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7 Tips: A Guide to Mastering Procurement

Material Handling and Logistics

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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What is Transportation Management Software?

Trinity Logistics

Transportation Management software offers you a way to view insightful data, gain visibility, and better manage all the moving parts in the shipping process. While a TMS might seem daunting and expensive, it’s become an essential tool for businesses to be successful. Who uses Transportation Management Software? What are the?Benefits

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Holiday Shipping Services & Solutions

Ship Monk

Ensure your brand is positioned to make customers happy with all their purchases, even the last-minute ones. USPS® Holiday Shipping Solutions Did you know USPS is the only shipping carrier permitted to touch every mailbox in the US? This is also the right holiday shipping solution if your ecommerce store sells lighter-weight products.

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Maximize Ecommerce Supplier Relationships

Ship Monk

The fact is, most business owners think of procurement as nothing more than a transactional relationship. Taking a collaborative approach with suppliers can help your business innovate, find better products and solutions, reduce inventory costs, and work around future problems. Was it the last time you placed an order?

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO at Supply Chain Planning Vendor o9 Solutions There are several young supply chain software companies that are unicorns. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions. In January of 2022, Dallas-based o9 Solutions was valued at $2.7 A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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What Do You Mean By Supply Chain Visibility?

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group did a study on the supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) a couple of years ago. ARC considers real-time visibility solutions, like the one from FourKites, one type of SCCN solution. In that study, FourKites 2021 revenues were estimated to be $65 million. The solutions reduce fines.