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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. All of these come together in some way with autonomous transportation options. Volvo’s POD in Sweden is a great example. In developing countries it can be more than double that.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. This is putting the squeeze on small businesses. Robots are everywhere these days.

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Supply Chain Planning with Microsoft Dynamics AX

ToolsGroup

(For more on this topic, see When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall ). Struggling to identifying the right mix of inventory to serve multiple channels (e.g., Struggling to identifying the right mix of inventory to serve multiple channels (e.g., retail, wholesale, foreign distributors, internet).

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

The implementation will reduce supply chain costs and inventories, eliminate excess inventory, waste and duplicative processes and enhance operating efficiencies to support long-term goals. We are excited to help Eckes-Granini grow its business in Europe.

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A big “tack” (thank you!) from the Stockholm World Tour

DELMIA Quintiq

Sweden has always encouraged innovation. Participants benefited from his tips on how to achieve visibility of the entire supply chain, inventory optimization, and lowered production costs. Planet Planning Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Transport & Logistics Workforce Optimization' See you there!

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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Last mile delivery can be defined as the transportation and delivery of goods to end-users as fast as possible. These do not have physical stores where customers can shop; instead have only fulfillment warehouse centers or local distribution centers where they keep inventory and fulfill customer orders. What is last mile delivery?

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

And here’s to hoping that 2018 results in even more significant advancements in the state of warehousing and transportation technology. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Ocean Transportation. Last-Mile Delivery. Media Type. Media Credit. Media Type.