Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides the second of a two-part market education series addressing what we term as broadening the context from warehouse control layer or accelerator to that of supply chain execution orchestration. This thought leadership series is provided in joint collaboration with AutoScheduler.ai

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

With gasoline prices reaching record highs , transportation managers must make smarter decisions that minimize road miles and associated costs. While demand is high, ongoing product shortages continue to cause supply chain disruptions, create unpredictable shopping behaviors and drive rapid delivery expectations.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2015

In a guest commentary last November, Evan Puzey, CMO at Kewill, wrote: “Many supply chain players are still not operating on interconnected systems, or using a common end-to-end process to connect all of their partners. How is this convergence impacting the development and deployment of supply chain software?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2022

The most common way to manage shopfloor complexity is to use a warehouse management system (WMS). The challenge is that traditional warehouse management systems on the market use 50-year-old scanning technology combined with sub-systems, like a labor management system, as a backbone to solve operational complexity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve completed research on supply chain planning (SCP) boutiques. My colleague Clint Reiser has completed a study on warehouse management system (WMS) boutiques. We are teaming up to bring you the coolest supply chain boutiques, listed alphabetically, that we identified through those studies. What is a boutique?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. Some clients may not want to buy a full-blown transportation management system, so Blue Yonder is willing to sell them a transportation optimization component and layer it on a legacy TMS or control tower.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 1, 2018

Warehouse managers face constant pressure to move more products, reduce damage, improve order cycle times, boost employee morale, and more. Legacy systems traditionally used for warehouse management are inefficient in the modern era; even systems in the 5- to 10-year age range. Fewer instances of employee theft.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

Supply chain execution is required to distinguish between the high runner purchases and the slower-moving products customers are willing to wait for. Optimize supply chain execution and minimize both delivery time and costs. Product categorization has become much more segmented and differentiated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For most companies, margins only declined further in 2021, as product shortages and transportation roadblocks forced all supply chain participants to make critical decisions on the fly, acting without complete information or hard data. Transportation: Moving to a Digital Environment.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2018

The 2018 State of Logistics Report , sponsored by 3PL Central , indicates warehousing models are evolving at a phenomenal rate. More importantly, demand for warehouse space is at an all-time high, and warehousing is still short two million workers. Optimize warehouse design. Even with 5.2 GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2022

The available talent pool of drivers, warehouse associates and other employees is small, which creates staffing volatility. According to its Director of Logistics, the company digitized its freight order management system , creating two-way integration with its existing digital transportation management system (TMS). With nearly $21.3

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BlueYonder

JUNE 20, 2024

Blue Yonder has been named as a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Warehouse Management (WMS) 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49948523, April 2024) and the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Transportation Management Systems (TMS) Applications 2024 Vendor Assessment (IDC #US51982224, April 2024).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

A resilient supply chain is able to recover quickly from these disruptions. These terms perfectly describe the Asian Paints supply chain. A First-Hand Look at Berkshire Grey’s Warehouse Robotic Solutions ; Clint Reiser. The Boston area is a hub for warehouse robotics companies.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 25, 2019

Interest for a Warehouse Management System in the cloud has risen as companies attempt to stay competitive with Big Box Retailers and Amazon, but those are not the only factors driving investment in cloud-based WMS. Thus, it is in the best interest of the company to consider upgrading to a Warehouse Management System in the Cloud.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We all know that Supply Chain Execution (SCE) is composed of Warehouse, Yard and Transportation management components. But have you ever considered the relative importance of these three components?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Veridian helps clients deploy Manhattan Associates, HighJump Software, and JDA Software’s latest supply chain suite to talk about the current state of warehouse management systems. What it the Current State of Warehouse Management Systems & Their Role in an Effective Supply Chain? We hope you enjoy!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 32,900 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 44,700 jobs added in April. As a result, logistics hiring in May has slowed down. That’s all for this week.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 19, 2018

