Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

But to get there, it’s imperative that industry leaders understand the significant work that’s still ahead – to be blunt, we have a long way to go – and continue to prioritize en supply chain visibility as a linchpin to achieving broader digital transformation goals. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 22, 2014

Supply chain visibility is no easy task – in fact, defining what it means can be a challenge in itself. What is your definition of supply chain visibility? This means you have to design a supply chain visibility solution around your trading partners and suppliers.

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C3 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Keeping up with supply chain demands is no easy feat. Whether you're managing inventory in a warehouse, trying to streamline operations at the dock, or juggling yard logistics, everything needs to flow seamlessly. And here’s where supply chain visibility comes in.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Supplying this urban population with fresh food is difficult due to the tropical temperatures and the overloaded transport infrastructure with frequent traffic gridlocks. Customers include large fast food chains in the Philippines, exporters and importers, as well as small food retailers.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 15, 2018

In this blog Geoff shows us 3 major benefits of supply chain visibility for your business. Most supply chains today still have some areas that aren’t connected, and data is walled off, which harms the ability of all companies involved to understand their operations fully. A little understanding can go a long way.

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C3 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In today's complex supply chain environment, silos between yard management , warehouse operations, and transportation systems can create inefficiencies that slow down operations, increase costs, and compromise service levels.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 22, 2024

Kendra Phillips and Joe Lynch discuss taming the supply chain beast. Kendra is the VP of Global Transportation Management leading the managed transportation and brokerage divisions of Ryder System, Inc , a Fortune 500 Transportation and Logistics company. responsible for a $175M P&L and over 1,200 employees.

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Logility

APRIL 29, 2022

This requires leveraging both supply chain visibility and data-driven intelligence at lower levels in the supply chain, and then using those capabilities to make rapid changes as necessary in vendors, facilities, and modes and routes of transportation. How do you do this?

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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. Transportation and Logistics: The goal here is to minimize delivery costs while maintaining reliable service levels.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Supply chain shortages abound. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. The supply chain impact is unprecedented. Projects Being Implemented as Part of a Digital Supply Chain Transformation Project.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2022

. … Supply chain leadership must be enabled to assess immediate tradeoffs between service levels and demand in order to make precise decisions and adapt to unexpected change. And that’s where supply chain visibility (SCV) plays a significant role.”[2] The Supply Chain Visibility Imperative.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2024

However, over-the-road transportation costs remain low. Retailers and CPG companies are adjusting their supply chain strategies to delay the final positioning of inventory, allowing them to better meet regional demand without over-investing in warehousing.

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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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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

The 2018 State of Logistics Report , sponsored by 3PL Central , indicates warehousing models are evolving at a phenomenal rate. Online and mobile innovations are at the heart of increased traceability and visibility, and products must be delivered at break-neck speeds. Optimize warehouse design. Even with 5.2

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2014

This is similar to what Deloitte found in its supply chain risk management study , where “Building stronger extended value chain relationships” was the top-ranked strategy for preventing or recovering from negative outcomes of supply chain risk events. Post a comment and share your perspective!

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Longbow Advantage Has a Real-time Visibility Solution. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. A few years ago, Longbow’s customers started to ask them to fix a problem they were having with their warehouse management systems. WMS generates massive quantities of data.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

All participants to LogiSYM GAME CHANGER will not only get to hear about the latest solutions in supply chain but unlike any other webinar out there, participants will have a one-on-one 30-min consultation with partners on any of these topics. Cold Chain Technology. Supply Chain Visibility.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 17, 2025

The Real-Time Demand & Forecasting Decision Intelligence Insights allows supply chain planners to detect shifts in customer demand early enough to proactively plan future operations. Empowers Reshoring with AI-Driven Supply Chain Visibility and Inventory Optimization appeared first on ThroughPut.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

Nine years ago, my company FourKites pioneered the market for real-time transportation visibility. And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology.

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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 Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. The need for data synchronization increases with the growth of nodes, the increase of the number of parties handling the freight, and the use of multiple modes of transport. The supply chain leader’s number one responsibility is reliability. We are awash in a sea of self-interest.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal made the point that every year, there are 9 billion hours of wasted time for truck drivers due to planning inefficiencies, especially when it comes to loads not being ready, not being able to be unloaded, or congestion around ports and warehouses. As a result, FourKites has moved from a single product company to a platform company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In the supply chain world, contract logistics – where a third-party logistics (3PL) firm runs and manages warehouses on behalf of their clients, is a $200 billion plus market. In supply chain services, the services company plans and executes on behalf of their clients. The right IT is critical.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Eliminate Before You Automate : Automation is critical to large, efficient warehouse operations.

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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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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This trend, known as reshoring , is driving the emergence of regionalized freight networks , optimizing supply chains for efficiency, cost savings, and resilience. Aerospace and transportation equipment companies are investing in Arizona and New Mexico. Midwest U.S. Southwest U.S. Shipment consolidation for cost savings.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Raw materials are in short supply, many manufacturers have temporarily mothballed production lines, transportation costs are rising, and labor is getting tight on our roadways , railways and ocean vessels. And for our global supply chains, that transformation cannot happen fast enough. The impact? And at the cross-dock.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2021

This would be a trigger across the supply chain which would result in warehouse movements, maybe LTL, consolidation, and finally distribution and delivery of re-supplies. Infor also uses a graph database for their Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Network known as Infor Nexus.

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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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