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10 Tips Shippers Can Use to Reduce Costs in LTL Procurement with Better Request for Pricing Bidding

GlobalTranz

As a third-party logistics company focused on over the road transportation management, and having an LTL rating engine and web-based TMS for nearly 20 years (web-based even before Google!), at Cerasis, we know a thing or two about the nuances of LTL procurement. LTL procurement is something we do very well.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Navigating the Supply Chain Management Fault Line

Supply Chain Shaman

Decision support includes all forms of planning: demand, supply, revenue, manufacturing and transportation planning. This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Stalled progress on metrics: 90% of companies find themselves stuck on key supply chain metrics (cost, inventory, growth, ROIC).

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. ” Through this series of reports, we now can see that consumer electronics has pulled ahead of the pack. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards.

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Elevating the Heavy Building Materials Supply Chain (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

When it comes to electronic ordering, real-time order visibility, and the use of mobile apps and technology, Domino’s Pizza is much further up the supply chain maturity curve (see video demonstrating Domino’s Tracker app ). Streamline, automate, and compress Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.

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Supplier Relationship Management: What It Is and How to Improve it?

Unleashed

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a management concept frequently used by procurement and supply chain professionals. This will enable you to shape optimal performance and select the best provider based on company requirements such as professional services, transportation, and shipping capabilities. Cost reductions.

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The Disintermediation of the Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Most definitions of disintermediation characterize it as the elimination of intermediaries, or “ cutting out the middleman “ Further consider that the “Wastes” associated with Lean thinking and principles include transportation, inventory, over production and motion amongst others. Why is this relevant?