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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. The direct goods spend is mainly for the Bill of Material products and services that a company sells to its customers.

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Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull

The Logistics of Logistics

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events. Circular supply chains are interconnected systems that use secondary and regenerative inputs to generate value by reducing and extending resource use. Circular Supply Chain.

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Managing Freight Spend and LTL Shipping Process to Attain “Best In Class” Shipper Status

GlobalTranz

Ultimately, the supply chain is reflection of hundreds of processes that work together for a common purpose, or the transport of goods and materials from Location A to Location B. However, process management needs to address several process categories to reduce in-transit and delivery problems. Management of Incoming Freight.

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The Transportation Supply Chain: Transportation’s Role in Supply Chain Management to Lower Total Costs

GlobalTranz

Everything from sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, to the sales channels which feed supply for a finished product are essential factors. Many manufacturers & retailers have found that they can use state of the art supply chain management to reduce inventory & warehousing costs while speeding up delivery to the end customer.

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2016 Supply Chain Trends: 7 of 12 Trends that Will Drive Supply Chain Management in 2016

GlobalTranz

Businesses cannot unlock the full potential of digital without reinventing their supply chain strategy. For digital technology to create significant improvement in business outcomes, businesses need to: Reinvent their supply chain strategy. Develop digital strategies that allow you to proactively evolve ahead of the competition.

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Logistics & Supply Chain Risk Management: Pivoting to Resiliency with these 3 Simple Processes

GlobalTranz

As the supply chain continues to grow in complexity and regulation, the opportunities for problems and other events to impact operations negatively will consequently grow. Additionally, each concern is directly involved in how an organization responds to the materialization of a problem. Eliminating all risk is simply unrealistic.

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The 4 Big Manufacturing Technology Trends to Rule the Land in 2016

GlobalTranz

Our transportation management system , which has been a web based platform since 1998, has an entire development team shaping it for now and in the future so our shippers continue to get value out of technology gaining such benefits of decreased errors, ability to focus on their core, and of course, overall costs savings.

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