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Mastering the Unexpected: Four Essential Tactics to Handle Unpredictable Events in Retail

Locus

Today’s dynamic environments require adaptable routing strategies to keep pace and minimize disruptions. Carrier Exceptions: Retailers often have a roster of go-to carriers, but what happens when a transporter backs out at the last minute? Read also: Why Do Businesses Need Route Optimization?

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Do we have a demand forecasting tool in place and, if so, how good is that forecast? At the same time, another company might have twenty suppliers with similar pricing strategies, who supply the same raw material. Once you have a model in place, it becomes possible to play out various events and find the best way to react.

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Four Essential Supply Chain Management Tools

CLX Logistics

To meet these demands, shippers need the right supply chain management tools with the flexibility to grow and scale as needed. The right supply chain management tools help not only to enable shippers to provide better customer service and on-time deliveries but also to remain competitive with everyone else in the market.

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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Decarbonise UK Freight Transport Sector

Logistics Business Magazine

The end of project report released today by the Decarbonising UK Freight Transport (DUKFT) Network, suggest several ways to overcome the chicken-and-egg problems associated with decarbonising road, rail and maritime freight transport. The post Decarbonise UK Freight Transport Sector appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Stop Bleeding Money with Outdated Freight Bidding Strategies

CLX Logistics

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. Next-generation supply chain management tools like CLX LaneLogix are a perfect example of the type of system.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.