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Why Digitalizing Sourcing is a Must for Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Bundled offers (if you buy X, Y, and Z from me, I can offer a 10% discount or in case of transportation, grouping of backhaul lanes at a discount along with inbound lanes). Trying to evaluate bids with such complexity is well beyond the realm of manual methods and Excel spreadsheets. These criteria become constraints on the bid.

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Krasdale Foods Inc. Opts for the HIMPACT Inventory Management System to Fortify Existing Purchasing Solutions and Obtain Greater Buying Capabilities

Herlitz Inventory Management

selected HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management as its new purchasing system in February 2023. KFI) will be switching to the HIMPACT purchasing system. The move to HIMPACT comes as KFI was looking to improve its existing purchasing and inventory management applications. Krasdale Foods Inc. Krasdale Foods Inc.

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Time to Get Ahead of the Game: Join Locus at the Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2023

Locus

Taking place in Orlando, Florida from May 8-10, the symposium is the ultimate destination for anyone seeking to stay abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and strategies in the supply chain industry. Because when it comes to end-to-end last-mile excellence, Logistics Runs on Locus. Visit us at Booth #113 Book a Meeting Now!

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

million, aims to work with freight companies by year-end to test trucks without human occupants on highways in states such as Michigan, Nevada or Florida. Two MIT professors, Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah, founded Celect in 2013 based on research they had done around how to model the purchasing choices consumers make.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

Most of the West, Plains, and Texas remain in drought, with abnormally dry conditions across Florida and in portions of the Carolinas. Over 93% of companies use Excel Spreadsheets to develop their plans. This is not about buying software, but rethinking what is possible. Let’s Start With Demand. ” I laughed.

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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

Shoppers who purchased from participating merchants can drop off the items they wish to return – no box or label required– at approximately 2,000 FedEx Office locations ,” according to a Dec. Walmart to Expand Drone Delivery in Arizona, Florida, Texas. 12 statement from FedEx. “ Airfreight Demand Plummets as Shippers Flock to Ocean.

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I am MAD!

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence. We can connect through EDI, but a document has latency and limitations for unstructured data. For access to the report on business networks reference this r eport.