The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Market Benchmarking: DAT provides benchmarking tools that allow shippers to compare their freight spend against the broader market, identifying opportunities for cost savings and risk management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Together, the companies will provide businesses with powerful labor insights for workflow analysis, benchmarking, and forecasting across their networks.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Trusted nationwide, Expedite All delivers unmatched reliability, flexibility, and innovation, setting a new benchmark in expedited logistics. Supported by advanced technology, their multifunctional customer portal provides instant booking, quoting, real-time tracking, and other features designed to streamline the shipping process.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are numerous areas in the supply chain that can be benchmarked. But what is Supply Chain Benchmarking? What types of benchmarking practices do companies employ? Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our website, check them out: Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why should you do it, and how?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Companies like DHL and Amazon are already setting benchmarks by integrating EVs into their logistics operations. Key strategies include: Electrification of Transport: The use of electric vehicles (EVs) for freight and last-mile delivery reduces emissions and operational costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2025

SONARs price, demand and capacity data spans across all modes to allow logistics leaders to benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast the global physical economy. for-hire, over-the-road dry van trucking market, serving as a transparent benchmark for freight pricing and market trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2020

As the supply chain world continues down its digital transformation path, digital brokers can play an integral role in easing capacity constraints, opening up new lanes, and providing a benchmarking tool for shippers. It is certainly an exciting time for the TMS market.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Insights into the North American supply chain from Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey The role of transportation management has become more critical than ever as companies strive to balance efficiency, cost, and customer satisfaction.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Take it today to see how your inventory optimization process scores and benchmark it against peers. Take this quiz by @AIMMS to find out! – Tweet this. The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete. You can also opt-in to receive a detailed report with our findings. Responses are aggregated and kept anonymous. .

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AIMMS

MARCH 16, 2020

Take the assessment below to uncover learnings and benchmark yourself against peers. Is your tech stack helping or hindering your progress? Our new supply chain planning maturity assessment helps you find out. You will see an instant evaluation based on your answers. Responses are kept anonymous.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 9, 2024

The goal is to help recognize top performers while giving benchmarks for all companies to drive supply chain excellence. Now in its tenth year, the Supply Chains to Admire analysis studies improvement, performance, and value on reported financials for over 500 public companies. Help us in celebrating the performance of 32 winners.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2023

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. About Sarah Bertram Sarah Bertram is a Shipper Sales Manager at DAT.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Networks and Benchmarking. Companies seek to benchmark their performance against peers. This data can be used to help procurement departments benchmark their performance. For benchmarking metrics to be valid, they need to be based on a large sample. A business spend management network generates huge volumes of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A study by E2open – the 2021 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study: Supply Chain Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic – provides the answers. Benchmarking the forecasting process is difficult. And how can consumer goods companies learn from their performance in this pandemic to prepare for the future?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have benchmarked our SCI (Supply Chain Intelligence) solution; we looked at all the solutions in the industry. The second thing we’ve done, and this is our most valuable asset, is that 7 years ago we made a big investment in our own intelligence platform we call supply chain intelligence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

We share the report to help companies benchmark and reflect. This week, while all my friends are on vacation, I am writing the final report for the Supply Chains to Admire. The report with over forty tables takes over a week to produce. Our goal is to continually redefine the definition of supply chain excellence.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Two other quick things: If you are a BCO and interested in learning more about our beta contract benchmarking solutions, you can request beta access here If you’re a forwarder, please take a moment to complete our tech survey regarding how different tech solutions drive value…or don’t.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 5, 2024

The podcast delves into the substantial costs of detention, the benefits of benchmarking and scorecarding, and the potential of generative AI in improving logistics operations. Khandelwal also discusses the significance of driver efficiency, cost optimization through automation, and the potential impact of a four-day workweek on scheduling.

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Logility

MARCH 6, 2020

Stakeholders who care about forecasting in demand planning care about accuracy, and usually will not accept a new forecasting method unless it is rigorously validated against known forecasting benchmarks with proven accuracy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

To calculate the benefits of the potential value of implementing a planning system, I benchmarked companies to their respective peer groups. My failure was three-fold: In this analysis, I never benchmarked companies to the industry averages. I built value cases for sales.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PATH offers a variety of services, including: Customer benchmarking: PATH helps businesses build the capability to understand their customers’ needs, wants, and pain points better than anyone else can.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Using KPIs for performance measurement ensures that you are continuously evaluating your business activity against a static benchmark. Another powerful use of KPIs is in the benchmarking of your companys performance against that of your competitors and industry peers. Why Are KPIs Important?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Fourth Step: Benchmark KPIs to understand limitations and discover opportunities. Creating dashboards in this step will also enable you to benchmark your KPIs before proceeding with the following steps on your journey and help you measure the before & after results. . On-time-in-full performance of distribution centers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. APQC – a benchmarking, best practices, and performance improvement organization – is one place you can get these numbers. Companies need to understand how much it is realistically possible to improve their forecasts.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 4, 2021

As part of this program, the company has implemented Dassault Systemes’ DELMIA Quintiq solution to create and benchmark scenarios, analyze the effects of decisions and continuously optimize its business operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2023

APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) have conducted best practice and benchmarking research on MDM. APQC is a member-based nonprofit that conducts benchmarking, best practices, and performance improvement research.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

APQC has conducted benchmarking and best practices research on supplier risk management. APQC is a nonprofit organization focused on benchmarking, best practices, performance improvement, and knowledge management. Because of the pandemic, risk management surrounding sourcing has become top of mind in supply chain organizations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2022

Mark McEntire is the Senior Vice President of Operations at Emerge, a freight technology firm that is reinventing freight procurement by providing access to benchmarked rates and thousands of trusted partners to maximize cost-savings. Key Takeaways: The Secret Sauce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey shares responses from more than 630 companies, indicating there is a correlation between financial performance and the strategic importance senior management places on transportation.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Emerge is reinventing freight procurement by providing access to benchmarked rates and thousands of trusted partners to maximize cost-savings. Emerge launches Benchmarking. The goal is to let the technology automate the process, while humans are building relationships with their fellow humans. Awarded Podcast. Awarded Podcast on Apple.

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