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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Here’s The Problem: Your Procurement Driven Transportation Sourcing Process Stinks!

247 Customs Broker

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. Our rates are going up and the carriers are completely unwilling to negotiate with us—where did we go wrong?”. There are plenty of companies using a flawed process in conducting their transportation sourcing events. Want proof?

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

The club also organizes a roundtable event each semester that brings students and companies together to explore opportunities for internships and jobs. We find that a skill set in another discipline gives students a competitive advantage because it can enhance how they practice logistics and supply chain management.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] How to Become a Freight Broker: Your Ultimate Guide

GlobalTranz

They negotiate good shipping rates and fast deliveries from transportation companies, and connect them with the businesses that need to transport goods or cargo, so carriers can maximize their loads. Refresh or Develop Some General Skills. Essentially, freight brokers keep the economy running. What does a freight broker do?

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

For suppliers and mid- to large-sized companies, supply chain visibility serves as the foundation for strategic decisions and tactical improvements across the entire transportation network. Much like any other strategic initiative or company-wide process change, leadership must start with the end in mind.

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Supply Chain Management:A New Lens for Supply Chain Roadmaps

Infosys Supply Chain Management

News & Events. |. They expand into an analysis of revenue-accruing & cost-optimizing functions, and result in the identification of capabilities that the organization aspires to develop or enhance. It would have institutionalized online strategies to capture customer preferences to tailor revenue-enhancing online offerings.

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India-Russia issue stern warning for Pakistan over terrorism after PM Modi-Vladimir Putin meet

247 Customs Broker

Cooperation between India and Russia spans across the whole gamut of sectors and rests on the fundamental pillars of political and strategic cooperation, military and security cooperation, cooperation in the spheres of economy, energy, industry, science and technology, and cultural and humanitarian cooperation.

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