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5 Reasons How RFPs Help in Selecting the Right Logistics Technology Platform For Your Enterprise-Level Business

Locus

More and more companies are looking to digitalization of their end-to-end logistics operations for high efficiencies at optimal costs. How to resolve this conundrum? Should the solution optimize dispatch for captive fleet, or allow you to leverage an asset-light model? How important is customization of the solution?

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

For Mars, digitalization has focused on improved customer service, cost reductions, and making their supply chain associates more productive. But how to do this was very ambiguous. Mr. Beery concluded that the best transformation projects would be, one, improved supply chain planning. One of those companies was Aera Technology.

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Using OEE and MOM with older manufacturing equipment

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In the first blog on streamlining manufacturing , we discussed how OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and MOM (Manufacturing Operations Management) can improve manufacturing processes. How to instrument older plant equipment for MOM. Consumer-grade open-source devices with easy-to-use hardware and software.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Forward-thinking supply chain professionals are looking to advanced technologies to streamline processes, improve accuracy, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats.

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Becton Dickinson (BD) has been on a journey to improve visibility into their extended supply chain. Secondly, the visibility solution is used to improve a supply chain’s resilience.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

That will be an essential step to help you understand your current supply chain capabilities and where they may need improvement to meet those customer expectations—and address key trends in supply chain management. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise.

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

247 Customs Broker

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. At first, he didn’t like my honest response: “Jim, you’re using a commodity-oriented procurement process for selecting your carriers and third-party providers. It’s focused on short term gains instead of long term ROI.