Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Movement solves for this by empowering AI agents to clean data, then communicate and act at the operational level, including booking shipments and performing complex reroutes, all while keeping stakeholders informed. This includes resolving issues autonomously, calling carriers, rerouting freight, and executing bookings.

Supply Chain Design Software 99

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2025

To learn more about how our demand planning and forecasting solution can help your company, book your free consultation with ToolsGroup now: Contact us On average, our customers achieve: 99.9%

Forecasting Software 156

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 26, 2025

As Tim Payne, Research Director at Gartner, emphasizes: Responding to the customer can be achieved with cost overruns, excessive inventory and firefighting, but to respond profitably means understanding the sources of volatility and planning for them appropriately. Books your free consultancy with ToolsGroup Contact Us Now

Supply Chain Planning Software 156

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Freightos

JUNE 10, 2025

Source: National Retail Federation Global Port Tracker These projections have volumes in July – the peak of this year’s peak season – 9% lower than last year’s August peak and 4% lower than in April, this year’s strongest month to date.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Procurement, activities such as strategic sourcing, are one of the main processes in the supply chains that can generate a positive impact on companies by giving them a competitive advantage in the market. Strategic sourcing can help supply chain leaders identify potential risk factors and develop procurement mitigation plans.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 20, 2022

Source: Fortune. #3: Source: Fortune. Here’s what you can do: Book that vacation. Find out what employees value as part of their professional development, work/life balance, and benefits, and go from there. 3: Overcome the Staff Shortage by Supporting a Remote Workforce. Expectations like flexible and remote working.

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Freightos

JUNE 6, 2023

It really got tricky when we have over thousands of these in production and we’re starting to book freight and we’re realizing that the budget we had put in for freight is… it’s almost 4 or 5X what we had thought it would be. to 0.85 (Source: ShipBob ). This trend was a while in coming. It was time to adapt.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. Driving the Maersk Shift.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 335

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I just went live this year with a Fortune 25 company, and their factories book against their orders online. The focus is less on integration to transactional data and more on insights and orchestration of decisions across make, source, and deliver with a focus on trade-offs. I am a consultant, and I am meticulous in implementations.

Optimal Sourcing 409

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Freight Waves

JUNE 14, 2025

Chart of the Week: Inbound Ocean TEU Volume Index – USA SONAR : IOTI.USA Import container bookings, as measured by the Import Ocean TEUs Index ( IOTI ), have rebounded sharply after plunging in response to the historic tariffs imposed on Chinese goods in April. China’s share of bookings fell to 30% on May 18, down from 41% on April 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. Let me just state for the record that “Saying that you are going to write a book, is far more exciting than writing one.” Writing the book is helping me to get perspective. I would like to be on vacation with them, but it is not in the cards.

Supply Chain Design Software 298

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. Procurement processes–encumbered by a focus on paperless processing, RFPs/RFQs, and efficient procurement–do not embrace the capabilities and requirements of direct material sourcing. Current State of Visibility.

Supply Chain Planning Software 390

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2022

The emergence of e-commerce for ordering parts has made the experience as easy as buying a book or toaster on Amazon.com, enabling supply chain managers, product designers, engineers and others to carry out the process quickly and on demand.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 1904, a writer researching a new book went undercover for nine months in a Chicago meatpacking plant. In early 1906, an influential politician read the book. The writer and book: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle. These systems have (thankfully) matured since Sinclair’s book shocked Teddy Roosevelt. That’s now forbidden.

Beverage 224

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

Figures 3A and 3B: Performance of L’Oreal Compared to Peer Group Rethinking Metrics In concert with statisticians at Georgia Tech, we have tested correlations between different value metrics (market capitalization, fundamental score, and book to assets) and balance sheet/P&L data for public companies from 1982 to 2023.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process. It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.

Optimal Sourcing 156

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

New customer acquisition drove annual subscription bookings growth of over 30%, with growth across all major regions. Sourcing decision center that empowers users to better conduct scenario analysis and make smarter supplier selection and allocation decisions. Many other innovations spanning the Source-to-Pay process.

