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Order Visibility Is Critical Amid Low Inventories

Logistics Viewpoints

For retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the busy shipping season came early. The peak inbound season typically starts around this time of year. But shippers looking to avoid disruptions and ensure that tight inventory levels don’t lead to missed sales opportunities pulled their orders forward.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network. billion transactions annually.

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No Time Like the Present

Supply Chain Shaman

While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain. Functional metrics need to be abandoned to focus on balanced scorecard outputs.

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Until AI Can Solve this One Simple Task, I Wouldn’t Worry About It

Logistics Viewpoints

A true WMS is a real-time system. A real-time WMS can achieve inventory accuracy of 99.9% Paper-based systems would typically have inventory accuracy in the low 90s. Further, because AutoID is real-time, the WMS always knows how full the pick slots are and which slots need to be replenished.

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Total Manufacturing Cost Formula: Metrics that Matter

QAD

Having this accurate, real-time view of your manufacturing operations expenses allows you to improve efficiency. Maybe you could reduce shipping costs by making more bulk purchases or buying more locally. Improving communication between departments and comparing metrics across them.

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?Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

GlobalTranz

Capturing carrier data gives you more visibility into your freight spend and enables you to make data-driven decisions that positively impact your business. Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. a shipment?doesn’t Let’s take a closer look at how to turn these practices into action.

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Zero Visibility to Complete Control: Supply Chain Optimization

Locus

Read also: Retailer guide to peak season shipping But there’s a catch. We’ve discussed at length the role of route optimization , order management, and reducing Time Under The Roof , among others. One of the other biggest hurdles in the world of supply chain management is visibility. trillion by 2026.