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How to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency and Productivity with Visibility Data

FourKites

Cost control measures in supply chain efficiency should address three major areas: labor, inventory and transportation. Transportation spend. Here’s how: 1: Maximize Labor Efficiency. Learn more about the ROI of Real-Time Transportation Visibility. 3: Control Your Transportation Spend. 4: Mitigate Risk.

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Managing Operating Costs in the Chemical industry

Trinity Logistics

According to an American Chemistry Council report, 96 percent of all manufactured goods trace back to chemical manufacturers. For example, raw agricultural materials have increased 117 percent since 2000 , rubber has seen an increase of 359 percent, and steel is up 167 percent. Rising Raw Material Costs.

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Cold Chain Solutions for the Dairy Industry

Trinity Logistics

After the cows have been milked, it immediately transports to cooling storage tanks or a chilled trailer. It’s then transported to a processing facility, pasteurized, and transported again to consumers. Potential High Value Products Certain dairy products can be high value, like some cheeses for example.

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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

Manufacturers often rely on inbound freight to transport all the materials and machinery they need to produce their products. Using TMS allows you to streamline your transportation operations. This way, tracking and tracing the movement of raw materials that are delivered to your business is easier.

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Impact of IoT on Supply Chains

Triskele Logistics

A common example of IoT is smartphones. One of the biggest areas for IoT in supply chains has been tracking and tracing. An example of supply chain assets that are being tracked are containers. Another example is the use of mobile devices to track and assist truck drivers in their daily operations.

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What Is an Agile Supply Chain?

FourKites

Learn more about building agility with real-time transportation visibility. 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.

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A Fully Connected Cold Chain With Burris Logistics

Trinity Logistics

There are many moving parts of the cold chain that can be hard to follow and track. From a Burris asset standpoint, they’re able to track all their trailers with ELD and reefer tracking, with the ability to ping the tractor and trailers to see where each of their assets are in real-time. TRINITY LOGISTICS CAPABILITIES.