Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Fifteen years ago, DSV’s homepage had this to say about tech: “DSV is committed to providing our customers with the best e-service tools available in order to create visible, transparent and high-quality services.” Eytan Buchman CMO, Freightos Group Eytan Buchman loves freight so much he shouts out container sizes while he walks around.

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Transporeon

JANUARY 25, 2018

The challenge For many years, Amway had used a generic sourcing tool that only facilitated communications with the company’s carriers rather than providing access to a supplier database and a collaborative environment to conduct sourcing events. Previously, bid management was extremely time-consuming for the Global Trade Operations group.

Negotiating Skills 48

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Stord

APRIL 24, 2024

Brands typically have data on consumer and market "signals" relevant to forecasting; However, many lack the ability or tools to understand how these "signals'' affect demand. Brands should consider using AI-based tools to simplify and drastically improve inventory forecasting. This is the "true magic" of great forecasting!

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EazyStock

JUNE 18, 2019

If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC analysis (otherwise known as ABC classification ). In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They have developed a proprietary inventory analysis tool that can not only help companies achieve service level goals with less inventory, but the inventory analysis can also flow into helping design an efficient warehouse layout. Open Sky Group is perhaps best known for being Blue Yonder’s largest dedicated WMS partner.

Supply Chain Design Software 146

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 2, 2024

A common way for shippers to run RFPs, annual bids or even shorter projects is to simply rely on pricing data from a core group of trusted carriers and brokers. This is where having external benchmarking and analysis data becomes critical. More Than Rates Traditional benchmarking tools only look at static pricing at the lane level.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Trillion by 2026 according to IMARC Group and the overall total U.S. VP, ARC Advisory Group and Columnist, Forbes With in-depth research experience in logistics, transportation management, and managed transportation services, Steve’s writing and analysis are go-to resources for logistics and transportation professionals.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

billion) purchase of Logicor, Blackstone Group LP’s European logistics business. Now, almost anything is fair game: Last year, CFIUS nearly blocked the sale of Biotest AG, a German blood-plasma supplier, to Chinese investor Creat Group Corp., The post Analysis appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News. billion euro ($13.8

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 7, 2023

Generix Group, a global provider of collaborative SaaS Software solutions for the Supply Chain and commerce ecosystems, announces Resource Management System, its warehouse resource planning and optimization solution. Lastly, it measures the productivity of operators, considering the context of execution, to feed the HR tools.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Michelin used the occasion of ITT Hub at Farnborough to launch Michelin Connected Fleet in the UK, its new brand bringing together all the fleet management services and solutions of the Michelin Group under one banner. It’s no longer enough just to provide access to fleet data; we have performance analysis embedded into our offering.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 20, 2024

By streamlining and accelerating data collection and analysis, you get the insights you need for effective decision-making. There’s no need for IT staff to export data out of one system, clean it, import it into another reporting tool and make it presentable to answer C-Suite’s inquiries.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, where I work, publishes an analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. Digital transformation is a term that is thrown around a lot, and people have different ways to interpret what it means. The report identifies the leaders and highlights best practices.

Digital 147

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 6, 2018

Convey , an Austin, Texas-based provider of cloud-based technology that helps shippers connect disparate data and processes from parcel to freight and first to last mile, announced today it has rolled out new carrier scorecards and exception management tools for its shipper customers. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2023

This is called ChatGPT, a natural language processing (NLP) tool that runs on artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct human-like discussions in order to assist you with various requests. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today. We’re already seeing it in diverse applications, such as writing emails or essays. All in real-time.

Supply Chain Software 125

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

The TGW Logistics Group will demonstrate its Future Fulfilment Centre – how it works, how users can benefit from its advantages, and what technology it uses – for visitors at the LogiMAT intralogistics trade fair in Stuttgart from 25 to 27 April. The system learns through information analysis and uses real-time data for optimisations.

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

In this post, we explore truckload pricing tools as an important part of every digital freight brokerage’s operations. Able to track freight and carrier rates in real-time, truckload pricing tools make it possible for you to set competitive rates for all types of freight -- be it dry-van, refrigerated, or flatbed. Freightwaves SONAR.

Negotiating Skills 78

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

In this post, we explore truckload pricing tools as an important part of every digital freight brokerage’s operations. Able to track freight and carrier rates in real-time, truckload pricing tools make it possible for you to set competitive rates for all types of freight -- be it dry-van, refrigerated, or flatbed. Freightwaves SONAR.

Negotiating Skills 78

Negotiating Skills Price Reduction Tools Cost Reduction 78

Parade

MARCH 18, 2021

In this post, we explore truckload pricing tools as an important part of every digital freight brokerage’s operations. Able to track freight and carrier rates in real-time, truckload pricing tools make it possible for you to set competitive rates for all types of freight -- be it dry-van, refrigerated, or flatbed. Freightwaves SONAR.

