppliers. One could even argue supply chain transparency?—?at