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TMS Software Eases the Pain of Zero-Based Budgeting

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They’ve also instituted drastic cost controls – down to the penny – including requiring employees to gain permission to make color photocopies. Even Coca-Cola has embraced zero-cost budgeting as part of its plan to cut $3 billion in costs by 2019. __.

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Four Ways a TMS Solution Leverages Predictive Analytics

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The shrewd operators are leveraging these data to support predictive analyses with the goal of achieving more accurate planning and execution of logistics as product moves through their supply chain. This data can be analyzed and leveraged to help reduce dwell times and improve DC throughput.

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How AEI Tags Are Changing the Way Freight Moves!

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Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. They can keep track of the time that cars are being serviced, and they can watch for excessive dwell time. By removing the need for pencil-and-paper maintenance, railyards and shipping companies can reduce their labor costs. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Tariffs Just the Latest Reason to Implement a TMS Solution

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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.