The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Container shipping procurement faces a multitude of challenges shaped by global events, industry shifts, environmental mandates, and technological advancements. Service Providers are to revert to the RFP/RFQ based on the timeline indicated on the document.

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Optimal Sourcing Procurement Sourcing Strategies Freight 130

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As reported last month by Jennifer Smith in the Wall Street Journal , “A growing number of retailers are relying on suppliers to ship online orders directly to customers, a strategy they hope will help them compete with e-commerce rivals without spending more on inventory. Instead, merchandise ships directly from the supplier’s warehouse.”.

Supply Chain Network Software 150

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ShipBob

JULY 28, 2023

But, the fact of the matter is, if you’re transporting products overseas then you need to know how to properly fill out a shipping manifest. Understanding the ins and outs of shipping manifests, and getting them right the first time, can save you a lot of time and stress down the line. What is a shipping manifest? The result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers. The data is all anonymous, but retailers can look at metrics such as time to fulfill, pack time, conversions, and ship versus pick-up, to name a few, across hundreds of Active Omni customers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By convening players, who would normally work in isolation, to participate on a collaborative platform, information and documentation can now be relayed dynamically, in real time. emails, text, physical documents) has resulted in delays and potentially inaccurate or misconstrued information. b) Document Repository & Sharing.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2024

Export controls to ensure that all export licenses, permits and customs documentation are correct? One example is parcel and non-production shipping. Staff can mistakenly send samples or sensitive materials to denied parties or without the correct documentation. Establishing a compliance program is necessary for two reasons.

Global 98

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 5, 2022

By learning about ways to minimize spending on pharmaceutical shipping, companies can better compete in the evolving market. . The State of Shipping Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. The demand for pharmaceuticals in tandem with all e-commerce demand means little available capacity and higher costs for pharmaceutical shipping.

Pharmaceutical 52

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Heading into this year, the global shipping disruptions that impacted transit times related to having to avoid the Suez Canal because of Red Sea terrorist attacks, or reduced water levels in the Panama Canal requiring reduced transit slots were generally mitigated. Global wide manufacturing activity levels as measured by the J.P.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2022 Predictions — APEJ Implications. Tender documents and responsible source guidance are requiring suppliers to show evidence of their actions to support ESG initiatives, as well as the actions of their suppliers. Companies, both large and small, are changing.

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Intelligent Audit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Shipping with USPS has been a primary method for small businesses and entrepreneurs to deliver goods and products to their customer base for many years. The USPS has remained a popular choice over other private shipping providers because it does not add surcharges for residential delivery or standard weekend deliveries.

Sourcing Strategies 52

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Logility

APRIL 15, 2021

From groceries and clothing to raw materials and machine parts, customers expect to have their order fulfilled quickly, safely, and with products that are ethically sourced. Documenting the chain of custody with connected traceability. The e-commerce boom has forced virtually every industry to rethink its customer experience.

Supply Chain Software 135

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 25, 2019

In recent years, that focus on experience has extended to shipping. This is an important indicator as to Amazon’s plan in the shipping space, and how carriers like FedEx and UPS are reacting. The Shipping Industry as a Whole. The post UPS Announces Sunday Shipping appeared first on Intelligent Audit.

Shipping 60

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The process of extracting mineral wealth such as gold, diamonds or oil for instance has been well documented to cause environmental harm as well as societal harm in some countries. Find an additional certification body (that does the investigating for you) for quality and sourcing that are connected with your supplier’s goods.

Food 130

Food Vendor Strategies Price Reduction Waste Reduction 130

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Supply chain data can be challenging to manage due to its unstructured or semi-structured nature and the need to integrate new data sources. Source: IDC, 2023 Challenges and Limitations To fully utilize the potential of generative AI, we must acknowledge and address the many obstacles that hinder its widespread implementation.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Shipping freight across the world is a complex matter. First of all, for cargo owners, international transport and shipping can be complicated operations involving multiple stakeholders and several suppliers and contacts for a single shipment. It can also be unclear which supplier charged what.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Since 1990, the size of ships increased 3X, but the design of the west coast ports remained largely unchanged.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 8, 2021

Transportation or shipping cost management is a complicated process that requires many carefully planned and coordinated steps to be done successfully. That crucial step is shipping budget planning. Auditing the supply chain network and its transactions can be done in many ways thanks to today’s innovative shipping technology.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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Talking Logistics

MAY 14, 2019

Finished products have high ratios (average 50%) of sourced or procured product content. Ensuring receipt of Certificate of Analysis (CoA) and other regulatory compliance documentation has made digitization a requirement for customer service, audit management, and compliance.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Customer expectations for shipping are higher than ever. Why Shipping Costs Matter. In today’s anything, anytime connected world, shipping costs and delivery speed have become make-or-break factors for small-and-medium sized businesses (SMBs) across the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrum.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. A few days ago, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company by volume, Hanjin Shipping, filed for bankruptcy protection. According to sources, Stevedores are demanding advance payment in cash.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Source: Sea-Intelligence Source: Sea-Intelligence The number of blank sailings are at the lowest we have seen since the pandemic started. Certain shipping lines are investing in the last mile companies. Companies still need to allocate working capital to build safety stocks considering the unreliable transit time.

