Talking Logistics

APRIL 8, 2024

If you were writing a book or a song about supply chain and logistics in the first quarter of 2024, what would its title be? Here are some ideas: The truth is I’m having a hard time characterizing this year so far. We’re arguably in a less stressful and disruptive environment today than we were.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 1, 2015

Transparent supply chain management and effective supply chain visibility is a critical tool in a company’s continued growth and successful brand image. 4 Main Supply Chain Visibility Trends Driving Change. Who will be the first to own responsible supply chain visibility and management?

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o9 Solutions

JANUARY 13, 2021

a leading provider of Integrated Business Planning platforms for the digital transformation of enterprise-wide planning and decision-making capabilities, announced significant bookings growth during 2020 today. o9 more than doubled its annual recurring revenue bookings in 2020, demonstrating strong market demand for its platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you ask companies if they would like better inventory and global supply chain visibility, you will get an overwhelming answer of, “Yes!” The term supply chain visibility varies by role. The term supply chain visibility varies by role. ” The answer is simple.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

FourKites Ocean Visibility Platform. FourKites , a global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, recently launched its Dynamic Ocean SM platform for visibility, rate, and documentation management. The FourKites ocean visibility solution recognizes a few important pieces of the ocean visibility puzzle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

This multi-tier solution is designed to reduce the bullwhip effect by improving demand and supply translation through multi-tier concurrency. It is a more mature version of Supply Chain Visibility, enabling multi-tier orchestration of demand and supply matching. They are not designed for multi-tier functionality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What Is Visibility? In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. Visibility means many things to different people. See You There?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 3, 2023

The first quarter of 2023 is in the books. So, how are we doing overall in the supply chain and logistics industry? I guess it depends on who you ask. For shippers, the current environment from a rates and capacity standpoint is much more favorable than it has been the past two years.

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Resilinc

MAY 4, 2016

As global supply chains become more interconnected and entangled, there is a growing demand in the supply chain management community for books, case studies, critical success stories, best practices, and publications that provide concise and intriguing intelligence into supply chain risk management and resiliency.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 27, 2015

Supply chain management spans many functions and processes, including demand planning, sourcing, merchandising, supplier relationship management, inventory management, inbound and outbound transportation, distribution management, and store operations. Below is an excerpt from the section on Supply Chain Visibility.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Luckily there’s a solution to these supply chain challenges: information technology and automation. Modern technology can quickly eliminate mundane, manual processes, and streamline quotations, booking requests, and confirmations and integrate them with the freight billing process. Many options available.

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EC Sourcing Group

JULY 20, 2023

Simfoni’s procurement technology provides real-time visibility into the entire supply chain, enabling companies to track and monitor suppliers, inventory levels, and deliveries. Book a demo with us today to see firsthand how Simfoni’s best in class solution can supercharge your procurement function!

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 11, 2024

3] Supply chain visibility, and decision support capabilities, require the right data from deep within the supply chain as well as other pertinent market signals. The better the data the better the visibility and the better the decision support. In the book, they discuss the Theory of Jobs to Be Done.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 31, 2023

Unlocking improved supply chain visibility and agility is only possible when F&B manufacturers commence the digitalization of manufacturing and operations. Embracing digital and automated processes will enable increased traceability of ingredients and improved inventory monitoring for faster and more efficient processing.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 12, 2023

In breaking supply chain tech news , Cloud based freight booking platform and payments tech provider Freightos has announced plans to reportedly shed upwards of 50 employees, representing 13 percent of current staffing. In prior Supply Chain Matters postings, we have highlighted that a U.S.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This is without losing track for even a moment of any one item, order, shipment, inventory movement, transfer, shipment, delivery, launch, promotion, project, resource, person, booking, lorry or vessel… plus much more.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A supply chain risk management study by Deloitte revealed that companies best equipped to respond to disruptions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, had robust relationships with their suppliers and partners and the necessary tools to offer visibility into their broader supply networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Together, we sat on the bed and tried to map the process flows from supply planning. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning? The INTTRA Platform is used to book one in four ocean shipments.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

