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What is a routing guide and what are best practices to create one

FreightWaves SONAR

And according to Brian Straight of FreightWaves , a routing guide is a living document that enables faster transportation management and keeps freight spend under control based on lane volatility, seen also within SONAR SCI Lane Acuity. What is a routing guide : a list of preferred carriers for tendering freight.

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A Recommended Approach to Warehouse Layout and Operational Design

Logistics Bureau

It’s also important to document any constraints that will impact your plans to meet those objectives. A clear understanding of objectives and constraints will provide you with the starting point for your design review, so it’s important to get them documented and to make sure all stakeholders are aware of them.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

Accurate documentation: This metric tracks the percentage of sales orders accompanied by accurate documents throughout the process. Documents included in the metric can vary but usually include advance shipment notifications (ASNs), labels, and invoices. Delivery documentation is completed accurately. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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What is a 3PL? How Third-Party Logistics Providers Benefit eCommerce Brands

Ship Monk

The risk that comes with that, of course, is what can happen to your “baby” if you completely entrust its growth and care to someone else. A 3PL gives eCommerce brands extra tools to balance the different operational demands of their businesses. They are set up with all the tools and experience to help you grow and scale.

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New technology helps retailers with duties, visibility

247 Customs Broker

They also don’t provide embedded visibility tools for shipments, whether parcel or freight. Thus, a handful of web-based tools has emerged in tandem with the rise of e-commerce cross-border sellers to allow for potentially seamless capability with regard to customs calculation and visibility. Frustration To Solution.

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

Logistics Bureau

Supply Chain Cost Management Results: By the time Starbucks had completed its transformation program, it had saved more than $500 million over the course of 2009 and 2010, of which a large proportion came out of the supply chain, according to Peter Gibbons, then Executive Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations. Procurement analysis.

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Navigating unchartered waters

Automotive Logistics

With no way to unlock the infected computers, Maersk had to rebuild its IT infrastructure almost from scratch, installing 4,000 new servers, 45,000 new PCs and 2,500 applications over the course of ten days. NotPetya used versions of hacking tools stolen from the US National Security Agency. Outbound cybersecurity lags behind .