Kinaxis

APRIL 18, 2018

by Dr. Madhav Durbha With the Alps as a backdrop, LogiPharma Europe 2018 proved to be both energizing and thought provoking. Given that the cells involved are living, they have very short lifespans and must be shipped in tightly managed, cryogenic conditions in a timely manner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Tata Steel Europe Plant in Wales. Even before the pandemic the global steel industry was navigating significant disruptions that included steep price competition (China has been investigated numerous times for dumping), soft demand, and tariff issues. Tata Steel Europe, which produced 9.5 The steel industry is not easy.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just a couple of hours ago, two units were damaged during order picking. These physically unaccounted-for units of inventory called ghost inventory, or phantom inventory , are a more common challenge faced by retailers than you think. And this data discrepancy is because of poor inventory management and tracking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2022

Amidst ongoing uncertainty caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Asia, war in Europe, scarce raw materials and steep inflation, companies are stockpiling inventory as never before in the hopes of mitigating future supply chain shocks. As soon as inventory hits the yard, it gets lost in a shuffle of trailers.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today’s unprecedented supply chain disruption challenges have led to executives looking for new ways of managing their supply chains, not just for today, but to prepare for future unpredictability. Prior to the pandemic, efficiency meant just-in-time manufacturing, but disruptions exposed the flaw in this approach.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

COVID is far from over and food instability, coupled with drought, is driving migration from Sudan to Europe. Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Amazon has made significant investments to make delivery times faster. The faster delivery times this year specifically may be attributed to changes in Amazon’s logistics strategy. As a New England Patriots fan, this season was certainly disappointing, as everything seemed to go wrong, except for landing a top-3 draft pick in 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why I value the time I get with CIOs every bit as much as I value time with CFOs, CSCOs and supply chain professionals of every stripe. We’re just not meeting customer expectations. What’s needed is a modern platform approach to supply chain tech — with the specific objective of enabling effective real-time execution.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) ToolsGroup’s manufacturing customers commonly achieve a 10-30% reduction in inventory, improve product availability to 96% or better, and reduce overhead (such as overtime and expedited freight) by 50%. Reduced inventory value of safety stock on clustered items by 18%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In some sort or another, Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather since 1890, and let’s just say that his record is iffy at best. ” I assume that Phil tries to ignore the pomp and circumstance of how his shadow would determine the upcoming weather pattern, and just wants more sleep (like the rest of us on a cold winter’s day).

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In this guide to barcodes in inventory management: In order to apply barcodes to inventory management, it is important to understand the basics of the barcode system. Hence, some companies will find corded barcode scanners to be all they need, where other companies require wireless scanners to support their online inventory management.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

You’ve seen the Suez Canal memes, you know furniture is taking way longer than usual to get to your door, and you may have even heard about Pelotons shipped by air to reduce delivery times. And it’s not just ocean freight. When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I brace myself for a late flight for a 2:00 AM arrival as the clock ticks-an echo of time lost. The larger the organizational alignment issues, the longer the decision-making time. Inventories increased by 44% due to supply chain volatility. Today, I ended a 45-day speaking tour. The reason? We are re-writing the rules.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve only just entered the second half of the year and people haven’t even taken their summer vacations yet, so why are we talking about holiday supply chains now? You might be thinking, “Well, but what about growing retail inventories? indicates that there is enough inventory to support sales for the next one and half months.

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BlueYonder

JULY 26, 2022

How can retailers connect the two, so that inventory is optimally located for that final leg of the journey? How can retailers connect the two, so that inventory is optimally located for that final leg of the journey? But these tools and methodologies can only hit their mark if inventory is already close to where demand truly is.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 24, 2020

