Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

More Resources Home December 28, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

Many organizations have had some form of program in place for many years, with a myriad of agencies certifying vendors for one of many possible types of diversity. The real challenge is that supplier diversity has generally been viewed as competing with other objectives, such as cost reduction or lowering risk.

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Freightos

JANUARY 10, 2024

More Resources Home January 10, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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Shipsy

JANUARY 16, 2020

Shipsy’s rate procurement software comes powered with intelligence around local charges, intelligent reference rates and multiple dashboards around cost saving and vendor participation. Ensure that vendors cannot add charges that are not part of the agreed template. Reduce the Incidents of VIA Charges by Shipsy Execution.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

A specific statement that caught our attention indicated: “ Supply chains continued to recover from the immense pressure experienced through much of the past three-and-one-half years, as average vendor lead times shortened to the greatest extent since May 2009.” The overall average for Q1 increased 2.4 percentage points from that of Q4-2022.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

A distributor or manufacturer’s strength is in making product—its focus is procurement and streamlining production, but without the capability to fulfill orders, it is doomed. Due to an increase in wages and manufacturing costs in China, many 3pl companies are “near shoring” — offering increased services in areas closer to the U.S.

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, let’s say your product is manufactured and packaged in China and is shipped to you in North Carolina for distribution here. You can ship the products back to China to be reconfigured and then shipped back to the U.S. Third-party procurement. Third-party procurement services from a 3PL can help.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

More Resources Home November 21, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Like any strategy or contingency plan, it helps protect your business from unanticipated challenges. Reduce supply chain costs. Logistics planning helps reduce silly or unnecessary expenditures that eat into your profits. Procurement and manufacturing. Why logistics planning is important for ecommerce businesses.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

And the reason that we pointed out that difference is that as we monitor the supply chain technology landscape, there’s a tendency right now for supply chain risk mitigation to be purely focused on the procurement side and on the procurement technology side. Vendor times, shortages, response times, all starting to erode.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program. Kick back, be inspired and happy innovating.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

At the same time, establishing contingency strategies helps their partners maintain viability as business leaders. Worse, new waves of infection in China show manufacturers may not be out of the woods yet. With strategic inventory management, a business can significantly reduce risk of supply chain disruption.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

The result is a lost opportunity to increase utilization and reduce costs, increase on-time deliveries, and streamline warehouse shipping and receiving operations. Freight is literally being left on the loading dock because there’s no room on the truck. Current Approaches to Truck Load Optimization.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

As global supply chains start the long process of recovery, supply chain management is in the spotlight, and new best practices and innovative strategies are emerging as supply chain leaders aim to reduce risk in an uncertain future. China trade war has already put regionalization of manufacturing back on the table.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More Resources Home December 6, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Meanwhile, the US and China generate the largest revenues in the 3PL market by country. 3PL providers can reduce the stress of managing high order volumes by taking care of numerous fulfilment tasks. Cut storage costs. Enquire about shipping times when procuring 3PL providers. Warehousing costs are rising.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More Resources Home November 28, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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American Global Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2023

The delivery of goods is a crucial aspect of this process, and integrating transportation solutions can help you improve your efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. This simplifies procurement, implementation, use, and maintenance. In this post, we’ll dive deeply into integrated transportation solutions.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2023

More Resources Home December 13, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I’ll begin with several high-level trends and factors that will impact supply chain and logistics strategies and operations in the coming year: Free Trade Agreements : “The U.S., I’m not sure either, but unlike my artificially-intelligent friend, I’m willing to put myself out there and make some predictions.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In 2016, we saw this with Unilever’s partnership with technology startup Convoy—an on-demand freight business. Examples include everything from enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions and factory communications to freight forwarders and forecasting and inventory management software. Will more investments be made in U.S.

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