Transportation

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.

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.

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.

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.

The current industry trends in Transportation show that the transportation sector can be further optimized by using Advanced Planning and Optimization solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

The survey results highlighted in this brief are intended to offer insights into the freight transportation needs and concerns of companies with an annual transportation spend exceeding $5 million. We’ll explore the challenges they face and how they are meeting those challenges.

Unless you hunt down and include all hidden costs in your TLC calculations, you’re basing supply chain decisions on incomplete data - the key is to bring those missing costs out in the open.

Making wise investments and thinking innovatively can help you establish and maintain a winning supply chain - instead of looking at rate per mile as the leading decision maker, think about total landed cost as a key metric in your supply chain success.

The nation’s top freight carriers record an annual empty miles percentage of roughly 12.5 percent. That is to say that trucks are forced to make the return trip to their point of origin empty, because no additional conveyances are available along the route. And the figure is much higher – as much as 25 percent – for private carriers that only carry loads for a single shipper, and thus have fewer reloading opportunities.

The rebound of the U.S. dollar against its Canadian counterpart has provided a welcome respite for many recession–weary U.S. businesses and manufacturers, desperate for a bright spot on the otherwise negative economic horizon.

Supply chains 2013 have become vastly different from supply chains of just a few years ago. Efficiencies are possible today that managers could only dream about a few years ago and today’s new strategies guarantee your supply chain is ahead of the curve when it comes to best practices in logistics efficiency.

There’s no reason to not bridge the supply chain technology gap between your dock activities and your current supply chain IT infrastructure.

When your fleet’s not moving smoothly, your business isn't either.