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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Automation, cargo tracking, robotics, and remote fleet management are all examples of how IoT can be used to harness organizational data and gain insights into key processes. DB Schenker is leveraging sensor data from cargo in transit to monitor and control high-value shipments or sensitive shipments, such as with cold chain logistics.

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Where’s My Inventory? Managing Disruption Across Multiple Supplier Tiers

BlueYonder

As many countries around the world enforce economic sanctions against Russia, global logistics networks are struggling to isolate Russian products while still ensuring inventory availability. The post Where’s My Inventory? Managing Disruption Across Multiple Supplier Tiers appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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

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In the world of logistics, this means enhanced operational efficiency for inventory management, route optimization, safety and security of goods, and resource allocation. IoT delivers a data-driven decision-making process that enables logistics managers to make proactive decisions to minimize wasted resources and avoid delays.

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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

including digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, strategic product segmentation, inventory management, operations intelligence and analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective pricing and promotions management.

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

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With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. Source Amazon Product Range One of the key drivers of Amazon’s success in logistics is the sheer breadth of its product range.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. He writes, “If you are a part of a very large, multinational corporation, there is great likelihood that there is a logistics department, a distribution center, a freight management function, a warehouse team, an inventory management organization, and a planning team.

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Reduce Excess Inventory While Protecting Margins with a Pricing and Promotion Analysis  Solution

Logility

Much of the merchandise languishing aboard cargo ships stuck in ports around the world during the pandemic-fueled supply chain crisis has made it to store shelves. ” Understanding the Impact of Pricing and Promotion on Inventory. Your ship’s come in! That’s a good thing, right?