Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

If the team just delivers something to regional executives and they’ve had no input, they question the results. Business case creation involves top logistics, finance, or business unit executives. This French public multinational was selected as having the best global supply chain by a leading analyst firm.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We invest a huge amount of time and resources into our people and making sure that we have the best digital talent in the industry and that we’re doing the most innovative things in the supply chain. Just last year we finished integrating the sales process into the end-to-end supply chain process. That has worked out well for us.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Dynamic Pricing: Real-time data from decentralized oracles (such as Chainlink) can adjust contract terms based on market prices or demand fluctuations. Logistics & Shipment Tracking Tracking shipments across multiple jurisdictions is difficult. Suppliers of blockchain logistics solutions: VeChain, IOTA, Helium, IBM TradeLens 3.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Many organizations are now realizing that resilience is not just a supply chain add-on; it’s a fundamental capability. Leading organizations are building supply chains that are less exposed to single points of failure, more informed by real-time data, and more able to adjust sourcing, inventory, and routing based on current conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2025

Its a rollercoaster for logistics and supply chain leaders operating in global markets. Extreme tariff volatility. Add emerging compliance requirementssuch as sustainability, transparency, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulationsto the mix and youve got an unprecedented, complex global trade environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Reduces Implementation Times Enterprises and supply chain software providers strive to reduce application implementation times. It also feeds downstream applications including BI, reporting, and supply chain applications, with the right data sets, in the formats the applications expect, and at the right time the data is needed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

My advice,” he concluded, “is just jump in. Business Network Takeaways While Business Network rolls up into the spend management product development organization, the trading partner collaboration this platform covers extends beyond just sourcing. With that level of investment, one would expect an aggressive product buildout.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

As you would expect, major emphasis was placed on the role of AI to deliver accurate, timely, and improved decisions at all points of supply chain processes using a combination of human-to-AI agent and agent-to agent collaboration. We are a quarter of the way into the 21 st century and many supply chain practices are still behind the times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

The market is voting with us, not just in terms of having common applications on the same platform, but having those applications connected to a network. But the recent growth on top of their installed base means that they have close to 800 sites live in the cloud, which Mr. Angove asserts is three or four times their nearest competitor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Mr. Masson points out the “challenges are not just about the volume, but also the complexity and fragmentation of data generated by sensors, machines, and smart factories. Real-time risk solutions mine vast quantities of online data using natural language processing. “A Mr. Masson leads ARC’s research on industrial AI and data fabrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

However, over time, most companies have expanded their digital supply chain model from being mainly internally facing to including an array of external trading partners and participants. Those can include suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics service providers, customs brokers, governmental agencies, and other participants.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They are no longer just vendors of goods and services. Below is a checklist of key actions to follow: Dedicate Time to Supplier Relationships Reallocate time and prioritize direct engagement with key suppliers. For instance, suppliers may have strong Vendor Management process expertise that will help reduce working capital.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home No More Black Swans: The Age of Supply Chain Uncertainty Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses. What’s become increasingly clear is that there are no more black swans in global logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2025

Traditional procurement, with its long-term contracts and rigid supplier ties, just isnt cutting it anymore. Its not just about pinching penniesits about ensuring business continuity. Its flexible, fast, and built to roll with the punchesusing real-time smarts to dodge risks and grab opportunities. What Is Agile Procurement?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2025

About Kristina Bernarducci Kristina Bernarducci isnt just building partnershipsshes building community. As Director of Operations at Bettaway and Director of Business Development at PalletTrader, Kristina brings energy, creativity, and a drive for results to the world of logistics and supply chain. Bettaway West, Inc.:

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

NIS 2 Has Deep Impacts on the Supply Chain, Not Just Plant Operations The manufacturing industry is undergoing a significant transformation as it grapples with the implications of the Network and Information Systems Directive 2 (NIS 2). Its primary aim is to enhance the security of network and information systems across the European Union.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources. Typically, these systems consist of standard-task agents (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

They have been successful enough with their fulfillment capabilities that they are no longer just a direct-to-consumer retailer; they are also a third-party logistics provider. It’s just so exciting,” McKellar says. “A FabFitFun Warehouse in Chino, CA FabFitFun is an interesting retailer with a complex supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 28, 2024

In late 2023, Descartes conducted a survey of 1,000 supply chain and logistics decision-makers across North America and Europe across three sectors: manufacturing, distribution and retail; carriers; and logistics services providers. calls, emails) and resource-intensive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Companies use risk management software , like the Interos solution, to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real time. Not just the risk of generative AI hallucinations but the risks associated with all forms of AI. People don’t just get replaced here. But what Interos is talking about is different. This is endless.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this morning I was thinking about something different, yet interesting to discuss in the intro paragraph of this week in logistics news. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Then it occurred to me, why not talk about what I want to discuss? So I will. I will use this paragraph as an inquiry for my own selfish interests.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Theres no shortage of commentary on how companies should respond move production, shift suppliers, and reconfigure operations are just a few common recommendations. The reality is, you cant just uproot a manufacturing facility and move it overnight, as if it were the floating house in the movie Up, carried away by a bunch of balloons.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2024

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

As logistics leaders face growing pressure, from tighter delivery windows to environmental mandates, geopolitical instability, and driver shortages, one technology is proving to be a game changer: V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication. What Is V2X and Why Should Logistics Teams Care?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. It was a good mix of topics and authors, including a good number from our Logistics Viewpoints sponsors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. The fund had a slow start with reportedly just $110 million invested into startups in its first year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

But now, scientists are saying that the fountain of youth could be a reality, but just in a very different form. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The company disclosed the total of single-use plastic across global operations for the first time in 2022 after investors sought more details on plans to reduce waste.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. The new law meant that the way medical systems operated had to change. Expanded health insurance coverage led to increases in the demand for care. The ACA led to a move away from fee-based services and toward compulsory value-based payment initiatives. There are several St.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Global Trade Compliance Is Not Showing Signs of Slowing Down Any Time Soon The Global Trade Compliance market is experiencing steady growth and is expected to continue this trend over the next five years. I have recently completed the latest ARC Advisory Market Analysis on Global Trade Compliance, available here. trillion in trade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, personal care or beauty items also cracked into the top five most popular gifts. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

But now, some cities and states are starting to re-examine just how safe fireworks displays are. And now on to this week’s logistics news. If that date catches your eye, it’s because the timing gets ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day, which happens on July 16 and 17. Cities like Napa, Calif.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2024

The growth of “fake coal” is just one of the new techniques with port authorities raising concerns about drugs smuggled in fruit containers and scrap metal, according to the Colombia Drug Smuggling Report 2024 by A&A Multiprime. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Maybe we will see cocaine turbines or solar panels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2025

Those stakeholders include planners; supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics executives; sales and marketing; finance or regional or business unit leaders; and suppliers and other partners. But, how do we think about the decision roles of not just humans but also machines? Their solution is known as Atlas. Pradhan ex-claimed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 7, 2024

In late 2023, we conducted a survey of 1,000 supply chain and logistics decision-makers across North America and Europe across three sectors: manufacturing, distribution and retail; carriers; and logistics services providers. The results of the research report How Bad Is the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In some sort or another, Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather since 1890, and let’s just say that his record is iffy at best. ” I assume that Phil tries to ignore the pomp and circumstance of how his shadow would determine the upcoming weather pattern, and just wants more sleep (like the rest of us on a cold winter’s day).

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