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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Data Visibility. Data is at the center of all decisions across the supply chain. IQ : this leverages data science techniques to improve slotting results for large and complex inventories.

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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

Doug is the CEO of Echo Global Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Doug Waggoner has served as Chief Executive Officer of Echo Global Logistics since December 2006 and was a Board member from 2008-2021. About Echo Global Logistics. Echo Global Logistics.

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

Academics from the San Diego State University note, “With the rise of the Internet and the new era of globalization, some have argued that the world is flat — geography is dead.”[2] 2] San Diego State University, “ Despite digital revolution, distance still matters ,” ScienceDaily, 18 July 2018. [3]

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Kinaxis Kinexions ’22: Ready. Together.

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. creates a true picture of demand by incorporating internal data and outside-in external signals to improve demand and supply plans and deliver insight across all planning horizons using machine-learning based sensing and forecasting. The releases of Planning.AI

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Drone Delivery is Here with Tom Walker

The Logistics of Logistics

Tom Walker and Joe Lynch discuss the logistics and economics of drone delivery. The data from the research, combined with his military search and rescue experience, led to the creation of DroneUp. Key Takeaways: Drone Delivery is Here DroneUP is a San Diego based drone delivery company that was founded in 2017.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Machine learning is also being used to update other forms of master data that are key inputs into the plan. Concurrent planning is based on the platform’s ability to continuously synchronize the end-to-end supply chain without data duplication or waiting for time consuming batch runs. But autonomous planning goes beyond that.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Those images are then matched with a natural language processing of text-based description of the product, plus other quantitative data to match the item with its ideal shipping solution. Alibaba has officially introduced its Logistics Marketplace, providing U.S. The project on the U.S.