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Potential Efficiency Improvements: Vehicle Efficiency in Businesses

SCMDOJO

This blog post explores various strategies that can significantly improve vehicle efficiency in truck operations. CNG burns cleaner than diesel, reducing emissions and greenhouse gas output (Lowe, 2007). This can significantly reduce fuel consumption by eliminating bad habits that can negate other efficiency measures.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. This enables carriers to optimize their transportation capacity to deliver the shipment on time at best price.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

The budget, or annual operating plan, is normally the first year of the strategy. Integrated Business Planning serves to align enterprise wide plans with the organization’s strategy. Decisions from an IBP meeting need to be made in the light of the company’s vision and strategy.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

I consider her the best in the biz for transportation management consulting. Ellen’s was to design and execute the transportation planning logic. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning?

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

Understanding their distinction can help you ensure the coordination between the responsible teams and adopt the right strategies for improving both sourcing and procurement. Effective procurement strategy allows negotiating the most favorable payment terms and establishing solid relationships with reliable and affordable suppliers.

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2018: What Will It Look Like?

Supply Chain Insights

The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. The uncertainty around SAP’s APO strategy will drive the need for replacement earlier, pushing companies to test-and-learn with deeper and more meaningful engines. I welcome yours.

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The First Steps of Necessary Federal Maritime Commission Changes

Freightos

Modes of transportation and communication evolved, culminating today in instant-gratification last-mile/last-touch, in a world of one-hour delivery and online bookings. On that basis, most of the transportation industry in the United States was deregulated in the 1970s and 1980s. Freight has not been impervious. On the Cusp of Change.