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Simmons Foods’ Approach to Transportation Spend

Logistics Viewpoints

On April 4 th , Kyle Masters – the senior manager of transportation procurement at Simmons Foods, participated in a webinar hosted by Emerge. The webinar focused on Simmons Food’s approach to transportation procurement. Mr. Masters quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline.

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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. All the products and services purchased by procurement and supply chain organizations can be categorized into this two-by-two matrix.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency. Any final thoughts?

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2016 Supply Chain Trends: 7 of 12 Trends that Will Drive Supply Chain Management in 2016

GlobalTranz

Being able to blend systems and implement tools on a scalable basis is what sets the technology of the future apart from the unwieldy enterprise-wide software packages that were popular in the previous era,” said Marshbank. 2016 Supply Chain Trend #6: Procurement’s New (read Bigger) Role in the Supply Chain.

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The Transportation Supply Chain: Transportation’s Role in Supply Chain Management to Lower Total Costs

GlobalTranz

This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement. These events can throw off production schedules even creating idle labor or eventual lost sales. The glue is getting the materials from starting point to destination.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming. Nari Viswanathan is currently Sr.

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What is Fleet Management | A Complete Overview Guide

Conger

Controlling Costs Cost-controlling mechanisms provide businesses with required tools and insights to manage and reduce costs. Fleet managers can make data-driven decisions by implementing expense monitoring tools and software solutions, which enable them to track and analyze expenditures in real-time.