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SONAR Indices & Insights: Improve Freight Shipping Procurement with SONAR SCI’s Lane Acuity Plus

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chain professionals responsible for transportation procurement at Fortune 500 companies focus on three things – budget forecast accuracy, service scores and primary tender acceptance. harder to procure capacity at the benchmark rate per mile ) in both the outbound and inbound directions.

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

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Customers are mostly anonymous, and purchases are made or abandoned, seemingly on a whim. This data usually includes the customer’s contact information, address, purchase history, social media engagement, email click-throughs, and dozens of other data points as they become available.

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Top Ecommerce Metrics to Track

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They’re called metrics, a set of constantly changing numbers and percentages that tell you how you’re doing from one day to the next. There are dozens of metrics you could track, but some are so important you should check them frequently. These are the metrics you want on your dashboard. What is a Metric? What is a KPI?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Top KPIs in Supply Chain for Warehouse, Logistics, Transportation, Freight

FreightWaves SONAR

As an example, Supply Chain Dive states, “Minimizing the number of claims for overages, shortages and damages (OS&Ds) as a percentage of deliveries,” is one way to manage operations and track performance better. It is a measure of the beginning inventory cost plus the purchases made during the period, minus the ending inventory costs.

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Merchandise Inventory Tracking and Accounting

Ship Monk

Not only will tracking inventory costs help you prevent stockouts, avoid backorders , and optimize inventory ordering costs, it can also help you quickly identify rising costs that directly impact your bottom line. Examples of Merchandise Inventory. In every example above, inventory was purchased and inventory was sold.

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning in supply chain management

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For example, navigation apps, facial recognition, smart assistants, and even robot vacuum cleaners at home use this smart tech. Here are some benefits of combining machine learning with advanced analytics and real-time monitoring to get complete visibility across the supply chain. AI was once only seen in science fiction.

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SONAR Indices & Insights: Get a leading indicator of containerized ocean shipments volumes before they leave a port of origin with Ocean TEUs indices

FreightWaves SONAR

SONAR’s Ocean Shipments Report and Ocean TEUs indices show subscribers how much cargo is shipping to and from the United States. What do the Ocean Shipments Report and OceanTEUs indices tell freight market participants? Rather than relying on historical data being reported by ports or U.S. ports to China).