The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

With its ability to derive insights from vast amounts of data and derive insights, generative AI has emerged as a valuable tool to optimize supply chain operations. AI models have grown tenfold, representing a step-change in AI capabilities, creating new use cases across the supply chain. Generative AI is all about scale.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A New Model for Grocery Delivery with Sean Coakley. Sean Coakley and Joe Lynch discuss a new model for grocery delivery. Sean is the Chief Commercial Officer of Capstone Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled warehouse services, freight management, and last mile distribution solutions. About Sean Coakley.

Modeling Software 130

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. Uberization: Exploring On-Demand Transportation, Labor and Warehousing. then secure on-demand transportation, warehousing and labor assets dynamically, re-planning flexibly as conditions change.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs. The bulk business also involves filling the tanks of businesses that use propane as an energy source.

Forecasting 167

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

Purchasing Skills 73

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 9, 2024

With the advancement of transportation, like wheels and navigation techniques, transport to distant territories was completed over shorter periods. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to large-scale production and transportation efficiency, which led to the modern logistics landscape that we know today.

Supply Chain Design Software 76

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Ware2Go

MAY 4, 2023

Drayage is the movement of a shipping container from a cargo import location, such as a port, to an end location (typically a warehouse ). While supply sourcing strategies may be optimizing for global supply chains, drayage will always be vital in getting cargo from A-to-B.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

It’s time to focus on how we innovate and optimize our businesses and operations in this permanently altered world. There are lively debates about the meaning and prioritization of scale, globalization, outsourcing, and inventory optimization. Changes in our lives, economies and supply chains are ubiquitous and well embedded now.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Seen optimistically, this challenging trade environment is a catalyst for a slew of innovative measures and creative tactics to mitigate tariff costs – although one could argue that supply chain optimization from a cost and performance perspective is something that firms should already be doing on an ongoing basis. This practice is illegal.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Vinculum

MARCH 18, 2021

The Digi-Smart manufacturing process empowers enterprises to gain control of their warehouses and ensures that products can be delivered to customers as quickly as possible. This wave of change has made warehouses smarter and more agile. Some experts say that within five years high-performance warehouses will be fully autonomous.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Manufacturers can gather valuable granular data such as the time an item spent in storage, at what temperature, how long it took to sell, the length of time between purchase and fulfillment and how long it spent in transport. Robotics enabled with AI and ML augment the work of humans in warehouses and distribution centers.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. ? Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . transportation management optimization ?to

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 24, 2021

Technologies to optimize Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Arra at No-BS Marketplace. Latest Technologies Available To Help Different Supply Chain Models. To give you more insight, this article explores seven technologies to optimize Supply Chain. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Cloud Computing.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Optimizing your warehouse means examining every corner of your infrastructure and every facet of your workflows and processes to identify and correct inefficiencies. Not only does warehouse optimization result in a healthier bottom line, but it also improves key warehouse metrics like accurate orders and on-time delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

The problem was that when the planning solution spit out recommendations, and someone in sourcing or someone on the factory floor looked at those recommendations, they just did not believe them. Meanwhile, inventory optimization and production scheduling are more of a black box. Here the model gets more complex.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

In these times of global turmoil, there are five (5) important megatrends shaping supply chain innovations in the coming years, namely in e-fulfillment, sourcing, food and agriculture, labour intensive operations, and halal supply chain management. Companies need to re-evaluate their supply chain strategies, if they are still most optimal.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

In traditional advanced planning applications (APS) for a manufacturing company, the forecasting model’s role is to generate a time-series forecast in the tactical horizon (outside of lead time). (An In traditional planning taxonomies, the tactical forecast is modeled, and the operational signal is calculated using consumption logic.

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Logility

JULY 29, 2022

How to properly optimize your logistics network with network design. In the world of optimization this is known as an “infinite space” problem — this future distribution center can be placed anywhere. Not only is this model difficult to build, but the candidate list is also both limited and subject to error.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic. For the longest time modeling and designing such nodes, modes, and flows has been the realm of Supply Chain Design. The technology is reaching such an inflection point.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Last year, the ripple effects from new tariffs on imports from China rocked warehouses and ports in America. At the Port of Los Angeles, for example, a sudden rush of shipments overloaded the local warehouse market. The end result was a logistical nightmare and raised transportation costs. How can you prepare?

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ModusLink Corporation

APRIL 27, 2023

ESG supply chain management is critical to maximizing the benefits of omnichannel ecommerce and warehousing and distribution services. The Shipper’s Role in Global Fulfillment and Trade Shippers are responsible for transporting goods from the point of origin to the end of consumption.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Key Takeaways: Warehousing and distribution face unprecedented pressures from COVID-19 disruption, commoditization, labor shortages and rising customer expectations. Warehouse automation is an effective way to gain efficiencies, cut costs and scale operations. Physical warehouse automation is costly. High warehouse turnover.

Warehousing 59

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Key Takeaways: Warehousing and distribution face unprecedented pressures from COVID-19 disruption, commoditization, labor shortages and rising customer expectations. Warehouse automation is an effective way to gain efficiencies, cut costs and scale operations. Physical warehouse automation is costly. High warehouse turnover.

Warehousing 59

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Taulia

APRIL 5, 2023

A more efficient supply chain reduces the cost of procurement, manufacturing, transportation, and other business operations, resulting in higher margins. This is the fundamental process through which they decide which supply chain model is right for them. Fast chain Speed and agility are prioritized in the fast chain model.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. The links below are paid links.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2024

Suppose you stay ahead of trends like AI optimization, blockchain transparency, and sustainable practices. AI-powered optimization AI-powered optimizations change supply chain management, as they find ground in the machine learning and AI rise. And considering Amazon’s success, it’s safe to say the model works.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

20, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in AI-driven retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, is proud to announce that CEO Inna Kuznetsova has been selected as a recipient of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 2022 Women in Supply Chain award. I’m proud to call these women mentors, role models and industry friends.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog was co-written by Terence Leung and Jen McQuiston Our customers depend on Blue Yonder Transportation Management to achieve customer-centricity and operational resiliency across the globe. Transportation Optimization microservice: top-tier Blue Yonder planning made available to wider audience via a standalone API.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

This system uses giant warehouses, lots of trucks, and even cool robots to move things quickly. We’ll look at their warehouses, their delivery tricks, and even how they use new technology to make things faster. The inner workings of logistics at Amazon are a marvel of efficiency, precision, and constant innovation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 24, 2023

This process involves multiple stages, including receiving the order, getting parts and materials, manufacturing or assembling the items, picking and packing in the warehouse, shipping, and tracking the shipment to ensure successful delivery. Sourcing and receiving — most companies use suppliers to provide parts or materials or a product.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I remember well when we got to the safety stock calculation asking him how we updated the optimization engine for network variability. The warehouse was bursting at the seams and the calculation did not seem quite right. Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 18, 2024

These businesses struggle to collect data that is scattered all across their supply chain and in third-party sources. He gives a couple of examples: “Say illness leaves you short-staffed at a particular warehouse. Or say there’s some issue in your transportation network, such as shipping delays caused by bad weather.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to Gartner , decision intelligence is “a practical domain framing a wide range of decision-making techniques bringing multiple traditional and advanced disciplines together to design, model, align, execute, monitor and tune decision models and processes. Why is Decision Intelligence Important in the Supply Chain?

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It optimizes the network, but it doesn’t optimize inventory across the network – a shortcut that can lead to a different network once the inventory is optimized. Traditional strategic network design is based on optimizing the network flows within a constrained service time to the end customer. Here’s why.

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