Manufacturing Procurement 49

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Freightos

AUGUST 31, 2016

There’s unprecedented volumes of global shipments , growing international trade, more flexible supply chains, and easier sourcing than ever before (Alibaba, anyone?). Two years ago they partnered with ECS Group to offer online freight booking. COMPARE, BOOK AND MANAGE FREIGHT SHIPMENTS ONLINE. And we’re not slowing down.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Sitting waiting for a confirmed booking.) The focus of planning is volume not value, and leaders struggle to change and embrace bi-directional orchestration to capture the price/volume trade-offs between source, make, deliver and plan. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. This is unprecedented time.

Supply Chain Design Software 355

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

For more on this topic, read the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver. Maturity in Analytics.

Supply Chain Planning Software 377

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my research, I find that the lack of alignment has a direct impact to value (operating margin and market price to book value). Advanced planning solutions (APS) do not cross over make, source, and deliver with a common data model in the planning horizons.

Manufacturing Procurement 397

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 26, 2022

Since launching in 2017, Uber Freight has built one of the world’s largest digitally-enabled carrier networks and transformed entrenched practices around pricing and booking freight to reduce inefficiencies and increase opportunities for business growth and industry collaboration. Uber Freight’s blog with latest news/developments.

Freight 246

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2025

Agile Planning and Sourcing : Be ready to quickly adjust demand forecasts, change orders, and find new suppliers. Pivot to New Regions and Suppliers in the Face of Tariff Uncertainty Diversify Sourcing : Diversification is key to managing tariff risks. Use resources, tools, guides, and e-books to stay ahead of disruptions.

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Forward-thinking organizations have transformed the department into an untapped gold mine that creates value for the entire end-to-end manufacturing process—from design and sourcing to production and delivery. Our latest e-book, “ Is Manufacturing Missing Out On Procurement’s Value Add? Here are some key insights from the e-book.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Get a quote upfront and know exactly what you’ll pay before you book. They use fuel-efficient vehicles, offset carbon emissions, and invest in renewable energy sources. Manage your deliveries, get instant quotes, and access real-time support, all from one place.

Shipping 263

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

In these times of global turmoil, there are five (5) important megatrends shaping supply chain innovations in the coming years, namely in e-fulfillment, sourcing, food and agriculture, labour intensive operations, and halal supply chain management. From global to local and regional sourcing. Marco Tieman – CEO, LBB International.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 293

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

When I wrote the book Bricks Matter , I cavalierly penned a chapter on the evolution of supply chain thinking from cost to value. I found this out the hard way when Keith Harrison , contributor to the Forward of the book, asked me to define what I meant by ”value.” What Is Value? It sounds simple, but it is not.

Manufacturing Procurement 345

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

He recently wrote a book titled, “How the World Ran Out of Everything.” I would like for us to move past the conventional view of sourcing strategies and globalization to drive improvements to the supply chain in a variable world. The populist narrative of sourcing globalization is only part of the story. Let me explain.

Waste Reduction 195

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

Supply Chain Planning Software 284

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is clear that complex, manual payment processes are critical sources of costly mistakes and over billing. Modern technology can quickly eliminate mundane, manual processes, and streamline quotations, booking requests, and confirmations and integrate them with the freight billing process. Lack of trust.

Study 246

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. To create a standard electronic booking system for the ocean freight industry.

Supply Chain Planning Software 170

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. If you get serious, I want to write your story in the new book that I am writing. . Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail. The phrase to come (or get) down to brass tacks is sometimes used idiomatically to consider the basic facts of a situation. In the 1990s suppliers had channel power.

Forecasting 353

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. Instead, we found that the companies with the lowest total supply chain cost (a total of source, make and deliver) had average costs in manufacturing and distribution. The publication of a book takes a couple of years. What do you think?

Manufacturing Procurement 318

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Kinaxis

JUNE 12, 2017

Madhav Durbha I recently read this very interesting book, “Be the Business: CIOs in the new era of IT” by Martha Heller. In the book, the author made several very interesting observations about how the role of a Chief Information Officer is changing in the age of cloud computing, personalization of tech, and the rise of shadow IT.

Supply Chain Planning Software 236

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

YardWorks AI includes a new AI Agent, Alan our scheduling automation expert who handles appointment booking like an experienced human operator. Alan works 24/7 across all channels, reducing scheduler workloads and providing a single source of truth.

Supply Chain Design Software 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s good to see these companies recognizing the impact of climate change, and changing their policies, sourcing, and manufacturing practices to reduce emissions. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions.

Resource Reduction 246

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