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5 Ways to Reduce Fleet Management Costs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Operational considerations come into play as well, such as how much cargo a vehicle can hold and whether a given option is best suited for short or long distance travel. For those requiring ample space in their fleet vehicles, cargo vans have become immensely popular. Fleet Management Costs in Conclusion.

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The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It serves as the compass guiding shippers toward efficient, economical, and dependable cargo transport. At the heart of it all, an effective procurement strategy remains paramount. By crafting a well-defined strategy, businesses can mitigate transportation costs, mitigate supply chain disruptions, and uphold customer satisfaction.

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Beyond Asset Tracking: RFID For An Accelerated Supply Chain

The Logistics of Logistics

Today’s supply chain and logistics management executives are tasked with managing multiple supply chain configurations, maximizing flexibility and incorporating complex technology systems into the mix. Shining a light in the world of visibility, asset management and inventory tracking, is that of radio frequency identification (RFID).

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The Industrial Side of the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

Embedded vehicle sensors can provide GPS locations, cargo volumes, downtimes, delivery times, and package locations. The CIO Review staff also notes, “Companies can integrate logistics data with warehouse data to make efficient logistics management.” Asset management.

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Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Some major carriers announced plans to equip dry containers with tracking sensors that could provide large amounts of data that can affect shipper visibility, carriers dynamic pricing and more effective asset management.

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Necessary Steps for Smarter Logistics Planning Optimization. Increase Efficiency and Profits

GlobalTranz

In addition to direct analysis of the quality and effectiveness, such systems also contribute to increasing the efficiency of operations, support management efforts aimed at compliance with service standards, fulfilment of profit, work logistics plans and asset management.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

jump in container throughput last week, which means cargo is recovering. If you institutionalized their knowledge and learned how to make sense of your disparate data systems, then people will be one of your most important knowledge-based assets managing through the crisis, and scaling up on the other side be be secondhand.