Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

The three traditional methods are the use of a transportation management system (TMS), transportation execution system (TES), and managed transportation services (MTS). A TES is generally mode specific and lack optimization capabilities, but for shippers with simpler transportation requirements, that is often all they need.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2022

ARC has recently completed a study on the transportation management system integration market. We have previously done a study of transportation management system (TMS) market and transportation execution and visibility system markets , and interviewed TMS vendors. Network design requires a talented team.

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Arkieva

JULY 23, 2015

Depending on the industry, nearly 5% of sales dollars will be dedicated to warehousing and transportation. With margins under constant pressure, efficient logistics can be the difference between making and losing money on each sale. The total volume moved through the network is in excess of 289,000 tons.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Logility

MAY 17, 2023

Costs, such as, labor and taxes may increase while other costs (such as logistics and tariffs) decrease, but the real reward comes from making viable choices for bringing operations closer to the end customer. Explore the network design optimization capabilities of the Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform.

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Locus

APRIL 1, 2022

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools. And network design and optimization are instrumental in bringing about both. Market trends also continue to evolve faster than ever. All rights reserved.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With such dramatic reductions in flights, Singapore’s status of a logistics hub was put severely at risk. With broad-based support packages, targeting hardest-hit industries like aviation, coupled with support of a strong logistics ecosystem, reinforced by global players such as DB Schenker.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If enterprises are to provide such advantages, their logistics must be organised to match. Ideally, in a clicks and mortar business, logistics activities would be the same between fulfilment of online and physical sales. Let Customer Needs Drive Network Design. Return logistics. Make No Assumptions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Flexibility for Resilient and Optimised Logistics and Supply Chain. billion USD by 2026.

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CHAINalytics

APRIL 25, 2023

India’s National Logistics Policy is revolutionising the logistics sector and every other industry along with it. Explore their efforts in three key areas in this new guide: Infrastructure:The NLP aims to unify various transport initiatives running under individual ministries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are many strategic initiatives that can be undertaken to reduce lead time, from contract negotiations, supplier rationalization, vendor managed inventory options, strategic network design and numerous others. The post Editor’s Choice: Reducing Lead Times with Real-Time Data appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. A recent online survey conducted b y MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics aimed to understand how companies are reacting to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This configuration screen shows how Solvyouo maps transportation constraints. A network design model figures out where factories and warehouses should be located. Here the savings are based on transportation and facility cost savings. The key solution for this is network design.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Modeling 257

PINC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Supply chain experts and software leaders converge to discuss the current transportation environment and provide valuable tips on what companies should be doing now to get ready for what’s coming next. . Increasing demand for transportation. Transportation management will pay a key role in this evolution. Driver management.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Are you a transportation and logistics professional who are looking for inspiring ideas to improve the operations? This article will show you 5 amazing logistics books that provide the information you can really use. However, they asked "What are some good transport and logistics book you''d recommend?".

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 21, 2016

After being largely ignored for many years, distribution network design has recently surged to the top of the priority list for many supply chain leaders. Distribution network design has surged to the top of the priority list for supply chain leaders. The Signs That Should Prompt a Distribution Network Design Review.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2013

Managing transportation — the ebb and flow of rates, capacity, fuel and regulations — is an ongoing challenge for many companies, especially those still using spreadsheets and fax machines to plan and execute shipments. How will you establish and manage electronic communication with carriers and other trading partners?

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Logility

JULY 13, 2023

Third Party Logistics providers (3PLs) are many and diverse. A good network study can compare 3PLs’ offerings in the terms you want to consider: Total landed costs Customer service time Risk Qualitative considerations The best approach to 3PL selection is to start with a network study.

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Price Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Strategy 3PL 131

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A Reporting off of transportation data is a delays the signal by weeks and months.)

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In this episode, Derrick Muilenburg, Manager of Optimization Services at LeanLogistics , will discuss four key steps to achieving an optimal transportation network — Benchmarking, Network Modeling, Transportation Simulation, and Network Design — and answer frequently asked questions, such as: How often do you perform these steps?

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Network Optimization Supply Chain Optimization Modeling Optimization Software 100

Logility

JULY 29, 2022

How to properly optimize your logistics network with network design. This is where network design helps lay out a future network with all the cost and service tradeoffs. However, there is a problem — traditional network design tools struggle with unknowns. The Challenge. is difficult.

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CHAINalytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

One of the largest European meat producers grew through mergers and acquisitions, and an unwieldy transport network developed to keep their perishable product flowing. Knowing there had to be a better way, Vion joined forces with Chainalytics to set a course for the future with a robust, flexible, and optimised transport network.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 19, 2024

Logistics presents a formidable challenge in the ready mix concrete (RMC) industry. This critical time frame shapes the entire ready mix concrete logistics. This critical time frame shapes the entire ready mix concrete logistics. The transportation of ready mix concrete has to take place in specialized mixer trucks.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’ve followed our blog over the years, you’ll know that we’ve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why it’s vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 21, 2023

Prior to Flock, he played key leadership roles (including Chief Strategy Officer from 2010-2020) at Coyote Logistics – a UPS Company, a leading provider of non-asset based 3PL solutions across North America and Europe. in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech. Tusk save Shippers 40% or more on small parcel shipping.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We are using Network Design Navigator for two purposes with different data sets: The first one is to optimize proximity in our network allocation for engineers. Lastly, we are using AIMMS’ Secondary Transport Costing App to create informed rate cards for customers taking our cost-to-serve into account.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2015

Guest Commentary Supply Chain Network Design Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Planning Transportation Transportation Management Systems' Service in both […].

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 13, 2015

191 qualified global logistics practitioners were surveyed in 2015 by American Shipper magazine for their seventh annual benchmark study of transportation management. However, here is a distillation of the best practices for approaching transportation and logistics IT initiatives provided at the conclusion of the report.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 20, 2017

Are you using lean in your logistics and transportation management? The transportation company’s culture and behavior should change to apply Lean thinking. Transportation takes time. The list of additional waste generated by transportation goes on and on. 5 Ways to Optimize Your Transportation with Lean.

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Optimal Sourcing Waste Reduction Agile and Lean Supply Chain Inventory Reduction 60

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2020

Transportation RFPs are particularly problematic. Logistics is a constraint and is unpredictable. A transportation RFP is a waste of time—instead, partner with logistics service providers. Get regular price updates and model the impacts using supply chains using strategic network design technologies.

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CHAINalytics

MAY 12, 2021

While this is true across an entire organization, substantive improvements in transportation management presents some unique but ultimately rewarding challenges. The 29th stanza … The post A Data Journey: Making Improvements in Transportation Management appeared first on Chainalytics.

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CHAINalytics

JUNE 9, 2022

Transport keeps supply chains moving. However, the European transport market has recently suffered more disruption than ever before, resulting in many supply chains grinding to a halt.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

While I think this through, here are the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS (WSJ – sub. Embark Self-Driving Truck Completes Coast-to-Coast Test Run (Transport Topics). Infor Launches Networked Order Management.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2014

As I look around, I see examples of Stretch Armstrong in the technology and logistics realms. In the logistics realm, managed services is another example. The post Managed Services: The “Stretch Armstrong” of Logistics appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 2, 2019

Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the 6th century BC, wrote, “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.” ” Logistics in the digital age. Even though the company was global, he discovered, “Logistics was almost an afterthought.”[4]

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Logility

JULY 27, 2022

We all wish logistics problems were so simple, but when we complicate the network, we can often lose the picture of what we are trying to accomplish. The time, cost, and effort of doing a classic network design project can be prohibitive. It is the rare logistics manager who is willing to leave 5–6% savings on the table.

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