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Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Followed by the benefits to reduce logistics cost of expedites, demurrage and detention (58%), increase cash on hand by improving inventory management (23%) and to optimize carrier performance (19%). Supply chain managers require visibility to track the necessary components from a purchase order for production or to fulfill a customer order.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

Government bailout money might buy well-connected businesses and specific verticals more time to survive, but not necessarily any additional output or leaner operations. jump in container throughput last week, which means cargo is recovering. If there was ever a time to pause and analyze your workflows and operations, now would be it.

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Freight Audit Data: Why an Audit Is Only the Beginning

Intelligent Audit

To do this properly, both parties need all of the details of what was purchased and delivered. This again relates to points 1 and 2, but it’s so important because if the answer is “no,” then one of two things happened: The shipper received some sort of discount for buying multiple things at once.