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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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PLM and QMS Software Vendor Reference Checks: Key Questions You Should Ask

Arena Solutions

A recent Gartner study revealed that 73% of companies that bought an enterprise system regretted their purchase 1. Software vendor reference checks can reveal how well the solution lives up to the vision marketed and sold. Yet, with the right questions, you can figure out whether the solution is the best fit for your business.

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Eliminate the Bullwhip Effect – Communicate with Your Suppliers

QAD

It occurs when unexpected upswings in demand or “demand distortions” are amplified upstream, starting from the consumer, moving to the retailer and distributor and finally to the producer, which may or may not be able to increase production for a demand that may or may not last. Rounding up or down of the quantity of orders and batches.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

However, VF is mitigating this by continuing to diversify their supply footprint, making earlier commitments on raw materials and inventory purchases, leveraging their existing relationships with carriers to secure additional capacity and equipment, ship into more ports, hiring more carriers, and even chartering full-size jetliners when appropriate.

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The Digital Path to Purchase is Difficult to Model

Enterra Insights

The funnel is typically seen as four categories that move from a broadening group of people (cold leads) to a smaller, more targeted and closer to purchase group of people (hot leads).”[1] Such disagreements underscore the fact that the digital path to purchase is hard to model because consumers can jump on or off the path at given point.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead. In the following steps, which start within a few weeks, products on promotion are flagged and fed into the system.

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Brand Loyalty: Does It Matter?

Enterra Insights

They choose the leading product in the market primarily because that is the easiest thing to do. And each time they select it, its advantage increases over that of the products or services they didn’t choose, creating [a] cumulative advantage.” Retaining Loyal Customers. ”[5].