Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 20, 2022
VF Corporation is Building a Highly Automated DC on the West Coast. Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. VF sources many US bound items in Central America; the woeful performance at US ports is still a problem. Achieving Agility with Regional Supply Chains.
Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Why are warehouses and DCs so vulnerable to cyberattacks? In today’s interconnected world, the distribution industry has become increasingly complex and reliant on technology to manage inventory, track shipments, and communicate with suppliers and customers. It ended up costing TFI about $6 million in quarterly operating revenue.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 26, 2023
Mars Wrigley chose Transplace, now UBER Freight, for North America and a partnership with Maersk/E2Open for ocean freight. The stock rebalancing skill is designed to enable Mars to optimize DC to DC shipments. This visibility is key to both the root cause analysis and the inventory rebalancing.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 22, 2023
The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far. Lesson learned.
The Logistics of Logistics
JUNE 23, 2022
In addition, retailers are struggling to move inventory initially ordered in the first quarter of 2022 to make way for back-to-school and holiday merchandise. Now, it’s also important to realize that produce grown in North America may not be subject to lockdowns in Shanghai, but there’s another factor at play.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
The average MAPE for North America was 36% while the European average MAPE was 45%. The average bias of European forecasts versus North America had 2% more bias. I do not see the same results from the multitier inventory projects. Tougher in Europe. Both bias and error are higher in European supply chains.
IQMS
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Relying on a WMS, analytics, BI, mobile and real-time monitoring is decreasing costs associated with under-utilized inventories faster than expected while improving inventory visibility. 72% say real-time monitoring is essential for streamlining and making inventory reconciliation more efficient. in general and WMS specifically.
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