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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. This increases sales.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Ecosystem Software– Apache Pig, Hive, HBase, Phoenix, Zookeeper, Impala, Flume, Oozie and Storm. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities. Why Should you Care?

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

Despite High-Profile Retail Cancellations, U.S. Despite billion-dollar order cancellations from mega-retailers like Walmart and Target, U.S. So the shortage will continue, but for some sellers, the problem will be too much inventory.”. Container Imports Remain High. container imports are near record-setting. imports totaled 2.53

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Understanding Today’s Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!

Arkieva

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. Manufacturing 3.0 Hypes are both a threat and opportunity to retailers. The retailer that can detect the hype first, will be able to maximize their share of the supply.

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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Process is a very big topic, but two sets of processes are worth mentioning in more detail are Ferguson’s sourcing and global trade compliance processes. Lead times expanded even for domestic manufacturers because they sourced raw materials from overseas.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. View the full post or view the snippet below: I attended the Gartner conference in Phoenix and heard from many speakers and analysts. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/….