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Generative AI: Cheat Code to a More Competitive Supply Chain Business?

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology is coming to a supply chain near you, and the sooner you understand it and get comfortable with it, the better positioned you will be when hits the industry in full force. A transportation manager comes in to start the day. The bot responds, “The customer in Louisville does not approve the upcharge.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution – Possibly the Most Important Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Source: US DoD. This article was written to concisely aggregate and communicate that information from a supply chain perspective. The Covid-19 supply chain is incredibly complex, involving large volumes and numerous partners. FedEx and UPS will be the partners responsible for vaccine transportation.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution – Possibly the Most Important Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

This article was written to concisely aggregate and communicate that information from a supply chain perspective. The Covid-19 supply chain is incredibly complex, involving large volumes and numerous partners. FedEx and UPS will be the partners responsible for vaccine transportation. Government to date.

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Winter Storm Alert: Ice Storms in the Making Across the US

GlobalTranz

Source: NOAA. The impacts of this serve ice storm can last for days and will disrupt transportation in the region. Louisville, KY. The GlobalTranz team will continue to track the impact of this storm system on shippers and carriers in the affected regions and assist with any weather-related supply chain disruptions.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021. The Covid pandemic continues to slow down global economies and supply chains. The United States Postal Service will slow delivery times for a third of its first-class packages in an effort to cut costs and its dependency on air transportation amid financial struggles.

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3D Printing Changes the Supply Chain

Kinaxis

This also introduces a whole new issue to supply chain and the manufacturing process–protection of intellectual property (IP), in the form of the digital files being sent to 3D printers. Printers can be a vast source of digital information based on the memory they possess.

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Easier than reducing carbon footprint – 5 Steps to make a dent in the Huge and Hidden Cost of CPG Sustainability

GlobalTranz

LTL gets even trickier according to a report by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. . It’s out of sight of the commentators and activists, and none of the supply chain stakeholders will realize a financial gain by solving it. It’s seemingly an intractable problem that represents, according to some data, nearly.1%