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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. Real-Time Route Optimization.

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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

The key to ensuring a high degree of elasticity in supply chain planning is building a logistics IT framework – transportation management systems, freight/route optimizers, yard management tools and others – designed to foster exceptional control and visibility across operations.

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