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• Balancing Act: Matching Supply to Demand
Three companies at different stages of demand-driven sophistication use greater visibility, automated data flow, and real-time alerts to preserve the delicate balance between suppliers and customers.
• Tracking Totes Turns to Technology
As totes and intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) become more sophisticated and more expensive, chemical producers and distributors view them more as a fleet such as rail cars or tank trailers rather than as a disposable cost of doing business. Strict new rules on tracking and tracing hazardous materials also make it imperative for shippers to know where their containers are.
• It's For YOU!: Mobile handset and device manufacturers are evolving their product lines and adapting their global supply chains to meet the ever-shifting needs of consumers, shippers, fleet owners, carriers and logistics solutions providers.
• IT Perspectives 2008
Supply chains are only as flexible as the technology that exists to support them -- and thanks to an emerging class of logistics IT providers, and a new breed of sophisticated solutions, there are plenty of options to help enterprises respond more quickly and efficiently to shifting market dynamics.
Planner Profiles: The 2008 Logistics Planner gives you detailed information on the market leaders in the trucking segment that stand ready to meet your demands for speed, lower inventories, quick and easy tracking and tracing, cycle time compression and integrated logistics expertise. These are the companies that can help you drive change. Check out the featured companies below to keep up with the latest solutions. Carrier's Corner: IT Matters: Ten Tips: Technology: Supply Chain Technology:
• ATC Logistics & Electronics
• Agility
• CAT Logistics
• Motorola
• Saia
Opinion:
• Help On The Way - Best Practices: How To Outsource Freight Bill Management As transportation costs continue to soar, some businesses are looking to reduce operational spend by outsourcing freight payment audit and reconciliation to third-party companies. Experts at CASS Information explain the whys and wherefores of freight bill outsourcing and its importance.
• Industry Viewpoint: Helping Truckers Survive & Flourish: What is the biggest challenge facing carriers today? Pick one: the driver shortage, fuel prices, insurance costs, new equipment costs, shipper and consignee demands, customs delays, border delays, technology demands. And the list goes on and on. .
• Opinions: Selecting the Right WMS: The typical warehouse buzzes with activity every day. Products arrive at the loading docks, forklift drivers shift pallets around the floor, automated retrieval systems pull goods for shipment. Warehouse management systems (WMS) provide tools for keeping track of all that action..
• Automating Logistics Workflow Management: Some companies consider yard management a low priority, but an inefficient strategy can bleed dollars from the bottom line. Wilson Rothschild, industry and product marketing supply chain manager for Infor, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based warehouse management software company, offers these tips for making yard management a strategic imperative.
• Logistics IT Toolkit: Welch's Juices Up Logistics Data Management: "The system creates the opportunity to take every bit of information on every order, bill of lading, and freight bill, and report on it in any way for any time period, for any single company or group of companies. It's like nirvana," Welch's says.
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What Are Your Logistics IT Vendors Up To?:
Of all the recent supply chain process evolutions - from push to pull, fat to lean, and manual to automated everything - one of the most compelling transformations is currently unfolding in an expected place: logistics IT advancements. Here are highlights from recent briefings with technology companies that advance best logistics practices.
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