Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. This article explores how digital twins are being deployed in transportation, warehousing, and network design.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A term once prominent in supply discussions optimization isn’t heard quite as often as it used to be. That doesn’t mean optimization isn’t as important now as it has been in the past. Also, validated financial statements are key in the underlying optimization models. Quite the opposite.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we will delve into strategic ways for warehouse managers to eliminate waste, with a focus on not only optimizing the use of cartons and packing, but labor resources and warehouse space as well. Packing efficiently is essential for maximizing storage capacity and minimizing waste in the warehouse.

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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. Tensions flare in the Middle East without warning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2021

Today’s article is from Lucas Systems and highlights the benefits of machine learning in the warehouse. Real-world uses of AI in business have exploded in the past decade, but few of those applications are focused on warehousing and distribution. This article provides an introduction to machine learning for warehouse managers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Integrate with External Tools and Data: AI Agents can augment their inherent language model capabilities with APIs and tools (e.g., data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities. Achieving these goals requires visibility into the entire supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Recent disruptions have exposed significant vulnerabilities in traditional models, driven by geopolitical instability, fluctuating demand, and operational inefficiencies. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory models, lean supplier networks, and offshore manufacturing reduced expenses but left companies exposed to disruptions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 7, 2025

Subscribe Responsible Sourcing! Sustainability has become a core focus for industries worldwide, and warehousing is no exception. Modern warehouses are not just storage spaces—they are dynamic hubs of activity that play a critical role in supply chain efficiency. Making Sustainability Happen for Real!

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years. Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Innovation Pillars: Diagnose: primarily powered by Infor Process Mining, this capability helps organizations gain visibility into business processes, uncover non-conforming variants, identify critical bottlenecks, and optimize operations based on data. Smart Import is also being leveraged to accelerate data integration from various sources.

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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.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. By harnessing the power of data science and analytics, you can gain end-to-end visibility across your entire network, breaking down information silos and optimizing every stage of your operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2025

Think of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the drought in the Panama Canal, the Russia-Ukraine war, blockage of the Suez Canal, or the 2024 International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) strike at East and Gulf ports. digital twins) to visualize and assess the outcomes of different planned responses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

The logistics, supply chain, freight transportation, warehousing, and inventory management sectors often operate on razor-thin margins. Leading operators in all these sectors have, of necessity, developed a focus on maximizing the lifespan of assets by optimizing their Operations and Maintenance activities.

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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.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

This model simplifies the world of RtM into a series of three steps that any RtM practitioner can execute. Here are the Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts to help you build a high-performing RTM model and distributor network: ✅Top 5 Do’s Do Align RTM Strategy with Consumer Behaviour : Design your RTM based on where, how, and why your consumers shop.

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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. Below, we outline three ways blind shipping can help optimize your logistics, keep inventories healthy and save you money!

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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. As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ? The good news is many of the survey’s respondents recognize the potential of more advanced optimization solutions. In the context of disruptions like COVID-19, scenario modeling can make considerable difference – Tweet this.

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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. Even with local processing, network variability, particularly in remote warehouses, ports, and along mobile routes, can still cause small but impactful delays.

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Logility

JUNE 28, 2022

With Starboard’s Digital Twin Technology, Logility Clients Can Better Answer “What if” Scenarios and Optimize Supply Chain Networks to Overcome Disruptions and Drive Growth. The solution is built for continuous use, eliminating the need for a consulting project to model potential resolutions to unexpected supply chain disruptions.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They need new trucks, new warehousing space, new micro-fulfillment facilities — but high interest rates and rising real estate prices make them reluctant to invest. More and more LSPs are adopting the fourth-party logistics (4PL) business model, in which they offer complete, turnkey management of customer supply chains.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2025

The convergence of artificial intelligence and digital networking technologies is fundamentally reshaping our operating models. The new model combines AI’s ability to process millions of data points with digital twins that simulate outcomes, allowing human experts to focus on strategic exceptions rather than routine operations.

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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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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In supply chain operations, it plays a crucial role in mitigating risks, improving response times, and optimizing workflows. These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves. By using its main principles, companies can: Identify risks early and develop contingency plans.

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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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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

There has been a lot of discussion around this topic lately and I wanted to offer a few insights, including around the importance of the data model in high-quality decision making using digital twins. These are virtual counterparts to the physical world that model a product’s uniqueness and its lifecycle.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 29, 2020

The magic of machine learning is the fact that it is able to sort through the space of infinite possible solutions in an optimal way and find a solution which does not overthink the data too much, and that’s okay. No effort required to set up (careful data sourcing and data preparation is fundamental).

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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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Logility

JUNE 5, 2024

Enter Inventory Optimization (IO) as a vital strategy to combat supply chain stress. Yet, recent research suggests a more advanced approach, Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO), surpasses traditional methods. They include costs, demand signals, supply volatility, and sourcing.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 3, 2021

In my previous blog , we delved into the paradigm shift in warehouse and distribution center (DC) functions and uncovered key themes and insights from our live Q&A with Reuters Events, Prologis and Henkel held on June 29. Operational Visibility. Accelerating Transformation. DELMIA can help you accelerate your transformation journey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its US supply chain operations to support a strategy to transition the supply chain network into a fully-integrated, self-distribution model. Sources of Efficiency. Final Word.

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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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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

More findings on the cloud cargo transportation and warehouse management systems you may discover on the web. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. The cloud-based logistics is a “pay-per-use” model.

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Logility

MAY 31, 2023

The Optimization Advantages of a Redesigned Supply Chain Network Cost optimization is one of the most popular supply chain initiatives. Yet, annually refreshed models can be more supportive of yearly contracting processes and decision-making around in-sourcing and outsourcing logistics services.

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