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SONAR Indices & Insights: Improve Freight Shipping Procurement with SONAR SCI’s Lane Acuity Plus

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chain professionals responsible for transportation procurement at Fortune 500 companies focus on three things – budget forecast accuracy, service scores and primary tender acceptance. Advancements in tender data science and paid market data now power SONAR SCI (Supply Chain Intelligence) Lane Acuity Plus.

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The Future of Supply Chain: Top 5 Supply Chain Trends in 2024

3PL Links

It will be essential to prepare for and welcome them, particularly in the context of the difficult supply chain and procurement environments. Fulfilling sustainability demands : procurement specialists can lessen the supply chain’s environmental impact with the use of technology. However, technology alone is not sufficient.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper has one main distribution center roughly three miles from their largest hospital in Camden. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. I have 1000s of them.

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Amway cuts costs with transportation procurement tool

Transporeon

China, India and Vietnam, and then shipping finished products on to distributors and consumers, utilizing a network of hundreds of distribution centers around the world. The company began searching for a better way to procure freight and manage bids. We needed very little support,” says Clark. “We

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6 challenges facing medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can provide a cure

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service. To contend with these pressures, medical device manufacturers crave actionable, real-time, accurate, and reliable data throughout the entire supply chain.

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A Better Way to Think About Integrated Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. Something happens in your end-to-end supply chain.

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Transporeon Launches Freight Marketplace

Logistics Business Magazine

Transporeon, a leading Transportation Management Platform and a Trimble Company, announced today the launch of Freight Marketplace, a neutral (of equal benefit to both shippers and carriers) deal-making hub for freight procurement. Sellers gain access to a broader range of shippers and mini tenders, allowing them to win new business.