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Highlights From LogiMed USA 2024

BlueYonder

Attendees included medical device and diagnostics manufacturers, hospital systems, raw material suppliers, software providers, and logistics service providers (LSPs). Moving away from maintaining information about suppliers (inventory, forecasts) in spreadsheets and towards supplier portals.

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Is Your Supply Chain ‘Ready for Anything’?

ToolsGroup

The ability to predict more behaviors is critical to accurate forecasting. The nuances of demand across items, locations and time frames makes traditional demand forecasting little better than a guessing game. The key to bringing your planning back into focus lies in evolving beyond single-number forecasts. Start Today.

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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

We witnessed a surge in mobile wellness applications, online personal training, meditation, and yoga workshops more accessible to everyone around the globe. As many retailers will look into sourcing products locally, re-evaluating their supply and logistics networks for optimizing their supply chains will be more critical than ever.

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Santa’s Supply Chain: Holiday Logistics in 2020

BlueYonder

For centuries, Santa has achieved more than any global logistics operation could ever dream of. But we know Santa had to start planning long before the delivery date to ensure he had adequate inventory to satisfy all these children, especially as forecasting has been more difficult than usual in 2020. But it’s for your own good.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

The pending effect of fuel on logistics costs is an overlay for all companies struggling to manage the bottom line. Transportation constraints are increasing with the risk of many drivers moving from logistics jobs delivering products to construction as the impact of the Infrastructure Deal becomes a reality. There was no new normal.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

I first heard about AIMMS at the Supply Chain Logistics Summit in Barcelona in 2015. We needed to be able to connect the dots here to get a more accurate forecast, especially since we were also expanding our network through acquisitions. What did this POC Workshop look like? How did you hear about AIMMS?

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Unleashing the Power of Cloud to Accelerate Growth and Build Resilience

BlueYonder

And finally, you’re able to process information – running scenarios across merchandising, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and distribution – all at the same time with unconstrained computing power. For example, Blue Yonder offers the ability to mix and match ML algorithms and AI to optimize forecast accuracy.

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