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13 Reasons Why You Need a Global Transportation Management System (TMS)

3rdwave

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. The reality is that most companies do a poor job of managing the global transportation process…if they manage it at all. Let me qualify that statement.

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13 Reasons Why You Need a Global Transportation Management System (TMS)

3rdwave

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. The reality is that most companies do a poor job of managing the global transportation process…if they manage it at all. Let me qualify that statement.

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How to Optimize Global Demand Fulfillment

3rdwave

Global transportation is the nexus through which all related international transportation information flows. Capturing, aggregating, and analyzing all the global supply chain transportation and product/SKU level detail is foundational to having end-to-end supply chain visibility. visibility to performance metrics.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. The global team infrastructure and training is an enabler. Colgate is a strong global player. It is seldom a step change.

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Importer/Exporters vs Freight Forwarders/3PL – Levelling the Playing Field

3rdwave

When we talk about global supply chain visibility we are referring to: . independent performance metrics and analytics for management decision support. With control of the global supply chain information, they have exceptional leverage and “stickiness” with respect to the BCO. Controlling Information levels the Playing Field.

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5 Steps to Optimizing a Shipper’s Transportation Network

Intelligent Audit

Gaining a comprehensive view of your global transportation spend shows where new connections could improve the current transportation and logistics networks. It’s possible to include store capacity and inventory restrictions to best leverage stores as ship-from points. Gain Insights from Data.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

As transportation management solutions automate the processes of procuring carriers, planning truckloads and determining optimal routes, the result is a huge productivity boost. Humans will always be at the heart of the logistics industry, but advanced technology makes their lives easier and their organizations more efficient.