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Sustainable Trucking Guide for Supply Chain Managers & Fleet Operators
The report “Transitioning to Low-Carbon Fuel: A Business Guide for Sustainable Trucking in North America” is designed to help fleet operators and their value chain partners comply with new and future regulations.
Amazon Testing Its Own Parcel Delivery Network
WSJ reports Amazon is trying an alternative to using shippers like FedEx and UPS with a new service that could deliver goods the same day they are purchased.
Warehouse Management Systems for 3PL Providers
Third Party Logistics (3PL) providers make their living performing outsourced functions for their clients. They sell their clients on the value of focusing on one’s core competencies and leaving other functions to the experts. Historically, 3PL’s have not always practiced what they preach; many built and maintained their own IT systems with the thought being, “No software provider could possibly understand the complexities of our business model; therefore, a packaged solution will never meet our requirements.”
How to Be a Preferred Shipping Customer: Strategies for the Coming Capacity Shortage
In the face of a capacity shortage, there are serious financial consequences for shippers that are not considered “preferred customers.”
Top Way to Make Freight Attractive: Reduce Detention
There are plenty of things you can do to improve compliance to routing guides and increase load acceptance - one of those things is focusing on detention.
Advanced Yard Management System - Automotive & Truck Manufacturing
As automotive and truck companies continue to refine lean manufacturing strategies inside their facilities, they often overlook the opportunities for achieving greater efficiencies outside the walls of the plants and distribution centers.
Gentle Giant Official Mover & Storage Partner of the Boston Marathon
Gentle Giant to arrange and provide transportation of 25+ truckloads of goods and athletic equipment for the 118th annual race.
Global Supply Chain & Logistics Challenges
Leveraging an existing carrier relationship, specialty foods retailer Harry & David instituted an end-to-end solution to transform its global logistics operations—and realized a 25 percent savings in inbound transportation costs in the process.
Having Trouble Implementing a Vendor Compliance Process for Your Receiving Warehouse?
Whether you’re a retailer, distributor or wholesaler, you dream of having a perfect supply chain. Of course you know that achieving the impossible in real life is... well, unrealistic. No matter how good your vendors are, invariably you’ll get shipments that are going to be less than perfect.
How Can a Retailer Implement a Receiving Audit Process?
In a previous blog, we determined that the operation must understand the costs related to inaccurate shipments, determine the elements which need to be monitored and establish the necessary performance indicators to be able to take the necessary actions to reduce the cost of non-conformance on the dock. It is our opinion that the business needs to perform this analysis before starting a search for the right solution.
How to Implement Vendor Compliance at Your Receiving Dock
Given that ‘compliance’ is a broad topic which covers all aspects of your business, we’ll put it in context of the warehouse receiving dock and where in the process of unloading a container or trailer, you need to capture shipment errors.
Fact-Based Tactical Routing in SAP TM
Applying optimal transport capacity through network analysis - This white paper shows how, with easily-added external functionality like ONR, SAP TM can help you manage the transportation aspects
of your business even more efficiently and more cost effective.
Advanced Planning & Optimization in Transportation
The current industry trends in Transportation show that the transportation sector can be further optimized by using Advanced Planning and Optimization solutions.
Setting Up Scorecarding and Receiving Audit For Your Receiving Dock
The value of scorecarding is in the quality of the data being captured and the visibility of the reports to the business and its partners.
Opportunities For Your Supply Chain: Getting Started with Auditing and Scorecarding
Companies who have an auditing and scorecarding process in place cannot imagine operating without them today. The visibility it provides on their supply chain as well as on potential internal issues is invaluable to them.
5 Shipper Demands Shaping the TMS Landscape
A TMS technology solution that helps companies efficiently, reliably, and cost effectively move freight from origin to destination, most transportation management systems includes both planning and execution solutions.
The Power of Yard Management Systems
As yard management systems progress, a growing number of shippers are turning to these solutions to optimize assets, drastically cut driver detention time, and continuously adjust priorities throughout the day according to receiving and shipping volumes.
5 Steps to Improving Your 3PL Relationships
Kate Vitasek, Pete Moore, and Bonnie Keith, members of the University of Tennessee's center for Executive Education share their five steps and a series of tips to improve your outsourcing relationship right from the start.
Logistics Management’s 30th Annual Salary Survey
Our 2014 survey finds that large companies are boosting their initial salary offerings for new hires by as much as 10 percent. Will this trend help close the logistics talent gap?
8 Trends That Are Driving Double-Digit TMS Adoption
The fastest growing enterprise application market is on track to continue its double-digit growth trend over the next 12 months. Here are eight key trends that supply chain software analysts say are shaping the TMS landscape.
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Canadian National Railway Company
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Agistix helps companies with complex supply chains to easily gain true visibility to every shipment they pay for - across all systems, carriers, suppliers and modes. Agistix’s complete offering of data and analytic tools work with a company’s…
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