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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. The Great Capacity Crunch: The Current State, Future Outlook, & How Shippers Can Thrive in Any Capacity Crunch. Conducting annual procurement exercises.

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How to Optimize Material Handling!

Supply Chain Game Changer

But before distribution, there’s transportation, which entails shipping stages and delivery throughout the supply chain. How to Optimize Material Handling Throughout the Supply Chain? Moreover, dangerous products may require you to exercise special safety measures. The post How to Optimize Material Handling!

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Editor’s Choice: Creating Full Truckload Budgets in a Volatile Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article comes from Emerge, and looks at how to create full truckload budgets in a volatile market. From this point forward, we’ll highlight what those factors are and then offer remedies for how to mitigate them. The Underlying Reasons Behind FTL Budget Inaccuracies.

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

But how to do this was very ambiguous. Initially, Mr. Beery found the technology intriguing, but he was not sure how to leverage their solution. For the largest retailers, short shipping results in fines and penalties. “I’ll Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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How to Select a Supply Chain Planning Tool

DynaSys

How to Select a Supply Chain Planning Tool. You’ve just been chewed out by the Head of Accounts because she was forced to ship an order to a major customer two weeks late…and it’s your fault. Here is how to select a supply chain planning tool in 3 steps. You now know how to properly select a supply chain planning tool.

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Turn a Good Demand Forecast into the Optimum Inventory Plan

ToolsGroup

Demand is not what you shipped in the past. Planning becomes a modelling exercise, not a guessing game. By setting a solid foundation, inventory planning becomes a modeling exercise. Download our brief: How to Calculate Inventory and Service Level Improvements from Supply Chain Planning Software.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

This begets the need to set the overall strategy for the divestment by way of an exercise, called “capability scoping.” Made between a buyer and seller, a TSA sees that the ‘mother-ship’ provides support to the divested company over a defined period of time, with services such as accounting, IT, procurement and human resources, among others.

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