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Interoperability in the Supply Chain: Leveraging the OSI Model for Seamless Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

This layer includes trucks, ships, warehouses, and other physical assets. Key Consideration: IoT sensors on shipping containers or pallets enable real-time tracking, ensuring visibility and coordination. For example, coordinating inventory management systems with demand forecasting tools. •

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Mobile Inventory Management: Boost Efficiency with Real-Time Tracking

RFgen

Picture this: You’re a warehouse manager, and with a few taps on your smartphone, you instantly know the exact location and quantity of every item in your inventory. That’s not science fiction—it’s the power of mobile inventory management. What Is Mobile Inventory Management?

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Regaining control: Inventory management best practices (Part four)

Kinaxis

by Richard Cushing In part one of my inventory management best practices series I argue that inventory cannot be managed until it is controlled, and present the notion our general willingness to apportion blame upon unreliable data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is misplaced.

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Top 5 Logistics Challenges and Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing industry faces many challenges, such as a skilled labor shortage, supply chain instability, and inventory management issues. GlobalTranz works with manufacturing shippers every day to move their goods and streamline their logistics strategies. 5 Challenges Facing Supply Chain Managers in Manufacturing.

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The Three Pillars of Sustainability in Supply Chain and Logistics: A Strategic Guide

Logistics Viewpoints

Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Innovations in biodegradable and reusable materials, coupled with lightweight designs that reduce shipping weight, are helping companies minimize waste and lower emissions.

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How to Optimize Fulfillment with Unified Data

Logistics Viewpoints

These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management. The fulfillment process is further complicated by ongoing shifts in customer expectations and demands and geo-political and weather disruptions.

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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days.