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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Business Spend Management Solutions are Networked .

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

In this article, we’ll look at some of those challenges and explore potential solutions to help you and your IM team meet the burgeoning demand for fast and accurate order fulfilment. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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Reverse Logistics Solutions by 3PL Links

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Reverse Logistics Solutions | Image Source: dreamstime.com. Some of our reverse logistics solutions to better manage your returns. ” The success of this business is most definitely not unrelated to this mindset. Reverse Logistics Solutions | Image Source: aptean.com. Implementing best practices.

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Outstanding Issues of Military Logistics in Ukraine

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For example according to the approved NATO definition, military logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. The lack of ammunition, supplies, weapons, and equipment in sufficient quantities posed a significant challenge, and high-tech devices and software were also in short supply.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Top 10 Features of an Autonomous Warehouse

3PL Insights

Amazon is on the forefront of automation in the warehouse , currently using 45,000 Kiva Robots, after purchasing the company Kiva Systems in 2012 (they’re now renamed “Amazon robots”). The information received can be checked for accuracy with the company’s inventory software. This allows for inventory to be viewed in “real time.”.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

These solutions support information exchanges with a community of trading partners. Solutions that fall under the definition of SCCN would include EDI VANs (electronic data interchange value added networks), industry marketplaces, and collaborative supply chain applications that are built on public cloud architectures.