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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The logistics industry globally is more competitive, volatile, uncertain and interconnected than ever. Collaborating with the right supply chain technology provider gives stakeholders a crystal-clear picture of the logistics ecosystem. Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems. Data security is crucial.

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5 Tactics for Transforming Your Supply Chain into a Lean, Mean, Green Machine

AFFLINK

This has been an increasingly hot topic in design circles, especially since the 2002 publication of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough. Short-term strategies include fuel standards (such as miles per gallon) while long-term solutions include moving away from fossil-based fuels.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon has been pushing its way into the full-service logistics space for a number of years, bolstering its efforts with last mile delivery vans, ocean vessels, and a fleet of jets known as Prime Air. American Eagle acquired AirTerra, a Seattle-based shipping and logistics startup.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

This can only be achieved by addressing the elimination of the worst practices in the organization, processes, and digital resources of the company. Non-shared requirements with the supplier reducing exposure on future orders. After all, companies need to minimize and monitor the most harmful supply chain management practices.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. As a result we have induced and exaggerated the Bullwhip Effect in the value chain: there is great waste and opportunity for automation of effective value networks.

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Kleinschmidt EDI Services Now Available in Web-Based Tailwind Transportation Management System (TMS) Software

Tailwind

By leveraging Kleinschmidt’s decades of freight transportation and logistics EDI experience , complex onboarding of a new EDI trading partners becomes streamlined and simple. . No time wasted. Open a ccess to an expan sive B2B network. Automat ing paper-based tasks. Using Kleinschmidt EDI in the Tailwind TMS. .