A transportation plan can be optimal at 8:00 a.m. and obsolete by 8:20. A driver calls out. Traffic changes. A customer appointment moves. A warehouse falls...
SAP’s role in supply chain technology is difficult to separate from its role in the enterprise itself. For many large organizations, supply chain decisions already intersect...
Executive thesis. Fleet telematics is moving beyond location visibility into operational intelligence. The value is shifting from knowing where an asset is to improving the decisions...
For decades, supply chain strategy was dominated by a relatively straightforward question: where can a product, component, or service be sourced and produced most efficiently? That...
A logistics operating model is not an organization chart and it is not a software architecture. It is the engineered relationship among process, roles, decision rights,...
Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 4%. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) decreased 1%. Asia-N. Europe...
Executive thesis. TMS implementations rarely fail because an optimization engine is missing a feature. They fail when scope, data, integrations, carrier readiness, and operating ownership are...
Executive thesis. Transportation management is expanding from planning application to continuous execution environment. That shift is moving TMS closer to the operating core of the logistics...
Many supply chain software platforms optimize what happens inside an enterprise. e2open’s strategic distinction is that a significant share of the supply chain sits outside it....
Executive thesis. Visibility has become a baseline capability. The differentiator is whether the enterprise can convert an event into a prioritized intervention before the operating window...