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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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Seeing the Bigger Picture: How a Global Trade Network Can Create More Accurate KPIs

Talking Logistics

The question becomes, “how are you comparing your transportation metrics to what’s happening around you?” You need to explore the metric relationships to see the full story. Reviewing the metrics simultaneously helps identify potential cause-and-effect relationships.

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A Guide to Freight Payment Types, Solutions & Why Shippers Use These Services

Intelligent Audit

The implications of reduced cost in just this one area of processing and freight payment management can have a significant impact on profits. But freight payment remains a very complex and often error-prone process. What Are Freight Payment Services. Freight payment service may also be known as freight audit and payment.

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The Top Logistics Blogs of 2016 …So Far

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our first post covered the Top 5 Freight Management blogs of 2016. It was also evident that many folks wanted more information around KPIs and Metrics, as our top 5 included two posts from this sub-category.

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4 Ways to Optimize Your Transportation Network Strategy

Intelligent Audit

Industry 4.0 Of course, that’s possible only if a company can visualize the full movement of freight and know when it makes sense, financially and strategically, to take those steps. Track the Right Performance Metrics. The next key to transportation network optimization rests with performance metrics.

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Research: What Leading Shippers Do to Obtain Better Truckload Rates and Performance

Talking Logistics

They multiplied three commonly-used metrics for measuring truckload performance to identify the Leaders: First tender acceptance (FTA). Next, researchers looked at freight attributes of shippers. Our industry is evolving. They examined full truckload moves that were over 250 miles in the Lower 48 U.S. On time pickup (OTP).

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