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Generative AI: Cheat Code to a More Competitive Supply Chain Business?

Logistics Viewpoints

A transportation manager comes in to start the day. Overnight, the system has already recognized the shipments due out, the carriers in play, available inventory, staff, orders in progress, traffic and weather patterns, etc. The manager glances at the screen and sees a shipment to Louisville, KY flagged due to a storm delay.

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3D Printing Changes the Supply Chain

Kinaxis

The two companies have jointly opened a facility near the UPS air hub in Louisville, Kentucky, with more than 100 industrial 3D printers. This not only brings the manufacturing closer to home, it reduces the transportation costs and also shrinks the length of the supply chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

You get on the M25 and before long you have a front seat view of the biggest transportation challenge facing companies in England and many other countries around the world: traffic congestion. Manhattan Associates: New Inventory and Fulfillment Capabilities Give Store Associates More Time to Deliver a Fulfilling Experience.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. WTO: Trade growth to remain subdued in 2016 as uncertainties weigh on global demand. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,