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How to Procure Full Truckloads in Tight Capacity

GlobalTranz

The use of full truckload shipping is rising in popularity, resulting from its lower cost as compared to less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. Unfortunately, the use of full truckload shipments and expenditures have hit an all-time high, reports Kate Patrick of Supply Chain Dive. Conducting annual procurement exercises.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

But the rapid shift from retail to online purchasing for staples and the surge for protective equipment, as well as unanticipated products like bread makers and home-schooling items, left many retailers flatfooted. For example, hand sanitizer sales spiked 313% during one week in February 2020, according to reports from Nielsen.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

The potential opportunity to convert a significant portion of operating costs from fixed to variable. This begets the need to set the overall strategy for the divestment by way of an exercise, called “capability scoping.” Step 2: Leverage a Transitional Service Agreement Wisely.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

Users can choose a fixed implementation plan or a more consultative approach, and scale up as needed with everything from reporting and analytics, shop floor data capture, HR, payroll and hosting available. On-premise also means having complete ownership of how and where data is stored, and is generally more customisable. .

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

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. and “what is a reasonable range of rates for our company’s typical shipping scenarios?”.

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Is Business ‘Transformation’ a Dirty Word?

QAD

The industry can sell pills, fad diets and short-cut exercise programs, but the bottom line is that most people who know will tell you the simple fact is you can’t outwork a bad diet. And all the way through for my hundreds or even thousands of vendors, and even if I have been doing business with vendors for years, I do the exercise.

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Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement

HICX Solutions

SXM Webinar Series with Art of Procurement. In the first of a three-part Art of Procurement Live Webinar Series ‘Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement’ in partnership with HICX, we focus on how to make the business case for Supplier Experience Management (SXM). .