Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here are some different sources and their very different numbers: The first question is why the Department of Energy has these kinds of statistics. The Department of Commerce lists warehousing companies, but of course, most warehouses are not owned by third party logistics or public warehousing companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

Of course, fuel shortages can cause factory production delays that can subsequently hinder downstream production processes. For example, Volkswagen is halting production at two electric vehicle plants in Germany as a result of interruptions of components sourced from Ukraine. Beyond Fossil Fuels. Then There is Cyber.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Thinking back on the many presentations, panel discussions and conversations over the course of the conference, a few unifying themes come to mind. As the logistics technology sector continues to mature, the number of tools, solutions and platforms that supply chain stakeholders are using (juggling?)

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Media sources are filled with prognostication. Of course, lower rates are great if you are paying for the service and not so positive if you are providing it. Of course, prices tend to jump from supply and demand pressures. The end of the calendar year is sure to bring about predictions about the year ahead.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. Spend Management Takeaways SAP continues to invest in using generative AI to improve the user experience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) Explore alternative analytics and data sources to eliminate black holes. As you do this work, evaluate options like alternate sourcing, bill of materials, and the discontinuance of products. Step #5 Safe Manufacturing. These are my thoughts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. Some resins and epoxies were not available, so the company had to look at alternative components or different methods of sourcing. Qualcomm also faced a raw material shortage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

This kind of disruption causes major dislocation in the sources of demand and shifts the centers of gravity for demand, forcing organizations to rethink their supply chain design. Switching to alternate sources of supply or modes of transportation should be considered as appropriate, and such alternates should be activated on a short notice.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over the course of the five months, we iterated on the model over seven sessions. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. My personal learning?

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. But most sourcing and procurement teams need to pivot and modify the way they handle SCM decisions.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Supply chains will get more regional and focus more on alternate sourcing/ substitution options. Companies will also look to shorten and localize supply chains.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Identifying sources of Carbon emissions. These are classified into sources of emissions as Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3. These are considered “indirect” greenhouse gas sources. Scope 3 emissions are the amount of carbon emitted by vendors and suppliers in your value chain, another indirect source.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

By leveraging causal knowledge and data graphs, Causal AI can navigate complex business scenarios, anticipate outcomes, and recommend optimal courses of action. Of course, getting a promise right is vital. GP, for example, has also had success in demonstrating that Causal AI can solve difficult sourcing problems.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 10, 2022

And of course, their product display isn’t short on eye-candy. Image source: National Retail Association. Image source: Twitter. Instead, Adobe offers transparency: The company makes issues known publicly via social channels as well as email so that customers are the first to be made aware of any problems: Image source: Twitter.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

And, of course, when anyone buys goods in a store, part of that cost is freight. Enter, a global container shortage. In the last quarter of 2020, it became clear cargo rates weren’t coming down anytime soon.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Now, of course the systems of healthcare differ but overall the level and growth is certainly a concern. Quite often there can be a general lack of spend and vendor management and strategic sourcing activities. The above is a simplified view, of course. Most other developed countries are around 40-50% less than this.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

On the other hand, of course, as the consumer was not so focused on other industries, we had a slight decrease also there. I think it’s more that the idea of sourcing and how to buffer certain inventory will be definitely more localized. This of course is the reason why we had the big peak in e-commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Risk management solutions scrape data from hundreds of thousands of online & social-media sites, but Autoliv also has access to sources of information that they pay for. They wanted these diverse sources of information pulled together in one central, user-friendly location they call their “garage.” And we are making progress.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

When you’re ingesting and synthesizing data from dozens or hundreds or millions of sources (as most sophisticated platforms do nowadays), you will see duplicated records, incomplete fields, formatting inconsistencies, different languages, different units of measurement. And better data science leads to better business outcomes for customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here I ask, “Whether we can change course to drive more value in supply chain management?” The term is a spin-off of the “Big Data” work from the open source innovation of the last decade. This is even though the penguins are starving and the only food source is in the water. I don’t know.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing. The net result of that was about $100 million in savings over the course of 10 years. And yet, after labor costs, medical supplies are the second largest cost. Luke’s began to build new supplier relationships. “We We built strategic supplier partnerships.”

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Moving past waste, water, and C02 reduction, they have begun searching for renewable energy sources, different forms of packaging, and increased efficiency overall. More and more enterprises will be focusing on processes like ethical sourcing, reverse logistics, and using green materials in response to public demands.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 15, 2020

It should deliver a single source of truth, live KPIs and continuous optimization capabilities so that you can evaluate outcomes and quickly determine the best course of action to meet your business KPIs. Future-proof your business with a scalable planning system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Vessels are expected to seek shelter/alter their course to avoid the impacted areas,” Maersk, the world’s No. Lidl also shared that it had identified 11 critical raw materials and committed to setting responsible sourcing targets for each group of items. An earlier system included waves peaking at 10 meters (32.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Labor management systems break the work down into very granular activities, set targets for doing those tasks in an allotted period of time, and measure how workers do against the time standards over the course of the day. And many are adding supplier risk management duties to the sourcing tasks performed by their procurement managers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

While it’s undeniably important to source products responsibly and produce recyclable or reusable products, companies also need to focus on making the transportation and distribution of products more sustainable. This is a global issue, of course, but if we just take the U.S. Ensure Your Materials Are Ethically Sourced.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

To change course, learn from history, to unlearn to rethink outcomes. The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver. Maturity in Analytics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 17, 2023

There have been temporary disruptions, of course, and some of them were lengthy. Since as far back as the 1970s, the concept of dual sourcing has been regarded as a very robust supply chain solution; very high reliability can be achieved with only limited back-up. One way is to add a second supplier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Over the course of three decades, companies invested in enterprise systems to improve functional efficiency. While many companies attempt to improve the response by being reactive on traditional data sources, this is not the answer. While useful when the order patterns are stable, it is less helpful in times of gyrations.) What To Do?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, increasing access to China as both a channel and a supply source. Consider the investment in outside-in planning processes using market data and orchestrating source, make, and deliver based on a holistic design process. This course is limited to retailers and manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. I was luck enough to get to take this class twice, and it was one of the most profound courses that I took in chemical engineering school. In this blog post, I give a framework to drive discussions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2023

By integrating all of these steps, companies can create a single source of truth, which makes decision making faster and more agile. In the digital step, companies integrate all data sources to consolidate data on a cloud platform. So how do companies achieve autonomous planning?

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