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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

These solutions support information exchanges with a community of trading partners. There is much better access to all sorts of information that can be used to improve supply chain processes then there was even a few years ago. The information exchange is supported by data centers that the company owns and runs.

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Introducing Advanced Shipping Notice in HIMPACT

Herlitz Inventory Management

That’s where advanced shipping notice (ASN) comes in. When a buyer places a PO, it can be sent to their vendor via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDI is an electronic exchange protocol that streamlines communication in distribution and logistics. The ASN feature delivers this information to the buyer.

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Do You See What I See? How to Select a TMS Visibility Platform for Improved Speed, Quality, and Cost

Logistics Viewpoints

Yet, for many operators, orders are still tracked using lagging carrier information gleaned from phone calls, websites, spreadsheets, emails, and other old-school forms of reporting. What is stopping a carrier from “fudging” the information a little to save face? It collects and stores data from a variety of sources.

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The Wisdom of the Crowd (Sourcing) Doesn’t Apply to Commercial Shipping

Supply Chain Collaborator

More than a year ago, the Supply Chain Collaborator blog examined the trend toward crowd sourcing and wondered aloud whether an “Uber for commercial shipping” was imminent. Yet, as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal concludes, we are still nowhere near developing a killer app for crowd sourced commercial shipping.

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RS Integrated Supply Joins Minority Supplier Development UK

Synovos

We stock more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provide a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship over 60,000 parcels a day. For more information, please visit [link].

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply. These exchanges should be created using similar concepts as the Health Information Exchanges.

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8 Freight Shipping Trends Shippers Must Know for 2017

GlobalTranz

It is no longer bound by the traditional constraints of the economy, and Amazon is gearing up to begin expanding to be the best of the global freight shipping providers. As a result, your company needs to think about these freight shipping trends and how you can prepare to respond to them as soon as possible.

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