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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

Logistics Viewpoints

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. However, each user has their own instance of the software.

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Logistics Software: How to Make Handling Peak Times Easy

Logistics Viewpoints

This warehouse runs at a perfect optimum with fixed capital in the form of inventory balanced perfectly with sales and purchasing, and all the items perfectly distributed to the various storage areas of the warehouse. How can we rapidly bring our logistics operation up to its full speed during such a peak?

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How to Best Use a Spot Market Strategy During This Market Shift

CH Robinson Logistics

The short answer is “yes,” as long as you have a segmented freight portfolio strategy for both the contract market and the spot market. Every business has a responsibility to develop strategies that take advantage of the best market price and service. As you build your strategy, confirm the spot market capacity for specific areas.

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How to Procure Full Truckloads in Tight Capacity

GlobalTranz

These rates will have natural implications for smaller shippers seeking to lower overall transportation and freight spend, and paired with a “blurred lines between peak shipping and shopping seasons,” shippers will experience increasing trouble when trying to procure full truckload capacity. Fortunately, a solution exists.

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How to Implement a Returns Management Solution For Your Ecommerce Business

GoShip Blog

Research shows that 25% of customers return between 5% and 15% of items they purchase online. A returns management solution helps you handle the returned items effectively to satisfy your ecommerce customers without hurting your profit margin. . Challenges of returns and how an RMS can help overcome them .

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Top 3 challenges facing manufacturers and how to overcome them

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Industries are facing the need to plan new strategies and invest more in technology to gain a stronger foothold. Here is a list of challenges and solutions for manufacturers to remain resilient and maintain growth momentum. We live in a time where we can purchase almost anything with a click of a button.

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In Focus: 5 Factors To Consider On The “Build Vs Buy” Decision on Last-Mile Software Solution

Locus

Technology solutions for last-mile fulfillment have emerged as the quickest, most practical way to meet these steep consumer demands. However, should a business invest their capital in building and maintaining their solution from scratch, or simply purchase an off-the-shelf solution? How does that bring value to you?