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Supply Chain Execution Convergence Can Take Your Company to Next Level

July 6, 2015

Supply chain execution convergence is a hot topic these days. The need for end-to-end visibility and solutions that proactively enable planning and the ability to react to the unavoidable disruptions is paramount. Organizations need to evaluate their overall supply chain approach and to consider how supply chain execution convergence can get them to the next level.

Driver Shortage Leads to Thousands of Refused Loads Every Day

January 22, 2015

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North America is facing a huge shortage of truck drivers, and the problem is expected to get worse.

Financial Literacy, Diplomacy, Patience Are Keys to Making Supply Chain Leaders Effective

January 16, 2015

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The key attributes for supply chain leadership are patience, diplomacy and financial literacy. And this is a very rare combination of skills.

How You Can Manage or Avoid Dimensional Weight Price Increase

December 3, 2014

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This past June, the largest overnight delivery carriers, FedEx and UPS, announced that they would apply dimensional weight pricing to all shipments, effective January 2015. It is expected that shipping costs will increase 20 percent to 30 percent and affect over 70 percent of all shipments. What shippers are truly affected by the new pricing model? What can be done to avoid the cost increase?

Omnichannel Retailing Complicates Successful Management of Returns

July 8, 2014

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You're trying to do everything right to lure in online shoppers: You offer free shipping. Customers can return merchandise to a retail location. You even offer free returns through the mail. But this freedom for the customer can mean a lot of headaches and cost for you.

Retailers - and Consumers - Need to Be Aware of Packaging's Environmental Impact

April 29, 2014

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Today's consumer is more informed than ever about the products they are buying. This includes product attributes and information, advantages, limitations, and competitive pricing, among others. The notion of the informed consumer has also taken on a new meaning lately. Namely, consumers care where the products come from, and how it is made.

Different Approaches to Analytics Can Transform Logistics

April 11, 2014

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Three stages are commonly used to categorize an organization's maturity in their use of business intelligence and analytics technologies: Descriptive, or what happened in the past? Predictive, or what will (probably) happen in the future? Prescriptive, or what should we do to change the future?

Your TMS Must Support Air Cargo and Ocean Transportation to Be Truly Multimodal

March 25, 2014

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The definition of transportation management systems (TMS) continues to evolve. In the early days of TMS solutions, the primary goal was to manage truck-based freight. Over time, point solutions were developed to support particular modes for particular industries such as ocean and airfreight.