Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Previously, only large companies such as Amazon and FedEx possessed the network and scale required for cost-effective same-day and next-day shipping. However, advancements in technology have made it possible for any company to automate and optimize their last-mile delivery operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

The classical approach involves functional silos, sequential decisions, and Excel and people to render a plan executable. Theory and practical implications are clear: optimizing each silo does not imply optimizing the end-to-end system. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

Supply Chain Planning Software 282

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Millions of shoppers, like my Dad, are not going back to their old habits because there are now faster and more convenient ways for buying daily household needs. It excels on a union of E-Commerce mobile apps and last-mile delivery innovations. Inventory Optimization. However, this also comes with its planning challenges.

Supply Chain Planning Software 288

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2025

If so, optimizing your inventory management strategy can be a game-changer. Below, we outline three ways blind shipping can help optimize your logistics, keep inventories healthy and save you money! Is your business facing rapid growth, supply chain disruptions and/or unpredictable customer demand?

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In recent years, BT Supply Chain underwent a transformation to provide its services to businesses using the company’s existing network. The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. – Tweet this.

Supply Chain Design Software 240

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 25, 2023

Paul Brashier is Vice President Drayage and Intermodal at ITS Logistics , a third party logistics (3PL) company that offers creative supply chain solutions with an asset-lite transportation division that ranks #21 in North America, a top-tier asset-based dedicated fleet, and a Top 12 intermodal and drayage division.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. The concept was that managing trade-offs and optimizing the whole to drive business outcomes would improve value. The ripple effects are pervasive. Why is a reinvention needed?

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2023

Richard is Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Intelligent Audit , a cutting-edge logistics and supply chain technology company, dedicated to revolutionizing how businesses manage their shipping and transportation processes. But we’re not just about recovering funds – we’re also about optimizing operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. And a new solution, that applies machine learning to making better ongoing transportation routing and mode decisions, is particularly interesting. Initially, this product will focus on the purchase order (PO) acceptance process.

Supply Chain Design Software 273

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I also shared with them my view that companies will ultimately find opportunities for supply chain innovation at the intersection of Software, B2B Connectivity, and Social Networking — a trend best illustrated by the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCONs). Supply Chain Operating Networks Accelerate Business Cycles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. History of E2open. The Company has a checkered past.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As McCarthy put it, after a customer buys a bed, it’s his responsibility “to make sure we deliver it to their home brilliantly.” The bigger value] is really about the future and what the solution can do for customers once we roll it out across our entire network by the end of August.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s zoom to the bottom line: the results are less than optimal for all the monies spent and practices deployed. Align Transportation Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP). Buying strategies need to be defined, and the interface needs to be bi-directional. For this blog post, never mind the comparison.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. We are optimizing volume, not value. Time Is not optimized. Moving Forward.

Supply Chain Planning Software 287

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. In addition, with over 30% of manufacturing and 55% of logistics outsourced, it is now a business network, not an enterprise, planning problem. I did not see it. Yet, the positive market perception continued.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

These can be shift in the channel, issues in manufacturing, increasing variability in transportation, or a shift in commodity prices. Additionally, through network strategies, be sure to design your warehouses for flows. Additionally, through network strategies, be sure to design your warehouses for flows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

To build more powerful relationships, extending across a critical mass of trading partners, companies need to utilize a robust platform like a supply chain operating network, which leads to increased visibility for continuous improvements in company performance, agility, and differentiation.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Grafton is the Founder and CEO of Onward, a big and bulky shipping network that helps retailers offer local like delivery service, to their customers located in suburban and rural zip codes. Their technology optimizes routes, eliminates fragmented systems, and streamlines the entire process, from order placement to final delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. SupplyOn provides multi-enterprise supply chain network (MSCN) solution. Finally, they have an aftermarket parts division.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

This warehouse runs at a perfect optimum with fixed capital in the form of inventory balanced perfectly with sales and purchasing, and all the items perfectly distributed to the various storage areas of the warehouse. These contribute significantly to optimal order processing and therefore to the successful management of peak periods.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Holds a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and holds a Global MSc. I joined Schneider Electric Schneider Electric in Singapore with Global responsibility for Logistics and Network Design in 2013. Stuart is a British national, married with three children.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

This includes the convergence of the technologies shown in Figure 1 to define the autonomous supply chain; drive the availability of data at the speed of business for decision-making; the evolution of learning systems to sense, act and learn; and the building of outside-in processes/the automation of B2B value networks.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2017

Last Saturday, we celebrated Earth Day, making this an excellent time for each of us to examine our own commitment to the environment. In recent years, businesses and consumers across the country have demonstrated that sustainability matters – both in terms of what they buy and how vendors are selected. In fact, 22% of U.S.

Optimal Sourcing 157

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The next step to thriving in a capacity lies in expanding your carrier network. Optimize Routes, and Consolidate Freight Where Possible. Optimize Routes, and Consolidate Freight Where Possible. Stop wasting time waiting on your preferred carrier, and take advantage of the freight availability of all carriers.

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Logility

MAY 2, 2012

Not all wholesale distributors think in terms of supply chain optimization—but they should. Developing core competency in supply chain optimization techniques such as demand planning , supply planning, replenishment planning, transportation management, and inventory optimization can give a wholesale distributor a competitive edge.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. Big Data and Analytics for Oil and Gas Transportation. Companies will begin to transform their decision-making processes, which will lead to greater use of social networking technologies.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

What seems to be clear by now is that the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities and risks of today’s global supply chain networks. The experience during Covid-19 has indicated that connected supply chain networks are the future as they have many benefits. Supply chain networks of the future—building better forward.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. I suggest that KPIs should rather indicate how well-orchestrated the end-to-end network is (e.g., Supply chain cost is always flat around the optimal strategy.

Waste Reduction 274

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In recent years, BT Supply Chain underwent a transformation to provide its services to businesses using the company’s existing network. The other part of my role is supporting the inventory management functions within BT Group, driving decision-making around what we buy, when we buy, and where from. – Tweet this.

Supply Chain Design Software 156

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Peters and Waterman in their best, sellerIn Search for Excellence identify one of the eight factors of organisational success as sticking to the knitting. Many enterprises have taken heed and determined that inbound and outbound transport and warehousing are consequential processes of their business rather than fundamental or core processes.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

That’s why retailers place so much focus on buying well. These are the costs associated with getting product into the retailer’s distribution network from suppliers. For example, buying in large quantities from suppliers, to get a lower unit cost. By far the biggest cost is the Cost of Goods or COGS. Often 60-70% of total sales.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

The desire for faster home delivery has driven delivery networks to become more localized. A recent study from The American Transportation Research Institute showed that many companies are trying to move fulfillment closer to their customers. Managing delivery exceptions for excellent customer experience.

Shipping 186

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Now more so than ever, corporations understand the tremendous impact logistics and transportation can have on their overall business performance and are taking meaningful strides to optimize their supply chain operations. billion, according to a recent research report from industry watchers Armstrong & Associates.

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