Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

The ability to tap into data is critical to business success – from predicting sales trends to improving operations and customer service, writes Stephan Sieber (pictured), CEO at Transporeon. This gives companies the insights they need to outperform the competition, and today’s business leaders clearly recognise the value of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jeff Tramel, the Vice President of Global Procurement, at NTT DATA Services. SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. And more importantly, how did NTT DATA do it?

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Load capacity limits play a crucial part in a supply chain network organization, logistics metrics management, and procurement in the shipping industry. According to Logistics Management , “Time is money in transportation…. Procurement in the shipping industry faces several problems without technology.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

In 2020 she was featured as a Business Insider Top 100 People Transforming Business, recognized as a Top 10 Women in Logistics by Global Trade Magazine, and won the SDCE Women Leaders in Supply Chain award. Hannah was named an SDCE 2023 Supply Chain Pro to Know and 2021 WE USA Top WBE CEO.

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CLX Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

To meet these demands, shippers need the right supply chain management tools with the flexibility to grow and scale as needed. The right supply chain management tools help not only to enable shippers to provide better customer service and on-time deliveries but also to remain competitive with everyone else in the market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jeff Tramel, the Vice President of Global Procurement, at NTT DATA Services. SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. And more importantly, how did NTT DATA do it?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Manufacturers increasingly turning to data and analytics, from an ERP system, to support business initiatives. Data is after all the fuel that runs the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In most cases, there has been a succession of tools that worked in some cases but were not broadly successful. Challenges to using data.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Original article: Warner’s Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers. In light of the global environment in the past year and a half, we listed the top transportation & logistics influencers. The road hasn’t been easy for the transportation and logistics industries. miles of freight is expected to reach 7.67

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CLX Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As the freight industry gears up for another year, the whirlwind of uncertainty continues to influence the logistics landscape. When looking ahead to the future, it’s crucial to reflect on the past year, identify emerging trends, and strengthen strategies for benchmarking and procurement. They demand results, and rightly so.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent. Sourcing and Procurement In sourcing and procurement, the top focus area for 2024 continues to be supplier/vendor relationship management (SRM).

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Transporeon

JANUARY 25, 2018

The challenge For many years, Amway had used a generic sourcing tool that only facilitated communications with the company’s carriers rather than providing access to a supplier database and a collaborative environment to conduct sourcing events. The company began searching for a better way to procure freight and manage bids.

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Transporeon

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

It’s usually obvious when you’re using the wrong tool. So then why do logistics professionals go on using the wrong procurement tool? So then why do logistics professionals go on using the wrong procurement tool? Why use the wrong procurement tool? Which tool is the right one?

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Cloud-based supply chain management tools, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are expected to figure prominently in future supply chain operations. More data is coming in than ever before.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2024

Controlling Supply Chain Cost for Sustainable Growth Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - March 26, 2024 In modern business, controlling supply chain costs is paramount for sustaining profitability and competitiveness. What strategies can businesses employ to optimize these costs, enabling them to streamline operations and enhance efficiency?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Many different terms, such as less-than-truckload (LTL), procurement and transportation management, describe supply chain management processes. Although procurement logistics might sound like it involves the purchasing of manufactured products , it is much more involved. The Definition of Procurement Logistics.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 6, 2021

Waybridge creates tools that connect and optimize the entire global raw materials supply chain. Supply chains usually begin with procuring raw materials or commodities, typically agricultural, metals, or energy. Waybridge offers a suite of digital tools targeting the fundamental inefficiencies in the raw materials supply chain.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 30, 2021

Maintaining good compliance to these informational guides is critical to supply chain management and relies heavily on current data and automation. Missing data amounts to inevitable routing guide failures Data is king in today’s ever-changing market, and it is only becoming more vital for supply chain operations and management.

