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Aurora Begins Commercial Driverless Trucking in Texas, Ushering in a New Era of Freight

Logistics Viewpoints

Aurora plans to expand its driverless service to El Paso, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona by the end of 2025. These intensify every year, making the value proposition of autonomy a solution that will offer safe, reliable capacity without an impact to jobs highly attractive to the trucking industry.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

If the reason can be determined, the model needs to be updated.For example, it may be that there was a spike in restaurant chains sales at restaurants in Phoenix metro area in the second week of February. The forecaster should not assume there will be a similar spike in sales next January in Phoenix.

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Top 10 signs you’ve been working in supply chain too long

Kinaxis

Research firm Gartner even has it listed as a hot topic for its Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, May 14–17. The early days of capacity planning consisted of calling Joe in operations to see if his team could produce a few more units. It’s no secret supply chain talent has been top of mind for many executives for some time.

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Emerge Levels Up with Michael Leto

The Logistics of Logistics

Emerge’s award-winning marketplace provides access to direct capacity and live market conditions helping shippers and carriers make the strongest, most beneficial decisions when procuring domestic freight. Emerge , based in Scottsdale, AZ, is one of the fastest-growing startups in the U.S.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

I lost faith in optimization early when I realized that the uncertainty in our knowledge of true capacity, yield, lead times, and hundreds of other variables drowned out the promise of optimization. I studied Industrial Engineering and Operations Research focusing on Optimization Theory. This is Lora’s point. Unfortunately I cannot be there.

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The Avnet Tech Games IX Welcomes The Inaugural JDA Supply Chain Challenge

BlueYonder

The contest was more than just a technical exercise; it also tested each team’s supply chain skills as they related to forecasting, inventory management, pricing, capacity planning and other real-world materials management challenges. Uncategorized capacity forecasting inventory pricing' The winning team consisted of: Matt Mulholland.

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Retailers turn toward private fleets

Cathy Roberson

Supply chains have encountered delivery delays, capacity constraints, and volatile rates since the COVID pandemic began in 2020. The old notion that you can buy the capacity as we need it—and turn the tap on or off—is a thing of the past." The shipper community has a collective sense that control has been slipping away.

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