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Walmart’s Carriers of the Year 2015

The Network Effect

Congratulations to Walmart’s Carriers of the Year for 2015. Walmart selected the carriers based on their “dedication to customer service and a commitment to creating innovative solutions in an evolving, yet extremely important, business.”. Walmart’s Carriers of the Year 2015. Hunt Transport Services.

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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We will then conclude the 5 main categories by featuring the top 10 freight articles of 2015. We list them in order of the tenth most read to the most read.

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Plan for greater success: What experts said at Quintiq World Tour Singapore 2015

DELMIA Quintiq

Suhas Bhise (Head of PPC, Logistics and Sourcing, Arvind Limited): At Arvind, we began looking for a new solution because there was a limitation to how much our existing planning system could meet our requirements. For three years, we’ve been using the Net Promoter Score to measure customer satisfaction. But today I say, “Why wait?”

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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

Gartner research director Jennifer Loveland calls it end-to-end segmentation, where you determine first what your customers want, then create end-to-end models—from sales through sourcing, delivery, and customer service—to serve them. She says that companies typically create 2 to 5 customer segments.

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Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data

Logility

Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. Embracing big data brings the promise of reduced costs, improved customer service, reduced risk and the ability to capture new opportunities. www.forbes.com , 2015.

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Why CPG Demand Forecasting Has Hit a Ceiling

ToolsGroup

The Boston Consulting Group said at the 2015 Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Marketing Institute (GMA/FMI) supply chain conference that 22% of polled respondents said less accurate forecasts were one of their top hurdles to improving service. The Costa and the NHS examples cited above both employ pull-driven supply networks.

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Four Tips on Pitching Supply Chain Initiatives to the C-Suite

ToolsGroup

Lost revenue in a geographical area due to unsatisfactory customer service. Source: Gartner (December 2015). Gartner suggests applying the Minto Method to your opener, where you succinctly state the problem and the initiative as follows; Situation, Complication, Implication, Question, and Answer. For example: Segment.

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