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The American Red Cross: A New SCRC Partner Company Engages the Influence Model!

Supply Chain View from the Field

I had the opportunity to visit with the American Red Cross in Charlotte, NC yesterday, and held a negotiation workshop with the supply chain directors and managers. This was at the request of my good friend, Tom Nash, who I have known since 2000, when he was an IT Sourcing executive at Shell Oil in Houston.

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How Data Drives Supplier Experience, Digitization and Transformation

HICX Solutions

Sourcing optimization: Best-of-Breed is a popular solution for contract management Payment networks: Large corporations will probably be using different payment networks across countries and continents. Ideally, master data should be centrally governed and further distributed where necessary, while allowing it to remain consistent.

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How Data Drives Supplier Experience, Digitization and Transformation

HICX Solutions

Sourcing optimization: Best-of-Breed is a popular solution for contract management Payment networks: Large corporations will probably be using different payment networks across countries and continents. Ideally, master data should be centrally governed and further distributed where necessary, while allowing it to remain consistent.

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How rate transparency grows SMBs: Introducing the FBA Index

Freightos

Of course, COVID-19 has accelerated this trend, with more consumers working from home and ordering online, while it’s also become easier for sellers to source on Alibaba, import, and then sell on Shopify or Amazon.com. In other words, while demand and sourcing was able to keep up, last-mile distribution became a key bottleneck for SMBs.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

According to the press release: Transplace leverages the CombineNet ASAP® advanced e-sourcing technology as part of its expert solutions, helping customers develop and optimize their carrier strategy for procurement events involving truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), and intermodal needs.

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Low unemployment is great for everyone, right? (Not so much in logistics…)

NC State SCRC

As we’ve noted in previous posts, contingent workers are the folks who come in to work in warehouses, on trucks, and distribution centers, and who keep the packages coming in from all of those Amazon orders you place online. And they are becoming harder and harder to find. Should we be paying them higher?