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Walmart’s Massive Investment in a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

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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What is Supply Chain Transformation?

Logistics Bureau

This is especially relevant to supply chain management, which is in the process of changing to take advantage of new technology that can make things more efficient. We sometimes refer to this process as supply chain transformation. What is Supply Chain Transformation?

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

Logistics Viewpoints

But to verify the “in full” part, your real-time transportation solution needs to be connected to warehousing, inventory, fulfillment and order management. Supply chains, after all, are very appropriately named — and the old saying about a chain being only as strong as its weakest link holds true here.

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Digital Transformation in Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Of this technology budget, an average of 30 percent is typically allocated to digital transformation.

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Supply Chain Transformation: Not Just Digital, But Physical Too

Talking Logistics

Over the past couple of years, we have published many blog posts and produced several video episodes on supply chain digital transformation (see our archives ). The approach, now in pilot mode at a warehouse in Perth Amboy, N.J.,

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Blue Yonder at BVL Supply Chain CX in Berlin: A New Vision for Transformational Supply Chains

BlueYonder

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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Efficient Frozen Food Distribution: Inside the Build-out of Two Automated Facilities

Logistics Viewpoints

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its US supply chain operations to support a strategy to transition the supply chain network into a fully-integrated, self-distribution model. Final Word.