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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. In both cases, the benchmarking must be paid for.

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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. Today, I am going to share five insights that I have gleaned from our work on Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking. Benchmarking is not Benchmarking. Business Dictionary.com.

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How to Select the Right KPIs for Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

Well, not just for benchmarking, but also for maximum visibility of your supply chain and logistics performance. They will also provide valuable guidance in the use of key performance indicators for performance benchmarking. We talk about cost and service a lot here at Benchmarking Success, and with good reason. I hear you ask.

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Improve Your Response Time to Market Through Effective Benchmarking

Talking Logistics

In other words, if a planner receives multiple spot quotes for a load, the best he or she can do is a comparative analysis between the quotes without a benchmark. Technology vs. Manual Benchmarking Approach. The benchmark itself in this instance could be reflective of two different approaches. This could take a variety of forms.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Navigating Market Uncertainty with Sarah Bertram

The Logistics of Logistics

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. DAT.com is constantly evolving and introducing new features to meet the changing needs of the transportation industry.

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Six Steps to successful Supply Chain Benchmarking

Supply Chain Movement

The need to benchmark supply chain performance runs deep in many companies. For many companies, the search for benchmarking data becomes the end in and of itself, rather than the means to an end. Often, companies go through the trouble of completing a benchmark, only to then let the results collect dust on a bookshelf.