Phone calls to Europe or Asia were costly and of poor quality. By the early 2000s, phone calls to Europe from my cell were expensive but manageable. At one time, there were more than 200, then consolidation happened, and the number became 112. In the 1980s, I had a flip phone. (On This device was a portable phone.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Just-in-time delivery of finished goods and components has been put under tremendous strain. Harvest time is approaching fast in many countries in the northern hemisphere. And of course, the problem is acute right across Europe. This in turn could put logistics under pressure at companies like Amazon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We had just recovered from a recession, and my goal was to help supply chain leaders create a better supply chain by the end of the decade. At that time, Supply Chain 2020 seemed so far away. Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Tariffs placed by US have resulted in changes to the global flow of steel and increased steel imports to Europe are affecting steel companies there. Also, we see a wave of consolidation continue in Europe as companies seek to become more competitive. Henri: Organizations are taking action to become more than just steel producers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” ZF sends the call-off, along with the forecast, not just to their suppliers, but to their carriers and 3PLs. at the ZF Group. How many parts do we need?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

I propose it’s high time we acknowledge the futility of the “new normal” conversation and put it to rest, once and for all. Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. Normalcy is no more. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

The staff at Logility observes that holiday supply chains are stressed even during the best of times. When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins. dollars on trick-or-treat candy for the Halloween season.[3] ”[6].

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EMERGE App

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

But while the newly arrived goods sit in your warehouse, did you know that there are also costs associated with keeping inventory? They are collectively called inventory carrying costs because they need to be paid to hold inventory. Here, we’ll explore what is meant by inventory carrying costs and their examples.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

And, in recent times, this has made the critical notion of sustainability an equally vast challenge. This initiative is central to enhancing the management and efficiency of its logistics operations throughout Europe. This initiative is central to enhancing the management and efficiency of its logistics operations throughout Europe.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

The HS code determines the tariff a product will incur at the time of import. Reclassification is one way to pay lower or no tariffs at the time of import. Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. For instance, law firms and consultants in the U.S. Product redesign.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While the Halloween season is just getting started, retailers are clearly looking ahead. Retailers are racing to tap seasonal demand as they struggle to reduce bloated inventories, and they have little choice but to offer price cuts in stores and online to entice consumers who have been hammered by this year’s surge in inflation.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2022

Consider these statistics from McKinsey: Facebook plans to hire 10,000 people in Europe to build out its “metaverse” Amazon announced plans to add more than 55,000 people in the U.S. DPO can process thousands of items simultaneously, selected by filter (such as inventory classification) or by alert (such as forecast error threshold).

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In episode six of Be Ready for Anything, ToolsGroup’s Pre-Sales Manager for Europe, Birger Klinke, talks about what retailers should expect in 2021 and how they can leverage probabilistic forecasting and automation to adjust to a changing marketplace. Check out the video below. Or listen and follow on Spotify. Transcript.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. While we look ahead to the future, I think it is also important to look back on the year that was.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

His detailed written record paved the way for future traders and merchants traveling between Europe and China. Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. Logistics helps to ensure effective, efficient and timely delivery of goods. Take a look around. ”[3] In 2019, Logistics Plus Inc., ” 2.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As the trucking industry experiences rising industry change, just-in-time-sequence (JITS) supply chains are starting to feel the effects. What is JITS (Just-In-Time-Sequence)? Needing to carry only a few hours worth of inventory, thereby savings on inventory carrying costs and working capital.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

It is a time of uncertainty that has exposed weaknesses in the supply chain that are both difficult to solve and impossible to predict. There were floods in Europe and China, Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast, and California wildfires that all played their part. Shipping costs have skyrocketed. There are labor shortages.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Risk Management in Global Ocean Context Feature Article by LSCMS Shippers Council Rates have gone down massively in most trade lanes; congestion has eased, and capacity seems sufficient in most sectors. All of this despite the ever-prevailing threat of blank sailings and continuous reconfiguration of sailings by carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

The company chose 4Flow to do transportation planning and execution in Europe. Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars took that recommendation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Agri-food supply chains under pressure The discipline of agri-food supply chain management aims to bridge the supply and demand gap of agri-food chains to achieve optimal place and time utility. In terms of time, the agriculture sector also needs to deal with seasons, where harvesting goes in cycles.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Just-in-time Supply Chains have long been the envy of companies and industries of all kinds. The concept of only bringing in inventory on demand is very compelling when inventories are considered costly, wasteful and cash drains. The vaunted Just-in-time operating model had broken. How could this be?

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