The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 15, 2023

Coupled with softening customer demand and the return of air-cargo belly capacity, the current airfreight market condition presents a perfect opportunity for shippers to regain, maintain and balance influence and control. Shippers have until quite recently been faced with a daunting challenge when it comes to negotiating with LSPs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

She was a freelance food industry reporter for several years with bylines in The Atlantic, The Counter, and Edible Manhattan Magazine. They strive to leave you with something valuable every time you finish reading, watching, or listening to our work. Emma Cosgrove and Joe Lynch discuss last mile innovation. About Emma Cosgrove.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making. End-to-End and Real-Time Logistics.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Building a puzzle takes time, patience and regardless of its size, takes a great deal of perseverance. emphasis on inventory optimization companies can benefit from having the capacity for planned service levels, demand volatility, and lead time variation for each of their SKU’s. Piecing Together the SIOP Process.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last year at this time, I sat down with my crystal ball to try and sort out some indicators for people to see that a “green” future is in the works. It is that time of year for me to see how my predictions panned out and make some new ones! The Green Corridor: Predictions Are In The Green! by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

From September to December 2020, China and a few South East Asian countries started to get back to a fair amount of manufacturing capacities and international logistics resumed for essential services, pharma, food, groceries, medical devices, PPE etc. Huge demand supply issues breaking the ever-so-fragile supply chain globally.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

With market swings and changing consumer demands forcing companies to adapt to stay competitive, one approach that has gained popularity in recent years is the use of Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs), which are agreements between multiple carriers to share vessels, routes, and other resources. Where do we stand today?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2017

In addition, these technologies can introduce a new level of visibility and improve overall operations, asserts The Manufacturer magazine. An increasing number of 3PLs are abandoning tradition in favor of becoming more than just a provider of logistics. It is time to think about the difference between good data and bad data.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

This linear approach requires substantial amounts of new raw materials and capacity in landfills to store waste. For some time now, Zalando has also been buying back used clothes from its customers as fashion items are frequently disposed of once they are no longer desired.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Risk Management in Global Ocean Context Feature Article by LSCMS Shippers Council Rates have gone down massively in most trade lanes; congestion has eased, and capacity seems sufficient in most sectors. All of this despite the ever-prevailing threat of blank sailings and continuous reconfiguration of sailings by carriers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

To achieve this goal supplier systems need to keep pace and will require an intelligent software solutions approach, based on real-time analytics. Any time-frame can be analysed, in hours to weeks and from a historical analysis to live data. Warehouses across the country struggled to cope with the sudden influx of orders.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Agri-food supply chains under pressure The discipline of agri-food supply chain management aims to bridge the supply and demand gap of agri-food chains to achieve optimal place and time utility. In terms of time, the agriculture sector also needs to deal with seasons, where harvesting goes in cycles.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The times of global pandemic will be remembered as the years of mass digitization. During the pandemic digitization was just the only way things could work. During the pandemic digitization was just the only way things could work. That’s what I continue to believe. Few had imagined that the wind could turn that swiftly.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2018

Often overlooked during drastic supply chain operational changes is the need to continue to produce executable plans as capacities and capabilities change. The Quintiq solution uniquely allows companies to properly balance changing KPI goals at varying points in time, in order to produce realistic, executable plans.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

The transport sector needs to prepare for the time where only zero-emissions vehicles will be available. Transportation accounts for 17 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Did COP27 leverage the momentum that has been growing since COP26?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Port congestion, capacity constraints, large increases in rates across all modes, labour shortages and long delays in shipments—these are just some of the operating realities supply chain and logistics professionals face today. Will the environment improve in 2022 or get worse? Resilience through technical capability and consistency.

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ThroughPut

MAY 19, 2021

Leading provider of AI-powered, demand-driven supply chain solution recognized by Top US Business Magazine for delivering sustainable operational efficiencies. Within just 90-days, ThroughPut’s comprehensive AI-powered product enables companies to rapidly improve industrial material flow & free cash flow leveraging their existing data.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

the system itself), that assigns another driver, and do it in near real time. It’s much easier to improve your on-time in-full (OTIF) performance, and thus comply with Walmart’s new edict, because you’ve got the OTIF information, so you can benchmark against the perfect order. Logistics Supply Chain. extra inventory.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

There are many issues with using excel that have been written about numerous times in this blog. Errors – Excel is a free form modelling tool – which means anyone can build a spreadsheet for just about anything. by John Westerveld Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. A sampling are here , and here.

