The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Kyle Henderson and Joe Lynch discuss real time container tracking, which is exactly what Kyle and his team do at Vizion. Vizion changes the game by providing multiple data sources that are already connected, offering instant-on capabilities. With data refreshed multiple times daily, latency is reduced to 6 hours or less.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2021

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Visibility solutions are becoming more necessary.

Real-time Visibility 257

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility by LSCMS Shippers’ Council How would Logistics managers explain to their COO and Production group that inbound material will arrive on 23Dec but with 50% probability? What is supply chain visibility and why it is important?

Rail Software 244

Rail Software Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Planning Software Predictive Analytics Software 244

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

Rob’s second priority: reducing dwell times for the drivers picking up and dropping off those millions of shipments. Step 3: Implement a real-time supply chain command center. While analytics and visualization have their place, they can’t help you execute , in real-time, on a supply chain issue.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Discover how the right cloud-based platform can enable end-to-end visibility in your modular production for agile operations and increased customer satisfaction. However, modular production needs to be supported by end-to-end visibility. This can be enabled leveraging a modular production system.

Real-time Visibility 296

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

To drive better estimated times of arrival (ETAs), better visibility is needed. They recently announced they will equip their entire container fleet with real-time tracking devices. The devices will improve visibility by transmitting data on a real-time basis from each container. million TEUs.

Rail Software 246

Rail Software Supply Chain Visibility Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Planning Software 246

ToolsGroup

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a world of too little, too late, real-time data provides the actionable insights companies need to maximize inventory performance and business profitability. Power In-House Systems : Inventory Hub is system-agnostic and provides developer tools to merchants who can use its data to power in-house systems and applications.

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ToolsGroup Real-time Visibility Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software 156

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making.

Supply Chain Planning Software 245

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

To test the thinking and visibility of his students, Socrates held up a white ball in front of his student and asked, “What color is the ball?”. Next time, before you answer,” said Socrates, “examine both sides.”. Indeed, who couldn’t benefit from improved transportation visibility? Real-Time Transportation Visibility Defined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility. Digital transformation is the formula.

Rail Software 210

Rail Software Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 210

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. S2P: Where to Start Ivalua provides a comprehensive set of integrated solutions that span the entire Source-to-Pay lifecycle.

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Sourcing Strategies Price Reduction Purchasing Skills Manufacturing Procurement 264

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

I recently completed my latest study on the transportation execution and visibility solutions market. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network. This enables improved estimated arrival times of goods. Visibility solutions are becoming more necessary.

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Real-time Visibility Transportation Optimal Sourcing Pharmaceutical 214

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Your supply chain should benefit from end-to-end supply chain visibility and execution solutions that work together in a coherent supply chain orchestration strategy. True resiliency is achieved when supply chain leaders can predict issues and dynamically respond – from sourcing and manufacturing to final delivery – with agile solutions.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 306

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ToolsGroup

JULY 12, 2023

Dynamic Fulfillment leverages real-time inventory, demand, and operational signals captured by ToolsGroup’s unique dynamic data unification platform, which provides a digital supply chain twin for optimal sourcing decisions.

Optimal Sourcing 156

Optimal Sourcing ToolsGroup Real-time Visibility Optimization Software 156

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2021

SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain. The larger the number of industry participants on a network, the better the solution is at sourcing and onboarding. The LevaData solution, for example, speeds up sourcing significantly. There are messages that need to be real-time.

Optimal Sourcing 286

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Modeling Software 286

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2024

One of the most powerful tools in modern supply chain management is the Control Tower, which offers a comprehensive, real-time view of the entire supply chain and is the single source of truth for the latest developments on the demand and supply side. What is a Control Tower?

Supply Chain Planning Software 266

Supply Chain Planning Software Prescriptive Analytics Software Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning 266

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Earlier this summer, FourKites held a Carrier Visibility Summit. FourKites is a leading provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions. They have visibility to a shipment 30 minutes before it arrives.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Such real-time data and visibility functions allow for supplier comparisons as well as overall emission source contributor identifications, which can be focused on for improvement. Mixmove is cloud-based and provides visibility on the parcel level. It can be done via EDI, API or via a web portal.

