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The Digital Opportunity for 3PL Logistics Operations!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Third-party logistics (or 3PL) providers, are standing on the brink of breakout growth. The shipper ecosystem is burgeoning with more delivery orders, more inventory to be managed, more deliveries and more services than ever before. 3PLs and Logistics Operations – What’s Changed? 3PLs and Logistics Operations – What’s Changed?

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Sustainable Supply Chain — The Ultimate Guide

Procurement Tactics

The complexity of the supply chain can hinder visibility into crucial operational considerations such as labor conditions at a supplier’s factory that is miles away. Thus, taking advantage to combine shipments or use less resource-heavy logistics. . Machine Learning. Robots and automated devices. Blockchain. Cost control.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

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With its decentralized feature, blockchain technology allows real-time data sharing between different parties while ensuring secure data storage and preventing unwanted changes in a network. This application eliminates redundant paperwork and provides real-time freight tracking.

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A Strategy for Shippers When Markets Telegraph Lower Freight Rates

Supply Chain Collaborator

The Logistic Report from the Wall Street Journal writes, “What a difference a year makes for trucking companies. Carriers across the sector are throttling back profit projections for 2019 as they wrestle with the hangover from last year’s freight boom. Here’s how it works!

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The Reactive vs Proactive Supply Chain! Which Will Prevail?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Even before the pandemic occurred, it was standard practice in most companies to have a Supply Chain team that had to react in real time to unforeseen circumstances. I’ve lived through these nightmare scenarios many times, as a high-priced expediter. The result is that they continue to spend all their time fighting fires.

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Unilever Gains Visibility & Control Over the Most Unpredictable Spend Category

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Over time, this engagement has expanded globally and is still focused on one of the most testing categories of sourcing and contract management within procurement: transport and logistics. In 2019 the company decided to embark on a project to implement global dashboards for sourcing and contracting events. The Solution.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

Given the costs of infrastructure development, I suspect these tight capacities to remain for some time and drilling companies will be looking to other alternatives (namely pipeline, truck, or ship) to move oil around the country. This has been a priority of shippers for a long time in order to optimize their supply chains.