Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Ethical sourcing is a fundamental aspect of social sustainability. Manufacturing and resource extraction activities often affect surrounding areas, requiring companies to engage proactively with residents to address concerns and mitigate negative impacts. The impact of supply chains on local communities cannot be overlooked.

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Without the ability to distinguish actionable insights from irrelevant noise, decision-makers risk inefficiency, confusion, and misallocation of resources. To break through the noise requires context.

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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.

Optimal Sourcing 273

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, while effective for tracking transactions and inventory levels, lack the predictive capabilities needed to anticipate and mitigate risks. This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 16, 2024

And one of the main objectives of all this digitized data and integration in one source of truth is supply chain visibility , that will not only let logistics experts optimize operations, but also detect and react to disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Reducing cost was the primary objective, and most operational decisionsfrom sourcing to fulfillmentreflected that mindset. Leading organizations are building supply chains that are less exposed to single points of failure, more informed by real-time data, and more able to adjust sourcing, inventory, and routing based on current conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources. This architecture enables: Complex Workflow Orchestration: Multi-agent systems can orchestrate complex workflows in minutes, significantly reducing the time and resources required for complex tasks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more. The platform leverages AI and Digital Technologies like RFID at Source (reducing receiving and packing time and chargebacks) and 2D barcodes/Digital Links to drive transparency and capture data for product circularity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

From sourcing and bid evaluation to warehouse slotting and dynamic routing, AI tools support faster and more consistent outcomes by processing large volumes of operational data and identifying patterns that human decision-makers may overlook. Integration allows seamless transitions from data insights to purchase approvals and execution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The shortage has not impacted Charlottesville’s other major healthcare provider, Sentara Health as this organization sources its IV solutions from a different manufacturer. UVa Health said it is working on reducing any unnecessary waste of IV products, including IV fluids, dialysis fluids, parenteral nutrition, and irrigation fluids.

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To mitigate risks, many companies are incorporating alternate parts into their sourcing strategy. Here, we highlight some of the obstacles with alternate parts sourcing and discuss key considerations to help streamline the process. 5 ESSENTIALS FOR SOURCING ALTERNATE COMPONENTS 1. Ensure parts originate from a trusted source.

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QAD

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the most transformative tools in this regard includes, digital sourcing or also referred to as, e-sourcing applications. These digital platforms have revolutionized how businesses approach sourcing by enhancing efficiency, reducing costs and fostering better supplier relationships.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2025

In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design and why. Much of this has to do with needs for deep integration and two way flow of data streams.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Most JAGGAER installations in the manufacturing industry specifically, and in product-centric businesses in general, involve integration with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of one sort or another. The term enterprise resource planning originated in the early 1990s and is credited to the research firm Gartner Group.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning , Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020).

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2025

Fictiv’s Global Manufacturing Supply Chain brings together AI-driven technology workflows, a world-class global manufacturing network, and teams of local manufacturing experts to simplify sourcing for custom mechanical components. For more information, visit www.fictiv.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

Edge Hardware: The battle for edge hardware also intensified in 2024, as companies sought to deploy AI capabilities closer to the source of data. ChatGPT Search : This feature gives users a way to get answers from relevant web sources. These models are pre-trained with industry-specific data to address a customers top use cases.

Modeling Software 299

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2025

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Without the ability to distinguish actionable insights from irrelevant noise, decision-makers risk inefficiency, confusion, and misallocation of resources. To break through the noise requires context.

Resource Reduction 165

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

It is the interconnected network of stakeholders involved in the resourcing, production, supply, and distribution of goods around the world. Batteries are sourced from South Korea and China. This interdependence ensures that the best resources and technologies from around the world are utilized to create a high-quality product.[1]

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Another strategy is to dedicate resources and build the best algorithm for demand forecasting. This means that pouring resources into better forecasting will not produce the anticipated result. While this sourcing strategy is the most cost-effective one, the business might not want to operate like that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

trillion records from 47 data sources in the Cognite platform. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources to make it usable and actionable for various business use cases. A knowledge graph creates relationships across previously siloed data sources. Industrial data is voluminous. Celanese has 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Resource scarcity. From product design, sourcing and operations planning, to manufacturing, logistics and warehousing, there are many opportunities for improved efficiency at each stage of the process. Cloud applications that manage your supply chain provide real-time access—a single source of truth no matter where you are.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 21, 2025

John is CEO of FreightPath, an innovative talent firm that offers both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution. FreightPath addresses multiple industry challenges by offering both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2025

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of resources, goods, and services involved in creating one specific product or service. The success of Supply Chain Management depends on the ability to quickly and efficiently locate resources and services within a specific geographic area. What Is Supply Chain Management?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. The larger impacts have been more around shifts in demand from Covid; demand unexpectedly shifted into a different direction and consumed all resources above the forecast.

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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. 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

APRIL 3, 2024

Scope 1 emissions include all direct emissions that are generated from sources that are directly owned or controlled by an organization. The structures and design featured in the exhibition are sourced from biodegradable, sustainable materials to minimize carbon footprint. Not all emissions are created equally.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It encompasses economically sound and socially responsible processes that strive to eliminate negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and regenerating natural resources. To measure and improve resource productivity, dynamic, end-to-end visibility of material flows is fundamental. Source : Designing Disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Teams are constrained by their physical resources, like trucks, inventory, and labor capacities, as they seek to resolve a disruption. Whether supply chain and logistics teams are looking for new sources of inventory, transportation or warehousing, a full-service logistics software partner can seamlessly connect them with the right partners.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They write, “This includes tackling bigger issues such as compliance, supplier relationship management, risk and disruption, responsible sourcing, and transparency. “AI allows you to integrate real-time data from various sources, helping you devise more efficient delivery routes and schedules.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2024

One of the most powerful tools in modern supply chain management is the Control Tower, which offers a comprehensive, real-time view of the entire supply chain and is the single source of truth for the latest developments on the demand and supply side. What is a Control Tower?

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