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Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 10, 2022
Many of the best automation solutions do not eliminate headcount. This solution significantly reduced shipping costs by eliminating wasted cardboard and dunnage. These are clear cut benefits.
Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
This article is from Can Buyuk at Solvoyo and examines the benefits of vendor collaboration. Unity brings resilience: A collaborative supply chain lets businesses grow together with vendors, improving the efficiency and visibility of the supply chain.
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Logistics Bureau
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. This operation was proving too costly and too slow, so the company embarked on an initiative to achieve a 10% supply chain cost reduction over a four-year period.
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 20, 2022
In a warehouse, drawn out lead-times can result in manufacturing down-time or missed carrier cut-offs – both of which can be very costly. The post Cool Logistics Vendor: Locanis Offers a Differentiated Path to Warehouse Efficiency appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.
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Our recent supply chain planning survey showed that only 17% of organizations place considerable effort on innovation. For most, firefighting is the norm. But to succeed in today’s business landscape and recover quickly from disruptions, you need to carefully balance operational excellence with innovation for long-term growth. Get insights in this Gartner report to find out where to invest and what you should adopt as standard business practices.
ShipLilly
JUNE 28, 2021
Thankfully some strategies can be used to mitigate the cost. This is a fiscally sound strategy that cuts down on reverse logistics costs for organizations. Businesses can still be grown with a low baseline as long as the cost for returns is reduced.
LandLink
JULY 10, 2019
Retail vendor compliance is becoming increasingly complicated and costly for consumer goods companies and their distributors as they seek to meet the ever-changing demands of retailers. If requirements for electronic notification, delivery time and location, packaging and labeling, and numerous other details are not met perfectly, the vendor can receive a short payment on a shipment invoice, commonly called a chargeback. Chargebacks are a key component in vendor assessments.
Parade
JANUARY 10, 2022
Choosing the right capacity management vendor can be complicated. Here are some questions you can ask potential capacity management vendors to make sure they can help you design a comprehensive strategy that fits your organization’s needs.
Parade
JANUARY 10, 2022
Choosing the right capacity management vendor can be complicated. Here are some questions you can ask potential capacity management vendors to make sure they can help you design a comprehensive strategy that fits your organization’s needs.
Parade
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
We recently published , a blog post about how Parade is different from other capacity management vendors, but then we realized there were even more unique features that Parade offers their customers. Parade’s approach to capacity management is different from the rest in several ways.
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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 21, 2022
Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. In contrast, global SI’s do consulting and implementation across many software vendors, applications, and lines of consulting.
GlobalTranz
JANUARY 21, 2015
As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. You can employ countless number of supply chain service providers who will help realized these cost reductions throughout the entire supply chain. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.
Parade
JANUARY 12, 2022
Our customer success team offers support pre and post go-live, offering up best practices and new strategies to help brokerages meet their goals. In a market awash with logistics tech solutions, here are the things that make Parade special.
Parade
JANUARY 12, 2022
Our customer success team offers support pre and post go-live, offering up best practices and new strategies to help brokerages meet their goals. In a market awash with logistics tech solutions, here are the things that make Parade special.
Speaker: Adam Robinson, Director of Marketing, Cerasis
In this educational webinar, Adam Robinson from Cerasis, a leading North American Transportation Management Solutions Company, will address how automation in the supply chain is allowing companies to empower their employees with a more strategic work flow aiding in overall collaboration with peers across departments, improved business operations, more efficient manufacturing, a healthier corporate culture, and more visibility to data and processes providing the ability to gain actionable insights that lead towards actions that impact the company’s bottom line.
GoShip Blog
JANUARY 21, 2020
Specifically, more retailers are now developing and deploying vendor compliance programs for their suppliers to manage the business on pre-determined conditions. What is a vendor compliance program? Why is vendor compliance important? What is a vendor chargeback?
PLS Logistics
JANUARY 4, 2021
Apart from that, maintaining good relationships with vendors and ensuring on-time, high-performing deliveries can be quite a challenge. To make inbound transportation as efficient as possible and cut off unnecessary costs, you can try several practices for effective vendor management
Logistics Business Magazine
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Matthews Automation Solutions , a leading provider of innovative material handling systems and software, and proven process optimisation expertise, has been identified as a Sample Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution Technologies.
Logistics Bureau
JULY 18, 2022
As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. A company without a supply chain strategy is at a competitive disadvantage. Vendor-managed inventory or replenishment.
