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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Logistics Metrics You Didn’t Know You Should Be Watching

Supply Chain Collaborator

Yard management is a crucial piece of any successful logistics management practice with significant implications for efficient supply chain planning. Shippers who automate transportation logistics but fail to include yard operations in the solution design are operating with enormous visibility gaps.

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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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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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Uncovering the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

QAD

Embedded AI solutions from common applications, such as advanced planning, transportation management and warehouse management systems. AI is becoming a proactive element to advanced manufacturing, product lifecycle management and enterprise asset management.

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How Data Drives Corporate Sustainability

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

According to Boston Consulting Group , those asset managers likely to take advantage of data, machine learning, and AI are will more likely thrive in the future. Portfolio managers much more interested in environmental, social and governance issues need better, more detailed and useful data on a company’s true impact.

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Jumpstarting Your Journey Toward Digital Transformation in MRO for Manufacturers

RFgen

In this article, we will explore how maintenance, repair and operations/overhaul (MRO) can benefit from digital transformation, including: Why you should digitize your MRO and enterprise asset management (EAM) practices. EAM: The Challenge of Tracking Assets. Let’s explore why that is: Best-of-Breed Asset Management Software.