Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Traditional supply chain planning, which relies on historical data and reactive adjustments, is no longer adequate for managing these challenges. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated – frequently not at all. However, large organizations are often equipped to handle fulfillment in-house, leveraging their extensive resources and capabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Optimization is used in supply planning, factory scheduling, supply chain design , and transportation planning. In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2025

In the past, tracking a shipping container across continents or monitoring the temperature of a pharmaceutical package in a rural warehouse came with trade-offs: cost, power drain, or unreliable coverage. Theyre built for a narrow job: to allow simple devices to send small data packages across long distances with minimal power usage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2025

These systems are increasingly used to improve internal logistics, address labor challenges, and support responsive, data-driven operations. While both AGVs and AMRs transport materials within a facility, they differ in navigation, adaptability, and system architecture. AGVs vs. AMRs: What’s the Difference?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2021

No carrier or mode has been excluded from the increased demand of e-commerce and a customer base that’s anxious for a return to normalcy, including the LTL transportation sector. Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing. Data-driven planning. GlobalTranz?today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Walmart fines suppliers whose goods arrive late or who have not shipped everything that they committed to ship. Uber Freight is a major provider of managed transportation services. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. Proving that it arrived in-full is.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Employees Cannot Get to the Right Data at the Speed of Business A war is raging between Oracle, Salesforce and SAP to automate supply chains. Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. The ripple effects are pervasive. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

As logistics networks become increasingly complex, the volume of real-time data generated by devices, equipment, vehicles, and facilities is growing rapidly. Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

With freight transport accounting for a significant share of global emissions, efforts to improve logistics now extend beyond operational metrics to include resilience, regulatory compliance, and climate performance. This shift reflects a broader transition toward data-driven, performance-based management of freight networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

Supply chain orchestration is about managing the movement of goods, data, and decisions across the entire supply networkstarting with suppliers and continuing through to the customer. Why Orchestration Matters The more connected a supply chain becomes, the more it depends on timely, accurate data and consistent communication across teams.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. That is the beauty of a platform enabled by AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Oracle Fursion Cloud Transportation Management offers a solution that allows transportation planners to see estimated emissions – carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter – before a trip is executed. Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. That is more than any other sector.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As Josh and his partner scaled Launch Fulfillment , they encountered some cash flow issues inherent in high volume parcel shipping that their ecommerce customers required. Client Access & Transparency: Provides client access to their shipping data for increased transparency and decreased administrative overhead.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous Shipping Autonomous shipping is the use of self-driving vessels to transport goods and passengers across waterways. According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS) is defined as a ship which, to a varying degree, can operate independently of human interaction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2025

Global logistics and shipping provider Maersk has begun the roll-out of its new digital connectivity platform, OneWireless, aboard 450 vessels to enable smart container and cargo tracking solutions. The OneWireless platform is a single, unified network designed to support multiple wireless technol-ogies (NB-IoT, Cat-M, and LTE broadband).

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

It brings data that is stored in different silos across an organization all into one model. Let’s take a look at the challenges associated with digital twins and how real-time data systems are changing the game for companies looking to leverage them. Big, clunky, siloed, and out-of-date data. Get the insights you need.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

CONA is a strategic partner that provides its bottlers with a common set of processes, data standards, and technology platforms. While they are separate and independently-owned organizations, they agreed with The Coca-Cola Company to come on to a common data platform with common data standards.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 20, 2025

Nonetheless, a smooth and effective post-purchase experience is essential to the success of any e-commerce venture, and domestic shipping is a vital component of this procedure. Shipping affects a customer’s opinion of your brand and level of happiness from the minute they click “purchase” until they receive their goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is from Descartes Systems Group and looks at how companies can reduce lead times with real-time data. Many ports do not make this information available to the shipping lines or the shippers. The post Editor’s Choice: Reducing Lead Times with Real-Time Data appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 15, 2025

Companies now must make strategic decisions regarding pricing, shipping, supply chains and overall logistics. Below, we provide nine tips to optimize your shipping and tell you how a third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you during these difficult times.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 12, 2025

Keeping shipping costs under control is no small task — and unpredictable freight fuel surcharges make it even tougher. In this blog, we'll walk you through how to calculate fuel surcharges on freight, track pricing trends, audit your shipping bills, and work with the right 3PL partner to keep your costs under control.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Background on Ocean Transport. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

From sourcing and bid evaluation to warehouse slotting and dynamic routing, AI tools support faster and more consistent outcomes by processing large volumes of operational data and identifying patterns that human decision-makers may overlook. Integration allows seamless transitions from data insights to purchase approvals and execution.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

In an increasingly globalized world, logistics and transportation have taken center stage in the successful operations of businesses worldwide. Emerging from the shadows of standard methods, custom logistics and transportation platforms are shaping the future of the supply chain industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. We can run a plan simulation to maximize revenue, maximize shipments, maximize the customer experience, or minimize transportation costs. We have full visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Namely, how does machine learning help with predicting shipping transit times? Secondly, why should shippers and logistics service providers consider using machine learning in their transportation management systems, and why now? Third, what are Oracle’s machine learning capabilities in transportation management?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of SAP agent technologies and Databricks data fabric solution, sets the stage for end-to-end enterprise orchestration. Databricks offers a Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks type of solution is increasingly being called a data fabric or a data platform built on data fabric principles.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 11, 2025

In this commentary we focus specifically on the importance of a broader end-to-end data management framework while overcoming the fragmentation of data that is locked in separate, unconnected software applications.

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E2open

JULY 31, 2024

(NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, has published the latest edition of its Ocean Shipping Index, a quarterly benchmark report that provides insight for decision-making around global ocean shipments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The partnership will explore the feasibility of transporting ammonia-based hydrogen to Germany and other European locations via floating import terminals. Infors NexTrace solution offers comprehensive traceability by collecting data from each supply chain tier, proving the provenance of every actor involved.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2024

Summary: Greenscreens: Benchmarking for Shipper Success Discover how technology is revolutionizing the shipping industry in this insightful podcast. Joe Lynch chats with Matt Harding, CTO of Greenscreens.ai, about harnessing the power of dynamic pricing, and data analytics to optimize shipping efficiency. About Greenscreens.ai

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Machine learning (ML) techniques can be applied to provide more accurate transit information and estimated arrival times (ETAs) by analyzing the historical shipment data in your transportation management systems. Increased lead time accuracy reduces risks involved in transportation and logistics, improving your overall supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The partnership will explore the feasibility of transporting ammonia-based hydrogen to Germany and other European locations via floating import terminals. Infors NexTrace solution offers comprehensive traceability by collecting data from each supply chain tier, proving the provenance of every actor involved.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Convention mandates that ships at the end of their operational lives must be recycled in a safe and environmentally sustainable way.

Shipping 92

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

But with the explosion of IoT devices across transportation, warehousing, and distribution, logistics providers face a critical challenge: how to ensure continuous, reliable, and cost-effective communication across diverse physical environments and use cases. Thats where hybrid networks shine. using Wi-Fi when available instead of cellular.

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