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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

Innovation in the warehouse: Markus Kückelhaus of DHL trend research, in two separate panels gave very compelling presentations on the innovation DHL is driving in the warehouse. Through the pilots that DHL conducted, AR is showing tremendous productivity gains in the warehouse such as a 25% gain in picking productivity.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Learn more on how to overcome today’s supply chain challenges by securing the free guide, 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages. And, to all of our supply chain friends – we thank you for your endless efforts to keep the supply chain in motion! Logistics Management ). Brookings).

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The Best Gift This Holiday Season: Personalized Logistics

Oracle SCM

So, how does logistics support personalized multi-channel operations during the holidays and throughout the year? Let’s look at some key steps on the journey to a customer-focused supply chain. Segment customers to match incentives to needs.

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Logistics Center of Excellence: Delivering Value to Organizations

Talking Logistics

“A Center of Excellence (CoE) centralizes technology, processes and people needed to collect supply chain data that provides the visibility that’s required to match objectives and goals of the enterprise with managers’ decisions,” says my colleague Matt Lewis, vice president for business development at GEODIS.

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Clorox Successfully Implements a Program for Value Chain Segmentation

Supply Chain Shaman

When I became a warehouse leader at Clorox to manage bleach and salad dressing in the same warehouse facility, I struggled with the marked difference of the rhythms and cycles of the products being managed in and out of the same warehouse facility. Designing Supply Chain Segmentation.

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Omnichannel Retail Requires Close Collaboration with Logistics Providers

Enterra Insights

Legacy staffers note, “If a business’s various supply chain processes don’t work together, it can’t ensure across-the-board customer satisfaction. Larger companies generally have many private warehouses and distribution centers, managed by different in-house and outsourced operators, that run on different systems.