GlobalTranz
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
So why do we feature content related to Vendor Managed Inventory? Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. Today’s post is a follow up blog post to the post written a week or so back called “Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.”
GlobalTranz
APRIL 13, 2017
Most shippers have existing vendor compliance programs in place within their vendor inbound logistics guide. Meanwhile, the importance of vendor compliance has grown more than ever as supply chains expand, explains Lisa Terry of Inbound Logistics, and companies look to trim the fat and optimize workflows to gain a competitive advantage. Using Logistics Technology to Execute a Winning Inbound Freight Strategy & Have Compliant Vendors.
Locus
APRIL 1, 2022
It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools.
Conger
DECEMBER 13, 2022
If you're looking for ways to reduce lead times, you’re in the right place. Because in this post, you’ll find 11 effective strategies for doing just that. Identify and Eliminate Bottlenecks. Unreliable vendors can cause your lead times to go up. Reduce costs.
Locus
DECEMBER 21, 2022
We are thrilled to announce that Locus has been identified as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Last-Mile Delivery Technology Solutions. This is our third consecutive year of being listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner® Market Guides. Locus Identified as a Representative Vendor in the 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling and Last-Mile Technologies .
Kanban Logistics
MAY 25, 2022
To avoid these shortcomings, you can work with your suppliers to institute a vendor managed inventory (VMI) model. What is a VMI strategy? With a VMI strategy , a third-party logistics provider (3PL) will store goods that your manufacturing operation will eventually require.
GlobalTranz
APRIL 10, 2017
Shippers often forget about the possible savings through an effective inbound logistics strategy. In addition, managing vendors and inbound logistics can feel like a lot of work for little gain, yet the possible savings by implementing an inbound logistics program can add up through these key ways. Reducing Costs in Shipping with a Focus on Inbound Logistics Strategy. Lowest-Rate Carrier Selection Reduces Your Costs.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 6, 2021
And we’ve seen vessel carriers turning away less profitable business, resulting in the elimination of some ports of call (and a lower willingness to move) less profitable commodities. Logistics Software VendorsEd Ryan, CEO of Descartes.
Logistics Bureau
AUGUST 2, 2021
The price you pay your vendors for their products is a significant factor in your company’s ability to compete in its market. Here, we’re talking about all your vendors. Vendor Availability. The higher the ratio, the lower the vendor’s reliability.
Talking Logistics
MAY 3, 2021
Industry analysts, consultants, and enterprise software vendors have been talking about the importance of digital transformation for many years. Read more Why LSPs Need a Digital Transformation Strategy.
Locus
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been identified as one of the 20 Representative Vendors in the 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling and Last-Mile Technologies.
Logistics Bureau
JULY 19, 2021
Nevertheless, a recent meeting with a software vendor brought home to me how profoundly digital technology, primarily when provided via cloud-hosted SaaS delivery models, influences the focus of business relationships. The Problem with Vendor/Consultant Partnerships.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
JULY 6, 2020
This involves understanding the current environment as well as foreseeing the potential future environments and preparing for them; specifically market changes, selecting and evaluating new vendors, cutting costs without adding risk to the business, […].
GlobalTranz
APRIL 12, 2017
An inbound vendor routing guide is comparable the beating heart of your operation. Creating an effective inbound vendor routing guide is not without its share of challenges. Assess Your Current Inbound Vendor Routing Guide. If you do not have an existing guide, create a list of the challenges and issues that your organization has experienced regarding vendors, such as early/ late shipments, high-cost carrier selection or mislabeling.
AIMMS
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
The dilemma here often is: do I take the path of least resistance and upgrade to my current vendor’s costly new package, or do I risk running my business on a legacy solution a bit longer? Sometimes it seems like you don’t have a real alternative, other than what your current vendor is offering. At the same time, we knew our current software would eventually be phased out by the vendor. We were dependent on the vendor’s consultants to make changes to our model.
Food Logistics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Business intelligence and efficient communication across vendors and internal departments can help facilitate adjustments to reduce margin erosion.
Ship Monk
MAY 5, 2022
There are a few different ways to go about the big move, so it’s a matter of choosing the strategy that keeps your sales and fulfillment operations flowing smoothly throughout the transition. Strategy 2: Sending Inventory to Cover a Transition Period.
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