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What are Digital Twins and How Can They Drive Warehouse Efficiency?

Logistics Viewpoints

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. To define what exactly it is, a digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process, or system. changing the structure of the warehouse, modifying processes, etc.)

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Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Technology can have a significant impact on supply chains, but supply chain digitization still lags behind digitization of other areas of business across many industries. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them. Artificial Intelligence AND Machine Learning.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

Logistics Viewpoints

The hype usually revolves around just one item and can easily be managed by a modern logistics system. But what really gets the supply chain and warehouse managers in a sweat are extremely intense sales days or weeks such as the well-known Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Imagine a warehouse operating around the clock, 360 days a year.

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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. ? Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . Increasing fuel costs also play into the available capacity woes.?

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Don’t Let Your Warehouses and Buildings Become a Vector for a Cyber Attack 

Logistics Viewpoints

In the world of supply chain and logistics, the built environment comes in many forms, from warehouses and logistics parks to the buildings associated with ports and terminals. The operational technology (OT) world, however, is a different story.

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Digital Path to Purchase: An Outside-in Opportunity

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, 63% of consumer manufacturing organizations have a digital path to purchase initiative. Use downstream data (retailer Point of Sale and warehouse withdrawal data) to build outside-in processes to sense short-term demand requirements and translate them to the supply chain. What to do? Build these processes outside-in.

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Being listed on a last-mile-delivery service platform and reaching a much broader customer base beyond the neighbors became a must-have for survival. Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Here are the steps to take for going digital: .