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Mastering Disruption: A Smarter, More Connected Approach

Logistics Viewpoints

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. Terence earned an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, and an Electrical Engineering degree from MIT.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

The Celanese Supply Chain Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a global chemical and specialty materials company with revenues of over $10 billion. The company operates in over 20 countries and has over 12,000 employees. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world. Al Syed elaborated.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

E2open was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Nexus model can also provide the kind of data that digital twins that are based on a static planning model struggle to provide true lead times (and other supply chain throughput/cycle time metrics). Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g.,

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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

Make it your New Year’s resolution to start using this more granular metric. When an item is out of stock in their Massachusetts warehouse, they’ll overnight it from their Texas warehouse just to make sure they fill the order. Or they will run an overtime shift, at premium labor rates.

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Three Lies and a Truth

Supply Chain Shaman

We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics. West Texas crude is now selling for 3X the price in the 1990s.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, E2open is the largest provider of transportation execution solutions. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist. The company is focused on ocean shipping. project44 is a private company headquartered in Chicago.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ahead of the April 8 total solar eclipse , which will stretch from Texas to Maine, some state transportation departments are advising truckers to consider staying off the roads as traffic is expected to be severely impacted by people traveling to see the astronomical event.