Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal made the point that every year, there are 9 billion hours of wasted time for truck drivers due to planning inefficiencies, especially when it comes to loads not being ready, not being able to be unloaded, or congestion around ports and warehouses. As a result, FourKites has moved from a single product company to a platform company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, and machine learning, to name a few. In a conversation with Blue Yonder executives, they pointed out that retailers are looking at port diversification for improved sourcing and allocation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, robotics, and machine learning, to name a few. The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots. Warehouse vacancy rates sink to 27-year low. In early April, employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island made history by becoming the first Amazon warehouse to vote to join a union (JFK8 fulfillment center). Demand for piece-picking robots gains steam.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 19, 2019

by Richard Cushing In part one of my inventory management best practices series I argue that inventory cannot be managed until it is controlled, and present the notion our general willingness to apportion blame upon unreliable data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is misplaced. This isn’t because the ERP system is flawed.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Should supply chain delays occur, companies can more easily identify the source of bottlenecks and take action to improve processes. A variety of other technologies, such as robots and advanced warehouse management systems, leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for data-driven decision-making.

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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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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The overarching rule that all actions taken are meant to meet the needs of the present society without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their own needs, is a key driver. From just being environmentally friendly, it has become a holistic framework that encompasses the environment, social and corporate governance.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2023

On-time shipping For a delivery to be made on time, it needs to go out on time. On-time shipping is a metric that evaluates how many orders are shipped on or before the scheduled departure. The metric is a ratio of the number of items shipped on time divided by the total of shipped items.

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Logility

JUNE 30, 2022

Organizations must use every means at their disposal to keep goods moving while at the same time preventing their most important resource – their talent – from jumping ship at an alarming pace. Reroute orders to other warehouses and manufacturing locations. Solving the labor crunch also means exploring new sources of supply.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When it comes to the state of working in America, warehouses have seen a huge increase of workers with over 1,000,000 total since the start of 2018. Warehouses, often full of moving machinery carrying heavy loads, are inherently one of the most dangerous places to work. Safe warehouse processes aren’t just the responsible bar to set.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On the supply side, material shortages, staffing challenges, and shipping capacity constraints are all happening at the same time. Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

As driver pay increases, so does the incidence of drivers jumping ship, switching companies for the next best payday. Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. In a word, it’s data.

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RFgen

MARCH 10, 2023

Order picking is a critical process in warehouse management that involves selecting items from inventory and assembling them into customer orders. The accuracy and speed of this process have a significant impact on warehouse efficiency, customer satisfaction, and ultimately, business profitability. My Warehouse is a Mess!

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 8, 2023

warehouse order picker packing and sealing cardboard box with tape for dispatch As shippers and importers, there are many factors to consider when packaging and shipping products. Despite declines in the shipping industry, rates are still higher than average, putting new pressure on packaging and distribution strategies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 8, 2019

Disruptive Warehouse Technologies for Any Company! The Warehouse is a central part of Supply Chain Management in any organization. Automation is a boon to achieve these two important goals in any warehouse operations. Scanning is considered as the most labor intensive operation in the warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 14, 2021

Whether shipping COVID-19 vaccines, test kits or ventilators ; office supplies; clothing; or groceries, some shippers rode thorough preparedness to a competitive advantage in 2020. Fundamental shifts of e-commerce and consumer behavior took shape in 2020 and presented new and unprecedented challenges.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

In simple terms business procurement is the process of locating and acquiring goods and services from external sources for the business to use. Procurement activities include planning, sourcing, and negotiation, along with risk management, legal and value analysis. What is procurement? Undamaged shipment rate.

