Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A few weeks ago, I sat down to speak with Mike Noble, SVP of Technology and Jonathan Mitchell, Director of Software Services at Open Sky Group. At the same time, their relative independence supports the third-party objectivity that is so valuable to companies embarking on strategic projects.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

The time gave me a good time to reflect and finish the reports that I should have completed in the summer when I recovered from Uterine Cancer. The time gave me a good time to reflect and finish the reports that I should have completed in the summer when I recovered from Uterine Cancer. As I write, I scratch my head.

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RFgen

MARCH 7, 2019

Key Takeaways: Just in Time Manufacturing was designed to improve the manufacturing and the supply chain processes. Just-in-Time (JIT) Manufacturing and Lean Manufacturing are two of the most popular business processes. What is Just-in-time Manufacturing (JIT)? Lean manufacturing emphasizes customer desires.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

The companies with the strongest year-over-year performance (placing in the winner’s circle for six more times in ten years) are Apple, L’Oreal, Nike, Paccar, TJX, and TSMC. They are unconscious that they are underperforming their peer group and have not driven industry improvement. How Do You Define Excellence?

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain. Just when it seemed that 2024 would be a very welcome year of “normal” supply chains, the Red Sea crisis proved that for global supply chains, there is no such thing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My client attempted to have a supply chain discussion to improve flow, and his executive group just did not get it. I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. Sometimes, this is a tough discussion.

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crisp

JANUARY 24, 2023

Now part of Crisp, the Integral Group offers deep expertise in EDI compliance and data integration across the CPG enterprise ecosystem. But when it comes to breaking down data silos across retail, we’re just getting started.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Let’s just come right out and say it – without the ability to capture, aggregate, and understand your supply chain data, you have gray area within your organization. In the supply chain, accurate data is what alerts you to delays due to weather emergencies and other calamities upstream in enough time to adjust your plans.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Economics reporter Ann Saphir explains, “Americans borrowed more than ever on their credit cards in the [second quarter of 2023], with balances surpassing $1 trillion for the first time even as overall household debt loads were largely unchanged. Credit card balances rose by $45 billion to $1.03 credit card debt surpassed $1 trillion.[2]

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SupplyShift

JUNE 4, 2021

In the sphere of corporate sustainability, we’ve seen this mindset in operation for quite some time. Traditionally, companies have fought for the highest market share, top ratings, and product innovation dominance without much regard for the social or environmental consequences. In many cases, this remains true today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

At the time, one of the people (let’s call him Noel) that I great respect for in the industry called me to say, “Lora, I don’t get it. In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I I never republished the report, because not enough has changed to warrant it.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

And finally, after 18 years at ARC Advisory Group, our colleague Clint Reiser is moving on to the next phase of his career. By analyzing two groups of over 500,000 products on Amazon U.S. By analyzing two groups of over 500,000 products on Amazon U.S. Amazon has made significant investments to make delivery times faster.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. But there was a cost to this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites CEO, Matt Elenjickal One of the two leaders in the real-time transportation visibility market is FourKites. ARC Advisory Group did a study on the supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) a couple of years ago. ARC considers real-time visibility solutions, like the one from FourKites, one type of SCCN solution.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

One company leading the way with Körber Supply Chain’s software solutions is leading retailer Super Retail Group. In Australia, Super Retail Group is at the heart of this pursuit. Home to well-known household brands including Rebel, Macpac, BCF and Super Cheap Auto, Super Retail Group is one of the largest retailers in Australia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

A Supply Chain Design Solution from Coupa Imagine you’ve just received the job offer of your dreams. And what about those jiu-jitsu classes you’ve wanted to take for such a long time? Their time frame was short and resources limited. The groups themselves were non-homogeneous with people of different ages and interests.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 4, 2021

In the sphere of corporate sustainability, we’ve seen this mindset in operation for quite some time. Traditionally, companies have fought for the highest market share, top ratings, and product innovation dominance without much regard for the social or environmental consequences. In many cases, this remains true today.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

