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Last Mile Delivery Optimization Strategies for 2025

WorkWave

As customers increasingly demand rapid and reliable delivery, optimizing this final leg of transportation becomes essential for businesses aiming to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Key Benefits of Last-Mile Delivery Optimization: Reduction in operational costs and fuel consumption.

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The role of inventory management and inventory optimization in ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In a recent survey , 40% of respondents mentioned rising inventory costs as a top business risk. Keeping the right level of inventory requires a technique called inventory optimization. Inventory optimization. The search for optimal inventory levels is therefore a key objective. The role of inventory management.

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7 Tips: A Guide to Mastering Procurement

Material Handling and Logistics

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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Ditching the data dump: How to optimize reporting processes

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

If you are a finance professional in a manufacturing business, your main goals are to reduce risk, improve profitability, and maintain high levels of compliance. A better way is to connect your Excel reports directly to the data source and get the same reports you used to spend hours or days creating, in minutes. Analysis is limited.

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Debunking the Top 10 Data Myths in Field Service: Why Your Data Strategy Matters

WorkWave

Companies can benefit from data insights that improve scheduling efficiency, reduce travel time, optimize inventory and enhance customer satisfaction all critical factors regardless of company size. These objective measures often predict customer satisfaction before surveys can capture it. And sometimes, it is.

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Research in Focus: Sourcing Trends and Concerns

Talking Logistics

Below is an excerpt from a report published recently by Amber Road and the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) titled “ The Trade Trends Report: 2017 Report on Sourcing, Trade, and e-commerce.” The findings were derived from an online survey of 250 executives at leading U.S.

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Ways to Use AI for Supply Chain Optimization

ShipLilly

As a consequence, NVOCCs, logistics service providers, warehouse operators, and freight forwarders can improve their operations in terms of service quality, efficiency, and pace. Those that have embraced artificial intelligence have reported reduced costs, improved productivity, and more controllable margins or error.