Warehouse managers face many challenges. These challenges can be overwhelming, but supply chain executives and managers can simplify the process by tracking these top warehouse management KPIs (key performance indicators). of the digital supply chain. Customers need to get the products they order.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

First, what is the current state of supply chain technology? Third, what are the big trends in warehouse and transportation management? And fifth, what are you seeing in terms of supply chain sustainability? However, the single biggest supply chain trend is the unification of WMS and TMS.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Home February 18, 2025 5 Ways Automation Optimizes Warehouse Operations Bill Jozefowicz , Sr. Director of Continuous Improvement Warehouses today face two significant challenges: labor shortages and complex inventory management. 5 Ways Warehouse Automation Optimizes Operations Speed. Labor Optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Today, companies are realizing that having excess inventory, logistical expediting, and promotions without tight supply chain execution, without unifying logistics, and without a scientific basis may not be the solution and. He has a keen interest in digitalization and the value it generates throughout the supply chain.

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PINC

JUNE 16, 2020

“As global trade and consumer demands drive more complexity, effective yard management has quickly become pivotal in robust supply chain management practices,” said Matt Yearling, CEO of PINC. Visit PINC at www.pinc.com. About Accel-KKR: Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with over $9 billion in capital commitments.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Digital process prototypes.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. The post Profitable Agility: Part 2 of Agility and Resilience in Supply Chain Execution appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We are well into the era of real-time transportation visibility, where shippers and their partners can track freight in real-time across every mode of transport. Your real-time transportation visibility solution can tell you where your shipment is in transit, and the AI built into that solution can give you a highly accurate ETA.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 16, 2015

Supply chain execution convergence is a topic that has been gaining in popularity. It’s time for organizations to take a step back and evaluate their overall supply chain approach and to consider how supply chain execution convergence can bring their supply chain to the next level.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Longbow Advantage’s main business has been doing warehouse management system (WMS) implementations. A few years ago, Longbow’s customers started to ask them to fix a problem they were having with their warehouse management systems. Warehouse professionals may need to overcome the objections of IT to using Rebus.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today we are releasing the results from the 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report , which provides the latest market insights around: Will e-commerce growth brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic continue? What are the biggest supply chain execution/logistics challenges facing shippers and LSPs?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 15, 2024

Historically, supply chain execution schedules focused on what would be produced day-by-day or week-by-week in the coming month. Supply chain planning was a month-by-month fulfillment plan that extended out 24 months. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure the term “orchestration” quite captures it.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 30, 2022

A new study that the SCRC published with GEP examines the increasing pressure that supply chain executives are getting when it comes to responding to supply chain disruptions. In this study, we explore the primary forms of misalignment that exist between supply chain and procurement executives. (We

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead. So much has changed in a year!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But if there was any silver lining it was that companies that made use of planning systems that combined demand sensing – the use of multiple, real-time signals (like sales in a particular store or shipments from a retailer’s warehouses to their stores) – and machine learning, had significantly less error. Final Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 28, 2015

12 Questions about Multimodal Transportation Management. Your global supply chain is complex, dispersed and multi-faceted, yet your ability to manage it effectively is critical to the success of your business operations. Checklist Seamless Supply Chain Execution. I accept the Terms & Conditions.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 23, 2019

As warehouses embrace technology to optimize the supply chain and reduce fulfillment costs , many companies are considering making the move to an automated warehouse. That said, there are many factors to consider when moving to an automated warehouse. ” Meet Our Panel of Warehouse Pros: Alexandra Zelenko.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Let’s just come right out and say it – without the ability to capture, aggregate, and understand your supply chain data, you have gray area within your organization. It’s a veritable petri dish for blind spots across your operation that no amount of manual workarounds can fix.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 24, 2018

The current warehouse management system ( WMS ) market is expanding at an amazing rate, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.2 Digital technologies, including cloud-based platforms, encourage interest in the current WMS market on the part of supply chain executives. GET YOUR COPY HERE. Download White Paper.

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