Whether it is access to data, maneuvering around competing innovation objectives, tracking down actual factory-floor operators, or involving oft-neglected procurement groups, there are internal bottlenecks everywhere. At ThroughPut, our mission is to bypass bottlenecks of every kind in the enterprise continuously.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

This new ecosystem will: Offer “real-time, multi-enterprise optimization, orchestration and collaboration both inside and outside an organization – across multi-tiers from customers to carriers to suppliers to the suppliers’ suppliers.” This is a significant acquisition that will change the supply chain software landscape.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2023

Where predictive analytics uses algorithms to look at established patterns in various contexts to suggest what might happen next, machine learning watches for feedback to improve its performance over time, refining itself for a more appropriate response. You’ve probably already encountered it in a retail setting. Even writing code.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The U2 spy plane was built by Lockheed Martin in just eight months, with the goal of getting real-time intelligence while flying high enough to avoid detection from Soviet radars. Yes, real-time eBooking for forwarders has popped over the last three years, with hundreds of thousands of them placed every quarter across our platform.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 15, 2023

Shipment size, weight, location, frequency, peaks and troughs and seasonality, temperature control or hazardous material handling requirements (if applicable) are just some of the relevant information to include in an RFI, RFP or RFQ. In some sectors, this means they can now dictate terms to shippers.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.

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SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Industry groups are one of the best ways for companies to put their heads together and solve common issues, helping them achieve net-zero supply chain emissions, drive visibility into sub-tier suppliers, and collaborate on any number of ESG issues. For more info, join their Sustainable Procurement Ambassadors LinkedIn group.

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SupplyShift

JULY 23, 2021

Industry groups are one of the best ways for companies to put their heads together and solve common issues, helping them achieve net-zero supply chain emissions, drive visibility into sub-tier suppliers, and collaborate on any number of ESG compliance issues. For more info, join their Sustainable Procurement Ambassadors LinkedIn group.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

Scanning those items is sometimes a crapshoot — wave a barcode too vigorously in front of an uncooperative machine, and suddenly you’ve scanned it two or three times. ”[3] All retailers, not just grocers, are suffering from inventory losses. ”[3] All retailers, not just grocers, are suffering from inventory losses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place. Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” at the ZF Group. Will the needed parts arrive at their plant on time?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 17, 2023

Port X Logistics provides safe and just-in-time truckload services, unique problem-solving for supply chain solutions, worry-free crisis management services, and collaborative and dedicated project management from start to finish. and Canada. and Canada. and Canada. They have a strong focus on culture, service, technology, and trucks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. My great-aunt Ione, who lived to be 103, quit smoking at 97, which prompted the question “why now?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why I value the time I get with CIOs every bit as much as I value time with CFOs, CSCOs and supply chain professionals of every stripe. We’re just not meeting customer expectations. What’s needed is a modern platform approach to supply chain tech — with the specific objective of enabling effective real-time execution.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ability to specialise and gain comparative advantage in skills allow groups of human beings to do much more than they would have been able to as simple individuals. Protectionism, populism, nationalism is to a large degree attractive to many people today just because of this purely price oriented foundation of trade.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 12, 2023

Davinci’s MFC locations are strategically located throughout the US and sized to minimize lead-time (same day to 1-2 days shipping time to consumers) and cost. Micro fulfillment focuses on fast and efficient fulfillment, with the goal of minimizing lead time and cost.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Sembcorp, LYS Group, Engie and JinkoSolar, are just a few players involved with solar power installation. This is just an estimate – the generation varies largely on what type of panels you get and the panel location and you need to consult a professional for better estimates for your individual situation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, personal care or beauty items also cracked into the top five most popular gifts. The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. In fact, to kick off the holiday shopping season, a record 200.4

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

From just being environmentally friendly, it has become a holistic framework that encompasses the environment, social and corporate governance. As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. Photo Credit: Changi Airport Group. Photo Credit: L’Oréal.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

It is published 6 times a year, providing regular updates and insights into the industry. Alexis Mizell-Pleasant and Joe Lynch discuss the next frontier in food logistics. Alexis is Managing Editor at Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. In the podcast interview, Alexis and Joe discuss the next frontier in food logistics.

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