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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. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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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.

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Seamless Integration for Legacy Retail Transportation Management System (TMS) for Logistics Success

Locus

In the fast-paced world of supply chain management, Transportation Management Systems (TMS) have become an indispensable tool for retailers seeking to optimize their transportation operations. With a simple and secure API, we can integrate Locus’ Order to Delivery solution with your TMS in no time and in a hassle-free way.

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2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It’s about being prepared to weather the storms through resilience, agility, adaptability, efficiency, security, data proficiency, insightfulness, and environmental sustainability – all essential to driving growth and success in the future. The issues of labour and transportation costs, along with capacity, will beleaguer everyone.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The recently released National Retail Security Survey shows that total shrink in 2021 reported by retailers is now almost a $100 billion problem. Robots are everywhere these days.

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Sitting waiting for a confirmed booking.) We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Over the past decade payments to transportation carriers from shippers increased from net 30 to net 60 moving to net 90 in 2019. EDI is slow, expensive and single-directional.

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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. Managing adverse weather conditions is part and parcel of transportation planning. Watching the weather is one option.

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