Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By placing photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roofs of buildings, warehouses can capture sunlight and convert it into electricity, reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. The integration of robotics within warehouse operations has led to significant improvements in productivity, accuracy, and cost savings. According to JLL, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Balancing Cost-Efficiency with Ethical Sourcing and Compliance Cost-efficiency remains a primary driver for supply chain strategies, but it must be balanced with ethical sourcing practices. Environmental Impact: Reducing emissions, conserving resources, and adhering to environmental regulations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

production at its South Carolina plant to reduce reliance on North American imports. Mitigation Strategies in the Auto Sector To cope with rising tariffs, automakers are accelerating plans for nearshoring and domestic production expansion. government is expanding farm subsidies to offset revenue losses from reduced trade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

Reduces Implementation Times Enterprises and supply chain software providers strive to reduce application implementation times. With a data gateway you can automate data operations, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving overall efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. Infor, with anticipated revenues of $3.4 We just want them solved.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Based on my research, I write about four strategies that drove value over the last decade. Which strategy drove the most significant value??” I ponder this question and turn to these case studies as reference materials. A Clear Strategy. What I love in this strategy is the focus on simplification.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains. This article was originally written and published for DHL in January 2020 and focused on the trade wars and how to leverage opportunities for tariff reductions. Product strategies. without being subject to tariffs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Oracle’s recent global survey, No Planet B: How Can Businesses and Technology Help Save the World? Reduce waste and lower your costs by monitoring the condition of goods in transit to reduce spoilage. Reduce waste and lower your costs by monitoring the condition of goods in transit to reduce spoilage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2022

This practice is typically owned by the sales and/or marketing organization, which is why it is so important for transportation and logistics departments to have input into customer service strategies. For example, in the building materials industry, many orders are scheduled for delivery at the beginning of the day.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. Light construction – when the only support is a wooden, concrete or metal structure – requires the use of light materials, such as plasterboard. and Data Science.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

I was also able to interview Brent after his session to get a little more insight on how Qualcomm dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic, what it means for the semiconductor chip shortage, and where the company is going with its digital transformation strategy. Qualcomm also faced a raw material shortage.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 11, 2022

Steel is a very versatile material as its composition and internal structure can be adjusted to tailor its properties. There is another important aspect of this material: recyclability. Steel is one of the most recycled material in the world.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

That’s exactly what Kyle Krug , Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Marketing at Legacy Supply Chain Services, suggests. The SAP staff explains, “The good news is that you can now leverage smart technologies and tools to better power increasingly sophisticated supply chain optimization strategies.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Today’s article comes from Greca Manuzzi, Senior Expert Product Marketing at Kinaxis, and explores breaking down silos in material and transportation planning. How can businesses ensure they remain competitive in such a market while facing constant pressure to improve efficiency, reduce lead times and cut costs? What is load building?

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As a result, the solution helped minimize stockouts, reduce costs, and streamline operations. The MEIO model enabled Belcorp to maintain a fill rate exceeding 95 percent while aiming to reduce total inventory value by 10 to 15 percent. Here’s where our MEIO model within SO99+ came into play.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

This facility will produce material for electric vehicle (EV) battery anodes, reducing reliance on Chinese imports. It emphasizes the importance of cost savings, supply base rationalization, risk management, strategic foresight, and supplier collaboration. million loan from the U.S.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Trane Technologies faces these unprecedented global challenges with a bold strategy and a commitment to building a healthier planet and a sustainable world. This requires a significant change in our approach to new product development, materials, and technologies to achieve these strategic goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

So, how can organizations tackle the inflationary environment by finding significant cost savings opportunities while improving resiliency? transportation, warehousing) or materials – direct, indirect, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), goods for resale. Early pay discounts or extended payment terms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Change management was not solely focused on suppliers, buyers, and material managers all had to change how they operated. There were 65 material managers included in the initial rollout. For material managers, he made the case that they would be much more likely to get their inbound supplies on time. He needed to influence them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

At one of the demo booths, what stood out was the ability of the procurement solution to track savings leakage over the course of a contract. When a procurement contract is negotiated, the buyer has planned to achieve a certain level of savings. However, those savings can leak away in several different ways.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services. By working closely with suppliers, organizations can improve the quality and reliability of their in-bound supply chains, reduce costs, and increase their overall efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, mounting environmental concerns and sustainability goals push organizations to reduce their carbon footprint, which often entails optimizing transportation for efficiency. Mandates for a more conscientious supply chain are driven by stakeholders’ demands for reduced environmental impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2023

This article explores the disruptive nature of supply chain disruptions, the significance of collaboration in managing direct spend, the role of Purchase Order (PO) Collaboration in tracking materials throughout the order cycle, and real-world challenges faced in PO Collaboration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is from Descartes Systems Group and looks at how companies can reduce lead times with real-time data. There can be multiple lead times within a supply chain, typically between each node or process along the way from raw materials, processing, and finally getting the customer their shipment. Why is lead time important?

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Paul is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Verusen , a supply chain intelligence platform, purpose-built to help manufacturers streamline their MRO supply and materials management. About Paul Noble As Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Verusen, Paul Noble oversees the company’s vision and strategic direction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

In today’s dynamic business environment, disruptions like material shortages or changing customer preferences can cripple your bottom line. They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Importers will look for near-term strategies to move their shipments away from congested trade lanes or process containers further inland to minimize the impact of lead time variability that has dramatically increased in 2021. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The net result of that was about $100 million in savings over the course of 10 years. So, we started working on clinical integration as one path” to drive procurement savings. We did it because we saved a couple of million dollars. We did it because we saved a couple of million dollars. These are great results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

By collaborating closely with suppliers and carriers, managers can establish uniform carton dimensions that minimize the need for excessive packaging materials. Standardized carton sizes also facilitate more efficient stacking and storage within the warehouse, reducing space utilization and improving overall operational flow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Offering a discounted membership in the days leading up to Prime Day is another way Walmart has been stepping up its effort to woo customers over from the e-commerce giant. In it, Lidl outlined such efforts as reducing scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse-gas emissions by 63% by the end of 2022 as it works toward a 70% reduction by 2030.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. Balancing supply and demand by orchestrating the flow of materials and information is a key requirement for managing operational risks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

Investor concern about material risks from climate change have created new reporting frameworks, such as those by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). UPS saves time and money at a level worth reporting on earnings calls, but they are also more sustainable.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

However, the Material Handling & Logistics (MH&L) staff notes, “Investors continue to have an outsized and growing role in putting pressure on firms to make their supply chains more sustainable.”[2] ”[4] Spitler believes being short-sighted about sustainability is bad strategy. .”[4]

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In an effort to understand the role virtualization plays in manufacturers’ current and future strategies, Dassault Systèmes via IndustryWeek conducted a midyear survey of industry leaders across a wide range of manufacturing sectors. The need to reimagine supply chain strategies. The viability of modeling and simulation.

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