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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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Lean on Kanban for Mid-Atlantic Drayage

Kanban Logistics

Increased Traffic: With Baltimore out of commission, some cargo ships are being diverted to other ports, including Norfolk and Wilmington. Scheduling Changes: Ports like Norfolk are adjusting their operations to handle the additional cargo. Merchandise may enter the U.S. If, however, the final product is exported from the U.S.,

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The Evolving Warehouse: Prepare Your Warehouse for Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

With the lack of drivers and trucks picking up cargo, this is also causing U.S. According to the CBRE Global E-commerce Outlook 2021 report , e-commerce growth will require another 330 million square feet of warehouse space in the United States by 2025. Do you have real-time visibility into your orders, inventory, and shipments?

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Is the Cold Chain Ready for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery?

QAD

If at any point during the lifespan of that product and at any inventory level, the item’s temperature varies from the required set-point or beyond the defined time constraint, quality suffers and the product no longer functions as it was meant to, or in the worst case puts patients at risk. The Battle for Air Cargo Capacity.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. Frederick , Chief Marketing Officer at Logistics Plus, noted, “Logistics accounts for nearly 8% of everything we make and sell in the United States. By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas. .”[4]

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

AI and machine learning provides more accurate information during the transportation planning process; using IoT to monitor shipments, cargo conditions, and yard management have allowed companies to make quick adjustments when disruptions occur; and mobile digital assistants provide feedback and instant visibility into shipments and inventory.

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COVID’s Supply Chain Ripples: the SME Business Perspective

Freightos

And even when businesses paid the heavy price, congestion – sometimes up to 100 vessels waiting to unload outside of ports in the United States – resulted in door to door shipping times that grew from 50 days to nearly 100. . It is wide to consider slimming down inventory stocks…but only to an extent.