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The Critical Role of Your Supply Chain

Logistics Business Magazine

Companies must also consider cost implications, accurate demand forecasting, trend analysis, process automation, and logistics considerations. Accurate demand forecasting and trend analysis enable companies to anticipate customer needs, ensuring products are available when and where they’re wanted.

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How Regional Networks Create Trucking Efficiency

GlobalTranz

While large national networks comprise a significant percentage of transportation service providers' shipping options, several challenges present if these are the only OTR freight transportation sources considered, including. Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. current LTL transportation ? Learn More.

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Demand Sensing: 5 Ways it Helps Supply Chains Deal with Uncertainty

Morai Logistics

An article of demand sensing by Supply Chain Brain explains, Demand sensing, as the name implies, is essentially the art and science of picking up on short-term trends immediately, in order to better predict what consumers will want. Inbound and outbound teams have opposing objectives. Whereas the outbound team wants everything sold.

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Supply Chain Intelligence: The Value of AI and Machine Learning to Predict Freight Rates

FreightWaves SONAR

Yes, AI and machine learning build on algorithms to isolate historical trends and derive a likely transportation rate. And the past data trends are obsolete and rapidly becoming more so. AI and machine learning enable predictive everything – the hallmark of real supply chain intelligence. But this is 2020.

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High-frequency data points to ongoing demand surge

FreightWaves SONAR

The national Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) — a measure of the electronic requests for truckload capacity from shipper to carrier — is up nearly 7% versus month-ago levels,” Zach Strickland, FreightWaves’ head of freight market intelligence, reported earlier this month. A late-summer demand spike, however, is altogether unexpected. “The

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5 Tips for Writing a Transportation Management Plan

GlobalTranz

The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018. Describe the Outbound Transportation This description covers the movement of an outbound load from the company premises/warehouse to the customer’s destination. In some circles, it is considered as the traffic and risk management plan. Download White Paper.

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New Tools Help Freight Brokers Find ‘Hidden’ Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

With the Book-It-Now feature, drivers are presented with available BlueGrace loads and pricing to accept and confirm with a single click. A leading indicator, Truckstop.com’s outbound tender rejection index (OTRI), currently stands at 22.48. Commercial Carrier Journal. Aaron Huff, CCJ senior editor. Sep 1, 2021. Just how tight is it?