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Walmart letting businesses tap into its route optimization tech

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The move to sell its proprietary AI-driven software contributes to the retailer’s business diversification strategy.

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How to Choose the Right Last-Mile Delivery Technology for Your Business

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Route optimization and planning: Check if the technology offers advanced algorithms for route optimization and planning. Efficient routing can help reduce delivery time, and fuel costs, and improve overall productivity. Such features enhance transparency and improve customer satisfaction. Click here!

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The Evolution of Logistics: Connectivity, Data Integration, and Virtual Design

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In the world of logistics, this means enhanced operational efficiency for inventory management, route optimization, safety and security of goods, and resource allocation. It also allows the creation of various scenarios and the testing of different strategies to determine the optimum course of action.

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How Machine Learning is Transforming Supply Chain Management

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Route optimization & logistics planning Cost savings, faster delivery times, and happier customers? Imagine a super-smart navigator that not only considers traffic conditions but also takes into account weather forecasts, delivery schedules, geopolitical hotspots, and vehicle capacities to advise you on the most efficient route.

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How TMS Plays a Role in Marrying Sustainability with Food Safety

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For instance, the supply chain logistics tools like TMS , route optimizers and WMS solutions food producers use to manage the movement of agricultural freight can be effectively configured to monitor temperatures of perishable products in transit. Many food shippers already have such systems in place.

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How to Guarantee Faster and Safer Business Parcel Delivery!

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What is your Strategy? Moreover, you can use these location monitoring systems to make decisions such as route optimizations , which can help you save time and money. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Last Mile Delivery! Business parcel delivery has always been a common part of businesses.

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Two Shocking Headlines Reinforce Retail’s Need for Logistics IT

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What’s crucial to understand is that this realignment in retail sales strategy requires significant change and ongoing flexibility in its supply chain logistics processes and practices – the kind of changes and flexibility only achievable via robust solutions for highly responsive supply chain management like TMS applications.