Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

As technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) gain traction, the focus has remained on practical applications that yield incremental improvements rather than wholesale infrastructure change. AI-supported systems can consolidate and standardize emissions data, helping organizations comply with evolving disclosure frameworks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Reducing dependency on fossil fuels can mitigate these risks and improve operational predictability. Renewable Energy for Facilities: Warehouses and distribution centers can integrate solar panels and wind turbines to lower energy costs and carbon footprints. Advanced route optimization tools further support these goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping supply chain operations by enabling predictive planning, allowing companies to anticipate disruptions before they occur and adjust operations accordingly. Unlike static forecasting models, AI continuously refines its predictions as new data flows in.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When one thinks of supply chain software vendors, the name InterSystems may not spring to mind. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Senior leaders must think beyond incremental improvements, embracing systemic innovation to achieve significant environmental impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Duncan Angove, CEO Blue Yonder Blue Yonder , is one of the largest providers of supply chain software. In the fourth quarter, we delivered the second largest software bookings in the history of the company. That was driven, in part, by pivoting from selling point solutions to a set of applications on a common platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

This complexity has introduced gaps in visibility and responsiveness that traditional systems werent designed to handle. It is not a technology on its own, but rather a process that combines planning, execution, and monitoring through integrated tools and workflows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced, hyper-competitive, omni-channel world, warehouses play a critical role in maximizing service and fulfilling the ambitious customer promises that are required today. Warehouses also represent an enormous cost center. Volatile demand means warehouses need to pivot quickly when order volumes change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2025

These advancements enable real-time tracking and monitoring, enhance automated systems, and support a larger number of connected devices. Implementing 5G requires careful planning and investment, as it involves upgrading existing systems and ensuring compatibility with new technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Ecosystem Today The logistics ecosystem is being transformed by the rise of connected vehicles equipped with IoT sensors and data-driven technologies. Another challenge is the lack of a skilled workforce that understands both logistics operations and the technical requirements of managing connected vehicles and AI-driven warehouses.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Logility, a conservative company supply chain planning technology, historically had no debt and cash reserves of more than 80M, is undervalued in this deal. Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

If there’s a bright spot anywhere it’s the fact that, as logistics challenges have grown, so has the availability of advanced technologies to manage these challenges. For logistics teams, digital control towers add maximum value when they’re integrated with the transportation management system (TMS). Warehouse Task Automation.

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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. Manufacturing : A smart factory relies on IT-OT integration.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In the age of same-day delivery and rising consumer expectations, there is immense pressure on warehouses to perform at peak efficiency. That’s where warehouse optimization comes in. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components. Ready to get started?

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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 5, 2022

ARC analysts have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. It is therefore unsurprising that these characteristics are central to our 2022 supply chain predictions. Warehouses are likely to address the increasing workloads with a combination of labor and automation.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The global supply chain landscape is undergoing significant transformations, influenced by rapid technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and the intricacies of international commerce. Preparing the next generation to excel in this dynamic field requires more than traditional education methods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Accurate transit time predictions have become more crucial than ever given customer demands and expectations, the cost impacts of late shipments, and dynamic nature of today’s supply chains. The model learns continuously and can adapt to changing conditions in the network.

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Tecsys

MARCH 4, 2025

According to research by Gartner , more than 70% of enterprises are predicted to utilize industry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives by 2027 , a significant increase from less than 15% in 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

It showcases the latest products, technologies, and services from over 900 exhibitors across various sectors and industries. Fetch Robotics This solution consists of a fleet of robots that can navigate autonomously in a warehouse, using sensors, cameras, and lasers to avoid obstacles and collisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. To define what exactly it is, a digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process, or system. changing the structure of the warehouse, modifying processes, etc.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This capital will help scale the company’s Shared Autonomy Platform and expand manufacturing for its TWA Reach forklifts, which integrate AI-driven autonomy with human oversight to optimize labor and safety in warehouse operations. Blynsy Publishes Map of U.S.

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Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

Thats why modern BI systems are quickly becoming the go-to solution for data-driven enterprises. They integrate, align, and activate data across the business to drive better, faster decisions unlike legacy reporting tools that can’t. Early BI systemsmostly OLAP toolsrelied heavily on pre-processed data from warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The hype usually revolves around just one item and can easily be managed by a modern logistics system. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

As we turn the page on 2022 , I’d like to make five supply chain predictions about what to expect for 2023. The aggressive interes t rate hikes by the Federal Reserve are expected to ease as the year progresses, improving predictability and helping address rising cost concerns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Technology will provide significant assistance in this arena by helping design sustainable networks and having risk indicators for ecological, financial, or judicial factors for the multi-tier supplier network. As demand for last mile logistics intensifies, warehouses become the prime candidates for automation.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software integrates all your core business processes into one powerful platform. Think of it as the central nervous system of your operation, connecting everything from production planning and inventory control to supply chain management and financial reporting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

There are some young supply chain technologies that are getting a lot of buzz. But how mature are these technologies? There are also promising technologies that we expect will deliver great value. Finally, there are technologies that do generate value that few people have heard of. Hyped Technologies. Blockchain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

As logistics leaders face growing pressure, from tighter delivery windows to environmental mandates, geopolitical instability, and driver shortages, one technology is proving to be a game changer: V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication. This model is extendable to warehouse-to-terminal shuttles for goods movement.

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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. businesses can better adapt by building supply chain resilience through strategic planning, compliance, and technology.

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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. Manufacturing : A smart factory relies on IT-OT integration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Even with local processing, network variability, particularly in remote warehouses, ports, and along mobile routes, can still cause small but impactful delays. Managing available bandwidth efficiently among many connected devices remains a continuing issue, particularly when scaling systems to significant quantities of distributed resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is not a new technology, but widespread adoption and use of AI and machine learning in supply chain is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, there are indications that AI in the warehouse is becoming a reality a lot sooner than most people might have expected. AI-Based Warehouse Optimization Examples.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Making predictions has become significantly more challenging after the last 18 months. Every year at IDC, we put together a list of predictions designed to guide organizations in creating and/or updating their roadmaps, looking at the impact of technology and processes on businesses, and seeking to quantify that impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With Christmas goods in stores before Halloween this year, I thought there was no reason that we shouldn’t also get a jump on 2022 predictions. Machine learning will go mainstream in supply chain technology. There will be no slow down after the holidays and global supply chains will continue to be challenged. Let me know.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

Until a trailer is unloaded and the warehouse records that inventory, it’s not reflected in the companys warehouse management systems. AI systems can also generate artifacts to help shippers contest penalties more effectively. Labor costs: Forget clipboards, radios, and homegrown management systems.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

ToolsGroup identifies five key drivers shaping the future of supply chains: changing customer expectations, heightened competition, rising operational complexity, technological advancements, and geopolitical tensions. Technological Advancements Real-time inventory tracking and predictive analytics give leading firms a competitive edge.

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