Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are 3 common myths when it comes to adding new voice solutions to existing host or warehouse management systems (WMS): The Legacy Myth – You need a Tier 1 WMS to use voice-directed mobile applications so you should replace your custom-built systems or upgrade your legacy WMS package before looking at other solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

I am coming to you from the sunny confines of San Diego, CA where I am attending the 2024 Körber Elevate conference. Sean Elliot, Acting Co-CEO kicked off the conference with a keynote that highlighted what Körber did in 2023, but more importantly, where the company is going in 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

The SVP of Supply Chain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. Walmart is making investments in warehouse automation in distribution centers to deliver aisle and department-ready pallets to stores. In their distribution centers, Walmart is modernizing their warehouse management system (WMS).

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Kinaxis

MAY 30, 2017

by Dr. Madhav Durbha I enjoy attending conferences. One conference I recently attended is the Gartner Supply Chain Executive conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Use of drones ( EyeSee inside the warehouse for scanning and tracking inventory, Prime Air for delivery).

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Conference Board ( conference-board.org ), a well-known, global business membership organization, conducted its C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey in the fall of 2021. What tactics will be utilized to make warehouses more resilient? and warehouse and fulfillment resilience approaches.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just last week, my colleague Clint Reiser wrote an article about the top logistics and supply chain conferences to attend in 2024. Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023 ; Clint Reiser Welcome 2023! And with the new year comes an increasing return to in-person supply chain conferences and trade shows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

I was fortunate enough to spend the beginning of this week at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum user conference. It was great to be back in person at a conference, seeing people face to face. Although virtual conferences do offer convenience, they lack a personal touch and the ability to network with others in person.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. And at last week’s FourKites Visibility user conference, the tech pioneer reported investment in a different form of artificial intelligence, Generative AI. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the case of this retailer, all its major operational aspects – such as directed put away, replenishment, and inventory management – were running just fine. Improved inventory management capabilities. The net gain from a new WMS would be minimal. Supply chain planning tools.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Longbow Advantage had their first user conference in Nashville, Tennessee last week. Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. But this conference was focused on a near real-time analytics solution they developed called Rebus. WMS generates massive quantities of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Körber Supply Chain Software (Körber SCS) hosted its 2023 Elevate User Conference in Orlando this week. The conference theme was finding your rhythm – a fitting metaphor for supply chains across the globe as they return to more predictable patterns after experiencing disruptive fits and starts over the last couple years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

As hospitals adopted consignment planning programs, inventory progress slowed. The turns are the lowest of any industry, and despite investments in technologies and processes, inventory turns have only improved 3%, and Cash-T0-Cash (C2C) cycles have declined 4%. This precipitous drop in margin hurts. Companies are feeling pain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2024

SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3rd through the 5th in Orlando. SAP as part of S/4 HANA stack, also offers a feature-rich WMS known as Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). The use of RF devices, in combination with the data visibility EWM would improve inventory accuracy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. Last week I attended FourKites Visibility 2023 in Chicago, IL. CEO Matt Elenjickal kicked off Visibility 2023 with his keynote.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Computer Vision can be used to improve process adherence in the warehouse Flymingo is an Israeli computer vision company that identifies supply chain mistakes in operating processes in existing warehouse camera feeds. They are using a form of AI for image recognition in conjunction with a warehouse management system.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

The 2024 Finished Vehicle Logistics North America Conference , which took place May 21-23 in California, was a good place for automotive companies to learn about innovative strategies and solutions to drive their supply chains forward. As we heard at the conference, the vehicle logistics industry is responding.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. Current State of Perpetual Inventory. I am a disbeliever. Get Good at Data Sharing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2022

Mr. Amend explained Walgreens’ project in a speech at the Blue Yonder ICON user conference on May 25 th. But the inventory planning systems that forecast where inventory will be needed are not. Walgreen is intrigued by functionality that better integrates inventory planning with order fulfillment. No forecast is perfect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Manhattan Associates, a supplier of supply chain management software solutions and the market share leader for warehouse management systems (WMS), had their Momentum user conference a couple of weeks ago. Warehouse management systems generate huge amounts of data, which is a necessity if AI is to perform well.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Warehousing and distribution management is nota core skill. Many enterprises have taken heed and determined that inbound and outbound transport and warehousing are consequential processes of their business rather than fundamental or core processes. Why do organisations outsource logistics operations? Performance is sub-optimal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2023

I kicked off a research project on the global warehouse management systems (WMS) integration and consulting market. The research is focused on those organizations that are WMS specialists – meaning that warehouse consulting is a major part of the organization’s business. He provided me with some great context for my research.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

IPL Group specializes in Latin American warehousing and distribution. Centralized inventory with local distribution in Latin America maximizes flexibility and minimizes risk due to the complexity of these markets.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 6, 2022

To address the returns and reverse logistics challenge, companies like ReverseLogix have created reverse logistics technology that reduces costs and enhances the customer’s experience, while increasing inventory recovery and visibility into the reverse logistics life-cycle. 2021 BGSA Holdings Supply Chain Conference. Ben Gordon.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. As the press release explains: Today’s commercial enterprises are facing unprecedented market pressures.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 13, 2020

Rafael Labbé, Supply Chain Director at Suministros y Alimentos, a distributor to McDonalds Mesoamérica, shared his company’s experience and COVID-19 supply chain response with ToolsGroup’s Kathleen Geraghty at the recent ToolsGroup virtual user conference. If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Throughout the conference I met with a number of software and hardware suppliers to get a glimpse of what they were showcasing. While retailers would historically allocate inventory before it hit land, they are now making these decisions based on which port the merchandise will be arriving at. Here are the ones that stood out to me.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. This came in the form of unexpected absenteeism at factories, warehouses, and on the road, as well as boats being stuck in ports which created container shortages. and Supply.AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. The latest capability for merchants shows that the e-commerce giant is trying to control more inventory deeper in the supply chain before it’s sold. Gatik has covered a 7.1-mile

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2015

What is Lean Inventory Management? More firms are implementing lean inventory management techniques to reduce costs, improve flexibility and have more time to focus on their customers. Lean supply chain and inventory management enable Small Medium Businesses (SMB) to improve efficiency and increase profits.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. Today, this is not the case.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The visibility solution must be built in such a way that it can download order quantity and inventory data from a customer’s systems. Then many warehouse management systems have been configured to scan the barcodes on items as they are put onto a truck. It is not enough to use GPS to track a truck.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. Moreover, retailers can maximize on-shelf availability of inventory by ensuring that labor is available to unload trucks and stock shelves as soon as an incoming shipment arrives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. Moller – Maersk is turning to flying drones to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network, the Danish firm said. This time, however, he says it is for good.

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Supply Chain Insights

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Today, 90% of publicly-traded companies are stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns. Here are five examples that will be discussed at the conference. Will wearables, voice, internet of things, and robotics redefine warehouse management to reduce costs to pick goods by 30-40%? It is needed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

In the sector, the bullwhip impact is high, the inflationary pressures of crude oil prices immense, the variability from energy outages painful, and inventories relatively low. If ERP system input includes lead time, why is there such bloat and a problem with inventory restatements? Focus on right-sizing inventories.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If you are a manufacturing company or distributor, you most likely are using a warehouse or distribution center to make sure you are able to store inventory, replinish store fronts, and easily send goods to customers or receive goods for manufacture or distribution. This is a sign of poor warehouse operations management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

We draw a timeline on a conference room wall and using customer shipment and compliance data, we plot the issues with customer service and product outages. In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted. inventory turns.

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