Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Similarly, shifting freight from road to rail or waterways offers lower-emission alternatives for long-haul transport.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Mark Vickers and Joe Lynch discuss Mexico transportation risk. About Mark Vickers Mark Vickers is a leading expert in domestic and cross border transportation risk management and insurance. Mark spent over 7 years in leadership with the second largest freight brokerage in North America, Total Quality Logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The most common trading partner collaborative processes covered in SCCN suites are purchase order/procurement collaboration, demand forecast collaboration, and the transportation shipper tender/carrier accept process. They also cover supplier managed inventory, quality collaboration, manufacturing line collaboration, and asset collaboration.

SAP 298

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cyndi is Project Solutions Manager at H&M Trucking , a contract carrier trucking company that specializes in bulk hopper and van transportation of dry goods, bulk ingredients, and hazardous materials. With 17 years of transportation expertise, Cyndi brings a comprehensive skill set to H&M Trucking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Road freight alone accounts for approximately 7% of global CO2 emissions, with maritime and air transport further amplifying the environmental burden. Key strategies include: Electrification of Transport: The use of electric vehicles (EVs) for freight and last-mile delivery reduces emissions and operational costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

Pledges capabilities automate the collection and exchange of shipment data from logistics suppliers to facilitate accredited and traceable emissions calculations across all transport modes, including air, inland (e.g., truck, rail, barges), and sea.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Indeed, who couldn’t benefit from improved transportation visibility? Even if your transportation management system ( TMS ) is ingesting carrier EDI information directly, the data you receive is often hours after that fact, leaving you to “best-guess” actual delivery times. Real-Time Transportation Visibility Defined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Political instability has disrupted transportation corridors. Its not replacing human judgment, but it is improving the quality and speed of that judgment. The ability to pressure-test decisions before committing real resources significantly improves response quality. Trade tensions have led to abrupt tariff hikes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The explosion in globalisation, and corresponding reduction in transport availability over the last decade or so, have together kiboshed some of the factors which once fueled a steady growth in offshore manufacture and procurement. Let me show you why. Understanding the Basics: What is Nearshoring? For instance, when I work with U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

Each reformulation may involve regulatory submissions, quality assurance reviews, and potential consumer communication strategies. Cold chain infrastructure may be necessary for both raw material and finished goods transport. In many cases, current warehouse and transportation arrangements will need to be re-evaluated.

Manufacturing Procurement 172

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This metric measures the percentage of time the planners accept replenishment, transportation, or inventory plans as they are without any change in the timing of the delivery or the quantity to be delivered. This allows the system to learn and improves the quality of the engine’s output. It is a “continuous feedback loop.”

Supply Chain Planning Software 289

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Supply Chain Knowledge and Risk Mitigation: Suppliers have a direct impact on direct spend with raw material and transportation costs as two big drivers of operating margins. Develop Resilience and Risk Mitigation Plans Create resilient supply chains by working with suppliers to create backup plans in case of unforeseen circumstances.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Aera has developed something called a “data quality skill.” Thirdly, the decision to be executed is then pushed back to the relevant application, whether that be a transportation management system or a planning solution. He shared the names of some of their customers on an off-the-record basis. That allows the system to learn.”

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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. It’s not about finding the cheapest supplier, but the one that offers the best value considering quality, reliability, and cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. We can run a plan simulation to maximize revenue, maximize shipments, maximize the customer experience, or minimize transportation costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

Supply Chain Software 328

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

is redefining transportation by integrating IoT sensors into vehicles, fundamentally shifting fleet operations. Companies such as UPS, FedEx, Amazon Logistics, Summit Materials, and Sobeys demonstrate that centralized, data-driven fleet management drives down costs, enhances safety, and strengthens service quality.

Supply Chain Planning Software 297

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

Data Quality and Integration: AI models need clean, timely, and structured data. Implementation Considerations Despite the potential benefits, implementing AI in supply chain automation requires planning and investment in the right data infrastructure and governance processes.

