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The Importance of Sustainability Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

The answer is to invest in sustainability benchmarking tools. Sustainability benchmarking is important for a number of reasons. Ultimately, sustainability benchmarking can help companies to understand whether their initiatives are effective and give guidance on how to make improvements.

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Transforming Freight Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

A public cloud architecture is at the heart of what Emerge is doing from both a procurement and a benchmarking perspective. Scale is Necessary for Freight Benchmarking. Emerge is not the only technology vendor providing freight benchmarking on a lane-by-lane basis. This is called freight under management (FUM) in the industry.

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Benchmarking your Freight Rates for Maximum Supply Chain Efficiency

Logistics Viewpoints

Why are shippers interested in benchmarking and why are we hearing more about it lately? Benchmarking helps ensure they are getting the most out of their supply chain and also provides a platform for further optimization. What is Benchmarking? Currently residing in Mesa, Arizona.

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The What, Why, How of Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

Business benchmarking is recognised as one of the best management tools around. But what exactly is supply chain benchmarking and why is it so important? In business, a benchmark is a measure of performance. How to benchmark? The What, Why, How of Supply Chain Benchmarking. The Origins of Benchmarking.

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Test Your Knowledge of Sales & Operations Execution

Many supply chain professionals have already taken this assessment spanning across multiple industries and 20 countries. Take it now to see how your S&OE process scores and benchmark it against peers. Test Your Knowledge of Sales & Operations Execution. The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now. What is Freight Benchmarking?

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. As a result, in each post, I try to take a new angle and hopefully propel industry thinking forward. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com. Five Insights.

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Just In: Inventory Optimization Research

Download your copy to learn about: Industry benchmarks and trends. For instance, inventory optimization is now a strategic priority for 35% of organizations. A quarter of them are investigating tools and techniques to improve in this area. The technologies in use and the benefits of optimization. New approaches like DDMRP.

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Shipper Centric 3PL Performance Survey

The world's first customer driven 3PL benchmarking index launched to accurately assess and provide feedback on the 3PL industry.

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New Research: The State of Supply Chain Network Design in 2022

Industry benchmarks. This report explores how the state of supply chain network design has changed – including how the tools, maturity models, and market demands are transforming the network design practice. This report is useful if you are interested in: Exploring new network design insights and capabilities.