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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Derek Gittoes, a vice president of supply chain management product strategy at Oracle, said “this is very much an estimate. For example, Oracle is using average emission from a 5-ton truck, or a bulk tanker. Oracle also offers a logistics modeling tool to look at how different policies would affect sustainability.

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Ways to Avoid LTL Shipping Problems 

GoShip Blog

Examples include missing freight, delivery delays, damaged products, hidden charges, ambiguous documentation, poor contract terms, and limited carrier networks. Understanding the causes behind these issues and having the ability to identify warning signs will help you implement strategies to keep their occurrence to the barest minimum.

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Order Management System: What exactly is an OMS?

GlobalTranz

For example, customers using apps or online sites for shopping may trigger notifications in the OMS when the customer places an item in the online shopping cart. Consider the possible ways information in the aforementioned example plays into the omnichannel supply chain. This is the start of the entire process. The Big Picture.

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What is Transportation Management Workflow and How Does It Work

Blue Grace Logistics

Transportation Management Workflow may be defined as a supply chain workflow that connects and links the various parties involved along the chain from, for example, the seller’s warehouse to the buyer’s warehouse. A well designed and effective TMS is of paramount importance in: Reducing freight costs. Freight audit.

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

Automotive Logistics

The use of such systems is governed by differences in strategies and legacy IT systems at manufacturers, some of which may drive whether companies turn to external providers’ systems or oversee a system internally. In-house versus external. Visibility in regards of tracking and tracing is another potential use in outbound,” he says.