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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

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Once the order amount and timeline are agreed upon between the parties, advanced shipping notices are used to track delivery. 18,000 suppliers ship 70,000 different types of parts to 72 Molex manufacturing plants across the globe. We created bite-sized videos. Molex is a private company headquartered in Lisle, IL in the US.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

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The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold. We are no longer just forecasting demand but also when trucks and factory machinery are likely to break down ( predictive maintenance ), the optimal amount of inventory to hold and where it should be held ( inventory optimization) , and labor forecasting in the warehouse.

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Mobile Inventory Management: Boost Efficiency with Real-Time Tracking

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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. Ready to turn your inventory from a headache into a strategic asset?

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Inventory Life Cycle: Your Guide to Master Inventory Management

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Leveling up your inventory life cycle can be crucial, but keeping all the fundamental factors jumping is essential to let the life cycle evolve. However, if the life cycle stock is healthy, inventory management is smooth. Inventory management revolves around the pivotal concept of the product life cycle. Click here!

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

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Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent. A negative FVA increases cost, inventory, and risk. The reason? The impact is exponential.

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Logistyx Technologies Talks Parcel Shipping, Holidays, and Returns

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In our conversation, Ken spoke about some of the findings from a recent survey Logistyx conducted on cross-border holiday spending, as well as some larger trends around the state of parcel shipping. Fourth, what are some industry-specific trends for parcel shipping? The State of Parcel Shipping.

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IMO’s Convention on Ship Recycling Enters into Force

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Developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Convention mandates that ships at the end of their operational lives must be recycled in a safe and environmentally sustainable way.