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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Workforce Planning : this allows for a company to forecast order and task volumes to predict labor requirements and optimize workforce planning. The most obvious intersection point is transportation.

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Kinaxis Kinexions ’22: Ready. Together.

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. can create an agile plan for business and minimize costs (transportation, manufacturing, holding), while maximizing value (revenue and margins). This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint.

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints Global Leader in Product, Advanced Technologies & Big Data Analytics, Dr. Bhaskar Ballapragada, to Chief Technology Architect

ThroughPut

ThroughPut’s transformative Artificial Intelligence driven platform, ELI, crunches the hoards of time-stamped records, both small and large, to empower companies with real-time notifications and 360-degree visibility across the entire supply chain, including manufacturing, logistics and demand forecasting. Ballapragada has a Ph.D.

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Are You Smarter Than a TMS?

Talking Logistics

A couple of weeks ago, I visited MIT to give a presentation on transportation management systems (TMS) to a masters class. Ace has a contract with Floyd Transportation to move goods from its distribution warehouses to retailers. Floyd Transportation charges a flat rate fee of $1.50 Are you smarter than a TMS?

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Not So Happy Earth Day

Enterra Insights

” If the transportation industry is going to be electrified, we will need more electrical energy produced using green technology. coastlines are forecast to rise on average by about a foot by 2050, surging with meltwater from ice sheets and glaciers as a result of climate change. Consequences of Inaction.

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Transportation is the Great Enabler of Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

I believe transportation is the least complex, yet most critical component of the supply chain. And so, the role of a transportation manager today is very important. Given that transportation managers are responsible for enabling excellence in transport operations, how should they proceed and get started?

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Lessons Learned from the Beer Game

BlueYonder

This year, we conducted back-to-back workshops at FOCUS 2017, JDA’s annual conference, and then at the annual GMA conference, which was hosted this year in sunny San Diego. Every time the demand forecast reaches our factory role in the game, the demand forecast is 6 to 8 times larger than the consumer demand at the store.