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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

SCMDOJO

Contract logistics is a specialized service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers to manage supply chain operations on behalf of a company. It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider.

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The Supply Chain Management Playbook: Your Game Plan for Operational Success

World of Procurement blog

Information must flow constantly to enable planning and management of inventory, production scheduling, order fulfillment, and more. Importance and Benefits of Effective Supply Chain Management An optimized supply chain is critical for business success and profitability. Customers receive orders on-time without backlogs.

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Business process management (BPM) examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

Solvoyo

If your planning platform has inaccurate data and you don’t have visibility on the data’s quality, you will need to keep the outputs. Accurate and timely reconciliation of purchase orders with receipts. Having up-to-date supplier lead times. Having accurate stock-out data. On-time-in-full performance of distribution centers.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

working with suppliers or customers was not a priority for most managers at the time. The idea is to have integrated information sharing between all trading partners (suppliers, manufacturers and customers)”. The management of digital production flows brings great agility to the entire supply chain, from end to end.