Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

And progress comes in increments both large and small as we build on the breakthroughs and innovations that have come before. It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In this post, Rafael Granato from PINC Solutions summarizes a video case study we featured recently on Talking Logistics, part of our “Profiles in Yard Management Excellence” series where we highlight companies (in this case, Batory Foods) that are leading the way in driving continuous improvement and innovation in yard management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. Supply Chain Excellence Is Closely Coupled With Product Innovation. Functional efficiency drives superior results.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 14, 2024

This annual gathering serves as a platform for sharing ideas on supply chain innovations and attracts repeat attendees from the automotive industry community. These challenges involve grappling with extended lead times for parts inventory and navigating limitations in distribution center (DC) space.

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PINC

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A valuable supply chain asset, the physical area “outside of the four walls” of the typical warehouse or distribution center (DC) is becoming a focal point for companies that are realizing the value of their yards. The pandemic is creating longer dwell times for carriers, more congested yards and DC operations, and other inefficiencies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. I pulled up my covers to go to sleep four hours later. My question is, “Why?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2022

He was also unaware of how to measure Forecast Value-Added, the Bullwhip impact and the health of inventory. What is the role of the forecast, budget, market data, and inventory in the proposed project? Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 13, 2021

adding, “The biggest problem right now for decentralized and fragmented Supply Chains is that bottlenecks create losing situations for many stakeholders, which further aggravate the Inventory Management problem. explained Ali Raza, CEO of ThroughPut, Inc., ThroughPut Logistics & Distribution Solution Overview.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2018

Today, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of individual warehouse management systems ( WMSs ) available, but how do you reap the real-world features within this innovative type of supply chain management systems? Across retail, the push to get more products to more consumers in less time is growing.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Technology poses the greatest opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of innovative tools to ensure end-to-end tracking, visibility , and processing of products. In a Logistics Viewpoint survey , 50 percent of businesses reported sharing inventory across all channels or engaging in omni-channel practices.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 22, 2021

Many innovative advancements have occurred in the past few years within the transportation network , including a focus on last mile delivery costs and shipping rate management through analytics. Shippers have always relied on innovations and technology to improve operations and functions within the supply chain.

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E2open

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

To compete successfully, Walmart needs to free up capacity all around and deploy it for innovation. We have to look beyond the backlots of Walmart DCs to what’s happening in Walmart stores to predict what’s on the horizon. Walmart DCs and stores are largely getting out of the inventory -holding business. Consumer Goods.

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E2open

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

To compete successfully, Walmart needs to free up capacity all around and deploy it for innovation. We have to look beyond the backlots of Walmart DCs to what’s happening in Walmart stores to predict what’s on the horizon. Walmart DCs and stores are largely getting out of the inventory -holding business. Consumer Goods.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

While the tech is "clearly past the early innovator phase…now we need to find out how to get it more mainstream," said Bill Hoffman, president of Object Management Group, a not-for-profit technology standards consortium, speaking at an IoT conference in October 2019. Even now, IoT seems to be a solution searching for a problem to solve.

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crisp

JULY 20, 2023

Along the way, Swoon will be using Crisp’s inventory, sales and velocity dashboards to ensure the campaign reaches every door they were promised, while monitoring the campaign’s performance in the coming months. Wrangling siloed vendor portal reports from each retailer tacked hours onto this process.

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BlueYonder

MAY 2, 2017

All of us supply chain professionals are facing this unprecedented wave of innovation faster than ever. The whitepaper focuses on five innovative technologies that could greatly impact the supply chain. I highly recommend everyone use this whitepaper to navigate and develop your own innovation roadmap. Supply Chain Innovation.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 14, 2015

on the other, we are seeing new technological advancements such as google glass, smart watches and tablets on the market for innovative process improvements. The robotic drive units pick up open inventory shelves (pods) and take them to the order picker. “An For warehousing a new era is dawning. By Martijn Lofvers and Marieke Lenstra.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

The warehouse and DC industry has always had somewhat of a gig culture, owing to seasonal and temporary labor needs. More flexibility in workforce management helps to bring down overall cost, which can be passed down to the customer as well, and allows a warehouse or DC to offer its gig workers more competitive hourly wages.

