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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. And companies at every stage of the supply chain have inflated their prices as demand exceeds supply.

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Winning strategies to defeat supply chain planning complexity

DELMIA Quintiq

First, you’ll get strategies to critical planning challenges like the ones below: Managing supply chain disruptions. The West Coast port congestion in North America proved to be a game changer for businesses, with preparation being the winning factor. All-access pass to profit-boosting strategies.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

Made between a buyer and seller, a TSA sees that the ‘mother-ship’ provides support to the divested company over a defined period of time, with services such as accounting, IT, procurement and human resources, among others. To learn more on this topic, read “Whitepaper: Divestures and the Threat to Supply Chain Performance.”.

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The Benefits of IoT And Real Time Actionable Data

Gravity Supply Chain

This research confirms that this is regardless of the fact such technology could have a broad and profound impact on the supply chain. end-to-end supply chain performance. Traditional supply chains operate using milestone-based visibility, rather than near to/real time visibility, blind spots are inevitable.

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Why Financial Reengineering Does Not Equal Supply Chain Improvement

Supply Chain Shaman

They are pushing costs back on Mondelez while Dell controls a major part of their channel through their direct ship model. Secondly, I wanted to raise my hand and ask about the decline in inventory turn and ROIC performance as shown in Figure 3. The story was one of financial re-engineering versus supply chain improvement.

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Why Specialized Logistics Providers Prove More Effective Than Generalists for CPG Shippers

Zipline Logistics

Whether shipping produce or scrap metal, generalized providers could secure reliable capacity for an array of companies. The idea that you should call the same provider to ship produce and chemicals simply no longer flies. All successful organizations want to improve supply chain performance while cutting costs.

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Managing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) For Future Growth

IQMS

Digitally enabling a warehouse increases order fulfillment accuracy, speed, and scale while eliminating shipping and receiving handling errors. A recent survey by Zebra Technologies shows just how important accuracy, scalability, and speed are transitioning a WMS to improve overall supply chain performance.