Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Dave Elias, vice president of supply chain management, and Josh Stauffer, senior director of IT, spoke at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. They have implemented a broad suite of enterprise and supply chain applications and are still implementing more. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 10, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Revenue for Amazon’s North America segment—the bulk of its retail business—was $79.8 Computers that learn and think: The next wave of technology to permeate the fashion and retail markets.

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Bottom Line: It’s time to transition the role of warehouses from cost centers to revenue centers that support new digitally enabled supply chains and business models that require greater accuracy, speed, and scale than ever before. A Warehouse Management System is the tool that can make that happen.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2016

What does this have to do with supply chain planning? As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. As it turns out, plenty. And I will get to that shortly. It all began last summer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Missed appointments, dock scheduling mix-ups, crowded yards with insufficient parking, dropped trailers — all have cascading effects up and down the supply chain. The net result? Higher expenses. Dissatisfied customers.

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Shipsy

JUNE 20, 2017

With an ever increasing focus on innovation and efficiency in the supply chain, Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 threw up a host of interesting takeaways. In this fast moving industry, expectations from supply chain leaders are very different from even a year ago, according to the survey.

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IQMS

JULY 2, 2018

56% of high-performance manufacturers are combining real-time monitoring and mobile technologies to provide production teams with accurate, precise views of production performance as it happens. Our latest survey results show manufacturers are very goal- and outcome-driven in their adoption of IoT as a real-time monitoring technology.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

When asked which region offered the greatest opportunity over the next five years, a quarter (25%) of exporters said North America (Canada/Mexico), down from 34% in 2017 and 2016. Now North America is virtually tied with Asia (26%) and Europe (25%) as the top regions for international growth opportunities.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. In North America the low hanging fruit for long-haul loads is rail. Adam Kahn, Sr.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Hunter Yaw.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals today is the is the accelerated pace of change, according to APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi. Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

MAY 26, 2020

Daimler Trucks North America is working with transportation startup Platform Science to embed software in rigs at the factory, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Jennifer Smith writes, in a move aimed at taking out the technology clutter that’s piled up in truck cabs.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

When asked which region offered the greatest opportunity over the next five years, a quarter (25%) of exporters said North America (Canada/Mexico), down from 34% in 2017 and 2016. Now North America is virtually tied with Asia (26%) and Europe (25%) as the top regions for international growth opportunities.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There has been a lot of news about driverless cars, and at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit there was also some news about “driverless” supply chain planning when two companies described supply chain planning with almost no human intervention. So what about driverless supply chain planning?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Rising Freight Costs Are Weighing on Companies’ Profits (WSJ – sub. Infor Introduces Next-Generation Supply Chain Visibility and Control Capabilities. Port of Rotterdam teams with IBM Internet of Things to digitize operations.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Works of science fiction have long envisioned a number of artificial intelligence (AI) driven technologies. ”[1] Josh Fisher ( @TrucksAtWork ), Technology Editor at FleetOwner , points out that the logistics industry is a perfect proving ground for cutting edge technologies once confined to the realms of science fiction. .”[1]

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 28, 2021

But the world’s demand for clean energy is running up against some hard realities in the global supply chain and one of the most erratic transportation markets in history. Here are the five key project logistics challenges we’re seeing in renewable energy and how to overcome them. Lack of supply chain visibility.

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Vinculum

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The variant has reduced the supply chain and affected the retail stores in large. The Warehouse Management software has reduced the workload from the head of the employees. Before planning or deciding, the business people must be crystal clear about the investment, cost-effective benefits, logistics, and inventory management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility! Every aspect of our lives has been disrupted: our health, freedom of movement, employment, the economy, our ability to buy goods, and virtually every Supply Chain. Supply Chain Disruptions … So Far.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2018

I’ve started to ramp up my training for our Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure team ride in support of JDRF, which will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 3, 2018. Our team members are also hitting the road, including Ralph Cisneros (Intel) and Joe Tillman (TSquared Logistics): It’s not too late to sponsor or join our team.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 7, 2020

One area in which there is no shortage predictions is the supply chain. Simon Ellis, Vice President of IDC Manufacturing Insights, observes, “The supply chain continues to undergo almost unparalleled levels of change. Supply chain trends. Each trend emerges from a different Digital Age technology.

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