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5 Reasons How RFPs Help in Selecting the Right Logistics Technology Platform For Your Enterprise-Level Business

Locus

Enter the Request for Proposal (RFP): a strategic tool that goes beyond mere vendor selection. It’s a comprehensive approach that empowers companies to streamline their procurement process, ensuring alignment with their long-term objectives and operational requirements. How to resolve this conundrum?

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Logistics in the Manufacturing Industry: How Smaller Plants Can Benefit

Kanban Logistics

Check out this case study on our manufacturing logistics support for an aerospace company. Parts procurement and VMI services offer further efficiency. Your 3PL partner can handle the procurement and management of these components on your behalf. For starters, you keep your money longer.

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Successful Product Innovation Requires Supply Chain Insight

Material Handling and Logistics

A new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Global Supply Chain Institute suggests some of the fault resides in the tendency of organizations to omit supply chain considerations when assessing a new product’s business case. “A It also outlines nine best practices to ensure that new product initiatives increase value.

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What is Inbound Logistics and How Can a 3PL Help?

Kanban Logistics

This includes the procurement and delivery of the parts used to build the finished product. Third-party procurement. Right now, your buyers probably spend a good percentage of their time negotiating with, and procuring goods from, makers of boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials. What is inbound logistics?

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What is Transportation Management Software?

Trinity Logistics

While a TMS might seem daunting and expensive, it’s become an essential tool for businesses to be successful. Transportation management affects every part of your logistics process, from planning to procurement and more. Check out Albaugh's Case Study to see how a TMS helped their company. Software.?.

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2019 Logistics & Supply Chain Events to Attend in the US

EazyStock

At this event, you will get the opportunity to be part of a huge network of more than 2,500 global supply chain and procurement professionals. The American Supply Chain Summit is a leadership-focused meeting designed around improving supply chain and procurement strategy across the globe. supplychainus.com. www.gartner.com.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost-reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. Procurement analysis. Of course, the above case studies are merely summaries of the changes these high-profile brands made to their supply chains.