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TMS Software Eases the Pain of Zero-Based Budgeting

Supply Chain Collaborator

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

Supply Chain Collaborator

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. Predictive capabilities help shippers protect access to necessary support during critical seasonal times.

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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.