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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Market inflation sits at 7%–the highest since June 1982.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

This assessment identifies the most important capabilities for which the newly divested company needs to account, which may include functions such as Procurement, Purchasing, Accounting and Supply Chain Operations itself. The post How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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How to Navigate Temperature Controlled Shipping’s Fall Season

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Robinson’s historical shipping trends show that this seasonal demand growth creates a “fall season,” similar to floral, produce, and grilling seasons. Temperature controlled shipping has four “seasons” based on demand. Typically, the broader shipping marketplace talks about seasonality in terms of produce season and non-produce season.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

That''s why we ask our experts a very simple question " How to improve the operational efficiency in global supply chain? ". Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Here’s Why Supply Chain Convergence is the Future of Ecommerce

ShipBob

For instance, a business that doesn’t use supply chain convergence might manually keep track of its inventory, use a third-party platform to source its product, use another platform for shipping, etc. The need for more SKUs increases complexities in sourcing, procurement, inventory management, package tracking — the list goes on. (De)centralized

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The 3 Biggest Problems Your Logistics Teams Will Face in Q4 and How to Solve Them with On-Demand Warehousing

FLEXE

Roger’s biggest pain point is managing increasing shipping costs for both direct-to-consumer and bulk fulfillment to retail stores, and knows he’s going to hit capacity in Q4 with the impending demand. Using a marketplace solution, you can find warehouse partners around North America that have the excess capacity you need.