Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This popular metric helps buying and finance teams justify capital outlays as they bring on new products and services. The mission of our firm is to help companies implement transportation technology so that their teams work strategically and make better decisions every day. Part 5 - Strategic Transportation Tech Stack.

Cost Reduction Strategies 40

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2013

performance metrics to influence vendor behavior and impact sourcing choices. As performance reporting metrics capture vendor performance, the company can substantiate penalties for noncompliance and poor performance, recognize or reward high performers, and incent positive results and consistent behavior. Sourcing uses P.O.

Pricing Training 142

Pricing Training Purchasing Skills Purchasing Training Negotiating Skills 142

QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Supply chain analytics allows leadership to target these challenges and mitigate the risks – that include poor forecasting, increasing trade regulations, material shortages, rising shipping costs and more – and craft data-based solutions. What is Supply Chain Analytics Software?

Prescriptive Analytics Software 52

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager. Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. Mexico trade.

Optimal Sourcing 100

Optimal Sourcing Logistics Network Optimization Software Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Design Software 100

Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

million in FY 2012 to $203.8 getting buy-in from drivers and other stakeholders) and implementing appropriate metrics to measure and drive performance.). In five years, the company’s revenues have grown from $114.0 million in FY 2017 (net income has grown from $12.0 million to $23.8 million over the same time period).

Supply Chain Planning Software 113

Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Network Software 113

CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 13, 2016

Editor’s note: This post originally ran in 2012. But when you have dimensional information on each product that you ship, along with its packaging, you can build better pallets. Transportation accessorials can represent another type of gap in your total landed cost calculation. What you really want are meaningful metrics.

Cost Reduction Strategies 34

Cost Reduction Strategies Expense Reduction Price Reduction Supply Chain Software 34

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

In 2012 I built on these concepts to define the market-driven value network. The use of customer segmentation strategies to define order policies for lead times, discounts, allocation, and shipping priorities. Market-Driven Processes. The definition: an adaptive network focused on a well-defined value-based outcomes. Order Policy.

Material Savings 181

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton.

Material Savings 207

Material Savings Purchasing Skills Supply Chain Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement 207

Lucas

JULY 11, 2018

Part of this optimization and warehouse execution challenge is to balance an array of operational metrics, not just to reduce the total number of labor hours worked. have been increasing steadily since 2012, with some estimates putting job growth as high as 46% over the past five years. Warehouse and DC jobs in the U.S.

DC 28

DC Warehousing Optimization Software Predictive Analytics Software 28

Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

We spoke to many sustainability and business domain experts who have wide expertise working within asset intensive organizations like Power Generation, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications and Transportation. Posted by Praveen Kumar Agrawal on June 29, 2012 7:13 AM | Permalink. Posted by: Rohit Choubey | July 5, 2012 4:12 PM.

Supply Chain Planning Software 22

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

The ships now have to reduce their Sulphur emission by over 80% – 85% by switching to Lower Sulphur Fuel. This regulation will see the largest reduction in the Sulphur content of the transportation fuel under taken at any time in the history. Ships and carriers use heavy fuel oil that contains Sulphur.

Cost Reduction Strategies 67

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you look back ten years ago, being a good supply chain manager was about understanding the operations, understanding your metrics, keeping a tight grip on the costs—it’s a lot more than that now. It’s a lot more forward focused than our traditional view, in which we’re steering the ship by looking over our shoulder at the wake.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Strategies Sourcing 52

NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Long Beach shipping expanded 29% during the same period, such that the two ports now account for 37% of the US market since the pandemic, more than double the share of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the closest competitor. The LA port productivity is lagging because of the lack of integration between land and sea transportation.

Los Angeles 52

Los Angeles Long Beach Demand Planning Software New Jersey 52

6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

To survive the increasing customer demands you need shorter lead times and faster shipping and delivery times. It will also track your goods right from the moment an order is received, its journey through the supply chain until it leaves the warehouse for shipping. Make it specific, not general; practical, not conceptual.

Sourcing Strategies 88

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