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Three Tips to Improve Parts Sequencing Efficiency

For manufacturing companies, the challenge of keeping pace with the e-commerce boom has necessitated careful, exact planning and ever-increasing automation. ...

Seve Carnera

How Stockouts Decrease Sales, and What to Do About it

Depending on the industry, the cost of a single stockout can reach into the billions. In manufacturing environments, especially those ...

Anthony Settipani

How Cardinal Health is Building a Best-in-Class Supply Chain

Achieving the Cognitive Supply Chain Cardinal Health manages one of the largest medical supply chains in the world, supplying 90% of ...

Priya Rajagopalan - Chief Product Officer

Priya Rajagopalan

Flooding in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands Impacts Global Supply Chains

The unprecedented flooding that has swept through Europe over the past two weeks has destroyed property and cost lives, with ...

Jochum Reuter

The Value of True End-to-End Visibility

FourKites recently released a two-part series around international shipping. Most supply chain professionals are familiar with track and trace, and ...

Ashley Klepach

Building Resilience at Every Level of the U.S. Supply Chain

Minimizing supply chain disruptions is a top priority of President Joe Biden’s administration, and it’s easy to see ...

Glenn Koepke

Data Quality: Your Digital Transformation Depends on It

Originally published on Logistics Viewpoints. In a prior post, I wrote about the various ways data is transforming global supply ...

Matt Elenjickal

Data Science Breakthrough in Air Freight Tracking

Last week, FourKites introduced our newest innovation: Dynamic ETA® for Air, powered by the most advanced machine learning and artificial ...

Zachary Hanz

Yard Management Technology Brings Out the Best in Just-In-Time Operations

Just-in-time (also known as JIT) is an inventory management method commonly used by manufacturing facilities in which goods are scheduled ...

Seve Carnera

How to Manage Key Documents for International Shipping

A crucial aspect of international shipping is document management. On average, an international ocean journey is 20 days long, requires between 9 ...

Ashley Klepach

The Road to Agility for Carriers and Brokers

It takes a lot of work to get a spot on the FourKites Premier Carrier List. But the reward far ...

Jason Eversole

FourKites Data Shows Yantian Port Shutdown Is Causing Delays and Ripple Effects in the US

As if rising shipping costs, global product shortages and the recent Suez Canal crisis weren’t enough, a late-May outbreak ...

Glenn Koepke

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