Negotiating Skills 78

Negotiating Skills Price Reduction Tools Cost Reduction 78

Transporeon

MARCH 16, 2015

BSH Group, manufacturer of domestic equipment, has strongly improved its transportation tendering and planning processes. Optimized tender processes The first step in the worldwide optimization project was the implementation of Ticontract, the tendering platform of the Transporeon group. Previously this was done manually.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of RFID which has become a problem-solving tool for front-line workers in warehouses and other industries. In fact, both groups — 82% of associates and 76% of decision-makers — acknowledge they need better inventory management tools to achieve better accuracy and determine availability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ARC Advisory Group, where I work, recently announced the publication of their analysis of the 25 manufacturers with the most mature digital transformations. ARC’s Industrial Digital Transformation Top 25. The report identified the leaders and highlighted best practices. This is the inaugural edition of the report.

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Turvo

JANUARY 26, 2021

Supply chain data analytics can interconnect many different focus points and minimize risks by giving managers tools and insight into past trends, so they do not try to make choices for the future blindly. Supply chain data analytics can help identify problems within teams, groups, and individual employees.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Using technology to de-risk supply chains From a technology perspective, supply chain design tools have been developed from the ground up to handle uncertainty and risks, generate scenarios that identify risks proactively, and provide solutions to mitigate these risks. Nari Viswanathan is currently Sr.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 13, 2023

Programming languages are very useful tools for companies when it comes to automating boring and repetitive tasks to focus on more creative ones. In this post, a tour of the most popular programming languages in the sector will be made, as well as the databases from which the information can be retrieved for analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today’s warehouse environment is too complex and fast-moving to manage effectively via human cognition, as well as manual planning and analysis. It should exploit proximity efficiencies and logically group tasks based on geographic location, customer priority, travel distances, task completion times, and other decision factors.

Supply Chain Planning Software 168

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EazyStock

MAY 11, 2021

If you’re wondering what is the best way to manage inventory with hundreds or even thousands of SKUs, you’ve found your answer: ABC classification (otherwise known as ABC analysis ). In this post, we’re going to discuss how you can classify your inventory into three ABC categories and introduce the concept of XYZ analysis.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Here is an overview of the most valuable benefits: More informed freight spending: Because freight benchmarking involves the analysis of carriers and the rates paid by companies using them, it gives you an evolving picture of clarity about your freight spending. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.

Negotiating Skills 82

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

State-of-the-art warehouse, labor and transportation management systems are designed to facilitate the kind of real-time data analysis necessary for spotting cost-saving, productivity-enhancing, margin-building opportunities. Byron Davis, Senior Director, Client Services, Open Sky Group.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. Agility relies on having this kind transparency at your fingertips, through concurrent planning, so you aren’t waiting on analysis and a report from a link up or down the chain.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This type of data must be actively gathered by researching market trends, analyzing the competitive landscape, conducting consumer surveys and focus groups. Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. Qualitative data is more subjective.

eCommerce 87

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. The company uses a network design tool from Coupa. This is an important analysis tool for maintaining a well-run supply chain. Ferguson does 20 to 30 studies a year using this tool.

Supply Chain Design Software 132

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As much as we’d like to think that ecommerce is taking over the world, it still only accounts for around 21% of retail sales according to a 2023 Digital Commerce 360 analysis of U.S. Department of Commerce figures. At the risk of stating the obvious, this means that 78.6% of retail sales are still happening in brick-and-mortar stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper liked the massive amount of data that Interos could access, the user friendliness of the solution, its supply chain visualization tools, the ability to detect problems across an extended supply chain of n-tier suppliers, and the ability to use the solution to operationalize responses to events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

In the future, statistical analysis will be incorporated so that more customers will be included in the forecast and forecasting will often be done at a customer group level where customers from a similar market are grouped because their demand patterns are similar. The goal is to avoid complexity if it does not add value.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

The TGW Logistics Group is equipped with modern technology for the digital age. They develop new applications, implement tools and maintain logistics centres during live operation. An integration project’s lifecycle takes place digitally, from the first data analysis all the way to final acceptance.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Reverse marketing starts first with Value Analysis. Your team should have recorded all Value Analysis ideas in detail to get back to the Supplier by (date).

Vendor Strategies 96

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Globalior

JUNE 26, 2020

Data Analysis: Some data analysts will do well working from home. Procurement: Procurement may be able to work from home, however a big part of a procurement executive’s job is vendor management which is best done face to face. However in many companies, a data analyst also has to do extensive data entry.

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