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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX

As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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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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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

Supply Chain Collaborator

Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. Here’s 3 ways a TMS platform including the latest supply chain management solutions are precisely what shippers need to accomplish this goal. The pace of cost increases is unsustainable.

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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. This decline indicates better planning and optimization, just as we saw around the spike in shipments on Amazon Prime Day. The Consumer Packaged Goods sector has seen 21% growth in tracked shipping volumes.

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

Supply Chain Collaborator

TMS scheduling helps minimize dwell times and optimizes driver Hours of Service which makes a shipper a more attractive partner to busy carriers. The top performing organizations are already several years into their adoption of tech like AI, machine learning, predictive analytics/BI and overall supply chain digitization.

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A Great TMS Improves Order-to-Cash Lifecycle

Supply Chain Collaborator

With lean supply chain/inventory strategies and just-in-time fulfillment at the forefront of contemporary business practices, it has never been more critical to shorten the gap between purchase order and settlement. The key is to shrink the amount of time between order submittal, invoice delivery and customer payment.

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How to Weather the Hurricanes of 2017 (and more) with a Heavy-Duty TMS Platform

Supply Chain Collaborator

For shippers, this year’s overly-active hurricane season in the US is raising alarm bells for supply chain logistics operations. How do TMS platform and other transportation logistics & supply chain solutions help shippers overcome the challenges posed by natural disasters like the hurricanes of 2017?