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Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations

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This isn’t to say you should avoid international sources for goods. It also helps put the importance of quality in perspective. After all, the more you know about an item’s origin — and what it takes to get it to your warehouse — the easier it becomes to identify any middlemen that might be artificially elevating the price of goods.

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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

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And if your master plan isn’t streamlined, your flow of value cannot have high quality, consistency, and continuity. Late deliveries, poor part quality, and long lead times can all make critical components unavailable. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common.

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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

ThroughPut

And if your master plan isn’t streamlined, your flow of value cannot have high quality, consistency, and continuity. Late deliveries, poor part quality, and long lead times can all make critical components unavailable. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management.