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Blind Shipping: Solution for Inventory & Labor Challenges

GlobalTranz

Imagine shipping products directly from your supplier to your customer while maintaining the appearance that your business is the source. That's what you get from blind shipping, and we're here to tell you all about it! This method offers a solution to various inventory and shipping challenges for businesses just like yours.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand planning engines have natural feedback loops that allow the forecast engine to learn. The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold. Since ML began being used in demand forecasting in the early 2000s, ML has helped greatly increase the breadth and depth of forecasting.

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Quick Start Guide to Using Machine Learning for Demand Planning

ToolsGroup

Anyone who has done demand planning knows it is extremely complex, with forecasting challenges and rapidly shifting consumer demand, often exacerbated by seasonality, new product introductions, promotions, and myriad causal factors (e.g. Data Variety The more different types of data sources you factor in (e.g.

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent.

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Decentralizing Supply Chains: How Regional Models Drive Resilience and Flexibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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IMO’s Convention on Ship Recycling Enters into Force

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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ToolsGroup Unveils Significant Enhancements to the Dynamic Planning Capabilities and Modularization of its Demand Planning Software

ToolsGroup

Explore the capabilities below to see how, with the release of v8.60, ToolsGroup has further improved its ability to drive decision making at the speed of business and deliver supply chain agility and resilience with expanded dynamic demand planning capabilities across the board.