Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated – frequently not at all. However, large organizations are often equipped to handle fulfillment in-house, leveraging their extensive resources and capabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

With freight transport accounting for a significant share of global emissions, efforts to improve logistics now extend beyond operational metrics to include resilience, regulatory compliance, and climate performance. CEVA Logistics, a CMA CGM subsidiary, uses Googles AI tools for warehouse management and demand forecasting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. We can run a plan simulation to maximize revenue, maximize shipments, maximize the customer experience, or minimize transportation costs.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the age of e-commerce, maintaining the status quo will result in failure, disgruntled customers and added expenses, but shippers that leverage 3PL resources to apply transportation management best practices for e-commerce , as listed below, can navigate the issues that arise in e-commerce and achieve sustained profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Many large organizations have multiple systems for order, warehouse, or transportation management that are barely integrated frequently not at all. Factors like planning tools, inventory management, demand patterns, and innovations in technology contribute to the success or failure of fulfillment optimization.

Optimal Sourcing 225

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

We trudge on with our top posts from our main blog categories by page view for all of 2014 from the Cerasis blog by featuring another area Cerasis is an expert in: Transportation. These tips include how you yourself can better manage your transportation department and maximize resources. Read the Full Blog Post.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2025

Mike is the Head of Intermodal Solutions at SONAR, the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Mike Baudendistel and Joe Lynch discuss the CPG supply chain.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Being integrated in the Freightos Enterprise solution offering benchmarking capabilities in combination with different procurement events and being able to book transportation perfectly fits the overall Vision we have in SHIPSTA, but also we in Freightos are believing in.

Optimal Sourcing 156

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2020

As the supply chain world continues down its digital transformation path, digital brokers can play an integral role in easing capacity constraints, opening up new lanes, and providing a benchmarking tool for shippers. It is certainly an exciting time for the TMS market.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sarah is a Shipper Sales Manager at DAT , an online marketplace that connects shippers and carriers in the transportation industry. 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.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. What is Freight Benchmarking?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. The transportation team supports 13 production facilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Design and engineering, production operations, maintenance, logistics, supply chain, business systems, customers, products, and organizational structure are subject to innovative change as companies examine and update processes and deploy new tools and technologies.” There are many areas of digital transformation within the supply chain.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Being integrated in the Freightos Enterprise solution offering benchmarking capabilities in combination with different procurement events and being able to book transportation perfectly fits the overall Vision we have in SHIPSTA, but also we in Freightos are believing in.

Optimal Sourcing 250

Optimal Sourcing Procurement Meeting Sourcing Strategies 250

Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While companies implement improvement programs for a variety of reasons, at the core of their decision is the desire to utilize a proven strategy and set of tools to effectively change how they operate and further promote process excellence. – Rates were benchmarked against market rates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 5, 2024

Velostics aims to eliminate manual scheduling, reduce friction in the handoff process, and provide user-friendly tools for better decision-making. The podcast delves into the substantial costs of detention, the benefits of benchmarking and scorecarding, and the potential of generative AI in improving logistics operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. These changes can add significant time to the ETA.

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ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

As the sourcing function evolves, digital procurement technologies have become crucial tools for buyers to capture and report their sustainability achievements. What the tool really gives them is an architecture for collaborative data from multiple sources, including the buyer, the supplier, and other internal and external stakeholders.

Procurement Solutions 130

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 23, 2021

BENCHMARKING your Supply Chain is recognized as one of the Top 3 Management Tools to improve Supply Chain performance. So in this episode, we will talk about the 3 Ways of Effective and Efficient Benchmarking. Benchmarking Success: The What, Why, How of Supply Chain Benchmarking. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Felipe Co-founder and CEO of Loadsmart , where they provide logistics solutions powered by industry experts and next-gen technology that lower costs, increase efficiency, and digitize transportation. Capella’s journey from law/finance to co-founding LoadSmart, leveraging technology in transportation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The proximity to main customers, a more resilient value chain and reduction of transportation costs favor decentralisation of production. until today such carbon accounting is mainly based on annual estimates and not measurements, although the adoption of carbon accounting specific tools is growing fast.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. And a new solution, that applies machine learning to making better ongoing transportation routing and mode decisions, is particularly interesting. A supply chain design modeling solution is more like a toolbox full of many different tools.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Ensure that, somewhere along the way, data diagnostic tools will be used to check for missing and inconsistent data automatically. . Fourth Step: Benchmark KPIs to understand limitations and discover opportunities. Planning platforms can pull data from multiple internal and external data sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 30, 2022

We took a deep dive into KiSoft Analytics , the company’s multi-site BI tool. KNAPP has also normalized KPIs across operation types and allows companies to benchmark their operations across sites and anonymously with the operations of other operating companies.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

Through its partnership with the UN Environmental Programme’s OzonAction team, ASHRAE is offering free tools like sustainability checklists for plant managers and technicians, helping to benchmark plant performance and ensure regulatory alignment. Although initiatives are often led by U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

In a similar vein, a major 3PL that I spoke to last week at Eye for Transport is considering discontinuing the traditional storage of spare parts and initiating a new service to do 3D printing of parts on demand. I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.)

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In this episode, Derrick Muilenburg, Manager of Optimization Services at LeanLogistics , will discuss four key steps to achieving an optimal transportation network — Benchmarking, Network Modeling, Transportation Simulation, and Network Design — and answer frequently asked questions, such as: How often do you perform these steps?

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Structured methodologies, risk assessment tools, and agile frameworks allow companies to improve coordination, enhance decision-making, and ensure they remain adaptable to disruptions. Businesses need to identify vulnerabilities in their networks, from supplier dependencies to transportation delays.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2017

The tools and techniques of Six Sigma put team’s heads together and stimulate innovation. There are numerous tools in place to assist in diagnosing the logistics problems and solutions found. With an application of statistical methods, the causes of errors are reduced or are eliminated. Focus on quality is not a bureaucracy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The more users and the greater the usage, the richer the data set for benchmarking, analysis and, ultimately, insights to help organizations improve their KPIs. Our strategy was to lead with shippers, then onboard their vast networks of carrier, broker and 3PL partners. More users = more data = more potential value. Data integrity.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Benchmark DC Systems to Handle the Volume. Make sure you have tools in your TMS that allows for tracking and gives notifications of the delivery process along the way. Here are 5 tips to prepare any shipper to master the art of holiday logistics. Make your Inventory Omni-Channel.

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Supply Chain Network

AUGUST 6, 2012

According to the latest American Shipper benchmark survey, transportation spending increased in 2012 – according to 75 percent of respondents – remaining unscathed by budget cuts. Shockingly, though, companies are failing to invest in the necessary procurement tools to manage spend and optimize their transportation networks.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 9, 2019

Depending on your industry sector, transportation and logistics costs (as a percentage of sales) may range up to 14% or even higher for companies with an inefficient or outdated logistics set-up. It would be valuable to ask yourself: are all elements of your supply chain measured properly?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead. Most recently, APQC has conducted best practice and benchmarking research on last mile delivery.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 25, 2016

Now they’re looking to go beyond capturing the benefits derived from process automation, and exploring how these powerful tools can unlock efficiencies only dreamed of a mere decade ago. The first phase of successful TMS usage involves using the solution to drive visibility into one’s own transportation processes, network and capabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

CDP is a global non-profit organization whose benchmarks on environmental performance by industry are widely recognized. To support supply chain operations, Saint-Gobain has a Transport Control Tower. To connect these supply chain sites to each other and customers there are 3,900 transportation lanes covering more than 1.7

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