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4 Steps to Streamline Global Shipping

QAD

For global manufacturers, managing logistics across various locations, countries and regions, as well as carriers, is no easy task. When you have multiple manufacturing locations across the world, it can feel as though your enterprise is not one organization, but a number of different companies, all using different guidelines.

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How Machine Learning Optimizes the Supply Chain

TransAudit

It simplifies administrative practices, analyzing contracts and documentation to derive the best outcomes from suppliers. Supply chain managers should ensure consistency in data provision across the supply chain and integrate supply chain management software with supplier and manufacturer systems for automatic data collection and processing.

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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

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It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. The Netherlands: The Logistics Hub of Northern Europe The Netherlands stands as a logistics hub for the whole of Europe due to several factors.

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Ten Steps for Retail Businesses to Prepare for the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

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The PEF’s influence extends beyond Europe, as international companies and markets often look to such benchmarks when considering their own environmental strategies. This includes impacts associated with resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, usage, and end-of-life treatment.

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Supplier Relationship Management in a Time of Fragmented Supply Chains

QAD

Unpredictability is undoubtedly the major issue manufacturers face when dealing with fragmented supply chains. As the supply chain breaks, manufacturers must find new suppliers and new transport routes and find them rapidly, so that production doesn’t come to a halt. So, how can manufacturers respond to these challenges?

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Retailers expect to be connected to manufacturers. Manufacturers expect to be connected to suppliers. And all of them expect to be connected to logistics providers transporting goods to and from various supply chain nodes. The Digital Age is all about connectivity and so is the emergence of the digital supply chain.

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How Machine Learning Optimizes the Supply Chain

TransAudit

It simplifies administrative practices, analyzing contracts and documentation to derive the best outcomes from suppliers. Supply chain managers should ensure consistency in data provision across the supply chain and integrate supply chain management software with supplier and manufacturer systems for automatic data collection and processing.