SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 24, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share the key steps involved in building a business case that will enable you to identify the potential challenges, risks, and benefits associated with the implementation, and then how to build them into your plan for a successful ERP implementation.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When embarking on your ERP journey it’s vital to select a vendor that can cater to your industry-specific challenges and that will partner with you as a trusted advisor at every step of the way. Where your business has identified the need to develop a digital strategy, but execution is on project basis. Or are you a digital disrupter?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Define your returns management strategy: Analyze how effective returns management could help you lower expenses, enhance customer service, and even boost revenue. As said so eloquently by the CEO of a major online art retailer: “Our strategy is to process returns promptly, while striving to keep them to a minimum.”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 14, 2023

The impact of an ERP implementation An ERP implementation project is a considerable discontinuous change that cuts across many functional and process aspects of a business. Documenting what infrastructure changes or upgrades will be needed to support the new software is important.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

How to Create an Effective Inbound Freight Management Strategy To ensure that your inbound freight systems are seamless and efficient, you will have to pour time and energy into implementing the new processes into your business. There are many benefits to relying on experts for your inbound freight management.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 1, 2022

A BOM may be a relatively simple document or a complex, multi-levelled product description made from multiple sub-assemblies. The post The role of a Bill of Materials in optimizing your inventory management appeared first on SYSPRO Blog. It records all the parts, materials, and processes used on the factory floor.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JULY 10, 2018

But, how do you measure and document the relative impact of all these factors? But properly documenting which lanes have changed from plan and why, can help create more shared ownership of the transportation budgeting process from the sales and production parts of your organization. It all starts in the budgeting process.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JULY 10, 2018

But, how do you measure and document the relative impact of all these factors? But properly documenting which lanes have changed from plan and why, can help create more shared ownership of the transportation budgeting process from the sales and production parts of your organization. It all starts in the budgeting process.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JULY 10, 2018

But, how do you measure and document the relative impact of all these factors? But properly documenting which lanes have changed from plan and why, can help create more shared ownership of the transportation budgeting process from the sales and production parts of your organization. It all starts in the budgeting process.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friends at Camcode. In this blog, Camcode discusses how collaboration provides supply chain disruption to impact the future of logistics management. Instead of vendors waiting on hold while employees track down information, data is available within seconds.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from Lance Surety Bond , a provider of freight broker bonds, among many others. For years, freight brokers and transportation intermediaries have had somewhat of a black eye as there have been many players in the space who have done shippers and vendors wrong.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

In that interview we mentioned that he would visit Made In USA Zipper manufacturer, UCan Zippers to film a video documenting the company's commitment to American Manufacturing for nearly 30 years. Why are we having an interview with an American Manufacturer on a logistics blog, you ask? It's simple. Think about it for a second.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Islamic Banking. Mobile Banking. Payments Treasury. Wealth Management. Supply Chain Management. Features & Opinions. |. Offerings. |. White Papers. |. Case Studies. |.

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LandLink

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The IOT, as you may recall from previous blogs, represents basically any piece of machinery involved in a supply chain. The onus will be on vendors to develop predictive analytics solutions that are adept at helping with specific transportation decisions.

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Camelot 3PL Software

APRIL 3, 2019

In the last blog post , we looked at the five W’s that help to set expectations for a successful software implementation. You will discuss these goals with vendors, who take notes, but these conversations are generally much higher-level than the detail in which the Project Team will get during implementation. QA and User testing.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 30, 2022

As manufacturers strive to reduce costs while increasing speed, the process of procuring materials, making products, and moving them where they need to be is more complex than ever. With continuous supply chain disruptions, manufacturers need procurement strategies that consider uncertainty.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 30, 2022

As manufacturers strive to reduce costs while increasing speed, the process of procuring materials, making products, and moving them where they need to be is more complex than ever. With continuous supply chain disruptions, manufacturers need procurement strategies that consider uncertainty.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. Troy-Bilt: TRs were used.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

We now have an entire category of blog posts dedicated to better working with suppliers, analyzing them, and what to look out for in order to get the most value in working with suppliers. We plan to continue developing FMEA-based quality inspection programs to reduce our PPM across our entire global supply base.”. Today, 97.5%

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 2, 2015

Getting outside help when choosing a 3PL might simplify the process, and reduce staff and time commitment. Treating the 3PL as an integral part of management , rather than as a vendor, evokes a degree of interest and responsibility in achieving overall corporate goals. As the new 3PL relationship is ramped up, communication is crucial.

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Shipchain

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Additionally, global trade scales are vulnerable to an impending digital documentation revolution, as noted by Kyunghee Park of Bloomberg.com. For shippers to stay competitive with big-box retailers like Walmart along with growing e-commerce vendors, they must think outside the box and cut costs wherever possible.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

From a black board for charting the overall equipment status and files holding hundreds of thousands of documents maintaining equipment logs, we have indeed come a long way to have a full-fledged computer systems for our Asset management needs.

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20Cube Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

In this blog, we will discuss Project Cargo, which is a special type of freight shipment that suggests transporting high- volume and high-price freight. Proper planning can significantly reduce cost and eliminate risks during the transportation process. What’s Project Cargo? How to handle project cargo? The strategic approach.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 7, 2018

more than 500,000 trucking providers, major national carriers, local and regional distributors, countless vendors and suppliers, and third-party resellers exist. This eliminates uncertainty in the supply chain. Data Types and Quality Variances Complicate Managing Supply Chain SLAs In the U.S., GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 19, 2006

This will help reduce safety stocks and hence costs, improve customer service and make the Logistics network more adaptive. They will also help execute such best practices as cross—docking, in transit inventory merging, and delayed allocation strategies. Analytics Metrics are critical to an Intelligent Logistics Network.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

The book (with supporting writer Edgar Blaco ), for example, quotes an executive at one company saying that “If it reduces costs we will do it; otherwise we will not” with regard to sustainability initiatives. Which is a nice segue to a simple framework Sheffi uses to describe three types of sustainability strategies.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

As you noted, however, this time the placement was for “IoT Platforms,” a category of software tools from a good number of vendors to manage connectivity, data communications and more with IoT-enabled devices in the field. There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification. at ZipXpress.net).

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2023

With a backordered item, customers typically can order the item with the understanding that (based on vendor notes) the item will not ship right away. Sometimes the vendor can give projections of when the item will be back in stock and shipped, for example: “Won’t Ship Until July,” “Won’t Ship for 10 Business Days,” etc.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 22, 2021

And an advanced WMS can use preconfigured tools and resources to introduce robotic picking systems, proactive replenishment strategies, and faster pick-to-carton processes with embedded warehouse KPIs too. Access to third-party supplier and vendor resources Concerns about updating shipping technology stacks are common.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 9, 2021

The routing guide makes vendors responsible for using preferred transportation carriers or shipment instructions and yields value. Compliance with routing guides can reduce costs like processing damaged products and saves time when the operations staff doesn’t have to figure out a shipment with missing documents.”

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