Optimal Sourcing 246

Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software Real-time Visibility Logistics Network Optimization Software 246

QAD

JANUARY 25, 2024

Companies worldwide seek to capitalize on cost efficiencies by sourcing goods from foreign markets. However, the advantages of globalization come with challenges, and one of the key elements that can make or break the import management process is shipment visibility. The importance of shipment visibility cannot be overstated.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

All of these require the sharing of information about goods and transport as the basis for visibility and transparency. Visibility and transparency are critical for condition and time sensitive goods, like vaccines and flowers, and for bringing agility, resilience, and predictability into the supply chain.

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Logility

APRIL 29, 2022

Visibility across the entire length and breadth of your supply chain is required to predict and overcome supply chain constraints. Too much inventory means demand constraints, too little causes supply constraints. It starts of course with your planning department, but they need to partner with sourcing and procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 27, 2023

For example, real-time planning, end-to-end planning, control tower, integrated business planning (IBP), and digital brain are oxymorons while discussions on innovation bounded by a required ROI is a juxtaposition. How can I align the organization to a balanced scorecard through the visibility of options? The goal of a forecast?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 5, 2019

Visibility. The most common use case for control towers is visibility. While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. Gaps in Enterprise Visibility. Gaps in Supplier Visibility. Considerations: Real-time?

Supply Chain Design Software 294

Supply Chain Design Software Real-time Visibility Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Planning Software 294

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Complete visibility into inventory. Better inventory management requires visibility at a granular level, down to individual orders and SKUs. And it requires visibility everywhere. What’s in manufacturing? What orders are planned versus in process? What’s stuck at the port? Integration with other key systems.

Inventory Management Software 246

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Machine learning technology has been around for a long time but there have been substantial obstacles to mainstream adoption. These traditional obstacles included the development, training, and interpretation of the model; access to all of the data sources; robust computational power to process it all; and more. — Derek H.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 355

Logistics Network Optimization Software Predictive Analytics Software Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Software 355

Logility

JUNE 28, 2022

Even in the best of times, they can be unwieldy, and keeping track of your suppliers, your suppliers’ suppliers, and… You know the drill. Supply chain visibility offers the means to manage your supply chain efficiently by offering previously unseen opportunities. What Is End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The hyper-focus on meeting customer expectations is also creating pressures upstream in the supply chain, as manufacturers extend visibility and collaboration beyond their own walls to avoid any disruptions. with end-to-end visibility and an eye toward fact-based, profitable decision-making.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 286

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2024

Leveraging advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and real-time tracking can enhance visibility, optimize routes, and improve overall supply chain efficiency. Reducing reliance on single suppliers and diversifying supply sources can mitigate the impact of disruptions in specific regions or industries.

Supply Chain Planning Software 271

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

A resilient supply chain incorporates alternative sources, carriers, routes, and other characteristics so that it can flex in response to a situation. To increase resiliency, consider broadening the supplier base and adding local or near-shore sources. Utilize a TMS That provides real-time data to remain agile.

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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. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

Real-time insights embedded into operations. To achieve all these and more, next-generation planning platforms need to combine AI/ML predictive capabilities with operational diagnostics, expand beyond the enterprise, and have visibility across the whole ecosystem. Can the workflows and analytics easily change over time?

Supply Chain Planning Software 311

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Supply chains can be inherently complex, involving a multitude of suppliers, providers and enterprises that often operate independently while the supply chains themselves remain fragmented, with no shared visibility. Organizations need to consider several factors for collaboration to be effective.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 21, 2020

Managing exceptional risks requires insights and visibility of key information – this gives you the ability to minimize the impact of these unexpected, yet huge disruptions. End-to-end visibility. The foundation of a resilient supply chain is end-to-end visibility. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is an example.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

A comprehensive Source-to-Pay platform is a critical component of an organization’s IT environment. What is Source-to-Pay? The Source-to-Pay process itself is quite broad but it covers most if not all the aspects of a procurement organization, at least from a process and technology perspective.

Optimal Sourcing 130

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

These passports document all aspects of the life cycle – from the sourcing of raw materials to final disposal or recycling. Consumers are also requiring increased visibility into how products are produced, transported and retired. These IoT systems help businesses maintain near real-time information on their products.

Optimal Sourcing 257

Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software Modeling Supply Chain Optimization 257

All Things Supply Chain

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply chain visibility is about knowing where things are at all times, from their sources to their final destinations. Various technologies can track goods in real time. Blockchain, AI, data…

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

In a conversation with Blue Yonder executives, they pointed out that retailers are looking at port diversification for improved sourcing and allocation. 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.

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