Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Milk Processing : After collection, milk is transported to regional processing plants, where it is pasteurized and packaged. This venture’s success will be closely watched, not only for its implications for Amul but also as a source of inspiration for other Indian brands aspiring to foray into the international arena.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Your supply chain should benefit from end-to-end supply chain visibility and execution solutions that work together in a coherent supply chain orchestration strategy. This is where visibility to suppliers and new souring options becomes critical. What does that mean?

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

Not having adequate visibility to your shipments, orders, or products is an ongoing challenge for many companies. You may have very good visibility in some areas of your supply chain, but have poor visibility or blind spots in other areas such as transportation. Supply Chain Visibility Gaps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 25, 2018

Achieving end-to-end supply chain visibility has been the Holy Grail for industry executives — always desired, but seldom achieved. This has been an ongoing challenge, in part, because supply chain networks, technologies, and processes are always changing, making supply chain visibility a moving target.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Supply chain professionals, like military professionals, often find situational awareness an elusive goal. Over a decade ago, Cecere wrote, “As we enter the world where data is more available from trading partners, we can navigate across the supply chain into customer’s customers and supplier’s suppliers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

FourKites , the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, has launched a Sustainability Dashboard where companies can see miles traveled to create a baseline for emissions. This information can be used to make decisions on modes of transportation. It is also the best play for long term sustainability.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 17, 2025

Key Decision Intelligence Insight s include the following: The CFO Financial with Tariffs Decision Intelligence Insights visualizes how tariffs dynamically impact variable cost, providing real-time ROI comparisons across offshore and domestic sourcing options. To learn more about ThroughPut Inc, visit our website today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Supply chain excellence starts with design. What did we find?

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 6, 2018

As explained by Alexa Cheater of Kinaxis , supply chains carry a heightened risk of “black swans,” which reflect the unanticipated risks coming to fruition. Supply Chain Black Swans Are Perceived as Minimal Risks Supply chain black swans are considered inescapable threats. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project. Visibility means many things to different people. Current State of Visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

A SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2016

As digitization continues to modify the global supply chain landscape, its unprecedented data sources and solutions will lead to not only the demise of disparate information systems, but to the rise of true, end-to-end, supply chain visibility. To these companies we say, follow these five steps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Our vision at TRAMES, is to reduce global trade barriers through digitalizing international freight and transportation. Doing so significantly reduces physical paperwork, as well as the number of manual touchpoints in any supply chain resulting. a) Across the various actors in any single transport chain.

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Turvo

AUGUST 3, 2021

The right technology can help freight managers see what’s going on throughout the chain. Supply chain visibility and collaboration come into play and makes a world of difference. This is where logistics managers and freight controllers can use supply chain visibility and collaboration.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. Supply Chain Resilience refers to a supply chain’s ability to withstand and recover from unexpected events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Autonomous Supply Chains In this competitive environment, a CPG manufacturer needs to fight to get space on retailer shelves in each region, keep those shelves stocked, compete and collaborate simultaneously with e-commerce, and maintain its operating margins. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

In order to avoid incidents of mismatch between supply and demand, establish more efficient manufacturing and lower costs, it is necessary to establish an environment of consistent supply chain visibility. In order to implement this visibility, it is crucial that companies take into consideration many elements.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Despite industry professionals talking about it for 20+ years, many companies still don’t have real supply chain visibility beyond a rudimentary level. How can we convert greater visibility into sustainable business value, especially in light of today’s increasing transportation costs and more demanding customer expectations?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 7, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Toilet Paper Supply Chain! In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic the need for complete, end to end Supply Chain visibility has never been more important! Supply Chain visibility and the Digital Supply Chain has never been more important!

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal focused on the three main areas where FourKites is looking to improve connections across supply chains: geos, teams, and ecosystems. Connected Geos Connected geos is all about the continuing evolution of the global supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

And this global trip isn’t just for sightseeing – leading companies find that a diversified sourcing base and far-flung manufacturing can help cut production costs, increasing the bottom line. However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

ARC’s definition is that a supply chain collaboration network is a “collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. A SCCN Promotes Supply Chain Agility.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 5, 2023

Alternative Transportation Mode Updates to existing on-order expedite optimization functions. Dynamic Multi-Sourcing that allows users to plan simultaneous replenishment from multiple suppliers, while also selecting back-up suppliers and creating order triggers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Faced with the challenge of limited data availability, he co-founded Vizion, an API-first solution empowering cargo owners, freight forwarders, and software providers to achieve true supply chain visibility by tracking ocean freight in near real-time. In the podcast interview, Kyle and Joe discuss real time container tracking.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.

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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. Automate supply chain processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy within logistics operations.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this instalment of the series of articles written by the LSCMS Shippers Council, we strive to answer this and delve into the critical aspects of ocean transit time reliability and visibility within the supply chain. What is supply chain visibility and why it is important?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

And a FourKites survey of 350+ supply chain leaders tells us that the past few years of supply chain disruptions — including COVID-19, market volatility, global political conflict, material shortages and extreme weather events — drove 73% of respondents to begin investing in supply chain visibility, with 46% planning to invest more in 2023.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

These sources while functional are difficult to connect. This is a form of visibility.) In my experience, usually only 1/3 of data needed for visibility is transactional data. Technologies cross a spectrum from project-based to cross-functional enterprise visibility. The use of disparate data sources enriches insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. There is no good system for visibility. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. The supply chain leader’s number one responsibility is reliability. The answer is variability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. The ZF supply chain is complex. This is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply chain. Finally, they have an aftermarket parts division.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

First of all, for cargo owners, international transport and shipping can be complicated operations involving multiple stakeholders and several suppliers and contacts for a single shipment. It is clear that complex, manual payment processes are critical sources of costly mistakes and over billing. Lack of trust. Many options available.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For years, supply chain leaders have struggled to achieve a sophisticated level of supply chain visibility that would drive continuous improvement, optimize spend and reduce risk. Seasoned supply chain analysts and engineers on our team can then use these results to glean insights and drive innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

In today’s supply chain business, where customers increasingly expect faster, better, cheaper service, success often turns on gleaning real-time visibility into shipments in transit. Indeed, who couldn’t benefit from improved transportation visibility? Real-Time Transportation Visibility Defined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Earlier this summer, FourKites held a Carrier Visibility Summit. Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. This was an online event.

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