ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Supply Chain Management In the ever-evolving world of freight and logistics, volatility has become the new normal. Procurement experts face transportation costs, customer demands, and high pressure on global container and air freight rates. But what does that mean for future strategies in procurement ?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Procurement must never be an afterthought in any enterprise. Supply chain professionals must also know how they will be shipping freight. Supply chain professionals must also know how they will be shipping freight. Companies Will Seek New Ways to Use Technology in Procurement. Download white paper.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 25, 2022

It has always been essential to have visibility into freight spending. Freight audit & payment (FAP) providers have long paved the way to gaining this visibility by looking at shipping invoices and breaking down freight spend. What Is Freight or Transportation Spend Management?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In one example, Crust Group in Singapore provides a Southeast Asian example of a cross industry “circular economy” partnership. The circular economy is a cost saver and generally has less carbon emissions, because raw materials are sourced locally and therefore with less transportation. Community organisations can help though.

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision of whether or not to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! In shipping and logistics, building strong relationships with your freight or carrier company is often underestimated. Moreover, finding a reputable freight company that ticks all the boxes of what you’re looking for can often be a considerable challenge.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Whether your company is a big or small player in terms of shipping volumes, and regardless of your chosen transportation modes (road, rail, ocean, air), the health of your bottom line depends in no small part on the competitiveness of your freight prices. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Procurement Academy

AUGUST 17, 2021

For those of us working in the field of supply chain and procurement education, it’s an open secret. But the same is most emphatically not true of supply chain and procurement. carbon freight?carrying And those are just two examples: there are many more—Brexit, Covid?19, And it’s not difficult to see why. Think shipment?level

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. The focus of the transportation suites was on cost mitigation and price negotiation. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 30, 2022

The report was published in the last month, and reflects some of the increasing challenges and disparities that exist between procurement and supply chain executives. One of the problems that often emerges in organizations is not only misalignment between procurement and supply chain, but also between senior executives and their managers.

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision whether to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies. In the U.S.,

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

As companies expand globally through mergers or organic growth, many are faced with the decision of whether or not to combine logistics teams and apply a universal truckload procurement strategy across multiple regions. To obtain the most effective results, best practice requires adaptations to truckload procurement strategies.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s where transportation management systems, or TMS, comes in. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what a transportation management system is, why it’s important, and how you can choose a provider. What is a transportation management system (TMS)? Transportation management systems can perform a variety of functions.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2021

Latin American countries have particular challenges related to truck transport. Identifying key strengths in procurement and management in high-impact countries will support a fast improvement that may boost economic growth in the region. Truck transportation comprises 75% of all freight in Latin America.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Digital Procurement article and permission to publish here provided by Katherine Barrios of xeneta.com. The Hackett Group has recently released their analysis of their procurement benchmarking database. It demonstrates the advantages of working with a digital procurement strategy. Important Digital Procurement Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. They have a complex network of suppliers, internal assets, and transportation and manufacturing partners, many of whom are changing on an ongoing basis. Meanwhile, waste is rampant in the freight industry.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 15, 2020

by Chris Caplice, David Correll, and Ken Cottrill When a shipper and a trucking company contract to transport goods at a given time and rate, there is no guarantee they will meet the agreement’s terms. But they do add costs and reduce the efficiency of freight networks. Is there a better way? A week later, on Nov.

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Turvo

AUGUST 31, 2021

With all the volatility that still lingers in the modern supply chain, the need for high-quality data analysis, solid procurement planning, good profit margins , and streamlined scheduling systems all remain crucial for shipping and transportation providers. Why Poor Visibility in Grocery Procurement Plans Lead to Big Issues.

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Shipchain

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Determining the total cost of transportation is essential to understanding your company’s profitability. Understanding the total cost of transportation means understanding the costs and factors affecting spend in each leg of the supply chain. When it comes down to it, accounting for the total cost of transportation is pretty complex.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Do You Have Hidden Freight Costs? Freight Budget article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Robinson at Freightwaves. Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. Where Freight Managers Go Wrong with the Budget.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Today begins our series about electronic data interchange or EDI in transportation. In this series, we will first talk about how EDI in transportation works and what it is, covering the history of EDI in transportation, the definition, how it works technically, and then some common EDI codes used within the transportation industry.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 27, 2024

Examples include a Calendar for scheduling or Reminders for task management. It encompasses a wide range of features from freight forwarding to brokerage. 3 Precoro Precoro simplifies procurement processes for small to medium-sized businesses. Hence, it offers an accessible and streamlined procurement solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.” The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden. First and last mile shipments are usually by truck.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Autonomous Freight Trucks. It is one reason experts on logistics are following the autonomous freight truck market and new approaches to freight procurement closely. Not all experts on freight logistics are quite so optimistic that we will have fully autonomous trucks on the road by 2024 like TuSimple is claiming.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2017

Fortunately, today’s logistics technology has the power to execute a winning inbound freight strategy and maintain compliance in the following ways. Using Logistics Technology to Execute a Winning Inbound Freight Strategy & Have Compliant Vendors. The Cerasis representative enters the information into the Cerasis Rater.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. Supply chain solutions solve problems not just in transit but throughout the planning and order life cycle — from order processing, to transport planning, to fulfillment, yard, tracking, and post-delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Raw materials are in short supply, many manufacturers have temporarily mothballed production lines, transportation costs are rising, and labor is getting tight on our roadways , railways and ocean vessels. The impact? We will certainly be feeling the repercussions throughout a bumpy holiday shopping season — and beyond.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 8, 2021

Why the Truck Market’s Sharp Turn Caught the Freight Industry by Surprise The MIT FreightLab’s latest industry roundtable explored the drivers behind today’s extremely tight market for truck capacity and the broader implications for supply chains. However, in U.S. However, in U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2020

Do You Have Hidden Freight Costs? Ocean freight article and permission to publish here provided by Katherine Barrios at xeneta.com. Freight forwarders and shippers/BCO s are on a constant quest to have a better understanding of their ocean freight costs and ultimately have larger margins. Email Address. Plan effectively.

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Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2016

How Freight Disrupted Itself. In the last year, a new dynamic has begun to reshape the freight industry. Phil knows his (freight) stuff. In his PhD thesis he developed a product to secure ocean freight rates with financial derivatives. Declining Freight Rates. Suddenly the freight industry is not so opaque.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

When we as individuals are going to and from work, we experience physically, the emitting of greenhouse gasses by our transportation sector. What if technology came into the picture that allowed for far less moving about in fossil fuel burning transport? We can see the exhaust coming out of tailpipes from cars and trucks.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, CEVA Logistics joined the Singapore Changi Airport community in a humanitarian aid project to transport 14,000-kilogram of oxygen concentrators from Los Angeles to Jakarta via Singapore. We want to support and enrich these local communities through what we do best: logistics and transportation services. Acting for Planet.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

One of the often missing links, however, in supply chain visibility, is transportation management. We call this the transportation supply chain. What is the Transportation Supply Chain? This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. This blog examines the “red” times, like the roughly three-month period we have just entered that is historically one of the regular disruptors in the ocean freight market. All of this will cause a tightening of space for ocean freight shipping. Regular disruptors. Golden Week.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! The first distinction to be made is that Logistics management is different from Freight management. Simply put, Logistics management is a much more all encompassing and overarching term with a vast scope which includes Freight management. Examples of Logistics Management.

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