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Enterprise Freight Management: 7 Last-Minute Thoughts to Boost Efficiency

FreightWaves SONAR

Recognize market volatility trends and their impact on replenishment lead time Another beneficial action to boost efficiency with freight management comes from the recognition of market volatility trends. Market volatility can significantly impact replenishment lead time for restocking warehouses and distribution centers.

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What Is a Freight Rate Index?

FreightWaves SONAR

And even once the analytics begin working correctly, recurring maintenance costs make in-house resources cost-prohibitive. But not all indices and freight resources are created equally. A larger data sample size amounts to more granular and marketwide views of potential trends. Request a SONAR Demo. Near-real-time data.

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How AI and Logistics Tech Can Boost Van, Truck & DSD Sales in the Middle East

Locus

Despite all these strong digitalization trends, there is one intense, on-ground task that we have not covered: delivering consumer packaged goods (CPG) from manufacturing plants to the hundreds, if not thousands of retail stores and outlets. Often, you have an extensive network of distribution centers and a large fleet of trucks.

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Prep: A Checklist for Ecommerce Business Owners

Ship Monk

2 Analyze Your Past Data and Compare It to Current Trends. Make sure to consider both general ecommerce trends as well as the individual performance of top companies in your niche. #3 Slice of cake. Fruitcake. #2 How did your ecommerce business’s regular sales compare to seasonal sales last year? 3 Get to Know Your Demographic… Again.

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5 Transportation Management System Benefits & The Ever Expanding use of a TMS by Shippers

GlobalTranz

As a result, the use of the TMS is expanding, and it will be one of the greatest technology trends to benefit the shipping industry in 2016. In the past, shippers where are unable to spend the quantities of resources to develop and implement a TMS on premises. Want a demo of the Cerasis TMS, we call the Cerasis Rater?