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The Importance of Freight Bill Audit with Richard Perry

The Logistics of Logistics

Richard Perry and Joe Lynch and discuss the importance of freight bill audit. With extensive expertise in parcel and freight bill auditing, payment, business intelligence, and associated technologies, he offers valuable insights to the supply chain industry.

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Highlights from TPM 2023 with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

Peter is Vice President, Journal of Commerce, the Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain division of S&P Global , a global data, analytics and business intelligence organization serving sectors including maritime, energy, automotive, petrochemical and financial. JOC products include PIERS, the world’s most comprehensive database of U.S.

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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

The final goal was to develop end-to-end visibility based on leveraging data analytics. Mars Wrigley chose Transplace, now UBER Freight, for North America and a partnership with Maersk/E2Open for ocean freight. This led to automated execution surrounding the predicted supply chain problems.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

After months of dire predictions, many in the financial community are lowering the odds of a recession in the next year. Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. Things have changed, for good, and the environment we now work in is one of constant volatility.

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Facilities Are a Critical Part of the Enterprise Supply Chain Tech Stack. It’s Time to Start Managing Them That Way

Logistics Viewpoints

As I’ve touched on before in my columns here, the supply chain industry is increasingly turning to real-time transportation visibility platforms to pinpoint where freight is at any point on its journey. These powerful new systems can track each inbound order not by just the trailer and PO number, but by each individual SKU.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. Using AI and predictive analytics, we make it possible to anticipate and mitigate the impact of disruptions and delays, whether from bad weather, port shutdowns or overloaded distribution centers.

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Real-time Capacity Matching: Making Brokers More Efficient

Talking Logistics

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. is what drove the first wave of demand for real-time freight visibility solutions. Think about the amount of headcount required to make those calls.