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The Top 6 Use Cases for Network Optimization

Logility

It’s time to evolve your supply chain from one-size-fits-all to purpose-built. It’s time for business leaders to let go of traditional assumptions, processes, and decision-making behaviors and start restructuring their operations to achieve maximum efficiency and flexibility.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Eliminate Before You Automate : Automation is critical to large, efficient warehouse operations.

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Is Your Warehouse the New Bottleneck?

Locus Robotics

But that didn’t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Instead, a new bottleneck was created by all of the products — this time in warehouses like yours if not your own. How did warehouses become the bottleneck? Think our robots are just for picking ?

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Don’t Procrastinate This Holiday Season

BlueYonder

If you thought 2020 was filled with retail chaos due to store closures, in many ways the retail sector is struggling even more due to a combination labor shortages, driver and trucking shortages, semi-conductor shortages, container shortages, and long delays at ports. Never has the old adage “the early bird gets the worm” been so true.

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Shipping Costs in 2022: How Shippers Will Account for Congestion and Stay Strategic

Intelligent Audit

Issues with logistics and shipping capacity continue to haunt supply chain management as experts predict that the shipping bottlenecks and backlogs at big U.S. The global pandemic has changed the transportation and shipping industry in many ways, some of which will linger for years to come. ports will continue well into 2022.

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Upstream and Downstream Supply Chain Explained: Don’t Get Caught Without a Paddle

ShipBob

Since the majority of raw materials were imported from China, which was the first to be impacted by the pandemic, there was a long and massive disruption in transportation links and raw materials supply. In an ecommerce business, supply chain performance is one of the key factors affecting the performance of the business as a whole.

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Why Retailers are Facing a Toy Shortage During This 2021 Holiday Season

Locus

As all kinds of shoppers re-enter the shops, companies have a hard time fulfilling this surging demand. Missing shipping containers, port congestion, backlogs in ports and warehouses, and shortage of trucks are causing a supply chain nightmare to the toy industry. “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.” ~Sun