Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced, hyper-competitive, omni-channel world, warehouses play a critical role in maximizing service and fulfilling the ambitious customer promises that are required today. Warehouses also represent an enormous cost center. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They promoted logistics to the level of core process and enabler of new business models and now view a thought-through logistics strategy as an opportunity to stand out by offering a better service level to their customers, such as same-day delivery. Automation as key for growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we will delve into strategic ways for warehouse managers to eliminate waste, with a focus on not only optimizing the use of cartons and packing, but labor resources and warehouse space as well. Packing efficiently is essential for maximizing storage capacity and minimizing waste in the warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This article is from Patrick Byers, DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, and looks at fortifying warehouse and distribution centers against cybersecurity attacks. The warehousing and distribution industry is highly reliant on technology for its operations. Why are warehouses and DCs so vulnerable to cyberattacks?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. A good fulfillment strategy can help businesses boost customer satisfaction (CSAT), reduce inefficiencies, and increase sales.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In the age of same-day delivery and rising consumer expectations, there is immense pressure on warehouses to perform at peak efficiency. That’s where warehouse optimization comes in. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components. Ready to get started?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 29, 2025

During the two-day event, I participated in various sessions covering a range of topics, including Warehouse Management Systems, Labor Management, Agentic AI, and Warehouse Automation. Kinsella shared examples of how unification helps customers respond to real-time changes and improve agility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, reduced emissions could result from streamlined routing or fewer trips due to improved demand forecasting. For example, when implementing air-to-ocean logistics strategies, the solution will weigh ocean freight more favorably than air freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The demand, supply, transportation, and warehousing plans are created on the Blue Yonder platform. Daily transportation and warehouse plans are developed that go down to the level of what will be picked, packed, and shipped. For example, a large customer may place a large, unforeseen order that becomes visible at 9:00 a.m.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2025

For example, a warehouse inventory discrepancy may only matter if it affects high-priority orders or strategic customers. For example, an AI agent can detect an issue in a regional distribution center and evaluate its impact across the global network, providing planners tailored recommendations to address the disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Examples of automatable processes include Invoice Processing, Sales Order Entry, and Customer Account Creation. Overall, the executive-led sessions provided a comprehensive look at Infors strategy to deliver value through its industry-specific cloud platform and integrated advanced technologies.

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RFgen

MAY 28, 2025

Organizing a warehouse in 2025 requires blending time tested practices with modern technology. Warehouse managers and manufacturing businesses face a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment across multiple channels, complex production processes, and an unpredictable supply chain. A logical layout is the backbone of efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What are warehouse functions? But they couldn’t be more wrong: a warehouse is a dynamic hub of activity that is the foundation of the entire ecommerce order fulfillment process. What are warehouse functions? However, managing warehouse functions is no simple feat.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you’re running a warehouse, this will probably be your main goal, too. But, with a well-planned strategy, you too can reduce expenses in your workplace. Warehouses are prime targets for thieves because of the variety of goods they have. If the warehouse isn’t run twenty-four-seven, then consider getting guards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2025

A Practical, Topic-Driven Resource Organized into more than 70 categories, the archive offers focused coverage on everything from supply chain planning and transportation systems to artificial intelligence and warehouse automation. Its not static its updated weekly, and designed to reflect the evolving needs of supply chain leaders.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

The logistics, supply chain, freight transportation, warehousing, and inventory management sectors often operate on razor-thin margins. Our goal is to underscore the need for industries to move beyond individual disaster recovery plans and embrace a collective resilience strategy. This is true for regulated electric utilities too.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Overcoming Challenges for Scalable Deployment Strategies are available to address these challenges and enable broader integration of autonomous technologies in logistics. Their greater payload capacity is well-suited to intercity logistics and warehouse-to-warehouse transport.

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IQMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Online e-commerce sales are booming, but finding qualified warehouse staff can be difficult. In this fast-paced landscape, there’s one thing that can help you organize it all: a warehouse management system. What is a Warehouse Management System? What Does a Warehouse Management System Do?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Take the transportation management system (TMS) market, for example. Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. They implement the Blue Yonder warehouse management system (WMS) and SAP EWM. The transition is not easy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Intersection of Warehouse Growth and Employee Scarcity. The combination of continually growing consumer and business demand, a supply chain permanently altered after adapting to Covid, and the Great Resignation has cumulatively impacted the nation’s warehousing landscape like never before.

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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. Additionally, we’ll discuss best practices for optimization and strategies for balancing efficiency with resilience.

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Locus Robotics

APRIL 23, 2025

Home April 23, 2025 Agility as a Warehouse Survival Strategy Mary Hart , Sr. Content Marketing Manager When Kevin Hume talks about agility in warehouse design, you can tell right away that hes been in the trenches and knows what hes talking about. His advice to warehouse leaders is to start with your workforce.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 12, 2025

Pest control in distribution warehouses is crucial for protecting your inventory and maintaining a safe environment. Warehouses, with their large storage areas and frequent shipments, create ideal conditions for pests such as rodents, insects, and birds. Subscribe 8 Crucial Ways to Prevent Your Property Being Overrun with Pests!

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

And to handle it all effectively, you need to get the hang of some of the best SEO strategies tailor-made for logistics companies. Once you decipher the keywords that bring visitors, including the highest-converting keywords, you can improve your strategy. The approach is integral to the best marketing strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For stakeholders navigating this environment, understanding key industry drivers, challenges, and future trends is critical for crafting effective strategies. Digital Transformation Digitalization is fundamentally reshaping logistics operations, from warehouse management to last-mile delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year. These parameters might be of a logistic nature, for example, the ABC classification of goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Scott Fenwick, Senior Director Product Strategy for Supply Chain Planning at Manhattan Associates. For example, a supply planning solution may create a model that says a plant can produce 20,000 units of a product in a week. The same disconnect can happen in the warehouse and in transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. Uberization: Exploring On-Demand Transportation, Labor and Warehousing. then secure on-demand transportation, warehousing and labor assets dynamically, re-planning flexibly as conditions change.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 12, 2025

Home March 12, 2025 AI and Data-Driven Warehouse Decision Making Mary Hart , Sr. Content Marketing Manager Warehouses generate vast amounts of data every day, from fulfillment rates and inventory levels to labor efficiency and stock movement, but that raw data alone isnt enough.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Firefighting is the norm.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

One of the most effective strategies for building resilience is integrating project management into supply chain operations. This structured approach enables supply chain managers to prioritize high-impact risks and develop mitigation strategies before disruptions occur.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Koganti gave the example of the Greeks’ response to the news that the Persians were on their way to invade in the fifth century BCE: Athenian politician and general Themistocles’ response was to urge the building of a navy (which turned out to be devastatingly effective ). Putting a brain behind those would be “very powerful,” he said.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

ML looks into historical data (for example, transit time statistics of carriers) and data from impactful external factors (such as port congestion, weather or holidays) and uses this information to develop more accurate transit time estimates. Derek has 27 years of experience in supply chain software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2025

His comments reflected a long-term orientation: technology and strategy are expected to evolve in parallel with shifts in the global supply chain environment. Recent examples included the rollout of a new inventory planning application and the introduction of a hybrid AI-powered demand forecasting engine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. But now, warehouse management solution providers talk about gamification – how can an application make work fun for workers? But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses.

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