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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. By crafting a well-defined strategy, businesses can mitigate transportation costs, mitigate supply chain disruptions, and uphold customer satisfaction. At the heart of it all, an effective procurement strategy remains paramount.

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PINC Acquires RailcarRx

PINC

RailcarRx software provides maintenance, repair, fleet and asset management insights that help railroads, railcar owners, repair shops and shippers operate more efficiently, monitor equipment health and improve safety. Customers will be able to turn to PINC to see, automate, and execute more components of their supply chain.

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Life on the Road: How Self-Driving Trucks Could Impact the Future of Ground Transportation

RFgen

With the trucking industry struggling to cope with chronic driver shortages and increasingly strict regulations, is road transportation being “driven” toward a future that doesn’t involve humans? How will we track moving assets like trucks and in-transit inventory without human assistance? Tracking Moving Assets and Inventory.

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Life on the Road: How Self-Driving Trucks Could Impact the Future of Ground Transportation

RFgen

With the trucking industry struggling to cope with chronic driver shortages and increasingly strict regulations, is road transportation being “driven” toward a future that doesn’t involve humans? How will we track moving assets like trucks and in-transit inventory without human assistance? Tracking Moving Assets and Inventory.

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How an ERP can help order fulfilment

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SCOR Processes To measure and monitor the performance of these processes, the SCOR model also has metrics which can be used for supply chain performance — Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost, Profit, and Asset Management, and has recently added metrics for Environmental and Social attributes.

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REPOST: Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares

The Logistics of Logistics

This includes identifying discrete business problems within the temperature-controlled logistics space and developing the requisite applications to enable the safe and efficient storage and transportation of food. Due to customer demand for faster transit times, food inventory must be stored closer to customers. Eric Ristow.

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Reimagining the Food Supply Chain with Eric Ristow and Luis Pajares

The Logistics of Logistics

This includes identifying discrete business problems within the temperature-controlled logistics space and developing the requisite applications to enable the safe and efficient storage and transportation of food. Due to customer demand for faster transit times, food inventory must be stored closer to customers. Eric Ristow.