Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They offer software systems and technology for complex integration, rapid application development, and advanced analytics and sell those solutions to companies that need to accelerate optimized business outcomes. Marketing may want an optimization scenario that costs more but leads to maximum service levels for a new product.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

APRIL 15, 2025

Companies now must make strategic decisions regarding pricing, shipping, supply chains and overall logistics. Below, we provide nine tips to optimize your shipping and tell you how a third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you during these difficult times.

Material Savings

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. That is the beauty of a platform enabled by AI.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2025

If so, optimizing your inventory management strategy can be a game-changer. Imagine shipping products directly from your supplier to your customer while maintaining the appearance that your business is the source. That's what you get from blind shipping, and we're here to tell you all about it!

Inventory Reduction

RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. Additionally, we’ll discuss best practices for optimization and strategies for balancing efficiency with resilience.

Sourcing Strategies

ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Optimize Inventory and Pricing Use AI-driven insights for stock mix optimization and dynamic pricing, reducing excess stock while meeting service level goals. Optimize Distribution Networks Adapt warehouse locations and logistics for localized supply chains.

Price Reduction

Kinaxis

AUGUST 11, 2025

But many companies have deployed sophisticated solutions that enable them to plan proactively: creating multiple scenarios, optimizing outcomes across different tariff structures, and protecting their bottom lines through advanced analytics and integrated planning systems. Since then, few sectors have remained unscathed.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

auto parts are sourced from Mexico, making the tariff impact immediate and severe. Exploring alternative shipping routes via Gulf Coast ports to bypass land border congestion. Fast-tracking partnerships with alternative logistics providers to bypass Chinese ports and avoid tariffed shipping routes. Approximately 40% of U.S.

Mexico

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

Modeling

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Technology can change or even improve work. Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. The concept was that managing trade-offs and optimizing the whole to drive business outcomes would improve value. Only 1% of the students are improving demand against the naive forecast.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

And cross-functional teams — from procurement and sales to finance and customer service — are left scrambling to react. Multimodal in Practice At a basic level, multimodal shipping can refer to using two or more distinct modes — such as truck, rail, air or ocean — in a single supply chain. That means going multimodal.

Freight

RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

This critical aspect of optimization is often overshadowed by flashier supply chain trends. By ensuring optimal stock levels where demand exists, businesses can minimize holding costs, prevent lost sales due to stockouts, and ultimately, keep customers happy. The problem lies in effectively balancing inventory across the supply chain.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. We can run a plan simulation to maximize revenue, maximize shipments, maximize the customer experience, or minimize transportation costs.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2025

From Simple Connectivity to Intelligent Infrastructure The initial wave of warehouse IoT was driven by a desire to reduce energy use and improve visibility. LoRaWAN A long-range, low-power protocol that supports applications across large outdoor areas, such as shipping yards, intermodal facilities, and cold chain transport.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

At the outset, shippers may see Hawaiian shipping as an extension of their mainland operations, to which they can apply the same strategies and the same playbook. Building an effective shipping strategy for Hawaii is a moving target. These assumptions quickly receive a reality check.

Hawaii

ThroughPut

AUGUST 12, 2025

At the core of every successful enterprise are four critical functions: supply chain management, logistics, transportation, and operations. Understanding the differences between supply chain, logistics, transportation, and operations is crucial for effective business planning, reducing delays, and controlling costs. What Is Logistics?

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If you can identify with one or more of them, you’ll find a tip or two here to help remedy the situation and improve warehouse layout efficiency. 5 Ways to Achieve Efficient Warehouse Design: Improve Layout Efficiency & Save Costs! 2 Meandering Pickers Time is money and distance is time.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. Optimizing AI models for edge hardware is another area of difficulty. Maersk has introduced Remote Container Management for its shipping containers.

