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Supply Chain Logistics in 2018: How They Keep the Lights on in Las Vegas

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: Today’s blog is from Connie Benton who discusses the state of supply chain logistics and how they keep the lights on in Las Vegas. Las Vegas location isn’t exactly conducive to building a city. Others include water, food, transportations and so on. And that’s just one problem.

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Top Take Aways from Oracle CloudWorld

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week in Las Vegas, Oracle had its first in person CloudWorld in three years. 1-800-Flowers gave a presentation in which they talked about implementing Oracle warehouse management and transportation management systems in the Cloud. They implemented Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) in 12 weeks. That is fast!

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This Week in Logistics News (November 26 – December 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

The application, called AWS Supply Chain, was introduced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The application then maps the information, highlighting current inventory selection and quantity at each location, the Amazon unit said. Ninety-six hours before a strike date, chemicals are no longer transported.

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Blue Yonder’s Chief Product Officer Shares Insights Into Innovative Solutions to Revolutionize Your Supply Chain Performance

BlueYonder

Following ICON 2023 in Las Vegas, Blue Yonder’s Chief Product Office Gurdip Singh shared the key product innovation takeaways from the event during a Blue Yonder Live session. The domain business services are, for example, order, inventory, load building forecast, cross stock, and flow through.

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Calling Reverse Logistics Startups – RLA to host Startup Competition

Cathy Roberson

The increased investments were attributed to supply chain disruptions such as raw material shortages, delays at ports, labor shortages, lack of warehousing space, and tight capacity across all modes of transportation. ” · “Returns take up a lot of increasingly expensive warehouse space, and transportation costs are going up.”

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. Speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, Patton said, “ This business model is hurting to a degree where my company individually has to see change from FedEx Ground,” according to reporting from SupplyChainDive. As the U.P.S.

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Enabling S&OP through Advanced Analytics

Logility

At the Informs Business Analytics Conference in Las Vegas last year, I spoke about the potential to enable S&OP / IBP through advanced analytics. Examples of algorithmic optimization used in the supply chain include: Inventory Optimization. Transportation Load and Route Optimization. Supply Optimization.