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How to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency and Productivity with Visibility Data

FourKites

When creating a strategy for improving the productivity of your supply chain, you should analyze your costs within the following four areas: Staff time. Generally speaking, inventory in the supply chain falls into one of two categories: raw materials and finished goods. 4 Supply Chain Efficiency Measures to Improve Productivity.

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Top Game-Changing Logistics Trends for 2024: Redefining Global Supply Chains

3PL Links

Uber, for instance, saw a trend in the logistics industry in 2017 and introduced Uber Freight, a platform that links truck drivers with businesses that require cargo transportation. Strategic API integration allows logistics organizations to get almost real-time data and updates about orders and shipments. Check out below: 1.

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Retail disruption and K-shaped recovery highlight importance of freight data

FreightWaves SONAR

Those challenges and others have put pressure on retailers to build omnichannel offerings that “meet customers where they are.” That has also increased the pressure on retailers to keep other freight and logistics costs low with more capital and expense being dedicated to the development of new omnichannel strategies. .

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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

Locus

Naturally, the costs of meeting such expectations, especially on the delivery front are also increasing. Fuel costs: Last-mile fuel costs require careful management as they make up 25% of a truck’s operational costs over volatile price fluctuations. It is no secret that customer expectations are really high these days.

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Today’s Freight Capacity Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Talking Logistics

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Of course, all of this is easier said than done, but new challenges tend to require new strategies and new innovation. Everything Has Changed.

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Four Essential Supply Chain Management Tools

CLX Logistics

To meet these demands, shippers need the right supply chain management tools with the flexibility to grow and scale as needed. Telematics technology, assisted by innovations in IoT and AI, dramatically increases the quantity of data logistics companies have access to. Telematics-Based Tracking. Demand Forecasting Tools.

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Scope 3 Emissions – all you need to know

Logistics Business Magazine

According to the IPCC, many organisations report that 80% of their emissions fall under the Scope 3 category. According to data compiled by McKinsey and the CDP a few years ago, most greenhouse gas emissions come from consumer-driven companies and e-commerce shipping, which account for approximately 33Gt of CO2 annually.