Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Read more The post Key Takeaways from SAP Logistics Info Days 2023 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. In 2022, having a bit more room to breathe, companies started to reflect on the lessons learned from the previous two years (e.g., we need to make our supply chains more resilient).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2024

SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3rd through the 5th in Orlando. 12,000 SAP customers and partners attended the event, and another 15,000 watched remotely. SAP (NYSE: SAP) is the world’s largest provider of enterprise applications. However, SAP has 27,000 customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2021

This week, SAP announced the intention to build business communities to drive improved outcomes. ” The focus is on combining the Ariba Networks, the SAP Logistics Business Network, and the SAP Asset Intelligence Network. SAP’s argument is that the solution benefits 5.5 I say, “About time.”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What are some big trends in the logistics industry that are not only having an impact today but will continue to shape the future of the logistics industry moving forward? That was the opening question in a recent LinkedIn Live event produced by SAP titled “The Future of Logistics, NOW.” Andy Hancock from SAP was.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Suppliers using blockchain for supply chains: IBMs TradeLens, VeChain, SAP Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric What Are Smart Contracts and How Do They Work? 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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Talking Logistics

MAY 19, 2023

I also spent a busy two days at SAP Sapphire earlier this week (stay tuned for my takeaways). Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 19, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Needless to say, I’ve logged a lot of steps and miles the.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2025

Read more The post Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q2 2025) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Maybe it’s cheating, but my soundtrack is a melody of all those.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

Last week I was at the SAP Sapphire conference, and this week I was at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2023 conference. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (May 26, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. It’s been a busy two weeks of traveling, learning, and networking.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 6, 2024

Tom Raftery and Joe Lynch discuss triple bottom line logistics. Tom advises logistics and supply chain companies on technology, sustainability, and communications Summary: Triple Bottom Line Logistics Tom Raftery , a sustainability expert, discusses the importance of triple bottom line logistics in the supply chain industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 21, 2020

In a freewheeling discussion at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, I spoke with Richard Howells, Vice President Marketing Digital Supply Chain at SAP about the trends, customer expectations, the challenges, and imperatives of digital transformation in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Competition : The aggressive marketing of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors introducing planning suites (led by SAP with a product named SAP APO) took the market off course. It did not matter that most of them had integrated to SAP suites for over a decade. During this time, I worked for Manugistics. Study Results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Memsud Musabasic, a director of global distribution, joined KRONOS in 2019 to support the objectives and leverage SAP to drive value across all supply chain layers including physical distribution network, planning and execution layers. Unfortunately, SAP was implemented in a way that preserved the old fragmented operating process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

So, we deploy an agent on an SAP environment. The post Executives Exploring AI Need to Understand Data Fabrics appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. “If you want to digitize decision-making, you need 100% of the information required for a decision to be made available in a normalized data model.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 18, 2025

Industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters founder Bob Ferrari provides observations and insights garnered from the SAP Sapphire customer conference held in May. SAP ’s goal of several years ago related to growing revenues and profitability has shown positive momentum.

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RFgen

APRIL 3, 2025

Without real-time insight into inventory, logistics, and production planning, organizations face the potential for costly inefficiencies, operational delays, and unrealized opportunities. It ensures that activities such as demand forecasting, inventory management, and logistics coordination are in alignment with business objectives.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

​​Every Friday on Talking Logistics I share news headlines related to supply chain and logistics. For the past two weeks, SAP (a Talking Logistics sponsor) has been using AI and a human artist “to turn. What if I fed those news headlines into a generative AI engine to create images? What would they look like?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales. AI will allow the extended enterprise to further connect logistics and production execution, create more visibility, and thus be more nimble and more proactive in terms of how we run the entire enterprise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2014

As we have outsourced logistics and manufacturing, I firmly believe that we need to get more serious about the building of Business-to-Business (B2B) networks. These are one-to-many and many-to-many architectures that connect logistics providers, contract manufacturers and suppliers into true supply networks. It is important.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2014

Transportation and Logistics Industry Trends. These trends stand to impact the transportation and logistics industry, with some already taking hold and others unfolding gradually. Each trend has the potential to transform the logistics industry. Each trend has the potential to transform the logistics industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oracle and SAP are the two largest suppliers of enterprise applications are also leaders in the supply chain planning (SCP) market, but the leadership is being contested. The post SAP and Oracle vs. The Best of Breeds: Lessons from the Supply Chain Planning Market appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 3, 2016

At the SAP Insider SCM CRM 2016 event in Vienna this month, Ulrich Mast presented the current status and the planned future for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), including SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer PPDS (SAP APO PPDS) within the SAP Supply Chain Management suite (SCM) and S/4HANA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The combination of supply chain planning and real-time visibility can lead to bigger benefits than either can provide alone.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The SAP staff observes, “The top supply chain optimization priorities havent really changed for decades, even centuries: Make sure customers are happy, increase efficiency and profitability, and balance supply and demand.”[2] ” Logistics optimization. ” SAP Explainer, 19 August 2024. [3]

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) provided better visibility but lacked inter-organizational trust (meaning companies still had to rely on each others internal data without independent verification) and suffered from vendor lock-in (high switching costs when a company becomes too dependent on a particular software vendor).

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Wholesalers 8 Steps to Drive Distributor Excellence Connect with Enchange Online Posts by Topics Dave Jordan (432) FMCG (385) Supply Chain (249) S&OP (226) Route to Market (196) Forecasting & Demand Planning (176) Performance Improvement (175) Distribution (134) Traditional Trade (114) Sales (112) CEO (111) Inventory Management & Stock (..)

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the authors of a July 2021 Boston Consulting Group article state, Read more The post Bringing Together Supply Chain and Logistics Collaboration with Business Networks appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. One of the key lessons learned is the importance of creating a resilient supply chain.

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Jaggaer

JULY 3, 2025

Today, however, TGW Logistics is also benefiting from significant cost savings: in 2023 alone, process costs were reduced by around 2.4 Today, however, TGW Logistics is also benefiting from significant cost savings: in 2023 alone, process costs were reduced by around 2.4 million euros. million euros.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2014

SAP Patent Application for Mobile Device Is Published (WSJ – sub. Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. Announces the Acquisition of ADS Logistics. FedEx Ground loses new legal round with labor (Logistics Management). Finally, is SAP thinking about getting into the mobile device industry? req’d)).

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. Both are leaders in this market.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2022

Read more Disruption Denied: How Next-Generation Logistics Create A Resilient Supply Chain. The post Disruption Denied: How Next-Generation Logistics Create A Resilient Supply Chain appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. But then again, ships of.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2024

Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (April 26, 2024) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. I haven’t seen him yet, I’ve only heard his peck, peck, peck. He’s taunting me, I know. But I won’t let him get under my skin, peck.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

So, without further delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: UPS, Overwhelmed by Online Orders, Warns of Delivery Delays (WSJ – sub. Descartes Integrates Transportation Messaging and Customs Filing with SAP®. Rake today, shovel tomorrow. My exercise plans for the weekend are set.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

Or I can just wing it and go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week. Cloud Logistics Announces Record Revenue, Growth and Innovation for 2017. HERE expands partnership with SAP to offer location-enhanced business applications. I’ll let you guess which option I took this morning.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Freight Push Rattles Logistics Sector (WSJ – sub. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Freight Push Rattles Logistics Sector (WSJ – sub.

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