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Order Visibility Is Critical Amid Low Inventories

Logistics Viewpoints

For retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the busy shipping season came early. Retailers and CPG companies are adjusting their supply chain strategies to delay the final positioning of inventory, allowing them to better meet regional demand without over-investing in warehousing.

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Network Supply Chain Transformation at UScellular

Logistics Viewpoints

The Association for Supply Chain Management ( ASCM ) hosted its annual conference, ASCM CONNECT , on September 18 – 20 in Chicago. This team in Chicago is responsible for logistics and coordinating efforts with vendors. Then earlier this year they added a supply chain planning function to the Chicago team.

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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

Logistics Viewpoints

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. To get visibility to whether a load will be on time and in full, a lot more data is required. What accounts for FourKites Growth?

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, optimizing warehouse operations is crucial for achieving operational efficiency. Predictive and prescriptive analytics have emerged as valuable tools that enable warehouse operations managers to streamline processes, minimize costs, and enhance productivity.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. The company is focused on ocean shipping. FourKites is a private company headquartered in Chicago in the US. FedEx Corp.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

If you’re Home Depot, you reserve an entire ship for your own exclusive use. And what is sitting in the warehouse. He lives in Chicago. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. Supply chain management is now synonymous with “volatility management”.

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2021 Has Felt Like One Big Peak Season: A Global Shipping Market Update

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Supply chain disruptions that consist of port and terminal congestion, shipping delays due to high cargo volumes, lack of labor due to Covid-19 and limited space have caused a myriad of challenges for shippers. Ocean Shipping. Globally, schedule reliability in ocean shipping is at the lowest we’ve ever seen. Air Shipping.