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BlueYonder

MAY 2, 2017

All of us supply chain professionals are facing this unprecedented wave of innovation faster than ever. The whitepaper focuses on five innovative technologies that could greatly impact the supply chain. I highly recommend everyone use this whitepaper to navigate and develop your own innovation roadmap. Supply Chain Innovation.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2017

The blog series will discuss shifting consumer behaviors, a variety of implications to the supply chain required to provide and scale service, while effectively managing inventory and value add processes, the ability to define and deliver an agile and scalable framework of capabilities that can aggressively respond to emerging trends and more.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

There are 230,000 small manufacturing companies in the United States alone, according to a new Infographic from The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Manufacturing Innovation Blog. We have included the infographic below. INFOGRAPHIC: Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Firstly, it appeared that some stores were carrying significantly more inventory than others. The SC team felt it would be possible to reduce inventory by 10-20% overall. Secondly there seemed to be no obvious relationship between inventory and availability. Stores 230+ (including 60 franchises), 1 DC. Innovation.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2017

The blog series will discuss shifting consumer behaviors, a variety of implications to the supply chain required to provide and scale service, while effectively managing inventory and value add processes, the ability to define and deliver an agile and scalable framework of capabilities that can aggressively respond to emerging trends and more.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 21, 2014

In the new world of widespread Flowcasting adoption we will also have far less buffer inventory. Due to the expediting that occurs today, there is a lot of buffer inventory that is held to protect both the manufacturer and the retailer from outages. You are not building a production plan off of shipments into a DC.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

DC Velocity. Popular news site serving managers in Large Distribution Centre (hence the initials “DC”) operations and ancillaries, such as 3PLs. VP Product Innovation at Kinaxis. We are a Logistics technology company that is automating online freight sales, hence the passion for innovation and logistics.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 19, 2016

Not since the advent of price tags, cash registers and the ubiquitous apparel hanger has there been a retail industry innovation poised to create such major change. Sign 1: Dual Inventory. Sign 5: Store Inventory. How much inventory do you keep on hand in stores? Sign 6: Push vs. Pull.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Gap 3: Current retail DC systems forecast what stores will need based on historical shipments to stores. This forecast is completely disconnected from store-level sales forecasts and does not account for variables such as current store sales or inventory.

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crisp

APRIL 19, 2023

To make their distribution business a success, Illy’s sales team knew they needed visibility to track inventory, orders, and sales across their distribution. We wanted the ability to track inventory and orders and find any gaps in the market, and we brought in Crisp to help us answer those questions,” says Taelor.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

Manhattan Associates: New Inventory and Fulfillment Capabilities Give Store Associates More Time to Deliver a Fulfilling Experience. E-Commerce Drives Surge in U.S. Warehouse Rental Prices (WSJ-sub. Kewill Introduces SOLAS-Compliant Freight Forwarding Solution by Integrating INTTRA eVGM Service.

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Kinaxis

JULY 13, 2018

One of the executives in attendance hypothesized that it could be that most CEOs are focused either on demand creation or new product innovations, and that for them supply chain is perhaps the level of detail that they need not be bothered with. In an executive panel discussion, several heads of supply chain did concur with Kevin’s findings.

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RELEX Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

a pharmaceutical products wholesaler which supplies 1900 pharmacies across Northern Italy and Sardinia, has implemented and fully rolled out RELEX’s system to improve the pharmacies’ inventory turnover and further increase the level of service they offer their customers. Unifarm S.p.A.,

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 16, 2015

Not since the advent of price tags , cash registers and the ubiquitous apparel hanger has there been a retail industry innovation poised to create such major change. Sign 1: Dual Inventory. Sign 5: Store Inventory. How much inventory do you keep on hand in stores? Sign 6: Push vs Pull.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2018

By using data to stock items with higher forecasted demand, they can reallocate cash that would normally be tied up in poorly performing inventory, avoid margin erosion from markdowns and dead stock, and increase overall on-shelf availability metrics. Engineer Profit.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, standing still and sticking to old dogma’s, not innovate, come up with new ideas and envision a better supply chain planning future is not an option for me. Human centric decisions can include human qualities like creativity, empathy, innovation, contextual awareness, relationship management, meaning and purpose.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In part 1 of this blog series , we took a look at how innovation is changing the supply chain and the evolution of different warehouse types and processes. In the future, analytics will help manage inventory across the supply chain system and not just inside each facility.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to Logistics Management’s 2018 Warehouse / Distribution Center Survey , “Respondents took a range of actions to lower operating costs, including improving processes, improving warehouse information technology (IT), improving inventory control, and leveraging a 3PL. Innovation is important for growth. ” 33.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Inventory carrying costs increased 10.3 The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 percent of U.S.

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