Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 15, 2023

Route optimization and planning: Check if the technology offers advanced algorithms for route optimization and planning. Efficient routing can help reduce delivery time, and fuel costs, and improve overall productivity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 11, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Route planning article and permission to publish here provided by Vardan Markosyan. Route planning is essential for logistics and distribution companies as it allows them to provide a more efficient delivery service. What is route planning for logistics and distribution companies?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The History and State of Vehicle Routing! Route planning trends article and permission to publish here provided by Cristina Par. If you are looking to add multiple stops on your google maps route, this post on how to find the shortest route on Google Maps is a good read for you.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Wall Street Journal reported recently on UPS’s project Orion, a ten year, $300 million technology build intended to optimize delivery routes for the tens of thousands of trucks the parcel giant has on roads across the globe daily. 190 possible alternate routes.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A majority of shippers use transportation logistics automation tools like TMS, route optimizers, YMS, WMS, fleet management and freight payment & audit solutions. Yet, there’s a gulf between shippers whose efforts at supply chain management excellence succeed, and those whose efforts fail. Changing leadership.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Discover the current and emerging use cases for AI in waste management, optimization, energy reduction and ESG reporting. Inventory optimization is important to ensure you have enough stock while also meeting customer demand. Compute optimization: Data centers consume a huge amount of electricity.By

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. This is the time online retail businesses need to optimize and improve their supply chain and logistics processes. They need to bring in advanced routing capabilities, improve visibility of end-to-end logistics operations, boost productivity, etc. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 22, 2018

Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. Here’s 3 ways a TMS platform including the latest supply chain management solutions are precisely what shippers need to accomplish this goal. The pace of cost increases is unsustainable.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 8, 2015

While supply chain management has long been viewed as a trusted method for controlling/reducing costs, the transportation piece has come under renewed scrutiny thanks to the savings potential inherent in supply chain logistics automation.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 15, 2017

How do supply chain technologies help achieve both safety and sustainability in our food supply? A hotter climate also poses highly increased risks of food contamination as it moves through the supply chain. Many food shippers already have such systems in place.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 20, 2015

The Collaborator has been reviewing respected sources of industry analysis to gain perspective on the trends being predicted to materialize in supply chain logistics for 2016. Gartner suggests the growing emphasis on wringing efficiencies from the supply chain will drive the adoption of more complete, single-source solutions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Blog post originally published by Adam Robinson on [link]. In general, the predictive analytics solutions in logistics and supply chain are on the rise. Another good example from DHL is their platform which monitors more than 8 million online and social media posts to identify potential supply chain problems.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Even within the FCL option, optimization maybe achieved using the right type of container for the right type of cargo – like 20’ container for weight based cargo and 40’container for volume based cargo. Optimize your route. Optimize your cargo packing. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 12, 2015

However, some of the largest most complex supply chains – like those at Walmart, Target Stores, Hasbro Toys and others – are seemingly able to pivot on a dime in response to external pressures on supply lines. How nimble is your supply chain logistics program?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

This reality was illustrated by a recent article in Food Logistics magazine titled, “ TMS Needs Diversify in the Food Supply Chain ”. The article identifies such challenges as: The need for interoperability with other supply chain software like ERP, YMS and WMS. The need for route optimization as a crucial piece of a TMS.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 11, 2016

What’s crucial to understand is that this realignment in retail sales strategy requires significant change and ongoing flexibility in its supply chain logistics processes and practices – the kind of changes and flexibility only achievable via robust solutions for highly responsive supply chain management like TMS applications.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 21, 2015

Looking at the traditional indicators, the business case for flexible logistics planning tools like TMS, optimizers and fleet management tools grows even more compelling. __. The managed supply chain logistics program provides the visibility and control necessary to rise above the reactive when it comes to uncertain economic conditions.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Smart supply chain management organizations are embracing both the new technologies and the millennial workforce’s perspective , leveraging cloud TMS and other cloud solutions to maintain competitive advantage. Just as the Millennial worker is where the modern blobal workforce is headed.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The other data from other devices are historical routes do determine congestion and route optimization, speeds and miles traveled, and more. Article originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on September 16, 2021. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But whether consumers continue to spend, driving manufacturing back toward growth territory, or the sour outlook succeeds in dampening consumer spending through the Holidays, those using logistics IT solutions like TMS and freight/route optimization tools are set to weather the shifting fates.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 29, 2015

The key to ensuring a high degree of elasticity in supply chain planning is building a logistics IT framework. With so many factors seeming to conspire against the shipper, how can a business overcome the challenges and deliver goods on time? _.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 12, 2018

The answer to so many challenges in transportation logistics comes via technology solutions like Transportation Management Solutions (TMS) and associated tools like automated scheduling, route optimization, and freight payment software.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 13, 2017

Want freight and route optimization? This gives the 3PL the imprimatur of TMS depth, when in reality, these scaled back versions are anything but deep. Want a TMS configured to address the specifics of your network design and business rules? Sorry, one size fits all. Yard management and dock door scheduling?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The carrier’s multi-million dollar lawsuit charges the TMS provider with breach of contract and negligence for allegedly failing to bring the route optimization and carrier management system software online according to the contractually obligated go-live date. Let’s look beyond the legal posturing to examine the roots of this dispute.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The History and State of Vehicle Routing! Understanding how to optimize and capitalize on these details is essential for businesses wanting to maintain a competitive advantage. A few uses for location map software include: Route Optimization. Subscribe Here!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This blog takes you on a journey into the world of Uber’s analytics and the critical role that Presto, the open source SQL query engine, plays in driving their success. This allowed them to focus on SQL-based query optimization to the nth degree. But the simplicity ends there. Every transaction, every cent matters.

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