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The Most Overlooked DC Performance Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

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.

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Editor’s Choice: Vendor Collaboration: How to Thrive in the Face of Volatility

Logistics Viewpoints

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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5 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

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.

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Cool Logistics Vendor: Locanis Offers a Differentiated Path to Warehouse Efficiency

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020

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.

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4 Key Strategies of a Solid Reverse Logistics Plan

ShipLilly

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.

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Retail Vendor Compliance Planning

LandLink

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.

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10 Questions You Should Be Asking Capacity Management Vendors

Parade

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.

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10 Questions You Should Be Asking Capacity Management Vendors

Parade

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.

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3 Things that Make Parade Unique Amongst Capacity Management Vendors

Parade

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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5 Essential Pieces of a Prospecting Solution

As organizations chase new revenue targets, B2B sales leaders must examine cutting edge prospecting solutions that proactively help reps identify, connect with, and close qualified buyers faster. This eBook aims to help B2B sales leaders better understand the five essential features your prospecting solution must include.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

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.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

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.

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What Makes Parade Different from Other Supply Chain Software Vendors?

Parade

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.

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What Makes Parade Different from Other Supply Chain Software Vendors?

Parade

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.

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How Automation in the Supply Chain Will Make Employees More Strategic & Improve the Overall Supply Chain

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.

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What Is Vendor Compliance Program for Retail?

GoShip Blog

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?

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3 Best Practices For Effective Vendor Management | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

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

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Matthews Automation Solutions named as Gartner Hype Cycle vendor

Logistics Business Magazine

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.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

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.

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The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI

GlobalTranz

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.”

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Using Logistics Technology to Execute a Winning Inbound Freight Strategy & Have Compliant Vendors

GlobalTranz

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.

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Locus Listed as Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools

Locus

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.

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How to Reduce Lead Times: 11 Tips for Manufacturers & Warehouses

Conger

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.

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Locus Identified as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Last-Mile Delivery Technology

Locus

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 .

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Is a VMI strategy right for me?

Kanban Logistics

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.

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Reducing Costs in Shipping with a Focus on Inbound Logistics Strategy

GlobalTranz

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.

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The Best Explanation for the Supply Chain Crisis Yet

Logistics Viewpoints

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.

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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

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.

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Why LSPs Need a Digital Transformation Strategy

Talking Logistics

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.

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Locus Identified as a Representative Vendor in the 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling and Last-Mile Technologies ?

Locus

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.

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Staying Independent in the Age of Enterprise Partnership Culture

Logistics Bureau

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.

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A 4-Step Strategy for Building Procurement Resilience in a VUCA World

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

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, […].

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7 Easy Steps to Create an Inbound Vendor Routing Guide

GlobalTranz

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.

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Dealing with Unsupported Network Design Software? There’s a Silver Lining

AIMMS

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.

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Combat Reduced Shipping Margins Caused by Freight Volatility

Food Logistics

Business intelligence and efficient communication across vendors and internal departments can help facilitate adjustments to reduce margin erosion.

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3 Strategies for Migrating Inventory to a New 3PL

Ship Monk

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.