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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

As I mentioned in an earlier post on the growth drivers for the Transportation Management Systems market , transportation visibility tools are one of a number of technologies that are improving performance and helping to reduce freight spend. Air cargo visibility is also becoming a more important aspect of overall transportation visibility.

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Internet of Things and your Supply Chain

Freight Plus

Imagine if a little freight-gnome traveled along with everything you shipped, stocked, or stored – coffee beans to coffee tables, blackboards to backboards – and monitored it incessantly. Is it too good to be true, or is it what the new supply chains will look like by using the Internet of Things? Inventory –.

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The Evolution of Logistics: Connectivity, Data Integration, and Virtual Design

SCMDOJO

From the ubiquity of the Internet and various electronic gadgets, we are now in the era of next-level digital space where businesses and individuals can easily leverage the power of cloud computing, big data analytics, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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What’s Ahead in the Logistics Arena?

Enterra Insights

Deans ( @dhdeans ) reports, “The online tracking of trailers, containers, rail wagons and cargo boxes is becoming increasingly common in all markets across the globe. New technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, will enable more secure automation of this activity.”[4] What’s Yet to Come?

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Supply Chain Complexity and Technology

Enterra Insights

. “With incredibly high customer expectations set by the on-demand industry,” he writes, “companies need reinforcement in the form of technology like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the internet of things (IoT). ”[2]. .” ”[3]. ”[4]. Advanced analytics.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Freight Rates 2019-2021. Few planning systems update delivery based on actual dwell times; and despite the abundance of Internet of Things (IOT) data, there is no place to put streaming data signals into traditional planning systems. Volume of Seaborne Trade (Billions of Tons Loaded) Over the Past Two Decades.

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2016 Supply Chain Trends: 7 of 12 Trends that Will Drive Supply Chain Management in 2016

GlobalTranz

When someone selects an item, the display calculates the most efficient path through the warehouse, guides that person to the package, scans it as ‘picked’ into the Warehouse Management System, and immediately directs the picker to the next closest package. and a variety of interesting and critical information.