Optimal Sourcing 237

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Supplier Performance: Evaluate your vendors’ reliability, quality, and delivery times. Data analytics helps you monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), like supplier performance, delivery times, and transportation efficiency — all in real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And, this was not because of the number of scenarios, but the initial quality of the data. The investment into data quality and internal consistency always proves to be valuable, as the quality of the scenario recommendations depends on the quality of the inputs. Data cleaning took much longer than running the scenarios.

Vendor Strategies 316

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2025

As supply chain professionals continue to navigate disruption, digitization, and increasing complexity, having fast access to relevant, high-quality insights is critical. The structure supports quick access to relevant information based on job function, industry segment, or current initiative.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 154

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 8, 2024

Jason is the CEO and Founder of JCI Marketing , a freight-focused content marketing agency that specializes in working with transportation, logistics and supply chain companies. JCI Marketing services include building high-quality SEO strategies, social media management, and overall content creation.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 262

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2025

But to support the increased uncertainty and the need for quick, high quality answers to supply chain disruptions or opportunities, it is getting even more complex. However, supplier components in a bill of mate-rial, facility, and transportation assets used in supply models should more fully incorporate sustainability data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

My definition of a network is the bi-directional information exchange of manufacturing, procurement, quality, and transportation signals across multiple tiers of trading partners in a many-to-many trading partner information exchange with minimal latency. Note that while quality information is viewed as accurate, data latency is a day.

Supply Chain Network Software 360

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One such advancement is the integration of warehouse robotics, which has revolutionized the way tasks such as sorting, picking, transporting, and packaging goods are performed. These automated systems are designed to perform tasks such as sorting, picking, transporting, and packaging goods with unparalleled efficiency and precision.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In a 2013 white paper, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics defined supply chain innovation as “the combining and application of a mix of inventions, existing processes, and technologies in a new way that achieves a desirable change in cost, quality, cash and/or service.” What is supply chain innovation?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 27, 2024

Ilya is Co-Founder & CEO at PAXAFE , a company that provides an autonomous AI-enabled decision support system for quality, transportation & supply chain leaders to exhibit resiliency and automation from their visibility investments. Ilya Preston and Joe Lynch discuss the $440 billion logistics problem.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2022

Andy is the Founder and CEO of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage, focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in the USA & Canada. Andy Bahr is the Founder and President of Bahr Transportation , a FTL brokerage focused primarily on serving the food & beverage industry, in refrigerated freight.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 10, 2022

In this episode, Joe Lynch interviews David Bell and Peter Rentschler about the new partnership between their companies along with building a competitive advantage in the transportation and logistics space. David Bell has been a leader in the transportation industry for over 25 years, beginning his industry career in 1993.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. These changes can add significant time to the ETA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 13, 2023

Zero-touch fulfillment substantially increases process quality and reliability as well as production speed. The solutions both speed up processing and ensure higher quality. Their scope of application is huge: Storage Picking Palletizing Transporting And more Warehouse robots are a plus in all areas of warehouse logistics.

Warehousing 312

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New technologies revolutionizing transportation are creating tremendous opportunities but also unprecedented challenges for tire manufacturers. Generate optimal production plans based on accurate forecasted demand and assign orders based on a variety of factors, including customer location and mode of transport. Short-term benefits.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

”[5] He continues, “Most supply chains consist of the following layers or departments: manufacturing; suppliers; transporters; warehouses; distributors; service Providers; retailers; [and] customers. This reduces fuel consumption, lowers delivery times, and enhances overall transportation efficiency.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Matt is the Co-founder and CEO of Loop , a modern transportation audit & pay company. About Matt McKinney Matt Mckinney is the Co-founder and CEO of Loop, a modern transportation audit & pay company. We improve transportation spend visibility so companies can control their costs and power profit.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Quality issues have recently bedeviled Boeing. On February 6 th , the National Transportation Safety Board released a report saying that missing bolts were the likely cause. This “harmonization” in turn would “improve collaboration, innovation, product quality, time-to-market and return-on-investment.”

Supply Chain Design Software 311

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 29, 2025

Supplier Performance Evaluating supplier performance based on key metrics such as on-time delivery, quality of goods received, adherence to agreed-upon terms, and responsiveness to inquiries. Moreover, i dentifying and mitigating potential risks associated with supplier performance, such as disruptions to the supply chain or quality issues.

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