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Stord

APRIL 4, 2019

But these challenges bring opportunity: companies that seek innovative solutions that deliver greater agility, automation and intelligence will not just thrive, they’ll also gain a significant competitive advantage. To meet these high standards, shippers must position inventory near their customers to speed delivery and lower last mile costs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 21, 2017

Moreover, this means you can manage inventory at any time and from any location, ensuring you have the products on-hand when your customers need them. But what if you could identify these worrisome issues when they become more than just a nuisance? Integration Enhances Inventory Control Through Better End-to-End Visibility.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In 2018 a Forbes magazine published an article entitled “Every company is a data company” in which the authors urged all companies to use data as a core asset. With sensors providing continual monitoring, companies can have real-time visibility of production operations to improve production capacity. Growth of IIoT.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 30, 2016

According to Fortune magazine, FedEx plans to double its capacity at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, located in Roissy, a suburb of Paris. According to Global Trade magazine, FedEx plans to do just that, and its new technology is expected to lead to a 40 percent increase in package sorting capacity.

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RFgen

OCTOBER 30, 2016

According to Fortune magazine, FedEx plans to double its capacity at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, located in Roissy, a suburb of Paris. According to Global Trade magazine, FedEx plans to do just that, and its new technology is expected to lead to a 40 percent increase in package sorting capacity.

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Shipchain

AUGUST 24, 2018

In the age of global transaction processing, blockchain is the undisputed leader in traceability and visibility, and as per FleetOwner magazine , shippers need to think about how blockchain and trucking can interact to move product faster, reduce costs, and create other huge benefits. Problems With Traditional Trucking Practices.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Businesses need to be able to hit the ground running, preparing to help customers quickly on the storefront, while warehouse workers ensure the appropriate inventory quantities are available, and that customers’ purchases are shipped to the correct address on time. Now, nearly all retailers use barcodes in some capacity.

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

While car sales during this same period were lower than this time last year, they finished far better than experts anticipated, including Cox Automotive Senior Analyst Michelle Krebs. Here’s the problem: Consumers may be back in a buying mood, but automakers still aren’t operating at peak capacity. Then, COVID-19 happened.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 21, 2020

Politicians, economists, and business leaders are scrambling for strategies to guide the U.S. and global economies out of the pandemic and the recession it has fostered. Sam Baker ( @sam_baker ), health care editor at Axios, notes, “Even as the number of illnesses and deaths in the U.S. ”[1] Nevertheless, it will end. The Way Ahead.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Bailie is an advocate for knowledge sharing, having contributed to over 30 national and international publications, including: INC magazine, Huffington Post, and the Globe and Mail. Its network driven TMS allows trucking companies to leverage their network of drivers, customers, and partners to unlock visibility and capacity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2020

Across industries – and in the wider public – leaders are waking up to the fact that Supply Chains are about more than just moving stuff around. With the myriad challenges raised by COVID-19, we feel confident saying that it’s more important than ever before. In the Post Covid-19 Environment Issues are arising.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2019

The dictionary defines potential this way: “having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.” It comes at a time when the industry is under intense pressure to deliver improvements in these areas.” The word “potential” is often viewed as a positive characteristic.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Which is why email newsletters just work – delivered to your inbox each day (usually) bringing a limited selection of top stories in condensed form. This is the experts’ selection – but if we had to choose just one, our go-to read is the fast-rising WSJ Daily Logistics Report. Logistics Management. LogisticsMgmt.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

I felt there would be a time and place to reveal it all, at a scale that would not dilute the message. So when Entrepreneur Magazine approached us to contribute a piece focusing on bottlenecks, I thought this was finally the stage to reveal the real purpose of ThroughPut. I left the vision off investor pitch decks.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

This article was originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine. ThroughPut was a math problem that worked in the real-world, and it worked all the time. It took time to realize that solving the bottleneck in any operation was disruptive from first principles thinking. We promote activities that enable stand-alone competency.

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Unleashed

JULY 12, 2023

Common examples of retail inventory include: Clothing Consumer electronics Groceries Sports equipment Books and magazines Manufacturing inventory Manufacturing businesses typically deal with more inventory than wholesalers or retailers. Inventory is often the largest current asset in a business. What is inventory?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Major businesses have had to completely re-consider previous supply chain strategies that were largely centred around lean manufacturing, just-in-time delivery and reducing operating costs. The Age of Agility: Building Resilience in the Supply Chain. Feature Article by Anthony Beavis, Managing Director APAC at Körber Supply Chain.

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Oracle SCM

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Take the example of the UK where shoppers this year are expected to spend £1bn in just one day. Gone are the days where we relied on magazine reviews, TV ads or word-of-mouth to find out about the latest must-have toy or beauty product. It is a Christmas story almost as old as Father Christmas himself. So what can companies do?

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