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Supply Chain Efficiency: A Deep Dive into the Core Drivers

RFgen

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. As companies across industries have discovered, a well-optimized supply chain can drive significant improvements throughout their operations.

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Not To Be A Losing Pawn

Supply Chain Shaman

Fred owned logistics and customer service for the organization. The warehouse I ran just completed a consolidation of three shipping centers. The analysis, based on network optimization assumed average loading, and did not account for the swings. The metrics were not aligned. Dan’s peer was a man named Fred.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Eight years ago, we started with a focus on Total Delivered Cost (TDC) and elevating our cost savings program performance, as well as eliminating sub-optimized cost efforts that might have helped in one specific area, but hurt our overall performance.

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10 Critical Components for Your Freight RFP Checklist

GlobalTranz

Developing and using a solid freight RFP process will help increase service levels, create stronger vendor partnerships and drive supply chain resiliency despite market swings. Introduce your company and your unique shipping needs. Do your shipments require specific licenses, technology or service capabilities and requirements?

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How to Reduce Carbon Footprint in Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Through network optimization. This means consolidating shipments to max out load factors, using route optimization algorithms to minimize distance travelled, and shifting to lower emission transport modes. Some have achieved up to 30% reduction in transportation emissions through product redesign.

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A Guide to Carrier Network Optimization for Parcel, LTL, and Truckload Freight

Intelligent Audit

With the 2021 peak season, RFP and modern supply chain management remains essential today in the shipping and transportation market. The high priority focus on RFPs and carrier network optimization will continue to impact services and shipping protocols well into 2022 and beyond. Data-Backed RFPs.

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The Role of Loans in Scaling E-Commerce Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

How to get products from the warehouse to the customer’s door as quickly as possible investments in logistics and technologies are required. But lending services often deliver cash much quicker, even though some cater to low-credit-score borrowers and at high interest rates. Future Seeing Analytics is a pretty useful tool.