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Why Should Manufacturers Get Social With Their Supply Chains?

Supply Chain Network

In many cases suppliers will establish plants in these countries as well to simplify logistics and transportation costs. Another useful feature of LinkedIn is the ability to exchange information with like minded individuals within a special interest group. But what about the rest of the supply chain?,

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Supply Chain Disruption: How Stronger Collaboration Will Have a Big Impact on the Future of Logistics Management

GlobalTranz

On the tracking side of things , it’s no longer necessary to take meticulous notes and manually document dates, actions, and status information. Instead of vendors waiting on hold while employees track down information, data is available within seconds.

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SIGs: Be Part of the In-Crowd at FOCUS, and Beyond!

BlueYonder

For more information, browse the full list of SIG Meetings we have scheduled at FOCUS. Category Knowledge Base – June 13 th , 7:00AM. Transportation Management – June 22 nd , 9:00AM. The Meeting of the SIGs. Advanced Replenishment and Seasonal Profiling – May 18 th , 2:00PM.

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SIGs: Be Part of the In-Crowd at FOCUS, and Beyond!

BlueYonder

For more information, browse the full list of SIG Meetings we have scheduled at FOCUS. Category Knowledge Base – June 13 th , 7:00AM. Transportation Management – June 22 nd , 9:00AM. The Meeting of the SIGs. Advanced Replenishment and Seasonal Profiling – May 18 th , 2:00PM.

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Cart Before the Horse: Digital Freight Matching, A.I. and Machine Learning for Freight

Parade

And in our experience, every company we've come across— from 50 million to billions in revenue, and private to publicly traded— none of them have a comprehensive infrastructure to collect and manage all their carrier data and use information across a system of intelligence.

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How AI Helps Build the Supply Chain that Thinks for Itself

Logistics Bureau

Are production, warehousing and transport ready to become lights-out operations, where no human being is needed? Transport network unpredictability. Create a knowledge base that new workers can access, and based on the knowhow of older workers, as in the Campbell Soup Company example. Glut of information.

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Missy Cummings from Duke on Logistics Automation: We’re Going in Reverse!

NC State SCRC

Think of mining trucks in Australia, or nuclear power grids –there is a lot going on and a lot of information being taken in. Then once you learn a skill, you have cognitive rasoning for rules based – procedures. Then you free up cognitive reasoning to do knowledge-based reasoning.