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[WHITE PAPER] SONAR SCI: use for daily load planning

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FreightWaves SONAR Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) platform is designed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of a shipper’s freight spend by: (1) Benchmarking shippers’ current or target rates to the market or industry peer group. FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE WHITE PAPER. Request a SONAR Demo.

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[WHITE PAPER] FreightWaves SONAR: Full shipment lifecycle market data vs TMS vendor and paid-only forecasting

FreightWaves SONAR

Data has become an integral part of the supply chain network’s daily operations and is inseparable from the modern processes that govern procedures involved in transportation. Accurate processing and predictive planning remain critical for precise market data and shipment lifecycle forecasting. Request a SONAR Demo.

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BCOs and drayage planning: How global retailers apply data

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Drayage planning is essential for global retail shipping supply lines and deals primarily with ocean imports. This is also known as first-mile shipping and planning protocol. As explained by Supply Chain Game Changer , “Drayage services are more essential than ever. Download the White Paper.

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Trade agreements and logistics data: why proactive planning always wins

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Proactive planning is among the most effective weapons logistics managers have in their arsenal. It is something that needs to be practiced more often when it comes to planning and predicting freight rates. Download the White Paper. The idea is that 80% of the work often is completed by 20% of the team.

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Prescriptive Analytics: What’s Freight Management’s Next Best Action?

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And while leveraging a freight rate index or ocean import data to lower detention risk , the sheer size of the supply chain makes management difficult at best. Freight management is the story of supply and demand Freight management is a cycle on a macro-scale. It comes down to a simple story of supply and demand.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Constraints and How to Overcome Them

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Managing the manufacturing supply chain and freight markets of today requires skills, tools, applications and services that have never been utilized in the past. Supply chain constraints are impossible to avoid, but they can be planned for to reduce their impact. It is what sets manufacturing supply chain companies apart.

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What Is Supply Chain Predictive Analytics & Why Should Freight Pros Care

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Some of the most cost-effective software and methods supply chain professionals and the best freight brokers can adopt are supply chain predictive analytics programs. While still relatively new to the supply chain, analytics implementations have skyrocketed in popularity since its birth a little over 10 years ago.