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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing.

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Yet in most companies, such plans seldom take into account transportation capacity or availability. Companies may have very capable transportation management systems (TMS), but these are used for execution, after purchase orders have already been placed and shipments planned, rather than during the planning stage, when key decisions are made.

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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. Michael Gravier @Michael_Gravier Michael Gravier is an Associate Professor, Marketing with a B.A. 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.