Real-time Visibility

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Of course, AI is already in use in the supply chain, adding its capabilities to myriad other efforts to optimize operational efficiency. Image: iStock/JuSun June 18, 2025 Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed,” wrote William Gibson in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. trillion to U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

Behind the scenes of every successful business lies a well-orchestrated machine made up of four critical functions: supply chain, logistics, transportation, and operations. What Is Transportation? Real-World Example: Amazon’s two-day delivery is a result of highly optimized logistics, not just fast transportation.

Optimal Sourcing

GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2025

A reliable third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you create a secure, resilient shipping strategy that safeguards your freight — and your peace of mind. Cargo theft refers to the criminal act of stealing goods while they are being transported or stored. The good news? Shippers don't have to face this threat alone.

3PL

Freight Waves

JULY 31, 2025

The awards recognize innovative companies leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize supply chain, transportation, and logistics operations. This innovation allows logistics teams to focus on customer relationships, improving margins and service delivery without disrupting operations. CloneOps.ai

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 9, 2025

With 30+ years in international container shipping, Michael brings a rare dual lens as both a BCO and former ocean carrier. Global Events and Tariffs Significantly Impact Cotton: Geopolitical shifts, economic fluctuations, and tariffs directly reshape cotton logistics strategies, influencing everything from sourcing to transportation costs.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The acquisition is expected to enhance synergies across LGs robotics business, enabling the creation of an integrated software platform for commercial, industrial, and home robots, ultimately streamlining development cycles and improving user experiences.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

Shipping packaging materials comes with its own set of challenges that can disrupt operations and impact profitability. Optimize Freight Efficiency : Consider consolidating shipments or utilizing alternative transportation modes to offset higher costs.

Material Savings

TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This trend, known as reshoring , is driving the emergence of regionalized freight networks , optimizing supply chains for efficiency, cost savings, and resilience. Aerospace and transportation equipment companies are investing in Arizona and New Mexico. Southwest U.S.

Supply Chain Network Software

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The acquisition is expected to enhance synergies across LGs robotics business, enabling the creation of an integrated software platform for commercial, industrial, and home robots, ultimately streamlining development cycles and improving user experiences.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Businesses must find effective ways to strengthen their networks and improve flexibility to maintain stability during uncertain times. Structured methodologies, risk assessment tools, and agile frameworks allow companies to improve coordination, enhance decision-making, and ensure they remain adaptable to disruptions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 8, 2025

From sourcing premium raw ingredients to delivering each fresh pint to customers, breweries face a host of complex challenges. Sourcing High-Quality Raw Materials Quality is king in brewing. Hurdles in Shipping and Distribution Venturing into global markets naturally brings both opportunities and challenges for brewers.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Higher Costs and Lower Profits: While recession may incur low demand, operational costs such as energy and transportation can remain high or fluctuate unpredictably. Shipping networks may experience delays and disruptions, potentially exacerbated by cost-cutting measures within the logistics sector.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2025

Great Packaging Optimizes Supply Chain Management The supply chain facilitates the movement of products and services. Furthermore, supply chain management involves product planning, raw material sourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, and distribution. A great packaging design can optimize the production process.

Packaging

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. AI can integrate with procurement platforms, utility meters, logistics trackers and internet of things sensors to gather real-time data. Retailers are following suit.

Rail Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

The technology reduces risks, operational errors, delays and waste, while simultaneously improving the customer journey. AI-driven decision intelligence will be critical for faster optimization of business processes, coupled with better and more precise decision-making at all operational and tactical levels, but how does it work?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. But as Lora said, there is little point in applying AI to give us better optimizers and taxonomies when the basic assumptions behind globalization have been fundamentally undermined.

Optimal Sourcing

ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from?

Purchasing Skills

ThroughPut

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Therefore, optimizing spare parts management is crucial for the success of supply chain, manufacturing, and maintenance operations. Sourcing Procurement of spare parts is complex, requiring careful consideration of factors such as customer demand, supplier risks, compliance, and delivery times.

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Meanwhile, LogiSYM Asia Pacific, a well-established event with over a decade of history, brought together professionals from supply chain, logistics, and shipping sectors for strategic discussions on resilience, digitalization, sustainability, and global trade dynamics.

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