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Maximizing Efficiency: The Crucial Role of Order-Level Management and Cost to Serve in Freight Shipping

Blue Grace Logistics

Cost to Serve: The measurement of cost factors that go into the servicing of a customer, or the production of a product. For companies involved in shipping freight, the combination of order-level management and cost to serve analysis can be a game-changer.

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How to Improve your Manufacturing Processes with Business Intelligence

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For manufacturers, having the right business intelligence on hand at the right time can eliminate the guesswork from decision making, offering real-time visibility into business processes so you can anticipate your next move. Data warehousing costs rise. Eliminate reporting inconsistencies and data redundancy. Human error.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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What is DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) Analyses And How Can It Reduce Supply Chain Costs?

GlobalTranz

Efficiency begets costs savings, and let's be honest, we are all looking for ways to do that! A thorough analysis of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) is just one tactic you can use to find success within the constructs of the chain. We wanted to see if DFMA could aid in other ways to save on total costs in the supply chain.

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Director SC Navigator, AIMMS, and Paul van Nierop, Supply Chain Planning Specialist, AIMMS

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? You may have recently had M&A activity, about to roll out a new product line or need to cut costs. When you finally have the analysis, everything has changed, and it is no longer relevant. It's easier than you think.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain executives must evolve from cost and service as the key objectives for optimal demand-supply balancing towards the “quadfecta” of cost, service, resiliency, and sustainability. What is the Cost to Serve for all the flows to the customer? Quantify the costs and risk to the business What revenue is at risk?

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Why Benchmarking Alone Isn’t Enough for Proper Transportation Cost Analysis

GlobalTranz

Carriers in the trucking industry and also shippers today are actively looking for ways to combat the rising costs of operating their businesses, but they often do not fully understand proper benchmarking, transportation cost analysis, and profit management are intertwined. Driver wages represent 26% of costs.