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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

This solution allows human resource managers to review performance against over 50 external workforce key performance indicators, access global market intelligence (including rates, talent supply and demand, and time-to-hire trends), and track progress across diversity and worker health and safety initiatives.

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Why the Supply Chain Matters to Business Success

Logistics Bureau

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. This formula has enabled Whirlpool to endure and thrive in the 13 years since it set out to build an adaptive supply chain, but of course, the work never ends. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

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The Transportation Supply Chain: Transportation’s Role in Supply Chain Management to Lower Total Costs

GlobalTranz

At distribution centers, Walmart uses cross-docking, a process in which product is exchanged between trucks so that each truck going to a retail store has products from different suppliers. Managers should ensure that a firm’s transportation strategy supports its competitive strategy.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Steve: Klaus, when we talked, you mentioned Autoliv was already doing digital supplier management, had digital sourcing solutions, and was looking at real-time transportation visibility solutions to provide better predicted times of arrival for inbound and outbound shipments.

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How to Address Chronic Poor Supplier Performance

Logistics Bureau

While I believe that beating up suppliers is bad practice, even use of a big stick is preferable to playing victim until the only way is out. I’d suggest the following course of action if, for some reason, a supplier’s performance shortfalls become chronic. B) The supplier considers you to be a priority customer.

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Setlog presents OSCA software at LogiMAT

Logistics Business Magazine

The five solutions of OSCA – short for “Online Supply Chain Accelerator” – are: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Procurement, Quality Control, and Global Logistics. The software now brings transparency up to Tier-8.

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Top Logistics Terminology

3PL Insights

Enterprise Resource Planning: Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, refers to the types of activities facilitated by multiple module software—such as accounting, purchasing, inventory management, supplier management, customer service management, and order tracking. A hi-lo, of course, refers to a forklift.