Resources

This report is about how businesses lack transportation cost controls, the segmented information systems relative to freight shipping and provides a solution to this dilemma with a strategic approach to transportation spend management by via use of web services to reduce transit cost, and simultaneously optimize efficiency, compliance and customer service levels.

With customer data spread across multiple systems and databases, Syncron’s Global Customer Master (GCM) is the centralized repository that consolidates all the customer reference data, along with the cross-references to source systems, into a master reference store.

Oracle’s Value Chain Planning solutions can be deployed as standalone applications – enabling you to solve your most important problems first – or integrated with Oracle E-Business suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne or other ERP solutions, delivering a rapid ROI in all environments.

Your logistics network is continuously changing and is more complex than ever before. The need to control costs, meet sustainability goals and satisfy internal and external customer demands requires new thinking.

This paper defines and explores the central tenets of servant-leadership theory, and reviews the attributes and values displayed in exemplary servant-leaders.

As interest in cloud computing increases, so does the confusion surrounding it. Learn the basics you should know in order to make an informed decision: the language of the cloud, costs variances, “public” vs. “private” cloud computing, and more!

The decision was made to completely outsource its transportation management to a third party logistics (3PL) provider, which allowed company leadership to keep its focus on continuing the growth of its business and strengthening its core competency of producing juice-based drinks.

Production modeling was once only used by plant-level operations engineers to help utilize capacity or schedule production. Today, many of the world’s leading companies have found that modeling production footprint, operations and capacity as part of their end-to-end supply chain practice can be the key to outperforming the competition. And that extends far beyond the four walls.

The Science of Palletizing is an educational introduction to the basics of unit-load forming and is designed to familiarize you with the fundamentals of palletizing.

Contract logistics enables businesses to outsource distribution and warehousing solutions and drive value through superior return on your capital, sustained growth, and proactive risk management.

The “Unlocking Hidden Cost in the Distribution Center” research examines current views on distribution center trends and challenges from senior supply chain and distribution center managers within the UK, France, Germany and Northern America.

Sorting through the smart phones, PDAs and ruggedized computers available for business use is no easy task. Dozens of manufacturers offer hundreds of devices in thousands of configurations, but only one may be best suited for your particular environment and workforce.

Lord & Taylor faced an all-too-common retail problem: you can’t sell what you don’t show. In the fast-changing, high-turnover arena of fashion, hot items fly off the shelves – and unless the display floor is quickly and properly stocked, the next potential sales opportunity can fly away, too.

Nate Silver’s best-selling book The Signal and The Noise – Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t is about Big Data. The lessons in our white paper – which draw their inspiration from The Signal and The Noise - will change how you think about forecasting.

At the end of 2012, GSCS had delivered significant cost savings to Weathermatic, including reducing Weathermatic’s costs by 24% within the first three weeks of engagement, and radically improved supply chain processes.

Starmount software solutions help retailers optimize the shopper experience, and leading retailers are using our products to bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store to enhance customer engagement and increase sales.

This paper discusses the business realities that drive DC design today. It examines how sensitivity analysis, modeling, and scenario planning can provide new design insights for the DC. In particular, it focuses on how such changes affect material handling equipment design and IT architecture within the warehouse.

This report explores shippers’ perspectives of emerging trends in the freight transportation industry. It addresses issues related to business strategy, collaboration practices, carrier selection, rates, capacity, mode selection, outsourcing, advocacy issues, technology, sustainability, and more.

With a mix of users accessing your applications from a variety of mobile and PC devices, from a variety of interfaces, and across a variety of networks, how do you validate the performance of your applications?

The strategies featured in this interactive download are proven tools for saving money. Put them to work and you’ll make your fleet more profitable, year after year.