FreightWaves SONAR
MAY 14, 2024
From a shipper’s perspective, transportation is a cost center, and the exercise of sourcing trucking capacity is not much different than that of procuring raw materials for production. Carrier networks tend to be relatively congruent with national trends. The reverse trip is the exact opposite, and the rates are much lower.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
AUGUST 2, 2023
Challenge Three: Nurture procurement and supplier relationships ERP analytics ensures adherence to ethical standards and compliance with industry regulations, fostering transparency and accountability. Manufacturers can exercise better control over the return and exchange of items bought from suppliers, ensuring smooth operations.
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Freightos
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 4, 2022
Improved ability to predict and manage trends: After you’ve spent a while working with freight benchmarks, you’ll get a feel for the directions of seasonal rate fluctuations and other pricing trends. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. What Are Your Freight Benchmarking Options?
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 30, 2020
Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards. This once-popular strategy flies in the face of the modern trend of striving for lean production processes, but those companies which were carrying buffer inventory are weathering the Coronavirus storm better than most.
Logistics in War
AUGUST 22, 2018
The closure of American and partner overseas military bases in the wake of the Cold War, the subsequent expansion of expeditionary forces and long-distance strike capabilities in many militaries, and startling tactical successes by these forces since the 1991 Gulf War reflect this trend.
247 Customs Broker
JANUARY 24, 2019
He is an internationally recognized thought leader and author on trends and issues across supply chain management. You have operations here and procurement over there and sales right here, for example. Sherman: While digitization is a technical exercise, digitalization is a business exercise.
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