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OneRail’s Winning Strategy for Final Mile with Bill Catania

The Logistics of Logistics

With its recent acquisition of Orderbot, a distributed order management solution, OneRail is integrating inventory and order management capabilities to enable store-shelf-to-doorstep visibility. OneRail’s platform includes order management, inventory management, and real-time visibility.

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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

Compared to peer group performance for 2013-2023, 59% of the Gartner Top 25 score below their peer group on average revenue growth, 41% below inventory turns, and 41% below their sector on invested capital. Because the academic literature lacks a definition of value in the supply chain, Georgia Tech is developing a series of journal articles.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

Table 1: Aligning the Organization to a Balanced Scorecard to Maximize Market Potential When we isolate the impact and only focus on only operating margin/inventory turns compared to a focus on cost of goods/inventory turns (as shown in Table 2), the impact is a 63% reduction in market capitalization/employee. What is unlearning?

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Unease Remains in U.S. East and Gulf Coast Labor Talks

Supply Chain Matters

Much of this added container volume is attributed to either retailers front-loading their Q4 inventory purchases, or diversions related either to the likely threat of a U.S. A published report from The Wall Street Journal , The Battle Over Robots at U.S. The volume reportedly averaged 939,000 TEU’s for each of these three months.

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Pre-Covid Sales Growth Levels Forecasted for 2024 Holiday Period

Supply Chain Matters

Conservative Seasonal Employment Levels The Wall Street Journal indicated this week that logistics services and order fulfillment providers are holding their seasonal hiring plans mainly equivalent to last year’s hiring levels. Postal Service indicates that it plans to hire upwards of 7,500 seasonal workers. East and Gulf Ports labor strike.

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From Buzzword to Business Driver: How RFID is Fueling AI in Manufacturing

QAD

In a recent article in RFID Journal , Michael shared five predictions for how leaders can combine AI and RFID to unlock greater visibility, efficiency and profitability in 2025 and beyond. RFID, with its ability to deliver a steady and reliable stream of information, is the high-octane fuel that enterprise AI applications need.

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Trust without vulnerability can’t exist in supply chain relationships

NC State SCRC

Over-reliance on contractual clauses that provide details on how litigation will take place does not solve problems that occur every day in supply chains: lack of demand, too much inventory, supply shortages, weather events, and capacity issues. 1958) Trust and suspicion, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. REFERENCES Deutsch, M.