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The #1 Driver of Logistics Innovation is…

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Surprised? You shouldn’t be.

The days of having trucks go out and losing sight of where they are, what stock they have, what their status is (on-shift etc.) or if they have arrived to their destination are long gone. On the customer side, consumers will no longer accept a 4 hour time window for when their delivery will arrive, they want…

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How Advanced Will Robots Be In Supply Chains By 2020?

You can’t watch the footage of the latest Atlas robot by Google’s Boston Dynamics without thinking about films like Terminator, Blade Runner, and Robocop. The reality of robotics in those films really isn’t that far away.

And for workers the plot is grim: technology and innovation are destroying jobs at an unprecedented rate. A previous post on this site regarding the “Fourth Industrial Revolution

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The Future Of Supply Chains Will Be Defined By Collaboration

Rapid globalization, fierce competition, social change, technological breakthroughs, scarcity of raw materials; businesses need to reinvent themselves continuously to cope with this string of challenges. Technical, commercial and financial innovations tend to be the focus of attention; innovative partnerships less so. And yet the latter are no less indispensable than the former.

The future of…

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Supply Chain's Required Paradigm Shifts

Supply Chain’s Required Paradigm Shifts

Setting the stage We talk a lot about sustainability. Climate change, greenhouse (GHG) emissions, carbon footprints and a host of other related topics that bounce around the Internet or become the topic of speakers at countless seminars or conventions around the world and lead us to believe that we’re actually doing something to combat these demons or, more often than not, what we should be…

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#Circular Economy #Climate Change #Cubic Space Utilization #Green Supply Chains #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Sustainability

Supply Chain Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1927

As I’ve noted from time to time, blasts of concerns over how automation would reduce the number of jobs have been erupting for more than 200 years. As one example, in “Supply Chain Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1964“, I wrote about what were called the “automation jobless” in a 1961 news story and how John F. Kennedy advocated and Lyndon Johnson signed into law a National Commission on…

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#Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

Supply Chain Automation And Job Loss: The Fears Of 1964

A half-century ago, there was deep and widespread concern that automation and new technology were leading to chronically high levels of unemployment. In retrospect, we know the fear at that time was unfounded. But it is nonetheless fruitful to review the controversy. To set the stage, the U.S. economy suffered 10 months of recession from April 1960 to February 1961. The unemployment rate rose…

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#Supply Chain #Sustainability

Workflow Automation Increases Supply Chain Agility And Efficiency

When you think of an automated process, the words agile, flexible or nimble may not be the first words that typically come to mind. Most people think of automated processes as efficient, accurate, or repetitive – but not agile. You may even picture an automated process as one that cannot be stopped once it has been started … sort of like a runaway train. But done right, automation is really more…

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#Collaborative Distribution #Cubic Space Utilization #Green Supply Chains #Real-time Systems #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain

5 Tips To Streamline Your Supply Chain

Supply chain efficiency helps an organization reduce costs and speed time-to-market. Fifteen years into the new millennium, it is clear to see that advances in technology, increasing globalization and rising customer expectations have made streamlining the supply chain more important than ever. Analyzing and streamlining the supply chain is one way to help companies respond more quickly to the…

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#Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Sustainability

How The Network Economy Is Revolutionizing Supply Chains

The importance of customer centricity and speed in today’s consumer economy is well understood. Examples are everywhere, from custom vending machines that integrate with social media to companies such as Netflix and Uber. Consumers increasingly expect products to be individualized to their unique specifications and to be delivered on demand. The extended supply chain, from design and…

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#Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Sustainability

Will Open Data Save Supply Chains?

Companies and governments have been discussing the challenges that lie ahead as we enter a period of rapid innovation and change unlike any the world has ever seen. In a previous post we have made a number of observations about the increasing importance of data and connectivity in realizing the Fourth Industrial Revolution and singled out one of the key demands facing supply chains in this next…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Sustainability

The Effects Of Linking The Supply And Reverse Chains

In the future, you will know the source of every component in the products you use or manufacture, how it was produced, the energy consumed in its production, perhaps even who will own it next and how much they will pay you for it. This is the natural, inevitable outcome of combining circular economy principles with digitization technologies. Economically, environmentally, and socially, the logic…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Landfills #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Sustainability

The Fourth Industrial Revolution And How It Will Affect Supply Chains

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Recycling #Reverse Chain #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

The 7 Technologies Changing The Supply Chain

From intelligent robots and self-driving vehicles to the Internet of Things and 3D printing, dramatic technological change is happening at lightning speed all around us. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is being driven by a staggering range of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between people, the internet and the physical world. It’s a convergence of the digital, physical and…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Cubic Space Utilization #Green Supply Chains #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

Supply Chain Are The Turning Point Towards A Circular Economy!

I read an article the other day that was sent to me by Greenbiz titled, “The art of bringing science to sustainable development”. It’s an interview actually between the Mary Hoff, Editor in chief of Ensia and Pavel Kabat, director general of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a 43-year-old international organization that brings researchers together across 23 nations to…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Landfills #Recycling #Sustainability

Supply Chains Are Costing Us More Than You Know!

For those unfamiliar with the supply or reverse chain industries, consider the lowly wooden pallet as a shining example of the complexity of many of the world’s largest international supply chains. The wooden pallet? Are you serious? How could such a simple concept possibly be the cause of complexity in any application? Here’s a short story about its significance and how changing the design of…

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#Circular Economy #Climate Change #Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Landfills #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

Is the Circular Economy a Myth?

The circular economy is a generic term for an industrial economy that is, by design or intention, restorative and in which material flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to re-enter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere. The term encompasses more than the production and consumption of goods…

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#Circular Economy #Collaborative Distribution #Recycling #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

Collaborative Distribution Made Easy!

Collaborative distribution brings together different shipments from different companies that are going to the same location. A third-party transport company can identify which shipments are going to the same location so these shipments can all be loaded onto a single truck. This not only fills that truck so space is not wasted but, it also cuts down on the number of trucks required to move goods.…

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#Circular Economy #Climate Change #Collaborative Distribution #Green Supply Chains #Landfills #Pollution #Recycling #Reverse Chain #Reverse Logistics #Supply Chain #Sustainability

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