FreightWaves SONAR
JUNE 5, 2023
Lack of data, lack of conviction and lack of organizational agility all conspire to keep companies from recognizing medium-term opportunities and challenges and responding decisively. It’s hard to find good data that provides a view into the next few months of consumer behavior and economic activity.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
The moves span inbound, intracompany, and outbound shipping. An RFP is a data intensive exercise. On the outbound side, they were using a transportation management system from e2open. This made the data analysis easier. On the inbound side, it was highly reliant on spreadsheet data. Is this working?”
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Penske Move Ahead
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Fleet operators need real-time data to make informed decisions about their business. Private fleets typically handle about 2/3 of the outbound flow of goods and work with third-party carriers to handle the rest. For-hire motor carriers handle 17% of all outbound freight movements, while dedicated contract carriers perform 12%.
Triskele Logistics
MAY 27, 2018
Whether you are managing them yourself, or have outsourced the management of your supply chain, it's a really good exercise to understand how it all works. E.g. If they are bringing ingredients/parts to you for production, can you give them an outbound shipment of finished goods back toward their home terminal?
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 3, 2019
Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise. The better your data is and the longer the time spent collecting and analyzing it, the less the risk. You have to do the best with what is available.
Logistics Bureau
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. Doing Without Detailed Data. Of course nothing is wrong at all if tables like this are supported by files containing data at a much more granular level.
Logistics Bureau
JANUARY 7, 2020
Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. . A disciplined approach to the collection, cleansing, and standardisation of supply chain data.
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