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[INFOGRAPHIC] The tools carriers need to monitor unusual and inconsistent freight market activity

FreightWaves SONAR

Carriers must have state-of-the-art tools and technology to track and manage unusual and inconsistent activity in near-real-time. But what are these tools? That’s where analytics sort through the noise to find the most meaningful and actionable trends affecting either shippers or carrier asset management. Request a SONAR Demo.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

These days we’ve got much better tools for the job, but the goal’s still the same: getting your deliveries to the right place, at the right time, without driving your costs through the roof or running your drivers into the ground. However, some perhaps use unsophisticatedbut adequatedigital tools for route planning.

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Understanding Reverse Logistics: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Log-hub

Furthermore, the process involves sorting, inspecting, and determining the best course of action for each item, which demands significant time and effort. Many companies lack the tools or systems to monitor items effectively, which leads to mismanagement and can even lead to lossing opportunities for value recovery.

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5 Stages of the Customer Journey

WorkWave

Time To Read: 5 minutes The leading PCOs recognize that their success depends on their ability to make full use of tools that address every facet of their business to attract, service and maintain customers. Of course, you can’t be standing by to pick up the phone or reply to a message immediately 24/7.

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The Exploding Use of Robotics in Logistics and Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

Robotics can sort through incoming and outgoing packages faster, place them on the appropriate shelves, or shipping containers, and ensure the packages do not have any defects, which would cause unnecessary returns or delays in the order fulfillment process. If Amazon can shrink the time it takes to sort and pack goods at its roughly 80 U.S.

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Debunking 7 Common Outsourcing and Fulfillment Myths

Ship Monk

Misconceptions spread fast, and, before you know it, you’re left with an incomplete and sometimes confusing picture — and not in a Picasso sort of way. Of course, mileage varies depending on your fulfillment partner, but the basic idea is that more manpower results in more opportunities for growth. And so on ! Still in doubt?

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

We can put in all of the lean tools we want, but if those conversations don’t follow, the system quickly reverts to the previous baseline. ” Of course the answer was “No.” Nor can they simply leave it to the working levels to sort it out – not if they expect it to work for any length of time.