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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. The company moves 46,000 shipments per year using dry van, temperature-controlled trucks, hoppers, live haul, and other trucks as well. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. This made the data analysis easier. This made the data analysis “painful.”

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

Our goal was to help you identify potential improvement opportunities by answering a few questions and get a temperature check on the current landscape of network design solutions. It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . Managing data across multiple spreadsheets quickly becomes unmanageable.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

Our goal was to help you identify potential improvement opportunities by answering a few questions and get a temperature check on the current landscape of network design solutions. It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . Managing data across multiple spreadsheets quickly becomes unmanageable.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. Slotting by the Numbers: Data is the Key. Product Slotting Data Requirements. But what if your business lacks the digital tools necessary to use the data?

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Logistics Challenges Involved in Home Services and How to Overcome Them

Locus

For most industries, it means delivering a packaged good on time, more so if delivery is time and temperature-sensitive. This can prove to be a daunting exercise without the right software and tools. Logistical challenges faced by home service businesses. Last-mile operations have different meanings for different sectors.

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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

In most cases, these companies are using blockchain as an aid to supply chain visibility and product tracing, but some have applied it as a tool to streamline transactions and speed up the flow of information, goods, and materials. Storage temperature. The system has been enjoying success throughout its early phases. Customs clearance.

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Happy New Year: Here’s the 7 things shippers need to know about the Q1 2021 freight market

FLS Transport

And while retailers were able to modestly re-stock going into peak, data now shows that they lack adequate inventory. One data point shows inventories declined 9% year-over-year while sales increased 9%. Note: Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the OTR truckload driver count is at an eight-year low.

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