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Advancing Transportation Procurement: The Shift From Spreadsheets to Software

FreightWaves SONAR

For shippers, the approach to transportation procurement is evolving. Traditionally, shipping companies have relied on manual tools and processes, predominantly managing their requests for proposals (RFPs) and bids using simple spreadsheets.

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Predicting Unpredictability: Expert Advice for 2024 Freight Operations, Benchmarking, and Procurement Preparation

CLX Logistics

When looking ahead to the future, it’s crucial to reflect on the past year, identify emerging trends, and strengthen strategies for benchmarking and procurement. The question then becomes, how can we predict these unexpected twists and turns to stabilize budgets without impacting operations? The outcome?

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Predicting Unpredictability: Expert Advice for 2024 Freight Operations, Benchmarking, and Procurement Preparation

CLX Logistics

When looking ahead to the future, it’s crucial to reflect on the past year, identify emerging trends, and strengthen strategies for benchmarking and procurement. The question then becomes, how can we predict these unexpected twists and turns to stabilize budgets without impacting operations? The outcome?

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Navigating Market Uncertainty with Sarah Bertram

The Logistics of Logistics

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. The platform offers a wide range of features and tools to help shippers find available carriers and carriers find available loads.

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Amway cuts costs with transportation procurement tool

Transporeon

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. The company began searching for a better way to procure freight and manage bids.

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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. I saw how their platform unified finance and procurement activities, but not supply chain. I saw this claim as being more a statement of intention than of fact.

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What is Preventive Maintenance: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Conger

The essence of preventive maintenance is a proactive approach that acts as insurance against unexpected breakdowns that can quickly disrupt business operations. PM involves proactively scheduling maintenance tasks like inspecting equipment for potential issues before they become a problem for your maintenance operations.