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Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Whatever your Industry you should be able to make comparisons to competitors, do benchmarking, and even compare yourself on key metrics across industries. Cost and Profit Management. Raw Materials, Buyers, Planners, Product Data Management, Commodity Managers, Freight and Logistics, Distributors, Suppliers, Systems (eg.

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4 KPIs to Measure the Success of Your New Sustainability Strategy

AFFLINK

Once you know your energy usage rates, you can start making comparisons, and find ways that you’re losing money or energy. Less-than-truckload ( LTL ) freight classification is a shipment based on the density of the products shipped. Load Density.

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Freight Payment Best Practices to Enable Cost Control

Intelligent Audit

With ongoing recovery firmly in progress across multiple industries, one of the most significant challenges facing freight forwarders, supply chain managers, and transportation service providers is the issue of payment and freight bill payment service management.

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Why Logistics Service Providers & Shippers Use Freight Data to Gain Market Share

Turvo

This is where freight data recording and analysis can help with the supply chain’s internal adding value. . The Costs of Not Using Freight Data in Managing Logistics. According to Inbound Logistics , “In today’s data-rich world, the logistics industry as a whole is surprisingly behind the times.

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Air Cargo Tech Is Falling Behind. It Doesn’t Have to.

Freightos

JOIN OVER 1,000 TOP FORWARDERS AND CARRIERS AUTOMATING AIR FREIGHT. DISCOVER AIR FREIGHT SOLUTIONS. Get Air Freight Standardized. Get Air Freight Dynamic. Now is the time for dynamic pricing and revenue management. Get Air Freight Connected. Get Air Freight Customer Facing. But not for lack of effort.

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Biden Releases 1M Barrels/Day From Strategic Reserve, Shippers Hope for Results

Intelligent Audit

Critical business decisions such as freight network optimization are possible when carriers have the financial leeway to offer competitive pricing to shippers focused on finding dedicated carriers or other creative solutions. Shipping companies should unify their data by integrating every related source into a central system.

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How Business Intelligence & Analytics Bring Visibility & Mitigate Shipping Surcharges

Intelligent Audit

Additionally, the normalization of data ensures actual, meaningful comparisons between reporting across platforms relying on different standards for coding and reporting of all shipping surcharges and associated expenses. The application of a single source of truth in data management and analytics depends on actionable insights.