Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By combining the vertical integration across several system levels of a single location with the horizontal integration across a logistics network. It helps provide data and images, train neural networks, as well as validate, manage, and roll out generated models to the customers’ systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Now let’s get to the Supply Chain News: Descartes Acquires Sellercloud Descartes Systems Group, a standout provider in logistics solutions, announced its acquisition of Sellercloud, a US-based provider of omnichannel e-commerce solutions. Do You Think Fedex Ships Live Pandas?

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Our platform can be deployed alongside your current solutions, providing immediate value without disrupting established workflows. Our platform can be deployed alongside your current solutions, providing immediate value without disrupting established workflows.

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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. This doesnt eliminate those systems, it organizes the data they produce. The system also contributes to better forecasting accuracy. Dell reports reduced cycle times and improved productivity as a result.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

One of the key challenges in green freight logistics is reducing emissions from fuel-intensive operationsparticularly in trucking and maritime shipping. Additionally, many logistics providers struggle with fragmented systems and limited access to real-time operational data, which makes proactive optimization difficult.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

Locus Robotics Has Introduced a new Robot with a Heavier Payload Historically, a warehouse management system used slotting and waving functionality to optimize the work in a distribution center. A WMS needs a warehouse control system to control the material handling equipment. If everything works smoothly, this is great.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, while effective for tracking transactions and inventory levels, lack the predictive capabilities needed to anticipate and mitigate risks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Companies including Amazon and Wing are developing drone delivery systems to optimize logistical processes within restricted urban spaces. For autonomous vehicles, investment in roadside infrastructure, including charging points, will support long-distance travel and improve system reliability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2023

I believe that the answer does not lie with real-time inventory (which drives nervousness into the system) or implementing deeper optimization into traditional planning taxonomies. The fix sounds easy, but it is not. The journey starts with awareness and changing the discussion. Instead, we need to rethink the fundamentals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

This article is from Scott Mullins, EVP of Operations and COO at Lucas Systems, and looks at self-distribution in healthcare systems. Self-distribution is an increasingly popular option for healthcare systems to consider when deciding how to manage their supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Senior leaders must think beyond incremental improvements, embracing systemic innovation to achieve significant environmental impact. Smart energy management systems further enhance efficiency by tracking and optimizing energy use in real-time. Reducing carbon emissions is a cornerstone of this effort.

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TransAudit

JANUARY 13, 2025

Global shipping and transportation present tremendous opportunities for businesses, but they also bring complex challenges, particularly when it comes to compliance. Understanding Global Compliance What is Global Compliance in Shipping? These are easier to predict but can still lead to increased costs if the volume of goods is high.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Supported by advanced technology, their multifunctional customer portal provides instant booking, quoting, real-time tracking, and other features designed to streamline the shipping process. Expedite All: A freight brokerage company that connects smaller carriers and owner-operators with shippers needing expedited shipping services.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

According to a survey of 250 global companies by the consulting firm McKinsey, 91% of shippers and 75% of logistics service providers have implemented a warehouse management system. Meanwhile, growth also served as an impetus for the company to replace its core business system. Outbound shipments shipments to the stores are parcel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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. They also used these technologies to build healthcare information systems and have achieved considerable success in that industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

Coca-Colas CEO at the time said that by “working hand-in-hand with their bottling partners they would build a unified and aligned system equipped for long-term sustainable growth. The more than 40 production centers owned by the CONA bottlers work cooperatively as a common production system to drive supply chain efficiencies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Manhattan Associates is a leader in two markets, warehouse management systems and omnichannel systems. This allows for enables bi-directional collaboration between supply chain planning and execution systems. Cubing out is preferable; companies dont like to ship air. Supporting modules include labor and yard management.

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Stord

APRIL 21, 2025

What begins as a convenient and capital-efficient fulfillment strategy can quickly become a strain on operations and create further complications downstream as end consumers face rising shipping costs, longer delivery times, customs delays and surcharges, and limited return options. For example, a U.S.-based When Is The Right Time To Switch?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Unless changes occur, the Company will miss the market for the inflection point for building holistic modeling of ship through (the channel) modeling. The winner in the next three years with the implementation of RISE will be SAP HANA IBP as a system of record. SAP will not be successful in delivering the systems of insights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The order, which takes effect immediately, also requires an additional review of end-usage for graphite items shipped to the U.S. A Chinese Commerce Ministry directive on dual-use items with both military and civilian applications cited national security concerns. Gallium and germanium are used in semiconductors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Even digital advancements, like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, only partially solve these challenges because they still need centralized oversight and reconciliation. Today, logistics firms rely on RFID tags, barcode scanning, and centralized tracking systems, which are vulnerable to tampering and inefficiencies.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Our platform can be deployed alongside your current solutions, providing immediate value without disrupting established workflows. Our platform can be deployed alongside your current solutions, providing immediate value without disrupting established workflows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. There is no good system for visibility. Few planning systems update delivery based on actual dwell times; and despite the abundance of Internet of Things (IOT) data, there is no place to put streaming data signals into traditional planning systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

Outcomes: Faster sourcing cycle times and shorter RFQ-to-order workflows More consistent application of vendor selection criteria Improved risk mitigation through continuous supplier monitoring These AI-driven tools are most effective when embedded into ERP systems and e-sourcing platforms. Human review is still necessary.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

They have assembled a set of hardware and software solutions to enable huge surges in shipping. This is an interesting retail niche, but it comes with a supply chain that has huge surges in shipping. And the goods all ship within five to fifteen days depending on the sale event. “We Mr. Van Erlach explained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

A hybrid IoT network is an architecture that blends multiple wireless (and sometimes wired) communication technologiessuch as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE/5G, Zigbee, and satelliteinto a cohesive system. Scalability Logistics firms can add new device types and communication layers without overhauling the entire system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Flow paths can include buying online/ship from store; buy online/pickup at store, shop at store/have item shipped from a different store, and many other options as well. As a result of this, the market for omnichannel order management (OOM) systems grew briskly. Shipping from the store, and 5. Then came Covid.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

Shipping packaging materials comes with its own set of challenges that can disrupt operations and impact profitability. Negotiate Carrier Contracts : Lock in stable shipping rates with carriers to mitigate unexpected cost spikes. Invest in Tracking Technology : Use systems to monitor delivery performance and ensure on-time arrivals.

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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. The sales team can go have those conversations, with real-time lead times and even the factory the product will ship from, with customers. We have full visibility.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Now, teams can focus on strategy, instead of chasing information across multiple systems and endless email chains, saving time and money, and getting goods on shelves with less overhead and more reliability. The Red Sea crisis demonstrated how quickly shipping routes can be compromised, forcing immediate rerouting decisions.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

How MES is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing and Boosting Production Efficiency What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

Brian Amend, Senior Director of Supply Chain Systems at Walgreens. Mr. Amend is the senior director of supply chain systems at Walgreens. To get the capabilities they needed quickly, they could not rip out the legacy order management system and spend three years implementing a new one. Then COVID hit,” Brian Amend said.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Managing available bandwidth efficiently among many connected devices remains a continuing issue, particularly when scaling systems to significant quantities of distributed resources. Maersk has introduced Remote Container Management for its shipping containers. Device management is another critical area.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

They are using a form of AI for image recognition in conjunction with a warehouse management system. For example, if you want to train a computer vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. The system would say, “this is a dog” or this is “not a dog.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Carton and Packing Optimization Carton optimization is a critical aspect of warehouse management, as it directly impacts shipping costs, storage space, and overall efficiency. You may be giving up some carton space efficiency for the benefits of stacking, storing, and shipping efficiencies. With 90% of items shipped in the U.S.

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