Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

If a damaged item is found, the shipper can hold the carrier liable, exercising additional caution or using the information to secure better rates for future service. In logistics, a centralized view of spend and communications leads to less confusion and helps your team focus on what really matters — moving freight faster.

Waste Reduction 52

Waste Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Analytics Software Resource Reduction 52

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. The supply chain planning cannot be effective if implemented by a supply chain function that is focused only on customer service, logistics and distribution.

Supply Chain Planning Software 315

Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Demand Planning Software Optimization Software 315

Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Excessive costs can hide anywhere in your company’s service provision or supply chain functions, including manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and customer service. If you haven’t done a segmentation exercise, that would be a positive first step towards understanding customer profitability.

Negotiating Skills 74

Negotiating Skills Purchasing Skills Cost Reduction Strategies Analysis 74

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

At their best, third party logistics (3PL) companies provide new and innovative ways to improve logistics effectiveness. Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. If Only There Were More Good Tenders.

3PL 40

3PL Modeling Supply Chain Design Scenario Planning 40

Locus Robotics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Once peak season ends, those returns are going to start streaming in as your customers send back unwanted gifts (how could you have known Grandma Sally was going to have hip surgery when you bought her that exercise bike she’d always wanted?) or incorrect orders.

Warehousing 52

Warehousing Optimization Software Price Mitigation Strategies Analytics Software 52

Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

This covers security policies, threat awareness, security training, exercises. By comparison, the US imposes strict security checks at the last point of departure for the US. Goods origination, third-party security, foreign customs are examples. This can mean supply chain data, applications, IT systems, and IT account access.

Supply Chain Design Software 53

Supply Chain Design Software Security Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software 53

DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 8, 2021

Companies must act on the new information to maximize competitive agility; exercise their agilibility and fine-tune this decision-making cycle periodically for continued ongoing improvements. Finally, the decision must be made on the cost since we should start measuring the cost of agility in comparison to the outcome of the decisions made.

Optimal Sourcing 156

Optimal Sourcing Agile and Lean Supply Chain Modeling Supply Chain Planning Software 156

CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 14, 2015

Where do you stand in comparison to your planned budget, the previous year’s results, and the market at large? With regularly scheduled exercises you not only streamline the process for yourself, but also create positive associations for the carriers you work with because they can also plan more strategically.

Price Reduction 34

Price Reduction Optimal Sourcing Procurement Strategy 34

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2022

They explain, “Google, e-commerce, globally integrated supply chains, social networks — all are manifestations of what is possible when the traditional barriers to search, contracting, auditing, restitution, comparison, and connection are removed.” If digitization has any role, it is subordinate, as an operational improvement.”

Supply Chain Network Software 130

Supply Chain Network Software Supply Chain Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Negotiating Skills 130

Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. As was the case last year, the 2012 holiday buying season will be very much about the continued leveraging power of consumers in exercising multi-channel buying preferences and technology-enabled online tools. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Medical Devices.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 24

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Supply Chain Planning Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Software 24

KEPLER Consulting

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Sticking to logistics origins, we could stand our ground on initial Supply Chain Management definition (a system reaching all processes, flows and resources needed to deliver the right product/service at the right place, in the right timing, with the right quality, quantity and cost). A simple mapping exercise reveals how complex SC became.

Supply Chain Design Software 40

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Supply Chain Software 40

GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Editor's Note: This guest contribution the Cerasis blog comes from our friends over at Fronetics an inbound and content marketing company who specializes in marketing for companies with a keen value adding business model for those in the supply chain and logistics industries. technique we referenced in our logistics KPIs series. .

Supply Chain Planning Software 120

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Supply Chain Strategy 120