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The Importance of Value-Added Services in Logistics and SCM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

According to Adelante SCM’s recent research , 63 percent of organizations that use value-added services consider it a “very significant” business function. Types of Value-Added Service for Logistics and SCM. Examples of the value-added logistics and supply chain services are: – Packaging. – Sorting.

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Last-Mile Delivery: The Link Between Driver Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction

Talking Logistics

The research, conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by RouteSmart Technologies, is based on a survey of 28 leading parcel/package delivery companies, national postal carriers, retailers, and other companies with last-mile and home delivery.

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Editor’s Choice: 5 Supply Chain Management Success Factors for CPG Companies

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimizing a vast and complex supply chain is a growing challenge for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) firms. At the center of everything is the need to select the right supply chain management (SCM) platform.

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Ever wonder what its like to be a package shipped by FedEx?

Supply Chains Rock

Ever wonder what its like to be a package shipped by FedEx? SCM Blogroll. SCM Lowdown. SCM Operations. SCM Research. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To. Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Dictaphone Parcel from Lauri Warsta on Vimeo. Christopher Sciacca. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

the daily delivery of packages to our homes). FedEx founder and chairman Fred Smith, famously said “Information about the package is as important as the package itself.”. From that perspective some changes have been clearly positive (e.g. fewer commuting miles driven), some largely neutral (e.g.

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Supply Chain Technology Roundup: 3 Ways Augmented Reality Can Transform SCM

Elementum

When a shopper selects an item, the display calculates the most efficient path through the warehouse, guides that person to the package, scans it as "picked" into the Warehouse Management System, and immediately directs the picker to the next closest package. How's that for optimization? Container loading is an entirely hands-on job.

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Supply Chain Technology Roundup: 3 Ways Augmented Reality Can Transform SCM

Elementum

When a shopper selects an item, the display calculates the most efficient path through the warehouse, guides that person to the package, scans it as "picked" into the Warehouse Management System, and immediately directs the picker to the next closest package. How's that for optimization? Container loading is an entirely hands-on job.