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5 ways AI can help mitigate the global shipping crisis

TechCrunch

If you don’t have the data about what is on a ship transporting your materials, then use this crisis as an opportunity to justify prioritizing supply chain digital transformation with data, IoT and advanced analytics (e.g., machine learning and simulation).

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Cold Chain Logistics Management: How to Handle Temperature-Sensitive Goods

Altexsoft

When ice cream melts in your hands on a hot day, it can be a bit frustrating; but if a load of vaccines can’t be used because it went bad due to wrong storage or transportation conditions, the results are a lot more serious, if not fatal. A common cold chain scenario. All that, in turn, depends on multiple factors, such as.

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Freight Forwarder: Key Workflows and Technology

Altexsoft

Freight forwarders are experts that boost global trade and international transportation. Freight forwarders are intermediaries between shippers (manufacturers, wholesalers, or retailers) and carriers ( sea , air, and land transportation providers) that organize and coordinate the movement of goods across international borders.

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What is Streaming Analytics?

Cloudera

Manufacturing: Process millions of messages per minute from IoT devices and sensor data and use ML models to enhance the speed of production. Transportation: Monitor truck health and performance from smartphones and tablets, prioritize needed reports, and quickly identify the nearest dealer service locations.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Analytics in logistics and transportation.

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Asset Tracking in Logistics: When and Which Technologies to Implement

Altexsoft

Why implement asset tracking: main logistics challenges and problems Evolving from monitoring the location of vehicles and railcars , today, with the development of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, asset tracking offers vast opportunities as it provides great visibility into tons of important asset-related information.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

Altexsoft

For the most part, they belong to the Internet of Things (IoT), or gadgets capable of communicating and sharing data without human interaction. The number of active IoT connections is expected to double by 2025, jumping from the current 9.9 The number of active IoT connections is expected to double by 2025, jumping from the current 9.9

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