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The Reverse Logistics Role in Supply Chain Trends!

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As customers continue to shop online the demand on reverse logistics—particularly the process of managing returns—will skyrocket. billion by 2025, and businesses can save millions of dollars if reverse logistics management is implemented and done properly. Self-Optimizing Systems Will Reduce Cost of Assessing and Repackaging Returns.

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How TMS Plays a Role in Marrying Sustainability with Food Safety

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Many of the systems used to track, promote, and manage risk for food safety can be retooled and used for sustainability purposes.”. An example of a next generation sustainability concept looks at ways ag producers manage actual land use. Many food shippers already have such systems in place.

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Shippers Should Follow Millennials and Embrace Cloud TMS

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To a very large extent, the effects of emerging technology on the workplace and how it influences the nature of how work is performed are at the root of this praise and criticism. This concept seems like an aversion to hard work to the old guard who spent years upon years managing and reconciling transportation data in Excel spreadsheets.

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3 Logistics Trends Point to Cloud TMS Adoption by SMBs in 2016

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This reveals the advantages to most shippers inherent in leveraging a best-in-class cloud solution that can offer a wide array of SCM functions (like transportation management, freight/route optimization, yard management and private fleet management) from a single provider and with simple, subscription based pricing.

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The Top 5 Impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Logistics!

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Furthermore, this solution can identify other factors which could influence shipment delays like climate and operational variables. The power of Big Data is allowing logistics companies to forecast highly accurate outlooks and optimize future performance better than ever before.