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Data Quality: Your Digital Transformation Depends on It

Logistics Viewpoints

Today, I’m going to add a qualifier — it has to be quality data. Just as any chef will tell you that anything less than the best quality ingredients can render a dish inedible, so too, bad data can turn any data-driven IT effort sour. So, what is quality data? So, ensuring data quality is critical. Inspect before entry.

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Do You See What I See? How to Select a TMS Visibility Platform for Improved Speed, Quality, and Cost

Logistics Viewpoints

Indeed, who couldn’t benefit from improved transportation visibility? Yet, for many operators, orders are still tracked using lagging carrier information gleaned from phone calls, websites, spreadsheets, emails, and other old-school forms of reporting. What is stopping a carrier from “fudging” the information a little to save face?

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to launch immediate investigations into the incident. Depending on what ongoing aircraft inspections discover, resources may have to be allocated toward needed changes in production quality checks. News of this incident prompted the U.S.

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6 Ways AI Empowers End-to-End Decision Automation in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Achieve Flawless Transporter Management Without APIs | Locus Transporter Management

Locus

Transporters serve as the backbone for successful delivery companies when it comes to long-haul, multi-day deliveries. However, transporters face a call on their business growth as many of their systems lack tech and API capabilities, necessitating time-consuming manual coordination with intersted businesses.

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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Quality issues have recently bedeviled Boeing. On February 6 th , the National Transportation Safety Board released a report saying that missing bolts were the likely cause. Boeing’s chief information officer at that time said that “the decision to adopt Dassault’s platform “is a key milestone in our digital transformation.”

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The Grocery & Produce Supply Chain with John Gillespie

The Logistics of Logistics

About John Gillespie As an Information Technology Senior professional with over 15 years of experience, he has worked in a variety of industries including healthcare, banking and logistics. In 2014, John moved into the banking industry and focused on information security, data center management and Enterprise Architecture.