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Alex Wakefield

Alex Wakefield is the CEO of Longbow Advantage and has more than 20 years of experience in supply chain technology and implementations including leadership roles at IBM and Blue Yonder (formerly JDA/Red Prairie). His focus is on enabling distribution teams to better manage, leverage and action their data across the supply chain through the use of Rebus, the only real-time warehouse visibility and labor platform purpose-built for the supply chain. 

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    What Warehouses Can Do to Minimize Supply Chain Issues

    While shipping and data today are an important part of building successful logistics operations, these areas alone cannot solve real-time supply chain issues. The lack of complete end-to-end visibility was also a reason so many manufacturers and suppliers suffered during the pandemic. Unfortunately for many organizations, this real-time visibility gap starts in the warehouse.
    By: Alex Wakefield
    04 May, 2021 | 2 minutes
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