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7 Advantages of a North Carolina Logistics Hub

Kanban Logistics

As your business grows, a North Carolina logistics hub could make sense for many reasons. North Carolina offers a dynamic economy in a place where people want to be. Statistics show that North Carolina is growing at twice the national average. North Carolina’s value as a logistics hub is no small reason why.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

The “swivel chair” effect was in place – information about my order required customer service to switch between multiple, disconnected applications, if they even had access. This orchestration depends on three flows – information, physical, and financial – but when functions are siloed flows are blocked or delayed.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chains depend on the flow of information to facilitate the flow of goods, but since information is never perfect supply chains must be trade-off machines, constantly weighing cost against quality, cash, and increasingly carbon. Concurrent planning provides robust information and resilience. A change to one link (e.g.

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

With this information, are you any closer to knowing what to do about it, or have you just enriched your ability to admire your problem and see it close up? If all the links can see the same information at the same time, they have both the transparency and agility they need to act collaboratively. Analytics inform decisions.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Why is XPO Spinning Off RXO with Drew Wilkerson

The Logistics of Logistics

He has leadership and P&L responsibility for XPO’s asset-light North American truck brokerage business and complementary brokered services of managed transportation, last mile logistics and global freight forwarding. The corporate headquarters will be in Charlotte, North Carolina. Drew’s LinkedIn.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Information trade-offs made to absorb unpredictable volatility force supply chains to buffer. Siloed planning, information latency, disconnected processes, and lack of transparency all illustrate problems with poor information. Buffering creates waste.