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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

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As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

Supply Chain Collaborator

Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. Here’s 3 ways a TMS platform including the latest supply chain management solutions are precisely what shippers need to accomplish this goal. The pace of cost increases is unsustainable.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

Most respondents reported already having TMS tech deployed and presumably, they’ve already captured the low-hanging fruit of savings and efficiency gains that come with automating formerly manual processes. In order to get to the next level of savings, efficiency and competitive advantage, shippers must embrace emerging technologies.

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Is Your Freight Spilling Millions Across the Interstate?

Supply Chain Collaborator

Inefficient Optimization of Routes | Empty miles, inefficient multi-stop route planning, poor visibility into last-minute changes to orders. Opaque Yard Visibility | Keeping track of assets on large freight yards is challenging as is maintaining proper security at the gate house. This one does !

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Tariffs Just the Latest Reason to Implement a TMS Solution

Supply Chain Collaborator

As if you needed another reason to embrace the cost-saving, capacity-finding, efficiency-boosting, customer-pleasing benefits yielded by the use of a well-designed and deployed TMS platform – the Trump Trade War and associated tariffs add another unexpected cost to already-squeezed transportation budgets.