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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China. China’s stringent COVID lockdown in critical port cities has impacted global supply chains. Is this the visibility shippers so desperately need? China accounts for about 12% of global trade.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Achieving Agility with Regional Supply Chains. VF sources many US bound items in Central America; the woeful performance at US ports is still a problem. The company works with 13 ocean carriers and 7 air carriers.

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Supply Chains in Recovery Mode: Forcing C-Level Focus on Digitally Transforming Their Supply Chains for 2022 and Beyond

BlueYonder

Focus on warehouse automation has come full circle since the last big automation movement of the ‘90s, but today with a significantly better set of tools and technological improvements enabling more robust digital transformation and warehouse automation. Brief highlights of logistics investments over the last three decades.

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Digital Transformation: Why It’s Not an “Easy Button”

Talking Logistics

It would be nice if you could just press an “easy button” to be digitally transformed and have all of the supply chain visibility you need, but the reality is that there are many factors that go into making digital transformation a reality. The problem is they don’t have the data to effectively feed those BI tools.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 5-9, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Infor and Integration Point Partner to Create Comprehensive, Network-based Global Trade Management Solution. CX North America Expands Driver Mobile App with Digital Proof of Delivery Update. Once complete, P&G said its new supply chain will enable 80% of U.S. Infor Launches Networked Order Management.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Similarly, suppose your company needs to purchase materials or goods within a foreign territory, for example.

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The Benefits of IoT And Real Time Actionable Data

Gravity Supply Chain

However, many businesses still fall short of doing so, with many supply chain managers throughout the world still struggling to gain accurate visibility into the movement of goods throughout the end to end supply chain. While it’s widely known that IoT is an essential enabler for supply chain visibility.