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Driving the Automotive Industry Forward with Complete Smart Factory Solutions
Implementing smart factory solutions ensures standardization and integration of the spare parts logistics process throughout the supply chain.
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Digital Supply Chain Technology Investments Spurred by Disruption
Supply chain leaders can drive impactful, lasting transformation within their organizations. Here are the digital solutions garnering attention and investment.
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3PL Warehouse Rapid Deployment and Adaptation
How to easily configure business processes to meet customer-specific requirements.
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Top 5 Mistakes in Transportation RFPs
Executing a smart request-for-proposal (RFP) strategy enables shippers to manage costs, increase service levels, and meet capacity needs. Here’s what to avoid: Shippers can mitigate risk and successfully manage capacity needs by avoiding the most common pitfalls. 1. Unclear Carrier Strategy Instead of sending every lane to bid or rolling every lane over to your […]
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Solving the Unique Challenges of Shipping Perishables
Cold chain shipping requires precision. The best temperature loggers collect and track shipment temperature and identify where and when temperature fluctuations occur. When it comes to cold chain shipping, the challenges associated with supply chain management are magnified because perishable products must be shipped in a carefully controlled environment—during both storage and shipment. According to […]
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Situational Awareness in 3PL Warehousing
Only with a WMS supporting the rapid onboarding of new customers can a 3PL expand its operations exponentially.
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Overcoming Challenges and Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency with Rail Transloading
Rail transload facilities allow shippers to realize supply chain benefits from a combination of rail and truck. Here’s how to choose the right one.
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Record Demand Seems to Be Easing. What Does It Mean? Understanding the Trucking Marketplace Today
Understanding the realities of today’s trucking marketplace means relying on timely data from high-quality sources, combined with an awareness of global circumstances and day-to-day insights from carriers, shippers, and brokers on the ground. So many factors have influenced the transportation industry over the past few years—from COVID-19 “closing” the world, to hyper spending, to supply […]
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Fast Expansion Into D2C: Top 3 Considerations for 3PLs to Attract New Business
While the e-commerce boom is an ongoing opportunity for B2B companies, they face acute growing pains as they seek to meet B2C/D2C fulfillment demands. Most providers go from worrying about bulk servicing thousands of units on palletized loads, to managing the throughput of multiple orders requiring additional touches for picking and packing. Not all […]
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6 Ways Shippers Can Add Confidence and Clarity to the RFP Process
The request-for-proposal process can be an opportunity for shippers to manage network costs and enable new business opportunities. Below are 6 tips for a successful RFP. For shippers, the RFP is an opportunity to manage network costs and enable new business opportunities. Analytics bring confidence and clarity to the process, ensuring you’re diversifying your network […]
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