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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. You can model alternative flows and networks while guaranteeing service policies to customers.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

Fast moving forward into 2022 ongoing widespread congestions in ports, container shortages, and volatile shifts in demand for goods from Western economies causing freight rates to skyrocket ended up adding extreme pressure on the main cost drivers of the ocean side of the supply chains and beyond. Supply Chain KPI Dashboard.

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

freight and logistics sector in in a condition of contractionary recession , that adds to demands for higher worker compensation. The Wall Street Journal indicated in May an atmosphere of rising tensions between companies and workers. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Gulf or U.S.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

For example, Traxion, Mexico’s largest logistics provider, brokers services and optimizes loads, capacity, freight and routes via an AI-enabled optimization engine that gathers real-time data and autonomously makes the best decision on the fly, without human intervention. According to the U.S.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, Traxion, Mexico’s largest logistics provider, brokers services and optimizes loads, capacity, freight and routes via an AI-enabled optimization engine that gathers real-time data and autonomously makes the best decision on the fly, without human intervention.

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Guest Commentary: Is Your TMS Pulling Its Weight?

Talking Logistics

You probably started your TMS project to manage shipping costs for your high-value freight, inbound or outbound. With constantly changing markets and rates, procuring and maintaining the best possible rates can be a nightmare. Have you considered managing the process in-house? Be Sociable, Share!