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The Strategic Importance of Global Procurement

Logistics Bureau

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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What is 3PL? A Complete Guide to Third-Party Logistics

Unleashed

When your business is receiving more orders than it’s possible to fulfil in-house, third-party logistics (3PL) can mean the difference between disappointing customers and capitalising on that success. In this guide to third-party logistics: What is 3PL? Access to better systems and technologies.

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Best Logistics Management Software: Everything You Need to Know Before Making a Purchase Decision

ThroughPut

77% of the world’s largest ports are still facing backlogs, and that doesn’t just affect your logistics efficiency and costs, it impacts your entire supply chain and business. That is why logistics management software (LMS) is so much more today than what it used to be. Logistics has, however, come a long way.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Procurement Trends: Carving a Bigger Role in Supply Chain & Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

The Industrial Revolution helped change and bring prosperity into the world of manufacturing. As time passed, procurement gradually gained a larger role in the scope of manufacturing and order fulfillment. Why Is Technology Driving Procurement Trends and the Role of Procurement?

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The Future of Third-Party Logistics Beyond COVID: Where Do We Go from Here

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

To understand what’s going on with third-party logistics , we had an extensive discussion with four industry thought leaders at BR Williams. Companies dependent on China for manufacturing shut down, with no other options, for what seemed an eternity in today’s world.

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A New Kind of Supply Chain Managed Services

Logistics Viewpoints

In the supply chain world, contract logistics – where a third-party logistics (3PL) firm runs and manages warehouses on behalf of their clients, is a $200 billion plus market. There is also managed planning, where a services firm uses a supply chain system to forecast demand, and plan replenishment and manufacturing.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

The call to action in April 2016 was: Increasingly companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility ; but as companies work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. Defining a solution to close the gaps are not so easy. The gaps are large.