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Manufacturing Supply Chain Constraints and How to Overcome Them

FreightWaves SONAR

Managing the manufacturing supply chain and freight markets of today requires skills, tools, applications and services that have never been utilized in the past. Supply chain constraints are impossible to avoid, but they can be planned for to reduce their impact. Download the White Paper.

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Making strategic investments in digital supply chain in a downcycle

FreightWaves SONAR

At its annual Investment Community Meeting in April in Tampa, Florida, Walmart’s management team took the opportunity to lay out an ambitious transformation of its supply chain. So we built an ambient supply chain that served stores. Walmart U.S. As our store footprint grew, that network grew. Now that’s changing.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

The Supply Chain Manager’s Multi-function Display. By now, you are probably wondering what airliners have to do with supply chain KPIs. You see, the set of primary data needed to keep an airliner aloft is (apparently) relatively simple—and the same is true of running a supply chain organisation.

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Leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) for Container Tracking

MTS Logistics

It offers various advantages at each stage of the supply chain. Outbound Logistics Track assets on their way to their final destination, providing customers and suppliers with up-to-the-minute ETA visibility. How about security? These include the below main areas. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Cost Reduction Opportunities

Triskele Logistics

How can you reduce your supply chain costs? Supply Chain costs contribute significantly to your cost of goods sold. Whether you are managing them yourself, or have outsourced the management of your supply chain, it's a really good exercise to understand how it all works. Capture them all.

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What Is Transportation Optimization and What Does It Have to Do With Managed Transportation

GlobalTranz

Part of the challenge in managing the modern supply-chain is due to its sheer size and complexity. It's important to understand how transportation optimization can work well with managed transportation service providers to attain that goal. Transportation optimization is part of enabling proactive supply chain management.

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Near-real-time data-driven route optimization best practices

FreightWaves SONAR

Proper access and application of real-time data change, such as the ticker comparison above, showing how initial savings in intermodal start compare to rejections over the last three months, can provide insight for optimization. The whole picture requires close attention when it comes to optimizing shipping routes in the modern supply chain.