ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

BOSTON — Sept. ToolsGroup’s innovative AI-powered solutions enable retailers, manufacturers, and distributors to outsmart supply chain uncertainty and deliver inventory performance from source to customer doorstep to maximize revenue and profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Maybe try Boston next? The cost to transport containerized goods peaked at unprecedented levels in late 2021. The CNBC article states, “ As delivery times and consumer demand rose this year, retailers responded by ordering inventory earlier than usual. I gotta admit, I’m intrigued. That cost has been falling ever since.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2021

BOSTON, March 17, 2021 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, is proud to announce that ToolsGroup Director of Professional Services for Europe, Michael Haiber, and Vice President of Professional Services, Stefano Novati, were both named 2021 “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

I learned this first-hand last week after record snowfall in the Boston area. Inventory Management Supply Chain Network Design Transportation' Individuals living in the higher latitudes will tell you that ice dams on your roof are an omen of bad things to come.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story. I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility. I thought it would be easy. Visibility means many things to different people.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

Boston Consulting Group talks about how the “endless aisles” of the internet and omni-channel sales increase product assortment. They don’t know how to segregate, forecast or inventory these “extreme error” items. Leverage Inventory More Effectively. Many CPG companies are at a loss on what to work on to improve these forecasts.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Beagen has extensive experience in oceanborne commerce and maritime law, with specific emphasis on maritime transportation, Shipping Act issues, supply chain management, international antitrust law, and port and terminal operations. international ocean transportation system for the benefit of U.S. exporters, importers, and the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2021

The varied goods in the containers illustrate the far-flung nature of modern supply chains and show how transportation problems on one side of the world can affect the production of goods and store inventories thousands of miles away.”[5]

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2017

Depending on the industry and size of the company, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. A more efficient inbound freight program can minimize delays, save money and even reduce confusion. The payoff, however, is still substantial.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Consider this, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. If you're buying on prepaid or delivered terms you're essentially allowing your suppliers to manage your freight and profit off the transportation costs. Freight Bill Audit.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2022

Last week, Boston based home goods and furniture online platform provider Wayfair announced it will shed nearly 5 percent of its global workforce and upwards of 10 percent of this provider’s corporate level staffing, amounting to upwards of 900 people. This has resulted in increased initiatives to now scale-back operations and trim staffing.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2017

2 Real-time Network Inventory Control and Planning. Too often we think about inventory in a linear way. We have suppliers that provide the inventory to select warehouses and these warehouses supply customers at the appropriate time and place. Will they share inventory? Can they ramp up inventory when needed?

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2019

Looming risks like wars, environmental and labor regulations, natural disasters and transportation challenges are placing many retail supply chains and retail profit centers at the mercy of the unforeseen.”[1] Inventory optimization. In business, uncertainty can affect profits. Customer demand. ” Operations maximization.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

12 | Profile Hans Willems, Vice President Supply Chain Europe, Boston Scientific. A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Goods have to be transported across the globe and across the neighbourhood.

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IQMS

JUNE 25, 2019

By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services. The senior management team at the manufacturer says the pilots are worth it if they can find a way to increase inventory turns just 10% using blockchain and IoT.

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Savi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Agile supply chain operations, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, are using IoT and end-to-end shipment visibility software to outperform competitors with better service while keeping lower inventory levels. This shift is hard to handle because the CPG industry spends at least 5% of revenue on transportation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. Boston: Springer), pp.413–422. Pricing decisions can be integrated with demand and supply planning.

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Logility

JULY 14, 2011

I am going to use the “efficient frontier” concept in inventory optimization as an example. There is a natural trade-off between service level and inventory cost. A full Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) initiative can do this. This is also a good time to evaluate transportation costs.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 14, 2022

The pandemic-related rise of eCommerce, combined with companies holding onto more inventory to guard against supply chain disruptions, has led to a tight real estate market where companies are battling for available space. The national vacancy rate for industrial real estate is a very low 4.7% and falling. The following are a few reasons why.

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

Sean Willems delivered a master class on why optimized inventory policies are crucial to profit-enhancing segmentation strategies that achieve differentiated service levels and maximum return on investment.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 7, 2023

Dan graduated from Endicott College with a degree in international business and marketing, and currently lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts. has developed a weather intelligence and climate security platform that is custom-built to help logistics and transportation companies reduce the impact of weather on their operations.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 6, 2021

BOSTON, April 6, 2021 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software , is proud to support global humanitarian and environmental organizations including Unicef, the Ocean Cleanup, World Wildlife Fund, and Banco Farmaceutico Foundation.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks. Global Health Exchange Acquires Syft.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. This performance decrease also came as shippers were forced to pay more in transportation costs across the board.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 21, 2020

MILAN and BOSTON, July 21, 2020 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and COPAN Group, the world leader in the production of pre-analytics and bacteriology swabs, viral transport media, and systems for molecular biology, announced today a joint initiative to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 15, 2021

BOSTON (July 15, 2021) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning software , and Supply Chain Process Improvement, Inc. ToolsGroup is how organizations achieve their target service levels while optimizing inventory, no matter how complex their supply chain is or how much demand changes. About ToolsGroup.

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TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

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TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

I’m at Heathrow airport waiting to board my flight back to Boston, which is delayed by over an hour so far. You get on the M25 and before long you have a front seat view of the biggest transportation challenge facing companies in England and many other countries around the world: traffic congestion. E-Commerce Drives Surge in U.S.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

In May, 2014 Raytheon gathered a group of its largest suppliers in Boston, MA to discuss the launch of the company’s Supplier Advisory Council. The transportation of lithium batteries is dangerous, as they overheat, which can cause significant damage. Irina holds an MBA from Brandeis University and BA from Cleveland State University.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map [DK1] , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group. Moving and planning inventories on both fixed and spot—or even pegging rates to an index—are options. Free Time and Chassis.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 12, 2013

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia).

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

BOSTON and MILAN (Sept. Sarah Voorhees has spent the last 12 years of her career in supply chain leadership roles, where she’s reimagined demand and supply planning and inventory management practices at consumer goods and distribution companies.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Excessive time-to-market delays due to overseas transportation issues are eliminated. Motivations and Stats on the State of Reshoring in 2015.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

In April of 2005, just a month after completing my first half marathon (and vowing I would never run a full marathon in my life), I went to the finish line at the Boston Marathon and saw Team Hoyt for the first time. Team Hoyt became a fixture at the Boston Marathon, completing the race 32 times, while running another 40 marathons as well.

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TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

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