TMC

JULY 6, 2017

It’s like the universe went through a list of common supply chain challenges and thought, “Let’s see what happens if they all take place at the same time.” Raw material shortages lead to delays in production, which decreases your lead time and makes your freight more critical than usual. The post Supply Chain Disruptions?

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

It’s like the universe went through a list of common supply chain challenges and thought, “Let’s see what happens if they all take place at the same time.” Raw material shortages lead to delays in production, which decreases your lead time and makes your freight more critical than usual. The post Supply Chain Disruptions?

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 3, 2014

New benchmarks for excellence. Now the differentiators are more strategic: benchmarking, innovation, and network modeling, for example. Companies are almost forced to use supply chain as a competitive advantage, and that puts pressure on us to understand their business strategy.”. Here are some highlights from his talk.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 30, 2022

Benchmark Diesel Price Continues to Fall, Despite Rising Futures. In a welcome sign for shippers , the benchmark diesel price has fallen by 90 cents after its 8th straight drop, despite strong diesel futures predicting otherwise. food price index to rise more than 14% higher than its average between 2014 and 2016.” per gallon.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 10, 2018

Due to the restrictions placed upon carriers by ELDs, the farthest freight from the ramp is being scrutinized in the drayage community, and these carriers are exercising choice when it comes to longer haul lengths. Additionally, carrier preference has swung toward local freight (i.e. Protzman Award for Sales Excellence in 2014.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Chainalytics Introduces FMIQ Monthly Benchmarking Index. December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). With more than 30 cargo ships anchored offshore, countless supply chains scrambling, and the prospect of a $2 billion per day hit on the U.S. million, respectively, for the full year 2014.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

This is the first post in an ongoing series on effective KPI management from third party logistics consultant, Chuck Intrieri, of The Lean Supply Chain. . The Transportation Management System (TMS) of the 3PL can gain rewards for both parties as well through freight optimization. What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 25, 2018

When securing transportation, you’d do best to align your favorable freight attributes with carrier goals. Ecommerce influences freight flow patterns and efficiency. Following hours of service more closely may pull capacity hours for freight transport out of the market. It appears this trend of hyper-efficiency will continue.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2015

However, the diversity of the supply chain, and the importance of timely shipping and customer service, presents a unique challenge at best through several festive celebrations all year long. Benchmark DC Systems to Handle the Volume. Be it Christmas, the New Year and New Orders, a new budget, Thanksgiving returns , etc.,

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. Left unchecked, Chinese suppliers-like domestic suppliers-may ignore quality.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

We trudge on with our top posts from our main blog categories by page view for all of 2014 from the Cerasis blog by featuring another area Cerasis is an expert in: Transportation. Top 16 Most Popular Transportation Blog Posts of 2014. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. But as I review the list, compare it to prior years, and consider the scoring methodology I do wonder whether the list in its current form continues to be relevant for identifying the best of the Supply Chain. The 2018 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain List.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

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.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

With this varied inventory, plus a large direct sales force in more than 170 countries and an unpredictable sales cycle, effective supply chain management is critical for continued growth. Using a Service Level Agreement with effective, realistic Supply Chain & Logistics KPIs helped considerably.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Gartner recently announced their Top 25 Supply Chains List. But as I review the list, compare it to prior years, and consider the scoring methodology I do wonder whether the list in its current form continues to be relevant for identifying the best of the Supply Chain.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 29, 2019

often suffer from all kinds of severe weather during the first quarter, impacting freight movements. If freight needs protection from freezing, the shipper may need to change routing instructions. During the "snowpocalypse" winter of 2014, a series of snowstorms extended across two-thirds of the continental U.S.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that to manage logistics you have to manage relationships with people in the supply chain, and I also learned that there is an informal network of relationships that had to be managed in the supply chain… this was in 2002. We moved to 425 analysts in 2014. And it is working great!

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