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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. Managing transportation spend.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. Shipping cost or ability to deliver. Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. Managing transportation spend.

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

The result is a lost opportunity to increase utilization and reduce costs, increase on-time deliveries, and streamline warehouse shipping and receiving operations. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. Low transportation capacity utilization results in higher costs per unit shipped.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

from Washington University St. Louis, M.S. For example, a certain product is ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility. This is overall a very complex challenge, and the best way to confront it is with flexibility and better communication within your entire organization. Air Force Institute of Technology and Ph.D.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure. Different material types are then consolidated and shipped to the organisation’s hospitals and other medical facilities. Shipment cross-docking and consolidation.