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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Oracle Fursion Cloud Transportation Management offers a solution that allows transportation planners to see estimated emissions – carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter – before a trip is executed. Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. That is more than any other sector.

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5 Tips to Leverage Digital Tools to Deliver Tangible Sustainability Improvements

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As the sourcing function evolves, digital procurement technologies have become crucial tools for buyers to capture and report their sustainability achievements. What the tool really gives them is an architecture for collaborative data from multiple sources, including the buyer, the supplier, and other internal and external stakeholders.

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Transportation Costs: Best Practices, Tips & Tools Need to Optimize Spend

Intelligent Audit

The transportation costs associated with operating a business within the trucking industry can appear daunting. These are tips and tools to optimize spending, which will effectively boost profitability and secure savings throughout the supply chain. However, there are ways that these businesses can attempt to curb some of these costs.

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Editor’s Choice: Dodge Disruption Using Smarter Transportation Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article is from Open Sky Group and highlights the need for a smarter transportation management system. And, more often than not, it was a modernized, intelligent approach to transportation management that gave them the critical edge. Dodge ball. Mention the game and almost everyone has something to say. Transparency.

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Navigating Market Uncertainty with Sarah Bertram

The Logistics of Logistics

Sarah is a Shipper Sales Manager at DAT , an online marketplace that connects shippers and carriers in the transportation industry. She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools.

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An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport. Transportation accounts for 17 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Unlike in Glasgow, there was no dedicated transport day, nor a transport pavilion in Sharm El-Sheikh.