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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

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Enables You to Identify Inefficiencies and Make Better and Informed Decisions A unified view of your data accelerates informed decision making and provides you with a comprehensive understanding of your supply chain. Here are 10 ways a supply chain data gateway can improve your performance across the end-to-end supply chain.

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Interoperability in the Supply Chain: Leveraging the OSI Model for Seamless Logistics

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Transport Layer: Ensures dependable data transfer. Network Layer: Routing Across the Supply Chain In supply chains, this layer corresponds to the routing of goods and information across different nodes in the network. In logistics, this means ensuring the integrity of shipments and the accuracy of delivery information. •

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Enables You to Identify Inefficiencies and Make Better and Informed Decisions A unified view of your data accelerates informed decision-making and provides you with a comprehensive understanding of your supply chain. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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The Three Pillars of Sustainability in Supply Chain and Logistics: A Strategic Guide

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Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Similarly, shifting freight from road to rail or waterways offers lower-emission alternatives for long-haul transport. Efficiency is a vital component of economic sustainability.

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

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Optimization is used in supply planning, factory scheduling, supply chain design , and transportation planning. In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints.

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Mastering Disruption: A Smarter, More Connected Approach

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Kudos to the supply chain and logistics teams that have already adopted transportation management systems (TMS), warehouse management systems (WMS), and other digital solutions. Teams are constrained by their physical resources, like trucks, inventory, and labor capacities, as they seek to resolve a disruption.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

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Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?