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The Importance of Sustainability Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint by taking a deeper look at their supply chain, including product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. However, supply chain sustainability can go well beyond these initiatives.

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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?

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Ways Food and Beverage can Build Resilience with Supply Chain Optimization Software

Logility

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning.

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Transforming Freight Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

Most supply chain suppliers have solutions that are very similar to each other. The Emerge solution has attributes of different supply chain software solutions. A public cloud architecture is at the heart of what Emerge is doing from both a procurement and a benchmarking perspective. The Emerge Solution.

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Just In: Inventory Optimization Research

How can new technologies help your team improve? It’s a debate as old as supply chains themselves. This new guide exposes many of these vulnerabilities and sheds light on how supply chain teams are adapting to the "new normal." A quarter of them are investigating tools and techniques to improve in this area.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Missed appointments, dock scheduling mix-ups, crowded yards with insufficient parking, dropped trailers — all have cascading effects up and down the supply chain. Some have automated, gateless check-in; some direct the drivers to check in with the shipping office. The net result? Higher expenses. Dissatisfied customers.

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Customers and Analysts Recognize ToolsGroup as a Supply Chain and Retail Planning Leader

ToolsGroup

It’s why our team and our solutions have earned the recognition of so many industry experts. It’s also why so many of our customers are eager to share their supply chain success – and have even won awards of their own in partnership with ToolsGroup! Thank you to our customers and partners from across the supply chain industry!

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

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. Industry benchmarks. This report is useful if you are interested in: Exploring new network design insights and capabilities.