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8 Warehouse Optimization Tips from Manufacturing Experts

RFgen

Data-driven forecasting improves purchasing and cuts storage expenses. Consider Third-Party Logistics (3PL) 3PL providers bring specialized expertise, advanced technologies, and economies of scale to streamline logistics operations, reduce costs, and free up internal resources.

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Supply Chain Efficiency: A Deep Dive into the Core Drivers

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Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are simultaneously reducing inventory costs and delivery times.

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

NMFTA says the new “Cybersecurity Cargo Crime Reduction Framework” is an actionable guide for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers and brokers that It outlines key steps parties can take to reduce cargo theft risk. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. Survey existing suppliers, third-party logistics providers and customers.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Emergence of Logistics as Constraint. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP.

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Want a Better Supply Chain? Here Are 4 Reasons to Outsource Your Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

It’s for this reason they outsource this business function to a third party that specializes in this area. increase over 2011, according to Capgemini’s 2014 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study. Excellence ? is what third party logistics is all about. Global 3PL revenues grew to $676.9

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The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI

GlobalTranz

Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. No Purchase Orders were used. The Ford Motor Company led by Henry Ford and The Toyota Manufacturing Company led the way to VMI.