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Going the last mile: An innovative instant delivery accelerator from AWS

Introduction In the supply chain and logistic industries, the last step of the delivery process is called “the last mile.” This is usually handled by courier companies and can be either “instantaneous” (think of food deliveries, which need to be delivered as soon as they’re ready) or “same-day” or “multiple-day” deliveries (think of products bought […]

Strategies to Improve Inbound Detention Time in the CPG Industry

Overview of Trucking Detention Time Inbound detention time is the time spent loading supplier goods at the warehouse, and outbound detention time is the time spent unloading goods from the warehouse and onto destination delivery trucks. Lengthy detention times have put pressure on the trucking industry for years. This has caused serious consequences to both […]

Three Disruptive Technologies That CPG Fleet Management Teams Should Consider

In part two of this blog series, How CPGs and Logistics Vendors Can Optimize Fleet Management with an AWS Data Lake, we explained how fleet management teams for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies can create a highly scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) data lake to gain actionable insights from real-time data, driver safety scores, and […]

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Streamlining Logistics Management for Air Cargo Using the Blockchain Automation Framework on Amazon EKS

Our customers find it tough to ensure compliance on tracking, security, support, and communication during cargo operations in an airport logistics hub. In this blog post, We will show how you can use Blockchain technologies like the Blockchain Automation Framework© (BAF) and AWS services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to streamline the processes […]

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How CPGs and Logistics Vendors Can Optimize Fleet Management with an AWS Data Lake

In part one of this series of blog posts, Why CPGs and Logistics Vendors Need a Fleet Management Data Lake, we explained why CPGs and logistics vendors need a data lake for transportation and fleet management. To quickly recap, a data lake is an ideal way to store, manage, and analyze transportation and fleet data […]

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Overcome CPG OTIF Challenges with Predictive Supply Chain Planning and Execution

AWS and Noodle.ai are on a mission to help Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers solve the on time, in full (OTIF) dilemma that began in 2020. In our recent blog, How Retail/CPG Can Improve On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) Deliveries, we introduced the concept of OTIF and why it matters to CPGs. As put by Michael Connor, […]

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Why CPGs and Logistics Vendors Need a Fleet Management Data Lake

Transportation is a critical piece of the puzzle for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. It’s important to deliver materials and component parts to manufacturing facilities and to transport finished goods to retailers and consumers. This means CPGs are impacted twice when transportation and logistics become a challenge. According to inboundlogistics.com, transportation is expected to be […]