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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The number of alternative and dual-fuel propelled container ship orders out numbers the traditional ICE only engines for new ship orders. Aeronautics engineering innovation is sadly only paddling forward in comparison to the ship building industry. I’ll be hoping to see some innovation, but my hopes are not high.

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Untangling The Tangled Web We Weave

Supply Chain Shaman

As for MEIO, I was excited to see some innovation in the space, but the creativity was short-lived. The most innovative of the technologies were quickly acquired, and the promise waned. What has changed are brief innovation periods to create better engines. innovations and challenge conventional thinking. The reason?

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The Holy Grail of Modern S&OP: Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning 

Logility

Such steps include innovation and strategy review, demand review, supply review, financial integration, and executive business review. Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.” Suppose you have one distribution center in Los Angeles.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

To put this in perspective, if they had no planning system and no planners and just assumed that they would ship based on prior shipments, the forecast would be better, and the inventory levels more accurate. IBM, in contrast, purchased over fifteen supply chain acquisitions but drove little innovation. Private Equity M&A.

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Autonomous Mobile Robotics (AMR): What They Are and Benefits of Using Them

GlobalTranz

The Move to LTL Digital Shipping. How New LTL Technologies & Processes are Changing the Shipping Game. Companies that invest in AMR can reap significant savings, and for comparison purposes, Amazon saves approximately $22 million in each fulfillment center that uses Amazon Kiva Robots, says Jim Romeo of Robotics Business Review.

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The Green Corridor – Optimal Tech for Green Logistics – Making Emissions Visible

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Digitizing logistics technology is innovating fast. Such real-time data and visibility functions allow for supplier comparisons as well as overall emission source contributor identifications, which can be focused on for improvement. In one case the fuel and emissions per kilogram shipped was actually halved for a customer!

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ToolsGroup Unveils Significant Enhancements to the Dynamic Planning Capabilities and Modularization of its Demand Planning Software

ToolsGroup

That’s why we eat, sleep, and breathe innovation and never stop looking for ways to help our customers get the most out of their partnership with us and make their supply chains a force for good in the world. Re-Forecasting Based on Pre-Orders Historical data sits at the center of all the work planners do.