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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s replace “people” with “customer orders”, “family members” with “SKUs” and “housing” with “distribution locations” and you have the components of a common supply chain design problem. Let’s begin with customers: how many do we have, how often do they order, and what are the typical order quantities and patterns?

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Cost-To-Serve Analysis Should be Core Planning Tool

Logistics Business Magazine

In a great many retail businesses Costs-To-Serve are treated as though they are a fixed overhead and allocated evenly across orders, when in reality they vary by the individual characteristics of each order – channel, geography, the nature of the goods, the behaviour of the customer, and so on.

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What Shipping Analytics Tools Should Freight Market Participants Have in Their Freight Stack?

FreightWaves SONAR

Shipping analytics tools shine a light on the value of informed freight management. Freight market participants need these top shipping analytics tools in their freight stack. Shipping status tools to track freight. Tracking shipment status is a core function of advanced shipping analytics tools. Download the White Paper.

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DispatchTrack unveils industry-first CO2 tracking tool

Logistics Business Magazine

By taking into consideration all of a day’s stops and shortening the total distance that drivers have to travel in order to fulfil their orders, DispatchTrack can help last-mile delivery companies reduce fuel consumption across their fleet by at least 10%.

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Logistics Process Workflows Automation: How to Improve Order, Shipment, and Inventory Accuracy

RPA Labs

For many shipping industry pros and transportation companies, balancing efficient delivery services and ensuring the highest level of perfection possible is an ongoing struggle. Improving the management and accuracy of orders, shipments, and inventory can impact the entire supply chain and therefore must be a top priority.

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TEG Launches ‘Industry-First’ Transport Data Service

Logistics Business Magazine

Transport Exchange Group (TEG), a leading UK online freight exchange platform, is helping its members to operate more dynamically and competitively in a highly volatile marketplace with the launch of what it describes as an ‘industry-first’ load pricing data service.

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Digital TWIn for warehouse and distribution centers

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Today I want to present to you the topic of digital twin for warehouse and distribution centers. Choosing the correct transport container can significantly increase or decrease your transport costs. Therefore, the employees will get a guideline in order to help them to increase their efficiency.

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