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Transportation Metrics That Matter Most to Track and Improve Performance

GlobalTranz

Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics. Transportation metrics provide visibility that helps drive operative and competitive advantages.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

We explore the concept of holistic inventory strategies focused on the form and function of inventory. In the process, we learn that only 15-20% of inventories are safety stock and that the current APS frameworks do not enable a holistic analysis of the form and function of inventory. Lack of aligned metrics.

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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. If cost reduction is not the only thing to measuring supply chain performance, that begs the questions: "Maybe we should be measuring other Supply Chain Management activities and what would they be?". Review Inventory turns and Return on Assets.

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Until AI Can Solve this One Simple Task, I Wouldn’t Worry About It

Logistics Viewpoints

However, AI’s inability to solve the very limited problem of ensuring that inventory is located in the right place in a warehouse suggests that planners don’t have to worry too much about job security. For fulfillment to be efficient, a warehouse needs the right inventory located in the right slots in a warehouse.

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From the Barley in the Fields, to the Beer in Our Hands: Carlsberg’s Sustainability Journey

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions are one string in a wider bow that allows for complete capability and capacity to be analyzed, and therefore responded to. How else will they know if their transportation transformations are traveling in the right direction for the next six years, let alone another 175?

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Why Reverse Logistics Systems and Transportation Management Should Be Considered Together

GlobalTranz

Companies that integrate reverse logistics systems into their logistics systems distinguish themselves from competitors in: effective management of inventory availability and cost. meaningful and accurate performance metrics. reverse logistic cycle time control. responsiveness to fluctuating market demands.

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Cloud-Based TMS: 7 Reasons Why Transportation Management Systems Have Their Heads in the Cloud

GlobalTranz

Transportation management systems ( TMSs ) are not a new concept, but where they are hosted now, in the cloud, is still new to the shipping industry. This means managing shipments and inventory can be simplified and taken with you, giving you renewed freedom in operating your business.