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Logistics Business Magazine
MARCH 20, 2023
A new white paper from a supply chain consultancy suggests retailers are too fragmented in their approach to determining their Costs-To-Serve (CTS) and should instead adopt CTS analysis as a core, business-critical initiative for informing future decisions and direction. “In CLICK HERE to download the full white paper.
Logistics Bureau
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.
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Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. The transportation team supports 13 production facilities.
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 4, 2022
Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool. What is Freight Benchmarking?
RPA Labs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Robotic process automation (RPA) leverages innovative software tools that can either partially or fully automate human activities to become more efficient and productive. Trying to meet current market demands with obsolete systems is an exercise in futility, and that is causing many shippers, carriers, and forwarders to struggle.
Blue Grace Logistics
MARCH 26, 2019
Better planning: Intelligent automation can integrate and streamline transportation planning, route planning, warehouse network, and inventory planning. This can improve multimodal transportation planning and also keep the customers updated with a more accurate expected time of delivery.
Talking Logistics
JUNE 29, 2017
The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use.
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