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Walmart’s Massive Investment in a Supply Chain Transformation

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Brett Biggs, an executive vice president at Walmart, summarized the investments by saying the retailer is spending on increased fulfillment capacity, supply chain, automation, and technology. Walmart is making investments in warehouse automation in distribution centers to deliver aisle and department-ready pallets to stores.

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How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation? Think Less Planning, More Real-Time Decision-Making

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As an engineer, former solutions architect and now CEO of a leading supply chain technology company, I have a real affinity and respect for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their teams, without whom successful enterprise technology deployments would be impossible. That covers “on-time.” He lives in Chicago.

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What to Know About a Yard Management System

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The network effect is at the heart of supply chain transformation. Essentially, the network effect exists when all components of the supply chain technology ecosystem work together to improve the performance of the end-to-end supply chain. The fist benefit is around visibility into the yard.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2023

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If you haven’t attended recently, it is an unmatched display of warehouse automation, robotics, and software systems. The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains ; Polly Mitchell-Guthrie ( Kinaxis ) “Our rules of thumb are no longer up to the challenge.” How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation?

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Most Popular Logistics Stories from 2021

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Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. While we have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. This year we have decided to lead with our predictions about the broader supply chain function.

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Top Five Transportation Trends

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These trends and technologies include the network effect, innovation in transportation management systems, time slot management applications, autonomous trucks, and the future of last mile deliveries, specifically looking at autonomous mobile robots and drones for home delivery. The Network Effect.

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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors

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In a recent research project, we found that 2/3 of companies had a digital supply chain transformation strategy; however, those that were evolving their strategy performed better during the early months of the pandemic than those that were “clear” on the project plan for a digital transformation.