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

Locus

Enter the Request for Proposal (RFP): a strategic tool that goes beyond mere vendor selection. This exercise not only helps internal stakeholders align on project goals and business outcomes but also signals to solution providers exactly what is expected of them. How to resolve this conundrum?

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How To Stay Fit as a Truck Driver

Trinity Logistics

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STATS ADD UP BENEFITS TO EXERCISE TIPS TO ADD EXERCISE INTO YOUR DAY HOW TO STAY FIT AS A TRUCK DRIVER – BEST EXERCISES FOR YOU. Today, we’ll be focusing on exercise. Adding in regular exercise and movement can help you keep your excellent career and health. BENEFITS TO EXERCISE.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

If you’d like to feel more confident that your pricing strategies are serving you as they should, a CTS study will help you either gain the assurance you need or highlight how and where you can improve pricing. View case study Learn more about cost-to-serve benefits. Are You Missing Insight Into Customer Profitability and Value?

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

It was taxing to report above the country level with this tool. This drove us to adopt a better strategic decision-support tool. This was not easy to do with an error-prone tool. We also do a lot of production capacity studies in different countries, but it always took a long time to gather and validate data for each country.

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

According to a study conducted by IBM and National Retail Federation (NRF), the retail and consumer goods industry is designating intelligent automation, also known as artificial intelligence, as the future of supply chain. However, like with all new things, there’s a need to exercise caution. What more is required?

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. Kent Bowen. The path for every product is simple and direct.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use.