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

Supply Chain Game Changer

Finding out if your provider offers these next-level services are critical because they can make a significant difference in your overall logistics process. According to Adelante SCM’s recent research , 63 percent of organizations that use value-added services consider it a “very significant” business function.

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Logistics Service Providers (LSP): 3PL vs 4PL vs 5PL

SCMDOJO

Accordingly, if organizations want to succeed and grow in the long-term, they need to cooperate, organize, and manage their logistics very wisely and mitigate its problems and risks simultaneously. LSPs generally endow tremendous inventory management and warehousing solutions, conveyance of orders and international logistics.

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What is Supply Chain Management? How to Recognize and Approach SCM Risks

ShipBob

How a 3PL can help reduce supply chain risks Reducing supply chain management risk is a challenging process, which is why it’s not uncommon for ecommerce businesses to partner with a reliable third-party logistics (3PL) provider. 2-day shipping Long transit times can result in customer disappointment.

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National Logistics Day™ 2022

Enterra Insights

” Supply Chain Management and Logistics. One of the persistent questions asked in the supply chain sector is what is the difference between supply chain management (SCM) and logistics? ” Journalist David Widdifield agrees that logistics is subset of supply chain management. alone accounts for over 5.5

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Warehouse Cost Reductions: 3 Understandings Driven By Inventory Management & Lean Principles

GlobalTranz

This is the second part of my series on various ways to reduce overall costs as it relates to logistics and warehouse cost reductions. In the first part I put forth 6 areas of focus in order to reduce logistics costs. Today, I will now address how a focus on inventory will allow for warehouse cost reductions as well.

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The Blurred Lines Between Retail and DTC with Guy Courtin

The Logistics of Logistics

In addition, he has been an industry analyst covering the supply chain and retail spaces for SCM World and Constellation Research. He has held senior leadership roles at Infor, Progress Software, and i2 Technologies.

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Elastic Logistics is a more flexible approach to meet the client’s needs

Procurement Academy

The Elastic Logistics approach has become an appropriate response recently when Supply Chain Management (SCM) found the challenges of persistently tracking an enormous variety of items and suppliers and the need to fulfill ever-growing client’s personalized demands and expectations. Benefits of Elastic Logistics and warehousing.