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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. Managing transportation spend.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. Managing transportation spend.

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

The result is a lost opportunity to increase utilization and reduce costs, increase on-time deliveries, and streamline warehouse shipping and receiving operations. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. Low transportation capacity utilization results in higher costs per unit shipped. hours a day driving.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

from Washington University St. Louis, M.S. After 12 years as an Air Force logistics officer, Michael got his PhD in a top 5 logistics program, and now teaches supply chain management and marketing. For example, a certain product is ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility. University of North Texas.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

On the one side there is the medical aspect, which calls for various specialised logistics approaches , and on the other, the hotel/catering aspect. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure.