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It is about time that we leveraged supply chain analytics

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Ability to do root-cause analysis is limited and decision-making requires coordination across multiple functions and data-sources. Eventually, quality of demand forecast gets improved, change requirements and corresponding setup costs are reduced. 2) Lack of access to real time data.

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Saving Supply Chain Planners from Chaotic Spreadsheets

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Ability to do root-cause analysis is limited and decision-making requires coordination across multiple functions and data-sources. Eventually, quality of demand forecast gets improved, change requirements and corresponding setup costs are reduced. 2) Lack of access to real time data.

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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.