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Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Applying innovation to supply chains, combines innovative technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and robotics to supply chain management to improve performance and meet customer demands. Internet of Things (IoT). Industry 4.0 is a solution to streamline the supply chain process with digitalization.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in the supply chain – a jolt of creativity required?

DELMIA Quintiq

A tire manufacturer supplying to the mining industry provided a similar example of sensors reading and reporting on tire thread status. Besides those cases, there were of course the ubiquitous examples of autonomous transport vehicles. I have not seen many examples of creativity in process intersecting with creativity in IoT hardware.

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Editor’s Choice: Fortifying Warehouse and Distribution Centers Against Cyberattacks

Logistics Viewpoints

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and other connected devices has created new opportunities for cyberattacks. In another case, CMA CGM, one of the global leaders in cargo shipping, ultimately disabled its entire core IT systems in response to a cyberattack.

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Ocean Shipping and Global Trade 2023

American Global Logistics

An Insider's Look at the Current State and Future Trends of Global Trade Introduction to Ocean Shipping in 2023 Ocean shipping plays a vital role in the global trade landscape. The sheer scale and efficiency of ocean shipping have made it an indispensable component of the global supply chain.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Ocean ETAs, for example, are much different because the macro-factors are a lot different than over the road. For ocean cargo, however, if a shipment gets bumped to the next ship, it can add up to 15 days to the transit time. Air cargo visibility is also becoming a more important aspect of overall transportation visibility.

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Less-Than-Truckload Technology: Will Machine Learning, AI & Automation Solve Shipping Problems?

GlobalTranz

Freight shipping has relied on the same systems for years, ranging from manual entries to a constant struggle in balancing delivery windows with costs. Before these changes can happen, shippers need to understand a few things about LTL shipping challenges and ways Less Than Truckload technology will impact them.

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How the Suez Canal blockage proves technology has the power to transform the shipping industry

Gravity Supply Chain

Guy Platten, secretary-general of the International Chamber Of Shipping – ICS , reported: “This kind of incident is rare, and it is a relief to see that no crew were injured and there has been no pollution.” The damage done to the global supply chain will be significant.” PANIC STATIONS.