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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for network design. In fact, as Market Watch reports, close to 90% of spreadsheet documents contain errors. It’s time to kick the spreadsheet habit.

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

BOLERO ( B ill O f L ading E lectronic R egistry O rganization) was launched in September 1999 as an electronic trade community to provide a common and open system for businesses to exchange trade data and documentation electronically without the involvement of paper.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for supply chain network design. In fact, as Market Watch reports, close to 90% of spreadsheet documents contain errors. It’s time to kick the spreadsheet habit.

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Don’t be caught out with an unseaworthy container – follow this checklist and avoid cargo damage

Shipping and Freight Resource

As a general rule, shipping lines reject these claims confirming that the gate out documents of the containers were clean at the time of release to the shipper. Shipping Lines must exercise due diligence to make the container equipment is seaworthy by regularly servicing its containers. Conclusion.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The Path to Cost Reduction: Following a SCOR supply chain benchmarking exercise, AGCO decided to approach its cost reduction and efficiency goals by blending new technology—in the form of a globally integrated transport management system (TMS)—with a commitment to form a partnership with a suitably capable 3PL provider.

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Factory Gate Pricing and Primary Freight Strategies

Logistics Bureau

The related services include surveying blast sites, drilling blast holes and even shot firing crews. Then a cost allocation exercise took place to improve on the allocation methods used within the financial systems. This document described how the costs were to be distributed in the model.