data Archives - Gravity Supply Chain

01/28/2022

Starting 2022 Right!

Gravity, just made better for you. Fuelled by our passion for innovation, Gravity is amid an exciting digital refresh that will deepen our market positioning…

05/11/2021

How the Suez Canal blockage proves technology has the power to transform the shipping industry

The ongoing disruptions due initially to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic are firmly at the forefront of everyone's mind. It's hardly surprising then that the 'Evergiven…

04/15/2021

10 reasons why IoT, and digitized shipment visibility adoption is an essential commodity for the supply chain industry

IoT is an essential enabler for real time supply chain visibility. High-level data gives users valuable insights into their merchandise's journey, including its geographical location…

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04/01/2021

Time and tide wait for none! Reflections before the next wave of disruption

Image source: wikimedia commons The Ever Given is moved to the Great Bitter Lake section of the Suez for damage assessment, but this doesn't mean…

03/29/2021

Why You Need To Know About The Ripple Effect Of The Latest Disruption

Businesses and consumers globally, but especially within Asia and the Mediterranean, are already trying to manage delays in cargo shipments coming through the Suez Canal…

03/18/2021

5 Ways Digital Transformation Helps You Make Informed Decisions

The Intelligent Supply Chain 1. The Intelligent Supply Chain Digitizing by deploying supply chain management solutions ensures that supply chain leaders can ensure their supply…

02/24/2021

Why To Ship And How To Ship – We’ll Help You Make The Right Decisions

A significant quantity of global freight transport movement is part of a multimodal transport chain, particularly for port-related containerized transport flows. We Are More Closely…

01/13/2021

Our Technology Gives You Greater Visibility Than A Telescope!

‘That ship has sailed’: an idiom widely used to reference a situation already decided, in the past, and one that almost certainly cannot be stopped…

12/17/2020

Santa Knows How To Improve Your Supply Chain Capabilities The Easy Way!

Last week, the Gravity team found a letter written by a CEO struggling with his company's current supply chain processes that asks Santa to help…

12/11/2020

Can Santa Help You Improve Your Supply Chain Capabilities?

The Gravity team has found a letter to Santa! It appears to have been written by a CEO struggling with current supply chain processes. He…

11/11/2020

Data And Technology Are Transforming Supply Chain Logistics

The Power Of Data With today's supply chain more fragmented and complex than ever before, shippers and logistics providers need to implement a radical shift…

10/21/2020

Why Shipment Tracking Technology Is Important

According to statistics released by the International Chamber Of Shipping, the international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90% of world trade,…

10/12/2020

Can A Historical Quote Help Provide Supply Chain Solutions?

The Battle Of Copenhagen - April 12, 1801, is probably a historical event you have heard about. However, do you know what happened, why, and…

10/07/2020

The Why, How, and Who of Purchase Order Management Software

It's highly likely you have been told you must improve your Purchase Order Management (POM) processes but do you know WHY should you do so,…

09/21/2020

Deploy Operation ‘Big Data’ For Supply Chain Excellence

It's widely appreciated that Big data plays an instrumental role in improving supply chain management and is a player that cannot get ignored. However... What…

07/30/2020

Connected, Digitized Supply Chains Enable You To Trust The Data

Gravity's Founder, CEO, and industry thought leader, Graham Parker, gives his perspective about what running a supply chain with real time insights means when Gravity…

07/09/2020

The Benefits of IoT And Real Time Actionable Data

It is an essential prerequisite that for a supply chain to operate effectively, complete visibility, traceability, and accountability must be in place. Leveraging the power…

06/16/2020

How To Crack The Changing Face Of Retail – Use the Digitized Supply Chain Code

The FMCG Industry - In-demand consumer products that often get produced in large quantities and are made available at low cost to meet the needs…

05/22/2020

Five Ingredients For Serving Up Supply Chain Success

The need to digitize supply chains is a hot topic, and there is no wonder. Those companies that operate a fully digitized and orchestrated supply…

05/22/2020

The Best Pharma Supply Chain Move Of All Time – Digitize to Legitimize

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, and this couldn't be more evident now, and during times of emergency, when medical devices and pharma products become a…

04/24/2020

Synchronize The Supply Chain The Snakes And Ladders Way!

Supply chains are complex. Lack of synchronization due to disparate systems, limited data sharing, or interconnectivity makes digitization essential. (more…)

04/15/2020

6 Checks Every Supply Chain Should Take To Stay Healthy

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04/03/2020

Reefknot Investments Look At The Macro-Economic Impact On Supply Chains

There is little doubt that supply chains globally are in the midst of an evolution that is reshaping not just how they need to organize…

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03/27/2020

Gravity A Supply Chain Force To Be Reckoned With

THE SCIENCE (more…)

03/10/2020

Supply Chain Management Success – What You Need To Know But No One Told You

The global freight industry is a highly sensitive commodity. Numerous inevitable and often unavoidable events ranging from extreme weather to environmental risks and, both human…

03/05/2020

Containerized Shipping — Technology Advancements And Value Creation

The birth of containerization (more…)

02/21/2020

Sourcing – What You Need To Know About Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption

Countries globally are working tirelessly to enforce containment measures in an effort to halt the Coronavirus' path of destruction. However, these measures may impose significant…

02/14/2020

Technology + Human Touch = Digital Supply Chain Excellence

There’s no need to do the maths; we’ve got the answer for you! KEY INGREDIENTS The need for businesses to digitize has become the dominant…

01/09/2020

Building Blocks For The Ultimate Digital Supply Chain

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs theory proposes that people get motivated by five primary categories of emotional need: (more…)

01/02/2020

Predicting The Predictable – Successful 2020 Supply Chains

In our previous blog post ‘The Evolution Of The Supply Chain’ we looked at what changes occurred within supply chains over the last two decades;…

12/20/2019

How Santa Will Evolve In A Digitized Sustainable World

The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and retail outlets globally are alive with the spirit of Christmas. Many shops have been selling Christmas themed goodies…

11/01/2018

Five Great Reasons For Supply Chains To Adopt Cloud Computing

Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing services, such as software services (known as Software-as-a-Service or SaaS), over the Internet. While cloud computing has…

10/12/2018

How To Overcome Nature’s Impact On Global Supply Chains

Last year witnessed an unusually large number of devastating natural disasters all across the world, from the multiple hurricanes which have battered South America and the…

04/25/2018

How GDPR Affects The Logistics Industry And Why You Need To Be Prepared Now

One of the highest trending topics in the first part of 2018 was data privacy and protection, with multicountry investigations seeing large organizations under fire…

12/13/2017

How To Instantly Deliver Insights Using Automated BI

We’re all ‘data junkies,’ right? With so much of it around these days and many ways to make sense of it, we understand the value…

10/06/2016

5 Benefits Of Orchestrating Supply Chain Synchronization

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