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5 Things to Look for When Vetting Logistics Transportation Services

GlobalTranz

Vetting 3PLs and transportation management services providers is a complex topic and shippers may not know where to begin. To find the right logistics transportation services partner for your unique business needs, shippers should consider these five crucial characteristics. . Focus on Carrier Procurement and Management.

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Transportation Strategies for Continued Success

Logistics Viewpoints

The three traditional methods are the use of a transportation management system (TMS), transportation execution system (TES), and managed transportation services (MTS). A TMS offers optimization capabilities across multiple modes to improve service levels and reduce freight spend. Turn to Machine Learning.

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5 Steps to Optimizing a Shipper’s Transportation Network

Intelligent Audit

On the transportation end of supply chains, shippers adapt to the transportation needs at any given time to ensure this part of the supply chain continues as well as possible. This is why transportation network optimization is important. What Is Transportation Network Optimization?

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s zoom to the bottom line: the results are less than optimal for all the monies spent and practices deployed. Likewise, when he speaks about the supply chain, his partner, Yossi, his mental model is logistics. Most supply chain models are “ship from” models based on orders. The trend is clear.

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Revolutionizing Supply Chain Planning: The Power of Generative AI

Logility

Generative AI is a Large Language Model (LLM), a type of AI that can create new content. By employing deep learning techniques, generative AI models can recognize patterns and correlations that may elude traditional forecasting methods. This leads to optimized inventory levels, reduced stockouts, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

But for that to occur, all of the dominos must fall into place: the product must be available to promise, there needs to be enough shipping capacity, and there needs to be an understanding of how inventory will be moved between mills and distribution centers. Seeing the layers of knowledge modeled in a knowledge graph is more powerful.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Improve visibility across the networks that operate in self-serving business models. For example, change the business models so that Ariba must interoperate with GT Nexus, E2Open with Elemica, MPO (Kinaxis) with Nulogy, etc.