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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

How to Create an Effective Inbound Freight Management Strategy To ensure that your inbound freight systems are seamless and efficient, you will have to pour time and energy into implementing the new processes into your business. This way, tracking and tracing the movement of raw materials that are delivered to your business is easier.

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What Is an Agile Supply Chain?

FourKites

The COVID pandemic may have been an extreme example of what can go wrong, but it also underscored the importance of planning and decision-making in the event of sudden disruptions that upend the normal working of the complicated modern supply chain apparatus. Adopting Agile Supply Chain Management Strategies.

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

The most common goals of supply chain visibility include the following, but as your company completes this exercise, be sure to include quantifiable metrics: Reduce business and supply chain risk. Track, Trace and Collect Data from Key Partners. Improve lead times and performance. Analyze Performance and Manage Expectations.

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Data standardization and its benefits – Executive Insights with Thomas Bagge, CEO of DCSA

Shipping and Freight Resource

A financial modelling exercise to quantify the potential cost savings of the usage of digital shipping documentation, namely the electronic bill of lading (eBL) showed that at a global economic growth rate of 2.4% For example, in the airline industry, everything is digitalized now and this happened because IATA has been defining the.

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How Freight & Transportation Data Can Trim Your Transportation Spend

GlobalTranz

Transportation spending is a perennial target of budget-cutting exercises, and a large, multi-faceted cost center for many companies; some may spend three to six percent of their materials costs on transportation. Last year we put out a white paper which contains all the transportation data points you can track. Invest in Technology.

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