Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

A TMS offers optimization capabilities across multiple modes to improve service levels and reduce freight spend. Below are some transportation strategies for success for suppliers of TMS, TES, and MTS. Coronavirus has changed the outlook for direct-to-consumer commerce, and a TMS is now a critical component of this strategy.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With logistics, labor, and inventory costs on the rise, finding targeted ways to reduce expenses can have a significant impact on your bottom line. Here are seven proven strategies every supply chain manager should explore to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive profitability.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This article explores the key drivers of reshoring, the rise of regionalized freight networks, evolving market trends, and how companies can optimize logistics strategies in this new landscape. Investments in rail networks to reduce emissions and support sustainable logistics. Government Incentives for Reshoring The U.S.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2025

The maritime transportation industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the increasing need for cost reduction, enhanced operational efficiency, and growing competition within the global supply chain. The merger of fleets may reduce market competition, leading to higher prices and fewer options for smaller carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Treating suppliers as essential partners in the field of direct spend management—almost like customers—can be a key component of a successful company strategy. For instance, suppliers may have strong Vendor Management process expertise that will help reduce working capital. They are no longer just vendors of goods and services.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The onus is on ecommerce retailers to control the controllables, and focusing on eliminating uncertainty from the consumer fulfillment process and optimizing the last mile is a smart approach. By mapping customer delivery personas to the delivery choices they offer, retailers can improve fulfillment certainty to protect margins.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You are Making Significant Logistics Strategy Changes : When you realize that your current WMS cannot support new processes effectively or at all. You are Facing New Omnichannel Fulfillment Requirements : The boom of ecommerce and direct to consumer demands require new strategies and cutting-edge WMS capabilities.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Common examples of Supply Chain Disruptions So what are the main reasons that you need to consider supply chain resiliency in the first place?

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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, the need for container shipping from China may decline if U.S. High Shipping Costs With tariff-related price increases, businesses may consolidate shipments to maximize efficiency and reduce the per-unit cost of transportation.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. Supply chain efficiency focuses on improving your processes whilst also reducing costs. What is Supply Chain Efficiency?

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Freightos

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For example, PUMA , the fastest sports brand in the world, first used Rate Refresh in July and has seen significant improvements in efficiency, speed, and quality of the complete rate management on a global scale. Built-in Efficiency: Refresh helps BCOs spend less time managing tenders and more time making strategic decisions.

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Stord

JULY 1, 2024

Every step of the process that brings your product from creation to your consumers’ front-door can cut into those margins and reduce your profitability. This is simply because you represent a larger potential business opportunity for a carrier so they will offer rate reductions to earn your business.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, an ERP for automotive distributors needs to include not just a standard sales function but also allow for automotive-specific processes like call-offs and contract pricing, as well as other processes like returns and lot traceability. Distributors must be able to deliver high-quality components at competitive prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2022

This practice is typically owned by the sales and/or marketing organization, which is why it is so important for transportation and logistics departments to have input into customer service strategies. For example, do all customers need to be serviced equally regardless of size? This is where finance can help.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These can be critical problems for companies looking to increase productivity and reduce expenses in logistics operations. Automation in logistics is like putting technology to do the heavy lifting, reducing errors and saving time. In addition, errors are also reduced, as the robots follow only the programmed instructions.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Key Shipping Trends for 2025 Let’s explore the key shipping trends for 2025 and discover practical strategies for logistics providers to implement, ensuring they remain competitive and responsive to these upcoming changes. At 3PL Links, we prioritize tools that simplify route management, reducing delays and ensuring on-time deliveries.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

To that end they explained why maintaining a high stock price was important to the company: So they can raise money more easily for growth. This was all about stock price. Elimination of waste: Focus on adding value. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. Customer-driven.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Running more efficient routes, with more fully loaded trucks, saves money and reduces emissions. The desire to improve service, reduce cost, and reduce emissions, is part of the reason their customer Unilever selected their solution. For example, Oracle is using average emission from a 5-ton truck, or a bulk tanker.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 3, 2023

Despite this, bloated inventories due to reduced consumer demand are still putting pressure on warehouse rates, leading to a new inflation warning for consumers. However, with demand now lower-than-anticipated, warehouses are operating at reduced capacity, leading to higher warehouse rates.

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CLX Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

A resilient and agile supply chain strategy is not just a prudent choice—it’s a necessity, especially within the context of chemical supply chains. Challenges in Supply Chain Strategy Planning Designing a resilient and agile supply chain organization is not without its challenges.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Every shippers challenge in freight cost reduction is likely to be unique, but the following ten ideas might provide some inspiration when youre seeking ways to move more for less. In these cases, customers can benefit too, by reducing the number of inbound shipments they need to handle.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 12, 2021

Costco example: they sell different brands and market their brand Kirkland, which now accounts for approximately 25% of their revenue. Private label is becoming an important strategy for retailers. Competitive pricing and good quality. So, what is Costco? A retailer or a producer? The rise of private label within retail.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Firefighting is the norm.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

It increases site productivity, reduces the usage of raw materials by up to 50%, but also leads to a more comfortable building. However, their carbon reduction goals for their value chain operations for 2030 will not be changed. However, their carbon reduction goals for their value chain operations for 2030 will not be changed.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

So everything in the retailer’s Supply Chain strategy needs to be focused on the customer, and of course the shareholders, that goes without saying. Effective retail supply chain management also helps to manage inventory levels, reduce waste and ultimately customer satisfaction. Price; this needs to be competitive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Importers will look for near-term strategies to move their shipments away from congested trade lanes or process containers further inland to minimize the impact of lead time variability that has dramatically increased in 2021. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 16, 2024

We will discuss case studies, future trends, and guidelines for businesses considering whether to invest in this cutting-edge technology. This proactive approach reduces the reliance on intensive control measures, allowing for more efficient pest management strategies.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The explosion in globalisation, and corresponding reduction in transport availability over the last decade or so, have together kiboshed some of the factors which once fueled a steady growth in offshore manufacture and procurement. Reducing bottlenecks in U.S. ports can help worldwide shipping to move more fluidly.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 9, 2020

In that post I told a true story of a company that placed very heavy emphasis on reducing inventory levels without digging into how that performance was achieved. Wait times were reduced – at least on paper. The story I cited above about inventory levels is a great example. He goes on to describe a case in the U.K.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

According to Bloomberg , the coffee supply chain is struggling with constrained supply and increase in prices is inevitable. Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Most manufacturing companies are working on what a low carbon future means for their business with the urgency to cut global CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and strive for a net-zero by 2050. For example, the manufacturing sector in Australia is one of the top three heaviest carbon emitters within the country.

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Log-hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By leveraging these technologies, businesses can optimize operations, reduce costs, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. In warehouses, robots use matrices to determine the fastest routes for retrieving and packaging goods, reducing human error and improving efficiency.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Judah Levine Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 3% to $1,609/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 7% to $2,357/FEU. kg China – N.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy that may require tradeoffs compared to other approaches. This strategy requires greater investment and inventory carrying costs but enables continued production.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example, companies that have their own in-house vehicle fleet often struggle to deliver products on time. Reduction in asset capital.Warehouses and vehicles are expensive to purchase or lease and can tieupmillions of dollars that could otherwise be invested in the core business of the firm. But what about cost of service?

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Freightos

AUGUST 14, 2023

In one example, an employee of Varda, a SpaceX-like company, began to publicly attempt to replicate the study and had over 10,000 people tuning in to watch a live stream of rocks in a furnace. We’ve been here before with Blockchain and Tradelens, which launched in 2018 and was done by the end of Q1 2023 – a good example of hype waves.

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