Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Key applications include AI-powered demand forecasting to improve inventory accuracy, automated procurement systems to standardize supplier negotiations, robotics to enhance warehouse efficiency, and AI-driven logistics optimization to reduce transportation costs and delays. percent, and extending payment terms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Process-based companies continue to focus on manufacturing efficiency (OEE) and discrete on procurement (PPV) without designing the supply chain to balance transportation, manufacturing, and procurement to a balanced scorecard. Last year, the lovefest was digital supply chain transformation.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2014

Transportation and Logistics Industry Trends. These trends stand to impact the transportation and logistics industry, with some already taking hold and others unfolding gradually. Each trend has the potential to transform the logistics industry. Cloud computing shows promise for further growth and transformation in 2014.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

AI-Driven Logistics Optimization Artificial intelligence is playing a critical role in optimizing logistics operations and enhancing supply chain agility. AI-powered platforms enable companies to dynamically adjust transportation, routing, and distribution in response to real-time changes such as delays or disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2016

as a supply chain guy, I just love hearing about a business turn around that was largely driven by a more effective supply chain. That, as Tuesday's financial news proves, was clearly the case with Hostess Brands.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He writes, “Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident. ”[2] He insists supply chain innovation today is not a choice, but an imperative.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2025

ThroughPut improves material flow and free-cash-flow across the entire end-to-end value chain far faster than leading contemporary and legacy solutions. Launches Catalyst Program to Accelerate AI-Driven Supply Chain Transformation for Businesses Without Buying More Tools appeared first on ThroughPut.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2021

That’s where the 4PL or managed transportation relationship comes into play. Under a managed transportation relationship, a company partially or fully outsources its logistics and transportation functions, including managing other 3PLs. A strong carrier network is essential to a company’s supply chain.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Login Home About us The Enchange way of working Clients & Results Industries we’ve worked in Testimonials Services Route to Market & Distribution Supply Chain Transformation Supply Chain Analytics Supply Chain Talent Hub Case Studies Career Blog 20 Steps to RtM Excellence Posts Supply Chain Excellence Posts Our Bloggers Contact Us Route to (..)

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QAD

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Product packaging, especially in the consumer products universe is more than simply the vessel to hold the product and to protect it during transport. It’s Not Just About the Finished Products The changes in consumer goods packaging begin at the earliest stage of the supply chain: raw material sourcing. It influences sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

There are many areas of digital transformation within the supply chain. This report provides a cross-industry perspective on digital transformation in logistics including digital maturity in inventory management, transportation, fleet maintenance, safety and compliance, and more.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 6, 2019

Company executives are increasingly aware of the importance of supply chains in making companies successful. A couple of years ago, however, a McKinsey study concluded companies weren’t investing enough in supply chain transformation technologies. Technology and supply chain transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Supply chains have been around since people realized they had things worth trading. As new technologies emerged, supply chains transformed to take advantage of these technologies. As a result, transformation has been and remains an essential characteristic of supply chains.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 3, 2025

A CPO for a transportation manufacturing equipment provider noted: RPA will have a big impact on COEs, especially on the lower end of the system. In the P2P space, it is also important to note that the role of robotic process automation (RPA) and AI will further enhance the capabilities of COEs to efficiently manage transactional work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

”[2] Steve Banker ( @steve_scm ), Vice President of Supply Chain Services at Arc Advisory Group, agrees it’s a fair question. He writes, “Companies mean different things by the term ‘digital supply chain transformation.’

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Today, it is not just disruption that must be mitigated, it is delivering the right supply chain experience. Otherwise, what is available to sell (ATS) in the form of readied stock, can soon fail to translate into available to promise (ATP) , should any of the labor, transport, production or sourcing efforts go awry.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

More than 500 supply chain leaders converged in Berlin between 11 – 13 November to learn how to unlock the full potential of their supply chains, and to ultimately reshape the future of their businesses. A benefit that, as already explained, paves the way for much stronger outcomes with AI and generative AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Transportation management systems and real-time visibility solutions have generated the majority of attention for streamlining the process of getting a truck to the dock, loading or unloading it, and getting it back on the road. The network effect is at the heart of supply chain transformation.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In Berlin, we connected with a wide range of industry leaders, customers, and innovators all focused on a shared mission: evolving the future of supply chain management. For those outside the supply chain world, logistics might seem as straightforward as transport and warehousing, a “commodity”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

Yes, we have achieved greater normalcy in transportation. In the survey, 48% of companies were driving digital transformation, but the only element that improved performance was descriptive analytics. Companies driving digital transformation did not outperform their peer groups during the past three years. What is normalcy?

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

Read the blog → Alternative Transportation Mode We’ve also enhanced our replenishment functionality, specifically around transportation modes. Using the built-in machine learning capabilities of SO99+, users now can make better-informed decisions when selecting different transport options. Learn more →

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Early IoT adopters in the transportation, retail, energy, agriculture, healthcare, and city management sectors are proving the IoT’s value every day. ” Transportation optimization. The IoT ecosystem can be used to optimize transportation routes and increase both efficiency and effectiveness.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Digital supply chain transformation will accelerate. We expect digital supply chain transformation to accelerate and those companies that have been putting it off will now make it a priority. Read our blog on open supply chain platforms. Here’s to a healthy and prosperous year ahead!

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2021

This scarcity issue is only amplified when we review the aging workforce in the delivery industry and the lack of interest from younger generations to jump in a semi-truck for short- and long-haul transports. The post Strategy for Supply Chain Transformation in the Age of Scarcity appeared first on QAD Blog.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 3, 2024

He is a Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Supply Chain Transformation Architect and also an expert in effective change management, facilitation and communications. he is an internationally recognized expert in leading-edge business process improvement methodologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2022

The network effect is at the heart of supply chain transformation, especially when dealing with change. As sustainability continues to be a hot topic around global supply chains, the network effect plays a role. The Network Effect, Sustainability, and Automation.

Optimal Sourcing 301

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E2open

APRIL 28, 2025

(NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, announces that Nutrabolt has selected e2open’s connected supply chain platform as part of their digital transformation strategy.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Louis Columbus ( @LouisColumbus ) goes so far as to insist, “Analytics will revolutionize supply chains in 2018.”[7] ” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes there are five fundamental shifts in supply chain technology driving today’s transformation efforts.[8]

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In most cases, they are trying to tweak parts of their existing supply chains to somehow fit the new all-channel reality. Instead, a holistic view and a major supply chain transformation is needed in order to serve the end-user at all times, at any location and, above all, to remain profitable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2024

Countless companies grapple with the fundamental flaw of disjointed processes, which leaves planning blind to crucial factors such as transportation, warehouse, and labor constraints. It’s crucial to extend visibility beyond transportation, beyond facilities and customer locations to encompass the end-to-end supply chain.

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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. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Digital innovation across every node of the supply chain is occurring – and fast. Smart factories, smart warehouses and smart transportation are becoming a reality as manufacturers invest in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

5 Supply Chain Predictions for 2023 ; Dr. Madhav Durbha ( Coupa Software ) So much has changed in a year! While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

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Tecsys

JUNE 21, 2021

Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected Tecsys as a recipient of the Top Supply Chain Projects Award for 2021 in association with the company’s supply chain transformation project at Montreal-based logistics and transportation company, Fuel Transport.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF Began their Digital Resilience Transformation 20 Years Ago! I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. The ZF supply chain is complex. There are also avoided costs.

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