- 21. Real-Time Visibility for the Supply Chain with RAIN
- (Technology)
- Companies in the supply chain sector worldwide are increasingly investing in modern technologies like AI and IoT to enhance performance. This has even been increased by the pandemic that has made in-person ...
- 22. Trucking in Your Supply Chain is Changing
- (Logistics)
- ... plan for their routes and adjust to weather. With mobile applications, customers can easily access freight tracking programs online. Advancement in Wireless communication and CRM Modern logistics ...
- 23. Overcrowded Supply Chains Are a Real Problem
- (Logistics)
- ... timely and reliable manner. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. In many instances, there are supply chain disruptions caused by overcrowding, weather problems, and geopolitical problems. When you ...
- 24. Congested Supply Chains Can Impact Traffic
- (Supply)
- ... most people are traveling and when goods and services are needed more. Other causes of delays are bad weather accidents and bad roads. The best strategy to approach this is to build dominant share positions ...
- 25. Your Competitive Advantage May Lie in These Technologies
- (Technology)
- ... of devices is also useful in freight fleet management, in addition to allowing critical information such as weather conditions, and traffic patterns to be collected and reported for effective decision-making. ...
- 26. Financing the Supply Chain is Up Next on UPS' Agenda
- (Technology)
- ... mobile telephony, big data, and weather forecasting tools that are useful in the shipping of goods have enhanced reliability of trade despite many challenges and risks that the industry continues to experience. ...
- 27. Apply Data Science to Enhance Your Supplier Relations
- (Retail)
- ... by aspects such as congestions and weather. This will ease how customers are informed and enable companies to build intelligent stocking and inspection and as a result, lower the cost of operations. Data ...
- 28. Sustainable Supply Chain Awareness Grows, 'Compliance Trap' Hinders Progress and Business Impac
- (News)
- EcoVadis today released its 2019 Sustainable Procurement Barometer: From Compliance to Performance, which offers insight into how sustainability is evolving in procurement priorities, and the tools and ...
- 29. Voice Applications In the Warehouse
- (Technology)
- Alexa and other voice applications have become a staple in the home. Mainly used to turn on appliances, adjust the heat, or look up the weather – households rely on it to make their lives easier. Like ...
- 30. Disruption Coming to Trucking Industry with New Futures Market, Talent Migration
- (News)
- ... businesses that need to transport freight (“shippers”) and the businesses that actually move the cargo (“carriers”) are notoriously susceptible to volatility. Factors such as weather, road construction, ...
- 31. AI Assisted Retail
- (News)
- ... applications that help them respond rapidly to changes in consumer demand and competitor prices. AI startups that are developing applications that adjust prices based on local events such as weather and ...
- 32. Why Machine Learning is Right for Your Supply Chain Strategy
- (Technology)
- ... time but machines can integrate data on conditions across a company’s supply chain from sources like weather, news, and social media. That combination can be put to use in predicting what will be needed ...
- 33. Risk Management Becomes Top of Mind
- (News)
- Everyone believes in risk management, but sometimes it takes a real disaster to get things moving. The latest bankruptcy news about Hanjin Shipping is an example of a non-weather related disaster that ...
- 34. Raining on Your Supply Chain Parade
- (News)
- Supply chain managers spend a lot of time and energy on risk. One aspect that's becoming more important due to climate change is extreme rainfall.Its impact on the transportation network is significant ...
- 35. Using Behavior to Your Advantage
- (Management)
- ... free to openly challenge the way I walk, where I’m walking, when I’m walking, how fast I’m walking, who else is walking with us, why we’re walking, the current weather conditions, our shoes, the brand ...
- 36. When The Weather Gets Rough, Retail Goes Omni-Channel To Survive
- (Retail)
- ... of the buying experience so anyone, ranging from the individual consumer to multi-national corporations, can buy what they want, when they want, weather and location be dammed. According to Applied ...
- 37. Climate Change-Related Risks
- (News)
- Risk is all around us. In the supply chain, that's a fact of life. One area that US companies seem to be behind their global competitors in is preparation for weather-related disruptions caused by climate ...
- 38. Supply Chain Predictions for 2015
- (Supply)
- ... 2014 there was an explosion in the application of drones for myriad purposes, so even if your Christmas parcels aren’t dropped on your doorstep by a drone, chances are drones were involved in weather, ...
- 39. Here Comes the Industrial IoT
- (Technology)
- ... reduce fuel costs. GE designed a software platform for Union Pacific, the largest railroad in the U.S., that gathers crucial information like weather data and track conditions from the sensors ...
- 40. What's Visibility Mean to You
- (Blogs)
- ... and finished goods prices are heading, what suppliers’ capabilities are, where specific orders are in the production process, how forecasted weather will affect demand/production, how much product is available ...
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