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2024: Planning for Success Amid the Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent. Other critical functions include order management, manufacturing, and product development.

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Essential Technology Capabilities for Supply Chain in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite their best efforts, current events and market dynamics caught up with them, leading to issues managing their suppliers and sourcing the materials needed for their products. If nothing else, the last few years highlighted the importance of sourcing strategically. Upcoming Recession? Price Volatility.

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Data Quality: Your Digital Transformation Depends on It

Logistics Viewpoints

And better data science leads to better business outcomes for customers. But data can and does go bad in many different ways. At the highest level, organizations first need to determine whether they can resolve a given data quality issue, or whether they need to go back to external providers who were the source of the data.

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Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

MODEX is the leading trade show for supply chain, logistics, and material handling solutions in North America. NLP can also help robots to access and process information from various sources, such as manuals, databases, or websites. The post Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024 appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Digital Transformations Require Clean, Accessible, Up to Date Data

Logistics Viewpoints

This is also a data issue. Master data management (MDM) as a critical performance driver for the enterprise. What is Master Data Management? Master data management is the discipline in ensuring data is accurate, accessible, and up to date. Centralized ownership is a foundational requirement.

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Why Supply Chain Convergence is Critical to Greater Agility and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point. Solutions for master data management.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1-5, 2018)

Talking Logistics

And that is why on November 3, together with my Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure teammates, I will be riding 100 miles in support of JDRF to help us find a cure. So, I have a small ask: It doesn’t cost you anything to access the posts and videos we publish on Talking Logistics, thanks to our sponsors. E2open Acquires Cloud Logistics.