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Rail Software Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Planning Software Predictive Analytics Software 244

The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

The need for practical and applicable last-mile delivery in retail involves saving money and reducing the expenses associated with this vital yet often overlooked leg of the shipping journey. According to Insider Intelligence , “ As a share of the total cost of shipping, last-mile delivery costs are substantial—comprising 53% overall.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Doing business with suppliers located overseas or in another country can be an overwhelming and daunting task even for expert Sourcing professionals. He had a marketing plan. But beyond that he had no idea on where to start to source his product. Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care?

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Unleashed

JUNE 27, 2023

Freight forwarding is the facilitation of safe, cost-effective shipping of goods from one destination to another. A freight forwarder acts as the middle-person between a merchant and the shipping and transportation companies that will deliver their goods where they need to go. Managing all documentation. Let’s dive in.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

You’re expected to ship more orders, faster, with fewer errors — all while managing rising costs and shrinking labor pools. Warehouse staff can access pick lists, approve tasks, and sign documents on tablets. Workers can access pick lists, approve tasks, and sign documents directly on mobile devices, eliminating manual paperwork.

Inventory Reduction 80

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 14, 2024

Transitioning to a digital commerce platform that integrates with your ERP can enable you to meet customers’ self-service requirements, unlock new revenue sources, and deepen customer engagement and loyalty.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

World trade is built on a foundation of global shipping. In the two years prior to starting Freightos, I witnessed, as CEO of a company called Lightech, how international shipping is offline, opaque and inefficient, adding cost and uncertainty to cross-border trade. But it doesn’t always work. Enter Freightos.

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In the shipping and logistics industry, enterprises are already beginning to realize that private blockchains are simply not the solution they’ve been sold. With only one central source of truth, private blockchains are just as vulnerable to attacks as regular servers or databases are. Public blockchains are more secure.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

This sounds simple enough, but we all know it’s a very complex issue and that’s partially because ESG concerns touch every part of the value chain, from the field or mine where raw materials are sourced to the packaging and transport modes used to bring your finished product to market.

Procurement Solutions 98

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For fashion companies, for example, supply chain traceability solutions document the chain of custody of your goods and inputs from the cotton source to the importer of record. Transaction Documentation. Traceability also makes it possible to collect and share documents related to each transaction. Import Status.

Optimal Sourcing 130

Optimal Sourcing Network Optimization Vendor Strategies Supply Chain Optimization 130

CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 6, 2020

Now that the fireworks are over and New Year’s resolutions are set, it’s time to prepare for global shipping in 2020. Recapping 2019’s top global shipping disruptors. was a drastic change that will likely continue to affect shipping costs and capacity availability. Broadening of sourcing locations. Ecommerce expectations.

Trends 44

Trends Shipping Global Cost Reduction Strategies 44

QAD

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Not only do they expect items in a timely fashion (like 1-2 or even same-day shipping thanks to the Amazon Effect), but customers also demand visibility. Technology Can Help In high volume shipping environments, technology is crucial to improve smooth long term operations. Ensures all relevant and needed documents are included.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

An EDI VAN enables the secure exchanges of electronic business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, with trading partners—via electronic data interchange format. A warehouse worker that receives an advanced ship notice (ASN), for example, can use that information to make sure a dock door is ready to receive an inbound truck.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 2, 2022

Single-source suppliers. Sole-source suppliers. Suppliers shipping to manufacturing locations in highly affected regions. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. This will help determine the message and communication channels to use.” ¹.

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Arena Solutions

AUGUST 26, 2024

A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive list of parts, items, assemblies, subassemblies, intermediate assemblies, documents, drawings, and other materials required to create a product. ICs, PCBAs), software, and related documents and drawings. Procurement Type —Document how each part is purchased or made (i.e.

Material Savings 52

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

But even here, Mr. Barraco explains, there is a difference between accidentally shipping goods to bad actors and “intentional violators.” First, even if fines are not applied, goods moving across borders with incorrect documentation can be held up at the border. For example, the U.S. Oracle’s solution combines TMS and GTC seamlessly.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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