Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is starting to mount cost pressures just at the time when additional investments are needed to build resilience. 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.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Companies use risk management software , like the Interos solution, to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real time. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

However, over time, most companies have expanded their digital supply chain model from being mainly internally facing to including an array of external trading partners and participants. Who is InterSystems? InterSystems is a rapidly growing global private company with nearly 2,000 employees and revenues of over $1 billion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing. President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. The new law meant that the way medical systems operated had to change. Expanded health insurance coverage led to increases in the demand for care. Adrian Wengert joined Saint Luke’s Health System in 2014.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We invest a huge amount of time and resources into our people and making sure that we have the best digital talent in the industry and that we’re doing the most innovative things in the supply chain. Just last year we finished integrating the sales process into the end-to-end supply chain process. That has worked out well for us.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. data extractors, search APIs) to perform tasks, enabling them to dynamically adjust to new information and real-time knowledge sources. Typically, these systems consist of standard-task agents (e.g.,

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Logility

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and rapidly developing generative AI tools provide complex, real-time, and in-depth insights specific to supply chain management. People are used to interacting with data in a complex waynot just for scheduling but to get real, in-depth answers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

We spent hours and hours looking for data, whether it was for audits, compliance, or just basic troubleshooting. Data should be created once and move seamlessly, in real-time, to where needed. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. This became an investment priority.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2025

But, how do we think about the decision roles of not just humans but also machines? The Need for Speed When you talk to supply chain planning software suppliers, they identify similar trends. However, Alex Pradhan, the global product strategy leader at John Galt Solutions, talks differently about what her company sees in the market.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But many supply chain practitioners dont realize that the most common approach to supply chain planningusing a demand-driven forecast as the primary input to future planningis just as outdated. Identify and prioritize sources of uncertainty and variability in your supply chain and use this data to improve your planning and decision-making.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The technology is ready to go; now is the time to use it.”[1] They write, “This includes tackling bigger issues such as compliance, supplier relationship management, risk and disruption, responsible sourcing, and transparency. The answer: One bite at a time, of course! Quite the opposite. Companies are no different.”[4]

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Neal Huffman and Joe Lynch discuss Farelanes: real time lane pricing for everyone. Neal is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Farelanes, a company specializing in providing real-time lane pricing data for the logistics industry. He transitioned to enterprise software and quickly latched on to the cloud deployment model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

At the same time, feeding your AI models too much data can also be a problem. Like Goldilocks’ quest for the perfect bowl of porridge, to leverage AI in your supply chain you need to identify which data is ‘just right’ for your business. ERP, CRM, SCM), external sources (e.g., Data is the lifeblood of AI in the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Trade disputes and tariffs. Cyber threats and attacks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Time-consuming manual processes to report on ESG metrics. From product design, sourcing and operations planning, to manufacturing, logistics and warehousing, there are many opportunities for improved efficiency at each stage of the process. But cloud applications are just the start. Start with your supply chain.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

”[2] It’s not just supply chains that are realigning, columnist Ezra Klein insists the whole world is realigning. .”[2] ”[2] It’s not just supply chains that are realigning, columnist Ezra Klein insists the whole world is realigning. ” Dragons are a good analogy for the risks faced by supply chains.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

We’re inching toward the time of year when sweltering heat can only be quenched by one experience–a dunk in a cool, crisp, clean swimming pool. Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC. Temperatures are rising and people are getting sweaty. between 2021 and 2026.The

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 24, 2024

Robotic Process Automation Deployment According to the APQC data, organizations are exploring Robotic Process Automation across a number of supply chain areas, including supply chain planning, sourcing and procurement, logistics and warehousing, and manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. Time to Know. Time to Act. For me, it is a heightened respect for time. For me, it is a heightened respect for time. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) I spent the month of March trying to help business leaders mitigate the impact of the pandemic. The reason?

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Image source: Stefan de Kok 2. Take Shamir Optical , for example: by automating planning decisions, they scaled operations across 20 locations each with 35,000 SKUswithout adding to their team of just three planners. Demand forecasting has evolved dramatically in recent years. What is Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain Management?

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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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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Evaluating different scenarios helps you gain much-needed network flexibility in these times of stress and can help you prepare for a resilient future. At the same time, they faced new constraints on the resource side. Another use case we see for scenario modeling in the current context is evaluating new sourcing locations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

At the same time, many companies have lost access to most of the markets in Ukraine and Russia (owing to sanctions). At the same time, many companies have lost access to most of the markets in Ukraine and Russia (owing to sanctions). For the longest time, supply chain organizations’ major objective was cost optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks. The traditional leader values cost reduction but is blind on how to value time. Over four-hundred days of war in Ukraine. Growing tensions between China and trading partners. Unrest in Sudan. What is normalcy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, at its heart, production in the Asia-Pacific region was severely curtailed for a period of time for issues ranging from the COVID impact on worksites to energy shortages, to port capacity limits. So, there was a supply disruption and an increase in demand hitting the market at the same time.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 2, 2023

Once upon a time, the world of manufacturing was a relatively stable place. And that’s where real-time perpetual inventory signals come in. Without updated data that can offer clear insights, manufacturers face increased costs and a decline in on-time, in-full (OTIF) delivery performance and overall efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, a vaccine manufacturer increased their order size by a factor of four in one weekend; a video call company wanted to receive ten times as much product as they initially forecast with just a month’s lead-time. Demand uncertainty does make it much more difficult for a supply chain to respond to customers’ orders.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matt is the Co-Founder and CEO of popcapacity , which is dedicated to simplifying the process for sourcing warehouse space. Popcapacity leverages technology to simplify the process of sourcing warehouse space. Our platform was designed to reduce amount of time and cost associated with sourcing new warehouse and fulfillment space.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Unless all supplying countries are hit at the same time, this would allow producers to better withstand supply shocks.” “For decades,” writes economic journalist Peter S. Goodman , “major companies have behaved as if geographic distance were almost irrelevant. A factory in China was the same as a factory in Michigan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2021

Or the impact of a tier 3 supplier delay on the part you need getting on a truck to your plant in time for you to meet the production schedule so you can deliver on time in full to meet your customer’s newest requirements?”. Mere visibility might just help you ‘admire’ a problem – ‘gee, those parts are going to be late.’

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And third, it is the starting point for understanding the level of an organization’s GHG emissions at a given point in time. FourKites , the global leader in real-time supply chain visibility, has launched a Sustainability Dashboard where companies can see miles traveled to create a baseline for emissions.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Businesses must find effective ways to strengthen their networks and improve flexibility to maintain stability during uncertain times. A well-managed supply chain does not just survive crises it thrives in them. In supply chain operations, it plays a crucial role in mitigating risks, improving response times, and optimizing workflows.

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