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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

Materials, machinery, and other physical goods are all delivered through freight services, whether it is in-house or through third-party logistics. This way, tracking and tracing the movement of raw materials that are delivered to your business is easier. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes.

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What Is an Agile Supply Chain?

FourKites

Emphasizing agile and lean logistics management will allow you to outperform slower competitors through the ability to make informed decisions on the fly, rather than relying on gut instinct or incomplete information. Logistics managers today must contend with a growing number of unforeseen factors and disruptions.

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

CLX Logistics

By Cosmas Hoefnagels for Talking Logistics. The most common goals of supply chain visibility include the following, but as your company completes this exercise, be sure to include quantifiable metrics: Reduce business and supply chain risk. Track, Trace and Collect Data from Key Partners.

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Data standardization and its benefits – Executive Insights with Thomas Bagge, CEO of DCSA

Shipping and Freight Resource

Executive Insights is a series by Shipping and Freight Resource that provides useful insights and thoughtful analysis on what is happening in the maritime, shipping, freight, logistics, supply chain and trade industries. Executive Insights is your chance to pick the brains of industry veterans, leaders, and enablers.

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Intelligent Logistics or Just Good Old Common Sense?

Blog on Log

What does the word ‘Intelligent’ suggest when used in conjunction with Logistics? It connotes “smart,” foresight-driven, sensory, responsive, and adaptive Logistics. How can one equip Logistics to have foresight, be able to sense changes, respond to those changes and be adaptive to changes in the environment?

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How Freight & Transportation Data Can Trim Your Transportation Spend

GlobalTranz

When you want to drive down your logistics and transportation spend, the very first thing that you need is freight and transportation data. These strategies establish quick wins, driving tangible and short-term savings that enable shippers to capture value in three to six months. Without hard data, you can’t take action.

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