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The Long Road to Just-in-Time

FreightWaves SONAR

Although our vampire and Paw Patrol costumes are bought off of a rack in September, they’re expected at the ports by May or June. Lead times vary across product categories, depending on their time to manufacture, grow or ship in order to meet demand. But in aggregate, patterns become evident within the data.

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New features in Market Dashboard+

FreightWaves SONAR

When operating minibids or short-term RFPs, or when pricing individual loads, it is important to understand the directional movement of freight trends in order to be proactive in your pricing strategy. New features are available in Market Dashboard+ that help users quickly identify trends and market movement.

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3PL Best Practices

3PL Insights

A Warehouse Management System (WMS) will improve shipping and receiving operations, inventory accuracy, verify order status, measure labor hours, and picking accuracy. While the WMS collects the raw data, the evans365 portal gives customers an interactive dashboard to observe trends.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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What is a SKU? 3PL Advice for eCommerce Inventory Management

Ship Monk

In our eCommerce fulfillment blog we sometimes highlight industry jargon that’s essential for every entrepreneur. Whether you do or you don’t, this blog can help finetune your understanding of what SKUs can be utilized for, how to use them to grow your business , and best practices for this crucial part of inventory management.

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KPIs to assist manufacturers and distributors with supply chain challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Another methodology is the Porter’s Value Chain Framework, which comprises of inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, sales, and service. This is usually accomplished by using statistical sampling of all incoming materials that can produce charts to show the quality trends over time. Outbound KPIs. Manufacturing KPIs.

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Apparel companies shifting to air freight to offset congestion at ports

FreightWaves SONAR

Numerous apparel companies, including Lululemon, Adidas and Crocs have all announced plans to increase their reliance on air freight in order to have inventory onshore during the holiday season. The Outbound Ocean TEU Index (OOTI) from Vietnam to the U.S. Chart: FreightWaves SONAR.

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