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Retail Startup Tips When Choosing a Shipping Solution!

Supply Chain Game Changer

This is the time online retail businesses need to optimize and improve their supply chain and logistics processes. They need to bring in advanced routing capabilities, improve visibility of end-to-end logistics operations, boost productivity, etc. Analytics For Data-Driven Decisions.

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3 Logistics Trends Point to Cloud TMS Adoption by SMBs in 2016

Supply Chain Collaborator

Thirty-five percent of businesses recently surveyed by Gartner identified the inability to synchronize end-to-end business processes as an issue, which will increase demand for SCM application convergence. Furthermore, for all but the largest, those platforms are overkill.

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Elasticity in Transportation Planning Key for Retailers

Supply Chain Collaborator

So if a shipper has to diverge from the normal process, there is infrastructure in place to enable quick, yet data-driven modifications to the transportation plan. _. So if a shipper has to diverge from the normal process, there is infrastructure in place to enable quick, yet data-driven modifications to the transportation plan.

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