Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Similarly, UPS uses its ORION system, which integrates real-time and historical data to optimize delivery routes, saving fuel and enhancing delivery reliability. Real-time route optimization allows fleets to adapt to dynamic conditions such as traffic and weather, minimizing fuel consumption and delivery delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Alex Pradhan is the Global Product Strategy Leader and Member of the Executive Leadership team at John Galt Solutions. The Key to Unlocking the Power of Your Supply Chain Data Strategy appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. Make sure you can see the signal through the noise and start turning challenges into opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

Datacenter Hardware: The demand for powerful computing to train ever larger and more accurate AI models is insatiable. AWS , Google , and Microsoft are also investing heavily in custom AI chips to reduce their dependence on NVIDIA and optimize performance and cost. Google is also reportedly working on its own Arm-based chips.

Modeling Software 299

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 7, 2025

This uncertainty makes dynamic inventory replenishment optimization essential for business success. Effective inventory optimization directly impacts customer satisfaction, loyalty, operational costs, and waste reduction making it a critical business function in todays volatile market.

Inventory Reduction 156

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 12, 2025

Optimize /ptmz/ verb 1. Equally perplexing is inventory optimization. But businesses that get inventory optimization right can boost service levels by 3-5% while reducing overall inventory by 15-30%. It worked for inventory management, but not for true inventory optimization. Wait, what?

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ToolsGroup

MAY 8, 2025

However, many overlook the need to leverage supply planning capabilities effectivelymissing a vital opportunity to align operational plans and optimize business outcomes. Optimization Advanced modeling of real-world constraints like capacity, lead times, and inventory ensures efficient execution.

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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. ” What is Supply Chain Optimization?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Designed to address the growing need for sustainability, compliance, and performance optimization in the battery industry, MOBIUS+ aims to revolutionize the way batteries are managed from production to recycling.

Supply Chain Optimization 222

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For senior leaders, understanding and integrating the three pillars of sustainability—environmental, social, and economic—into supply chain strategies is essential. Meanwhile, advances in AI-driven route optimization reduce unnecessary mileage, cutting emissions and costs. Reducing carbon emissions is a cornerstone of this effort.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 21, 2025

Mark Baxa , John Delgado and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain shock waves: strategies for survival and success. FreightPath helps logistics companies find, train, and retain the future leaders of the industry. Mark has a longstanding commitment to fostering innovation, driving value-added results, and cultivating global synergy.

Sourcing Strategies 190

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Procurement Academy

APRIL 24, 2025

Understanding regulations is critical – but what truly builds resilience is training agile, informed teams who can pivot fast, minimize risk, and protect performance when global trade gets turbulent. Another shared: We rerouted our sourcing strategy in a week – because our supply chain leads were trained for scenario planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2025

At the recent ARC Forum 2025, Rachelle Howard, Director of Manufacturing Systems Automation and Digital Strategy, showcased how Vertex strategically blends advanced technology with a strong people-focused culture to boost manufacturing and supply chain agility.

Pharmaceutical 225

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lets explore these challenges and strategies to overcome them. Optimize Inventory and Pricing Use AI-driven insights for stock mix optimization and dynamic pricing, reducing excess stock while meeting service level goals. Conflicts in critical regions disrupt access to essential materials.

Price Reduction 156

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 14, 2025

Your Aftermarket Supply Chain is More Complex Than You Think Lets be honest: managing spare parts inventory requires specialized strategies unlike any other inventory management process. If your business is still guessing at demand instead of optimizing it, youre sacrificing more than efficiency. Lack of service-level differentiation.

Optimal Sourcing 156

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gartner reports that companies using data-driven strategies can achieve a 20% increase in sales by aligning inventory with current market trends. Is this the strategy you want to pursue? Retailers that adopt these dynamic rebalancing strategies often see an 18% improvement in inventory turnover rates. What are you waiting for?

Inventory Reduction 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Improves Supply Chain Visibility and Efficiency Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing inventory levels, and improving overall efficiency are goals for all supply chain practitioners. Companies can optimize their supply chain operations by using a data gateway that provides a unified and harmonized view of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Suppliers that meet higher sustainability standards may charge more, putting tension between cost optimization and sustainability goals. Addressing the Challenge: Practical Approaches Organizations making progress on ESG-driven supply chains are employing several practical strategies. Cost pressures can complicate ESG efforts.

Supply Chain Design Software 241

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Growing Focus on Optimization in Demand Forecasting In recent years, the focus on forecast accuracy is gradually being replaced by a stronger emphasis on optimization, with a shift toward probabilistic and AI-driven approaches.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

When you talk to companies that have implemented enterprise or supply chain applications, executives will usually admit that they have under-invested in training and preparing users to use the new technology. This collaboration allows for better optimization of the supply chain, ensuring the right products are available at the right time.

Supply Chain Transformation 304

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This article will examine the challenges Belcorp faced with managing its extensive product range and complex supply chain and how our solution set, which includes Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+), Demand Planning, and the Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) model, transformed their operations. It played out as follows.

Modeling 156

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2025

New solution debuting at NRF 2025 reduces stockouts and markdowns, driving profitability BOSTON January 13, 2024 ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced the launch of Inventory.io, an AI-powered solution designed to simplify inventory management and enhance profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. As a result, the company had to lay off workers and reevaluate its entire strategy – even as tariffs are paused – due to a lack of supply chain flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Key to Unlocking the Power of Your Supply Chain Data Strategy How Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Are Redefining Last-Mile Logistics Lenovo Excels in Supply Chain Planning with a Hybrid Approach The Overturning of the Chevron Doctrine: Implications for the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry Terrified of Tariffs?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 25, 2025

Jon is a Strategy Leader at Doolen Strategy Partners that specializes in providing leadership development programs, business advisory services, and public speaking engagements. Through strategic guidance, Doolen Strategy Partners aims to elevate business performance and foster growth in a competitive market.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Kara is the Founder and CRO of LeadCoverage , the premier B2B marketing and PR firm dedicated to helping logistics companies increase lead generation through targeted marketing strategies and media coverage. Kara’s new book “The Revenue Engine” offers readers a guide to effective revenue-generating strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Technology Behind Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Autonomous delivery vehicles rely on a number of technologies to operate effectively: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: These systems allow ADVs to navigate streets, assess obstacles, and optimize delivery routes.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 305

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

Improves Supply Chain Visibility and Efficiency Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing inventory levels, and improving overall efficiency are goals for all supply chain practitioners. Companies can optimize their supply chain operations by using a data gateway that provides a unified and harmonized view of data.

Optimal Sourcing 269

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 2, 2025

Just when shippers catch a break, the landscape shifts again, forcing procurement teams to adjust strategies in real time. tariffs, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and looming changes to the de minimis threshold for low-value imports from China are keeping global supply chains on unstable ground. tariffs are reshaping freight.

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Logility

JANUARY 30, 2025

AI Fuels New Levels of Optimization AI is reshaping supply chains, improving visibility, aligning demand with supply, and optimizing master data. Supply chain managers can identify patterns and trends, leading to more accurate demand forecasts and optimized inventory levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

By applying machine learning, natural language processing, and real-time optimization, businesses are improving forecasting, reducing costs, and responding to complexity with greater consistency. Key Insight: The use of AI in supply chain automation is producing tangible benefits across procurement, warehousing, and logistics.

Optimal Sourcing 235

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