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Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers

The Logistics of Logistics

He is also the Founder and Co-Director of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that works on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. Cassandra Gaines.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

For a more comprehensive explanation of this project you can view the video of the panel. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. This closed loop procurement in turn helps ensure products are made on schedule.

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Bristlecone Flash – May 2020

Bristlecone

Bristlecone has introduced several new fixed-price, fixed-scope offerings for SAP products across supply chain planning, procurement and execution. His insights into the changing trends in supply chain and the digital future are available as a video series, consisting of nine easily consumable videos. Watch Video Series.

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6 Things We've Learned from McDonald's Procurement Management

AFFLINK

In the foodservice industry, there are few better examples of great procurement management than McDonald's. Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries.

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Bristlecone Flash – October 2020

Bristlecone

Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Procurement solutions for contracts and commerce automation. Watch Video. Our client engagements continue to circle the globe and put our industry focus and entire capabilities portfolio on display.

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Real-time Capacity Matching: Making Brokers More Efficient

Talking Logistics

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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Demand Forecasting: The Unfair Competitive Advantage

Logility

Taking the burden of ad hoc SKU-level forecasting off their shoulders would help them focus on improved procurement decisions and meeting vendor minimums more cost-efficiently. Dan Gilmore Video: Supply Chain Digest’s Cool New Product of the Month. Video Mini-Brief: Introduction to Proportional Profile Planning.