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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

In today’s training class, we focused on determining the balanced scorecard. Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. As companies adopt a balanced scorecard, the functional metrics shift to a focus on reliability. ” In Figure 2, I share the difference: Figure 2.

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Shipping Perfection Unlocked: The Insider’s Playbook to Outsmarting Misships and Winning Customer Loyalty

RFgen

Shipping accuracy is an important aspect of any business that relies on delivering products to customers. Your ability to ship accurate orders to the right destination directly impacts profitability. Misships, or incorrectly shipped items, can lead to customer dissatisfaction, increased costs, and damage to your brand.

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Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Generative AI can use models with billions or even trillions of parameters trained on massive datasets (think the size of the internet), enabling it to produce increasingly complex outputs such as speech, text, and videos. It can then generate new content using prompts that resemble the original training data.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. Train teams to model variability and build a planning master data layer to understand layers of variability. (A

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23 Reasons the Ideal TMS is best for LTL Freight Shipping

GlobalTranz

Using less-than-truckload for medium-sized shipments is one of the great innovations in shipping. It produces results at a fraction of the cost of full truckload (FT) or small package shipping. Reduced Training Costs. Training new hires is the highest cost associated with new employees. Contract Negotiation.

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Why Do We Forget to Define Supply Chain Excellence?

Supply Chain Insights

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. Cross-Company Academy is a 7 month online training course, Bootcamp is a 2 day in-person training course.)

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What is Order Processing? How it Works & Key Methods

Unleashed

Once confirmed, the ordered items are picked from your inventory, sorted, packed, and shipped to the customer. Picking and packing : Items are collected from their storage location, packed, and prepared for shipping. Shipping: The order is handed over to a delivery service.