According to Accenture Technology Vision 2021 research, Cloud, AI, and Digital Twins are among the top technologies supply chain executives are looking to deploy in their organizations. This allows for a new level of supply chain transparency and sector-wide collaboration.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Moving forward, BASF is working on different projects to improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, like track and trace for products from BASF to end users and transport visibility. Time Slot Booking/Optimization (aka “Dock Appointment Scheduling”) Delivers Cost and Productivity Savings.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

For more on this topic, read the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Customer-Centric Supply Chain. Supply Chain Visibility. We like the metrics of growth, on-time and in-full orders, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Increasingly, companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility, but as they work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. Figure 1: Gaps in Supply Chain Visibility. The gaps are large.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 13, 2023

Peter Drucker wrote in his book “Managing in the Next Society” that “the biggest challenge for the large company and especially for the multinational may be its social legitimacy – its values, its mission, its vision. Everything else can be outsourced.”

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 16, 2022

According to a study by Deloitte , those companies that were best equipped to respond to the disruption driven by the pandemic had robust relationships with their supplier and partners and the required tools in place to offer visibility into their broader supply networks. Enhancing Supply Chain Visibility.

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Freightos

JULY 5, 2017

For enterprise forwarders and carriers, the marching orders for Q2 appeared to be freight visibility, as a number of companies unveiled solutions to enhance cross-supply chain visibility of shipments. The last-mile drone delivery space stayed hot, both in the air and on the ground. Download the full report now.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages. Yard Solutions provides a set of dock, yard, and asset management capabilities including slot bookings, yard forecasting, and real-time yard reporting. Final Thought.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chain material flow has become a global concern, unrestricted by limitations of geography. With supply chain complications such as constricted bottlenecks, complex material flows, and multi-tiered synchronizations, supply chain visibility has gained paramount importance.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

Market publications and resources like Sea Intelligence and market updates from the likes of Flexport and others combined with Supply Chain Visibility Tools and carrier data such as Booking Lead Time reports can help paint an accurate and fair assessment when comparing the performance of one MLO against another.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Dan Finkenstadt used his Chat GPT programs to analyze the NDIS and compare it to the recommendations developed in our book, Supply Chain Immunity: Overcoming our Nation’s Sourcing Sickness in a Post-Covid World. I augmented the GPT summary with my own insights…here is what we came up with.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” The documentary is based on a book by best-selling author Jeff Benedict. Food safety is currently a hot topic. Netflix recently released a documentary entitled “Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food.” Writer Ingrid Ostby reports, “The documentary unwraps the stomach-churning flaws in America’s food industry.”[1]

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3rdwave

JANUARY 17, 2020

Capturing, aggregating, and analyzing all the global supply chain transportation and product/SKU level detail is foundational to having end-to-end supply chain visibility. And end-to-end supply chain visibility is a necessity in optimizing demand fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 20, 2016

BOOK Now With Code: SCM15. LogiMed is Europe’s annual meeting place and professional development forum for regional supply chain leaders from top medical device manufacturers. LogiMed 2016. 17 – 18 October, 2016. Hotel Palace Berlin, Germany. Web: [link].

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Figure 1: Current State of Network Visibility . There is a great market for a holistic solution on supply chain visibility. Build new systems for supply chain visibility using structured and unstructured data to drive learning systems that can allow the network to test, adapt and learn. The Shaman.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Gaining end-to-end visibility across your transportation processes delivers: $32.00 in Labor Savings Per Shipment: Automated booking improves productivity and quality of logistics team’s activities. Real-time visibility and proof of delivery eliminates tracking activities and dispute resolution.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Increasing Supply Chain Visibility. Increasing supply chain visibility can ensure demand deliverability in two ways-. At the Demand Fulfilment Stage: A transparent supply chain establishes opportunities for added inventory in the cement industry early on.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Achieving Full Supply Chain Visibility. DOWNLOAD THE E-BOOK! In this eBook, you’ll learn about: Powerful Analytics Tools & Algorithms. Optimizing Distribution Centers. How To Best Utilize Regional Shippers. The Intelligent Audit Solution. And Much More!

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BlueYonder

JUNE 13, 2023

Peter Drucker wrote in his book “Managing in the Next Society” that “the biggest challenge for the large company and especially for the multinational may be its social legitimacy – its values, its mission, its vision. Everything else can be outsourced.”

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