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Technology’s Ever-increasing Role in Supply Chain Functions

GlobalTranz

For decades, the realm of transportation management , warehouse management, and order fulfillment remained set in near-prehistoric hands of isolated silos, inefficient processes, and limited accessibility. However, technology has risen to dramatically alter the execution of supply chain functions. Technology poses the greatest opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of innovative tools to ensure end-to-end tracking, visibility , and processing of products.

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4 Steps for Improving Supply Chain Management

Apparel Logistics

Competitive advantage is elusive for many companies. They struggle to identify the core competencies that can make them successful and work to find ways to use things at which they are really good to turn a profit. On top of that, many companies have difficulties coordinating what they do best with their supply chain partners, leading to overlaps and inefficiencies that can sink their bottom line.

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5 Big Benefits of Cloud-Based Supply Chain Management

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The emergence of the Cloud has created an interconnected world that goes beyond the communications of the early ages of the Internet and Web 2.0, influencing the way our real world behaves as much as advances like the engine, the printing press, or the computer itself. New technology can seem appealing until the process of incorporating it into existing methods becomes overwhelming and stressful.

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9 Benefits of Effective Reverse Logistics Process & 5 Advantages of Partnering with a 3PL

GlobalTranz

While conventional logistics optimizes the flow of goods from producer to consumer, reverse logistics manages the processes for inverting that flow to deal with returned parts , materials and products from the consumer back to the producer. Most often, this includes warranty recovery, value recovery, repair, redistribution, product recalls, used parts and replacement materials for refurbishment, service or product contract returns, and end-of-life recycling.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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What is DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) Analyses And How Can It Reduce Supply Chain Costs?

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: First of all, you may ask yourself, "Why is a 3PL who helps manufacturers with transportation management efficiency be talking about manufacturing efficiency?" Well, I am glad you asked! The reason, is that we don't only want to provide content about transportation management, although we do right a lot about that, but we also want to give our customers and potential customers, who are primarily manufacturers, other ways they might gain efficiency.