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Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison

MIT Supply Chain

Latin American countries have particular challenges related to truck transport. Truck transportation comprises 75% of all freight in Latin America. So for a company to be competitive in the region, it’s imperative that they know how to effectively navigate countries’ transportation markets.

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The Importance of Sustainability Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

The customizable dashboards and reports show the total estimated emissions from FourKites-tracked freight, and enable a deep dive into emissions by mode, changes over time, and comparison to industry benchmarks. This information can be used to make decisions on modes of transportation.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Understanding their distinction can help you ensure the coordination between the responsible teams and adopt the right strategies for improving both sourcing and procurement. Procurement. Contains fewer steps.

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How Regional Networks Create Trucking Efficiency

GlobalTranz

Creating trucking efficiency through transportation management optimization is an essential part of supply chain management and network navigation. Easier comparison of rates, timeliness, availability, and services. within the transportation network. current LTL transportation ?rates Better optimization of?

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Side-step Oxymorons to Make Progress in Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Definitions: Oxymoron: The combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness) Juxtaposition: The act of placing words or concepts close together or side by side, for comparison or contrast. Current planning taxonomies do not plan across make, source, and deliver answers bi-directionally. I don’t think so.

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4 Ways to Optimize Your Transportation Network Strategy

Intelligent Audit

Transportation network optim ization is a leading goal for supply chains around the globe. technologies are creating new opportunities to digitalize the value chain and create sources of insight and opportunities to optimize networks in real-time.” The next key to transportation network optimization rests with performance metrics.

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3 Requirements for Meaningful & Useful Data in Transportation & Business

GlobalTranz

As data in transportation becomes more abundant and readily available, the question of “ What data is available ?” It is important to know who is providing the source data used to develop your KPIs. In order to be truly accurate long term, the source data should be available for you or your provider to directly scrutinize.