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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX

This has led to organizations investing capital in and spending time on optimizing supply chains to cut lead times, improve supplier performance and increase business profitability. While increasingly companies are turning their attention towards and using AI, arguably it has yet to be used to its full potential.

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Volumes are booming this holiday season as F&B, CPG and Retail work to keep shelves full

FourKites

Despite these increases, we’ve seen a decline in dwell time of 43% both in the US and around the world. Anyone who’s worked in the logistics industry knows that we are change managers, above all. The Consumer Packaged Goods sector has seen 21% growth in tracked shipping volumes. Focus on the Forecast.

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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

Supply Chain Collaborator

Here’s 3 ways a TMS platform including the latest supply chain management solutions are precisely what shippers need to accomplish this goal. Using TMS and route optimizers to plan more efficient shipments , a shipper can significantly reduce lead times and shrink dwell times. Finding Capacity.

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

Supply Chain Collaborator

It is no longer sufficient to manage transportation using best guesses. In a competitive business climate organizations need to make the right decisions the first time. TMS carrier management functions and carrier performance analytics enable a shipper to address issues early and provide insightful feedback to their carrier-partners.

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Is Your Freight Spilling Millions Across the Interstate?

Supply Chain Collaborator

Allowing the yard to be a blind spot between TMS shipment tracking and WMS for optimized warehouse efficiency can lead to lost time and money. One needn’t spend a fortune on costly hardware to effectively monitor, manage and measure yard operations. Lack of Carrier Rate Benchmarking | You can manage what you can’t measure.

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A Great TMS Improves Order-to-Cash Lifecycle

Supply Chain Collaborator

That said, there are often inefficiencies in the logistics and transportation portion of the lifecycle which can be easily minimized or even eliminated through the use of logistics IT solutions like transportation management systems applications.

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New Tech Bypasses FMCSA Regulations and Mitigates Capacity Challenges Too

Supply Chain Collaborator

Case in point: innovative new Advanced Scheduling technologies offered by supply chain management solution providers. We urge carriers to find and embrace shippers using the UltraShipTMS platform for transportation and logistics management. How can these technologies neutralize the pain of these regulations? Here’s the story.