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Editor’s Choice: Reducing Lead Times with Real-Time Data

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Descartes Systems Group and looks at how companies can reduce lead times with real-time data. A container’s ETD refers to the date and time when that specific container will be available for pickup at the port/terminal. Many ports do not make this information available to the shipping lines or the shippers.

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E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index Reveals Notably Improved Cross-Ocean Transit Time for Global Freight Deliveries

E2open

(NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, today released the Q4 2022 edition of its Ocean Shipping Index, a quarterly report that offers data-driven insights to better manage the movement of goods around the globe and on key lanes between Asia, North America, and Europe.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

He provides services to companies on master data management and is more familiar with transactional processing than decision support. For reference, authoritative identifiers are the starting point for processes where goods are tracked against a standard like fair labor or food safety. In deployments, data issues abound.

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Supply Chain Data Management: Making Data Make Sense for Supply Chain Planning

Logility

Managing the data required for supply chain planning is a bit like raking leaves. The data keeps coming all year round. And just when you think you have clean and consistent data to work with, new internal and external data “blows into the yard.”. Wind speeds will increase.

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Infor Nexus is Taking an Interesting Approach to Generative AI

Logistics Viewpoints

Demurrage is a fine paid when a shipper can’t move a shipping container during the allotted period. This check involves connecting carrier contract data and shipment dwell times. They look at the data and ask themselves, “is this a problem?” It is data in context. The digital assistant becomes that analyst.

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The Impact of SOLAS on Ocean Shipping and Data Management

Talking Logistics

The Regulation’s Impact on Ocean Shipping and Data Management. The Regulation and Data Management. However, in today’s information-driven supply chain, data often flows in parallel with the passage of freight. The data acquired from one of these two methods will need to be shared.

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Less-Than-Truckload Technology: Will Machine Learning, AI & Automation Solve Shipping Problems?

GlobalTranz

Freight shipping has relied on the same systems for years, ranging from manual entries to a constant struggle in balancing delivery windows with costs. Before these changes can happen, shippers need to understand a few things about LTL shipping challenges and ways Less Than Truckload technology will impact them. Carrier rates may vary.