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?Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

GlobalTranz

When you track transportation metrics and KPIs like transit time, on-time pickups, and percent of truckload capacity utilized across your carrier partners, you can identify trends and opportunities for streamlined OTR transportation management. Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. Learn More.

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What Is Transportation Optimization and What Does It Have to Do With Managed Transportation

GlobalTranz

That means identifying areas of waste, overlap and large volumes and enabling continuous improvement through the use of transportation metrics to track performance. Download the White Paper: Transportation Optimization: Its Strategic Role in Transportation Management. Learn More.

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Why Strategic Partnerships Enable OTR Freight Management

GlobalTranz

Focusing on the transportation metrics that have the greatest impact on the supply chain can help managers stay attentive to both short-term and long-term goals and needs. . Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. Download the White Paper: Over-the-Road (OTR) Freight Management Trends.

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REPOST: The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. Starting his career in carrier procurement and management within a Fortune 100 logistics company, Lynch has held positions of responsibility in all areas of?third-party?logistics. White Paper – The 5 Best Practices for a Changing Retail Industry. About Andrew Lynch. third-party?logistics.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

I see a preponderance of reports and white papers that have lots of pages but say little. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Use this data as an input to safety stock calculations, procurement decisions, and production planning. Back to John.

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The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

OTIF is a key supply chain metric. Starting his career in carrier procurement and management within a Fortune 100 logistics company, Lynch has held positions of responsibility in all areas of?third-party?logistics. White Paper – The 5 Best Practices for a Changing Retail Industry. About Andrew Lynch. third-party?logistics.

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COP26: climate change as the supply chain’s new imperative

Procurement Academy

This wider focus is known as ESG , environmental, social, and governance, and for procurement and supply chain functions, ESG’s wider focus brings challenges. How should a procurement function regard a supplier with fewer green credentials, but a better performance when it comes to social responsibility? Choices, choices, choices.