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Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations

Blue Grace Logistics

For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. Equally important is to monitor and assure vendor compliance.

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Full Truckload, Parcel, LTL, Intermodal?Oh My! How to Manage All Over the Road Modes Effectively

GlobalTranz

The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018. That amounts to roughly 64 potential combinations for over the road transportation, and that excludes value-added services, such as ease in freight auditing or payment processing. Freight claims management services. Inbound freight management.

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What blew your freight budget-the people or the process?

247 Customs Broker

A whole bunch of shippers are living with blown freight budgets for this year. And as we have highlighted in our recent “Perfect Storm” presentations to C-Level executives, almost one third of CEOs in the S&P 500 cited transportation and freight issues as having a material, negative impact on their corporate earnings through April.

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

247 Customs Broker

For example, because of time constraints, most transactionally-driven procurement events rarely—if ever—require prospective suppliers to stress test the systems they are considering. A slick sales rep gives a buzz word-filled presentation, and in your mind, their proposal allows you to check all the “Meets Requirements” boxes.

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Note to CEOs (Part 5): Stop Blaming Your Transportation People—Support Them Instead!

247 Customs Broker

For example, the company would have to look at all the parts of their company, how they interact, how they affect each other, and assess how the decisions made in the sales, procurement, finance and operations areas of the company affect the company’s transportation costs. About the Author. Mike Regan.

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NRF 2023: Empowering the Customer

Logistics Viewpoints

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, and machine learning, to name a few. Koerber In July, Koerber acquired enVista’s omni-channel and global freight audit and payment services. The big piece here was the OMS.

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Outbound TMS: The search for a system that can’t be beat

Automotive Logistics

“Preventive exception management can increase network performance and avoid disruptions beforehand and decrease premium freight, for example. The workflow can be used to determine, shape and optimise the system interdependency, for example between the TMS and compound management. ” – Georges Bory, ActiveViam.