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Here’s The Problem: Your Procurement Driven Transportation Sourcing Process Stinks!

247 Customs Broker

At first, he didn’t like my honest response: “Jim, you’re using a commodity-oriented procurement process for selecting your carriers and third-party providers. Here are four reasons why your own procurement process might not be as good as you think it is. Third, many procurement processes suffer from confirmation bias.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats. The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. In reality, it would take several rounds of fine-tuning to get all the orders sorted into routes without leaving any vehicles underutilised.”

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Going Beyond Brokerage: How North American Capacity Solutions Can Go to Work for You

Talking Logistics

While these approaches can certainly deliver a significant return on investment (ROI), other strategies that can positively impact their transportation network are often overlooked – for example, thinking more strategically about capacity.

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What Is an Agile Supply Chain?

FourKites

Collectively, this new normal is presenting the supply chain industry with its biggest test in years. They invest in new technologies and data-driven processes that allow them to exercise precise control over the business. How to Create an Agile Supply Chain Model.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

So, for example, the Head of Supply might be the Supply Chain Director, Supply Chain Manager, or another non-executive supply chain management specialist. For example, several sales and operations planning models exist, including those credited to Tom Wallace and Oliver Wight. The Supply Chain Head. The Executive Sponsor.

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Industry View: Interview with EXCHAiNGE 2018 Speaker

Logistics Business Magazine

Sabine Ursel talks to Bettina Bohlmann (above) , Managing Partner of 3p Procurement Branding GmbH in an interview focused on themes to be explored at this year’s EXCHAiNGE event in Frankfurt. Bohlmann: By eliminating ineffective communication loops, for example. I found your real-world exercises in past years very enlightening.