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Freight Market Update and Q2 Trucking Outlook

Zipline Logistics

” As shippers struggle to meet deadlines with their customers, more freight is pushed to the spot market resulting in increased spot rates. “The markets with the largest gains this week in OTVI.USA were Laredo, Texas (12.07%) Memphis, Tennessee (5.37%) and Cleveland (5.08%). . and seems to be stable.

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Why Companies Need a Supplier Relationship Management Strategy

GlobalTranz

Because of this, businesses are finding it challenging to forecast demand and therefore they risk escalating inventory costs or stock outs. It is unwise to trust a supplier with more work or a better project, if they have repeatedly failed to meet deadlines in the past.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

a leading manufacturer headquartered near Cleveland, OH. Mar-Bal’s teams can access their DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system anywhere from their mobile phones, tablets, or laptops to see which jobs are running, determine the inventory stock Mar-Bal has on hand, or check on order status and completion progress within seconds.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

There are Five Symptoms of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning Software: Have you diagnosed your problem– and solution–to improved demand planning? The White House announced new actions intended to increase supply after meeting with formula manufacturers and major retailers. Code on the container contains K8, SH, or Z2, and.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

We pulled in all a colleague out of our Cleveland office “Don” (a near retirement manufacturing expert) for some additional perspective. Saying things like “we have had an inventory system since 1972, our ERP system does that – right” Or even we purchased that expensive APS supply chain planning in 1999 that’s the same thing right ?

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Introduction to Razorleaf, Arena’s Custom Integration Partner

Arena Solutions

That company is mainly based out of … if we had a headquarters, we would say Akron, Ohio, or out of Cleveland, Ohio. A lot of the data structures are similar, but we have the flexibility Rodney mentioned of adjusting those as needed to meet your exact business processes.