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CLX Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After nearly three years of a global pandemic, supply chain interruptions, labor shortages, and lingering economic uncertainty—manufacturers, shippers, and logistics providers are approaching 2023 with calculated caution. CLX Logistics’ procurement team will find the most efficient custom-fit solution for your freight.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 18, 2020

A case in point is last-mile delivery, an area where IoT (Internet of Things) data may not yet be fully tapped. It also challenges companies of all kinds to employ IoT and other technologies to boost logistics skill sets and meet customers’ new expectations. . Location data is vital to last-mile logistics.

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CLX Logistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

One of the most efficient ways to optimize a chemical supply chain logistics strategy from top to bottom is through proper planning, analysis, and smart decision-making in the procurement, bidding, and benchmarking process. Validate and analyze available data. Procurement and Bid Management. Planning and Preparation.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2017

Logistics professionals require exemplary international online logistics tools to help them carry out their daily businesses with ease and deliver the best for their customers. Mobile phones can offer incredible services in any business from inventory tracking and shipments to the execution of procurement transactions.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 30, 2021

A logistics routing guide can mean the difference between success and failure of pickup and delivery in a supply chain network. The logistics routing guide further includes details about the modes and carriers that prove influential. These are just some of the supply chain difficulties that get addressed with logistics routing guides.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. It has spot procurement functionality that you would see in a transportation management system (TMS), and the request for proposal (RFP) functionality you would see in contract planning or procurement solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kevin Nelson, a chief procurement officer and senior vice president at BD, agreed to be interviewed on this topic. In a conversation with Everstream’s chief data officer, the executive told this writer that the company was using artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data to solve this n-tier problem. We can’t get the data.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2021

COVID-19 has exposed quite a few vulnerabilities in both the procurement and distribution process of goods and materials and the overall transportation process. As you might have guessed from the title, it’s time to start collecting more data. The Big Benefits of Big Data. Simply put, good data drives better service.

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CLX Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When it comes to logistics, this understanding and implementation can mean the difference between success and failure. Logistics can be complicated, and there’s always the potential for unforeseen problems in your supply chain. These are the essential elements of an effective TMS and a necessity for improving your logistics workflows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Business intelligence tools can use this visibility and other information to help shippers act more strategically by procuring the most efficient, cost-effective carrier services. Based on regional differences in demand and other factors, shipping data can inform decisions about where to house inventory, how much to have on hand, etc.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time To Read: 3 minutes Are you struggling to measure the success of your inbound logistics? What are inbound and outbound logistics? Both inbound and outbound logistics involve the transportation of products across various distribution channels, however inbound logistics deals with supply and outbound logistics fulfill demands.

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Locus

APRIL 1, 2022

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools. Strategic sourcing – Optimizing sourcing costs and procurement processes using data intelligence. Market trends also continue to evolve faster than ever.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past few years, supply chain and procurement pros have faced the challenge of navigating their enterprises through one disruption after another. A holistic, unified view of sourcing that brings bills of material, master data management and downstream systems. Outside-in insights to integrate market and category intelligence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Efficio, a global procurement and supply chain consultancy, is working with business leaders to do just that – turning attention to the supply chain to make the biggest impact on ESG. Data needed to quantify carbon emissions within the supply chain can span multiple systems and suppliers.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 2, 2021

Companies are rapidly adopting and using real-time data to clearly understand challenges to better mitigate unexpected problems when they arise. This helps to realize fewer tender rejections, increases an understanding for requests for proposal (RFPs) bringing optimal deals, and improves lead time planning to secure capacity procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2021

Promotion Management is defined as optimizing the utilization of tools, strategies, and resources to promote a product that will generate additional demand. With the availability of a multitude of tools and digital solutions, all this processing and prediction can be easily automated. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. Increasingly, EcoVadis is becoming known as the go to organization to help corporations accelerate this journey to collect upstream supplier environmental, social, and governance data.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 3, 2023

iii] The deliberate divestment of military logistic capabilities has necessitated that the US use contracted and host nation support for a number of logistic related services in combat operations.

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