Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Proactively adopting cleaner energy sources ensures alignment with these evolving regulations. The industry’s dependency on traditional energy sources necessitates an urgent shift toward cleaner alternatives. Transparent sourcing practices build trust among consumers and investors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The key to this lies with sourcing. Before diving further, let us define what sourcing is. Sourcing is the practice of finding and selecting suppliers for a range of services (e.g., Traditional sourcing practices tend to be highly manual and are fraught with latencies and inefficiencies. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They offer software systems and technology for complex integration, rapid application development, and advanced analytics and sell those solutions to companies that need to accelerate optimized business outcomes. They use this foundation to provide historical, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Erika is Vice President of Information Security at DAT Freight & Analytics, the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Currently Vice President of Information Security at DAT Freight & Analytics, she leads the vision, strategy, and execution of advanced security protections. Erika holds a Ph.D.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 16, 2024

And one of the main objectives of all this digitized data and integration in one source of truth is supply chain visibility , that will not only let logistics experts optimize operations, but also detect and react to disruptions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Ethical sourcing is a fundamental aspect of social sustainability. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, and predictive analytics enable smarter inventory management, real-time tracking, and predictive maintenance, reducing waste and costs. Efficiency is a vital component of economic sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source: mainebiz.biz In today’s rapidly evolving logistics and supply chain sector, warehouses are increasingly turning to innovative technologies to gain a competitive edge. By leveraging big data and analytics, warehouses can make more informed decisions, leading to better resource allocation and cost savings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To improve,” the report rightly notes, “organizations should enhance supply chain visibility with robust data and analytics; use AI to foresee disruptions; keep business continuity plans current; and diversify supply sources, suppliers, manufacturing and logistics partners.”

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 17, 2025

Integrating Real-Time Data for Improving Demand Forecast Accuracy AI-driven demand planning models leverage real-time data sources, such as: Point-of-sale transactions Social media trends Website traffic analytics Consumer behavior indicators 3.

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QAD

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the most transformative tools in this regard includes, digital sourcing or also referred to as, e-sourcing applications. These digital platforms have revolutionized how businesses approach sourcing by enhancing efficiency, reducing costs and fostering better supplier relationships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when an adverse event has occurred or may be about to occur. That information comes from inside the platform applications and increasingly from outside sources, like Interos.

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To mitigate risks, many companies are incorporating alternate parts into their sourcing strategy. Here, we highlight some of the obstacles with alternate parts sourcing and discuss key considerations to help streamline the process. 5 ESSENTIALS FOR SOURCING ALTERNATE COMPONENTS 1. Ensure parts originate from a trusted source.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Companies that previously prioritized cost-cutting and centralized sourcing quickly found themselves exposed to serious production and distribution risks. In response, many organizations have shifted toward decentralized and regionalized supply chain models, distributing production and sourcing across multiple regions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Support Data-Driven Decision Making : Advanced data centers will enable better data analytics and insights, driving more informed and strategic decisions. The company aims to: Invest in Renewable Energy : Expanding the use of renewable energy sources to power its operations, reducing its carbon footprint.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2024

With improving machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, advanced analytics are shifting, becoming a more attractive option to leaders across industries. But how can you incorporate advanced analytics into your supply chain flow? What Are Advanced Analytics? What Are the Benefits of Advanced Analytics?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Using AI to Enhance Context of Data Data fuels advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) in supply chain planning.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Technological Advancements Real-time inventory tracking and predictive analytics give leading firms a competitive edge. Embrace Technology Leverage digital platforms for predictive analytics, automation, and end-to-end inventory transparency. Conflicts in critical regions disrupt access to essential materials.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. Strategic sourcing plays a critical role in this transformation, ensuring organizations secure the best value while mitigating risk.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 25, 2025

This democratization of advanced analytics allows businesses of all sizes to benefit from sophisticated techniques once available only to enterprise organizations with dedicated data science teams. Next Generation New Product Introductions (NPI) Forecasting demand for products without sales history has traditionally been a guessing game.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Our second webinar delved deeper into the technology aspect, focusing on analytical capabilities and scenario modeling. Our first webinar with Oliver Wight discussed common people, process and technology pitfalls that hinder IBP initiatives. Specifically, we looked at three use cases for scenario modeling using our cloud-based IBP app.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2025

Mike is the Head of Intermodal Solutions at SONAR, the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Mike Baudendistel and Joe Lynch discuss the CPG supply chain.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s where data analytics comes in. It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. In this post, we’ll explore how data analytics can revolutionize your supply chain. You’re not alone. Ready to get started? Let’s dive in.

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Logility

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Download Now AI Solutions for Complex Demand Planning For supply chain professionals, managing demand involves analyzing multiple signals from diverse sources. Use Predictive Analytics : Use AI tools in the supply chain to help planners predict short-term changes more accurately.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Corey Rhodes , CEO of Everstream Analytics, explains, “The past year has been unprecedented, with extreme weather events, heightened geopolitical tension and cybercrime destabilizing supply chains throughout the world. Everstream analytics lists climate change and extreme weather as the top risk to supply chains this year.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning , Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020). – Tweet this.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

About Farelanes Farelanes is a leader in Logistics analytics and real-time Lane Pricing for all equipment types operating on North American roads today. With over 25 equipment types, not just Dry Van, Reefer and Flatbed, Farelanes provides truckload freight data analytics services for North America.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2024

One of the most powerful tools in modern supply chain management is the Control Tower, which offers a comprehensive, real-time view of the entire supply chain and is the single source of truth for the latest developments on the demand and supply side. What is a Control Tower?

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