Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. Soft costs are usually time-consuming tasks such as planning, tracking shipments, gathering documents, handling disputes, and handling communication with your freight forwarder and over-seas suppliers.

Cost Reduction 98

Cost Reduction Negotiating Skills Material Savings Resource Reduction 98

Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

This article by SHIPSTA addresses six of the most common challenges that can surface in peak shipping season, while providing solutions on how to best address them. Running tenders, launching RFQs, analysing the outcomes and going through a truly data-driven decision process, can now become a matter of minutes instead of weeks.

Optimal Sourcing 57

Optimal Sourcing Negotiating Skills Sourcing Strategies How To 57

Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping. For instance, things like fuel prices, hourly wages for employees, and materials are some hard costs. How can importers and exporters reduce soft costs? Provides data in real-time about the location and status of your goods. Provides reports and data. The Dedola Difference.

Cost Reduction 52

Cost Reduction Negotiating Skills Material Savings Resource Reduction 52

Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ditch Unreliable Suppliers. Choose Domestic Suppliers. Consolidate Suppliers. Ditch Unreliable Suppliers. Three key problems are associated with unreliable suppliers: Quoting incorrect lead times. Ditch unreliable suppliers and find new, more reliable ones. Choose Domestic Suppliers. Let's dive in!

Manufacturing Procurement 52

Manufacturing Procurement Inventory Reduction Vendor Strategies Waste Reduction 52

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 12, 2022

They have a contract with a supplier who delivers on time, and who charges acceptable prices. Purchasing is not integrated with how materials are consumed in production, neither does it have insight into how lots and batches are stored and used, so there is minimal information about inventory and possible obsolescence.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Supply Chain Planning Software 105

Forto

JULY 15, 2019

In the process of global shipping, you may come upon situations wherein you may need to change service providers, especially logistics services providers – which is easier said than done as you need to be sure of the reasons for the change, how to control things and people and be aware of negative and positive consequences of the change.

Freight forwarding 40

Freight forwarding Supply Chain Planning Software Freight Logistics Network Optimization Software 40

Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.

Supply Chain Design Software 89

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software Inventory Reduction Supply Chain Planning Software 89