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Freight Forwarders and Real-time Freight Visibility

Talking Logistics

Read more The post Freight Forwarders and Real-time Freight Visibility appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. If you werent able to attend, you can watch it now on demand. Alfred kicked off the conversation by asking what surprised.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain practitioners seeking the best way to speed decision intelligence, unify supply chain data, and increase operational efficiency can benefit from a supply chain data gateway. Here are 10 ways a supply chain data gateway can improve your performance across the end-to-end supply chain.

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The Future (or End) of Supply Chain Visibility

Talking Logistics

Is supply chain visibility a product or feature? Heres an excerpt of what I wrote at the time: To derive business value from visibility, you have to do something with the data and insights collected. I first raised this question in an April 2022 post. Its the doing, the actions taken to improve your transportation.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain practitioners seeking the best way to speed decision intelligence, unify supply chain data, and increase operational efficiency can benefit from a supply chain data gateway. Here are 10 ways a supply chain data gateway can improve your performance across the end-to-end supply chain.

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5 Critical Challenges Facing Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

There’s little room for error in most global supply chains, but none for the pharma cold chain. Real-time visibility and tracking are critical to order accuracy, schedule reliability, inventory management and compliance in a high-value, highly regulated industry.

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Lenovo Excels in Supply Chain Planning with a Hybrid Approach

Logistics Viewpoints

Jack Fiedler, the vice president for digital transformation of the global supply chain at Lenovo Lenovo is ranked tenth by one leading analyst firm among a list of global companies with exceptional supply chains. We run one of the few truly hybrid supply chain networks. That has worked out well for us.

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Fleet Management 2.0: The Rise of Connected Vehicles in Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Real-time visibility enables fleet managers to oversee both individual vehicles and the entire fleet, facilitating immediate adjustments to changing conditions. Similarly, UPS uses its ORION system, which integrates real-time and historical data to optimize delivery routes, saving fuel and enhancing delivery reliability.

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Critical Challenges in Fresh Grocery and Supermarket Supply Chains

To keep pace with consumers’ increasing demands for all things fresh, grocery supply chains must have end-to-end visibility. However, even in 2022, retailers and supermarkets continue to be challenged by visibility gaps. Download this report to learn: The state of fresh grocery and supermarket supply chains in 2022.

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A Guide to Finding Your Visibility Platform Perfect Match

Supply chain technology leaders need to be well-versed in the arena of real-time transportation visibility platforms (RTTVP) vendors. RTTVP vendors are evolving to support complex supply chain challenges accelerated by today's increased supply chain disruptions.

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Port Congestion Shines Light on Visibility Gaps

Port congestion is a standout topic in current conversations surrounding logistics and the supply chain. With consumer demand and e-commerce at an all-time high, huge spikes in U.S. The current state of visibility –– or lack thereof –– in maritime shipping, and its contribution to port congestion.

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Playbook: Critical & Time-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Shipments Best Practices

Gaining a higher level of visibility into pharmaceutical supply chains is essential as the portion of pharmaceutical products sensitive to temperature, vibration, humidity or timing is growing at approximately twice the rate of non-cold chain products. Gaps in pharma critical cold chain.

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How Data Analytics Can Solve the Challenges Faced by SC Leaders in Discrete Manufacturing

Difficulty forecasting demand due to constant supply chain disruptions. Supply chain analytics creates new insights that help improve supply chain decision making from the improvement of front-line operations to strategic choices, such as the selection of the right supply chain operating models.” – McKinsey & Company.

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Critical & Time-Sensitive Cold Chain Shipments Best Practices

A report from the World Health Organization and the Parenteral Drug Association estimates that as many as 20% of temperature-sensitive products are damaged during shipment because of temperature excursions and other in-transit issues. Improving visibility in these supply chains is essential.

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The State of Data and Insights in Healthcare Logistics

Amid significant regulatory and compliance changes around the world, they've had to contend with massive supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. Increasing demand for specific products is also causing supply chain shortages.

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Parts Town: An O2C Journey from Manual Processing to Digital Transformation

Speaker: Sarah Gibson, Platinum Operations Manager

Enhanced visibility into every order with real-time analytics and dashboards. You’ll learn about the implementation of Esker’s AI-driven solution along with some of the biggest benefits achieved, including their: Ability to scale with 35% growth while maintaining business continuity. February 20, 2019 11.00 AM PST, 2.00