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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Descartes provides multi-tenant, cloud-based solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages. Infor Nexus.

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Freight Broker Business: Increase Shrinking Margins With Better Analytics

Turvo

Maintaining a freight broker business and helping it stand out from the crowd is more difficult than ever. Unfortunately, that does not always amount to spending money reasonably and maintaining control over freight spend. For those operating a freight broker business, the challenges are greater. Poor scheduling.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist.

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Freight Audit Advisor: How an Expert Amplifies Value in Perpetuity

Intelligent Audit

In freight auditing, freight audit advisors work with freight shippers to ensure that all charges are accurate and to prevent wasting money. Shippers can ensure they are getting the best possible rates from their carriers by working with a freight audit consultant. What Freight Auditing Is and Why It’s Important.

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Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky

TMC

As I explain in my book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, October 2015), companies can improve their disruption detection capabilities in a number of ways. The raw data flows to Walgreens’ Centralized Security Operations Center. Robinson.

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The Top Finance Supply Chain KPIs to Measure for Shippers

Intelligent Audit

Mike Griswold, Vice President Analyst at Gartner , had this to say about the value supply chain KPIs and metrics. Supply chain metrics provide the vehicle to ‘look at the results’ and gauge the effectiveness of an organization’s execution strategy. That applies to inbound and outbound ocean freight as well.

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What Are the Top Logistics Software Companies in Dubai and UAE?

Locus

It connects with capacity-led slot bookings, helping them make full use of assigned fleets. It provides critical metrics on delivery performance like On-Time In-Full (OTIF), First Attempted Delivery Rates (FADR), fuel consumption, time under the roof , and missed deliveries.