Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

 S&OP and Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning Manual supply chain processes are a real headache. Supply chain organizations are no strangers to this frustration. Suppose you have one distribution center in Los Angeles. They aren’t making decisions effectively – everything happens in isolation.”

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The mad dash begins to finish all the work that needs to get done before 2018 arrives, so without delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E-Commerce Boosts U.S. Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights (Bloomberg Technology). Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub.

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6 River Systems

JULY 30, 2020

In addition to the questions above, other considerations include accounting for lost, damaged or expired inventory, having adequate safety stock to mitigate the risk of possible supply chain disruptions (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and ensuring availability and reliability of backup and secondary suppliers.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Between shipping new collections for wholesale earlier in the year and Q4 madness for direct-to-consumer sales, we’ve been able to get through our heaviest seasons while staying ahead of production using ShipBob’s forecasting tools — even as order volume more than quadrupled in a year.” Ryan Casas, COO of iloveplum. Storing inventory.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 31, 2015

If those aren’t the right tools for the job, what is? I heard a colleague once give the following analogy: Imagine a pilot flying from New York to Los Angeles at night without any navigation systems or instruments to measure his location, wind speed, or altitude. Download your own copy here. Cross-functional view.

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Veridian Solutions

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The use of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) is a breakthrough for supply chain management. As technology grows more advanced, the value of AMR will increase. AMRs are already breathing new life into warehouse operations through four, distinct types of robots, reports Craig Guillot of Supply Chain Dive.

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