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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. Improved ability to predict and manage trends: After you’ve spent a while working with freight benchmarks, you’ll get a feel for the directions of seasonal rate fluctuations and other pricing trends. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Of course, it’s always possible to factor estimates of those costs into your product or service pricing, but then you can find yourself overpricing them. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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Drone Operator Wanted: apply within?

Logistics Business Magazine

” Driving the demand are a number of trends that will bring with them other problems. Autonomous trucks and drones are the 800-pound gorilla in logistics technology trends,” according to Adam Robinson from logistics company, Cerasis. But it’s not for a specific product, commodity, or even for transportation capacity.

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Committing to preparedness, and the balance between ‘all of it’ and ‘just enough’

Logistics in War

The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. I encourage you to read the article to see the important trend driving the sustainment of militaries at play. Fourthly, the logistics organisation must be exercised and be the subject of experiments which qualify risks. Alternatively, it is also tempting to answer ‘just enough’.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them? Gerard Burke, Georgia Southern University: A continuing trend is the challenge to attract students to pursue a career often perceived as humdrum. Experiential learning is another trend seen as valuable to both hiring companies and students.

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Happy New Year: Here’s the 7 things shippers need to know about the Q1 2021 freight market

FLS Transport

It will be all-hands-on-deck as the greater economy, industrial, manufacturing, and housing businesses all fire back up and that pent-up demand and idle cap-ex are exercised. (2) And the results have spawned a cornucopia of tools aimed at delivering a seamless logistics experience for everyone involved in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. « Collaborative Platform for Enterprise of Future | Main | Key Asset Management trends in Oil & Gas Industry » Importance of Proactive Master Data Maintenance in SAP SCM Support. Social Media in Supply Chain.the new trend!