Predictive logistics reaches beyond supply chain visibility

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By Alexander Whiteman

06/10/2017

This piece from Tech Target analyses the emerging predictive logistics trends in the supply chain and the concept of precise ETA (expected time of arrival). While the use of real-time information to find out where goods are in a supply chain is commonplace, the insight given here is on the use of machine learning to predict and provide more accurate ETAs.

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