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?Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

GlobalTranz

Managing OTR transportation through disruption is a complex process. We’re sharing seven best practices to improve OTR transportation management, enabling shippers to stay competitive in the face of disruption. Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. Across OTR Transportation Modes.

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Navigate Shipping Landscape with Proactive Analytics

Talking Logistics

While we live in an age where same-day delivery and free shipping have become customer expectations, we also live in an age where dimensional weighting and quarterly accessorial increases have become a reality from the carrier. Although very informative in their own right, retrospective analytics cannot undo the past.

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Give Analytics A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. We cannot change things overnight, but there are some steps that we can take through the use of advanced analytics. Invest in analytics to sense and translate demand. While new analytics possibilities exist, business leaders’ understanding of how to use them is limited.

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Give Analytics A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

Containers wait at each ship node for the chassis. We cannot change things overnight, but there are some steps that we can take through the use of advanced analytics. Invest in analytics to sense and translate demand. While new analytics possibilities exist, business leaders’ understanding of how to use them is limited.

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Big Data Analytics to Improve Supply Chain Resilience

GlobalTranz

And, investment statistics reveal an increasing trend for more technology to enable multi-modal shipping and the application of big data analytics to increase scalability, flexibility, and demand-driven management decisions. According to a 2017 survey of supply.read More.

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5 Things to Look for When Vetting Logistics Transportation Services

GlobalTranz

Vetting 3PLs and transportation management services providers is a complex topic and shippers may not know where to begin. To find the right logistics transportation services partner for your unique business needs, shippers should consider these five crucial characteristics. . Focus on Carrier Procurement and Management.

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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Oracle Fursion Cloud Transportation Management offers a solution that allows transportation planners to see estimated emissions – carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter – before a trip is executed. Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. That is more than any other sector.