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Unleashed

JUNE 23, 2021

Multi-warehousing efficiencies. Warehouse automation. And in terms of inventory management the cloud is key to: Tracking inventory location and levels in real time, even for remote warehouses. Warehouse and logistics staff can use portable technology to improve efficiency at work, such as scanning and picking.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s just the latest in a string of patents that span the gamut from smart stores to flying warehouses. It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016. Find a way to know sooner and act faster.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2021

VMI works well for Amazon’s inventory because it puts the responsibility on the supplier to maintain the right inventory levels in Amazon’s warehouse. This allows Amazon to concentrate on other aspects of the transaction, like shipping, returns and processing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Warehouses are full, and supply chain leaders are using containers as overflow warehouses adding to port snarls. To put this in perspective, if they had no planning system and no planners and just assumed that they would ship based on prior shipments, the forecast would be better, and the inventory levels more accurate.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You can see three warehouses and almost every warehouse shipped to each destination city. Find the case where a customer node is right near the Alabama warehouse but is shipped from the Nevada warehouse. This means something is going to change — a new port, new warehouse location, new route to the customer.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rather than relying on store managers to navigate local purchases, Procurement can add value by organizing the effort, evaluating and sourcing local suppliers, negotiating best pricing and delivery options, and automating the process by using technology to simplify inventory management at the local level. Attack GNFR Spend.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 8, 2022

MODEX 2022’s tagline presented a tall order for the conference to fill, but this event was up for the challenge. Shippers Need to Aggregate Their Data Sources Into a Single Source of Truth. A second common thread throughout MODEX 2022 was the necessity to collect data from all sources into a single reference point.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Key features include the tracking of concise milestones to bring supply chain transparency, a completely digital document repository to facilitate real time sharing and confirmation of shipping documents, exception management, and many other collaboration tool-kits. a) Real-time Shipping Milestones. c) Collaborative Chat.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2024

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. Coast Guard authorities are assured that the bridge debris and/or underwater obstacles are sufficiently cleared for cargo ship navigation.

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Unleashed

APRIL 12, 2023

B2B fulfillment presents unique challenges and benefits not found in standard B2C fulfillment processes. Here are some more differences between B2B and B2C fulfillment: B2B orders cost more to ship, can take longer to reach their destination, and may require specialized handling equipment for loading onto dedicated freight transporters.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Especially, I would say when we were talking about the Amazon effect I would say now it’s present more than ever maybe even changing the word into the COVID effect. And digitalization is more than present. I think it’s more that the idea of sourcing and how to buffer certain inventory will be definitely more localized.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Source: Statista.com. Decarbonization, which means reducing the amount of carbon in greenhouse gas emissions, can help in improving our present condition. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. Planning : Processes are designed to reduce emissions and meet demand with ethical sourcing.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2024

Businesses need the flexibility to sense real-time changes to pivot sourcing, production, and logistics accordingly. Shipping costs could remain high due to fuel costs, port congestion, and container shortages. The ongoing Hamas-Israeli war threatens to expand as shipping lanes become precarious.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We’re also in the process of editing the presentation recordings; visit the bottom of this post to get added to the distribution list once it’s live. As Amihai Zeltzer, the Head of Logistics and Industries at Salesforce pointed out, at the end of the day, a customer is interested in shipping or managing his goods. It already has.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Presently, their major focus lies on local production, warehousing and strategic sourcing. million barrels of oil a day go through the canal, according to shipping journal Lloyd’s. This issue has affected shipping goods from Asia to Europe and the Middle East. Optimize sourcing decisions.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Relying on a single source supplier or group of suppliers can have a ripple effect on your ability to meet service levels when shipments are late, delayed or out of stock of the materials you need. Your inventory consists of raw material (the tree) to the finished product in your warehouse. would minimize that threat. Final Takeaways.

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USC Consulting Group

APRIL 9, 2021

As organizations start investing more in their business’s functional components, such as inventory production, warehousing, logistics, and order management processing, communication silos and departmental disconnects begin to appear, blurring certain efficiency lines across the company as a whole. What is Data Mining?

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Even though the items are not physically present in your storage space or warehouse, the digital records show that it’s “in stock” or on hand. Else, it could impact operations, leading to lowered warehouse and inventory efficiency, paying taxes where not required, higher insurance premiums, and surprise stockouts.

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