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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

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As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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Four Ways a TMS Solution Leverages Predictive Analytics

Supply Chain Collaborator

The shrewd operators are leveraging these data to support predictive analyses with the goal of achieving more accurate planning and execution of logistics as product moves through their supply chain. Predictive capabilities help shippers protect access to necessary support during critical seasonal times.

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Top SEO Strategies for Logistics Companies to Improve Online Visibility

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Search engine optimizations is one of the best digital marketing hacks out there for your industry since it helps buyers hunting for a transportation and logistics company find you online – and you don’t have to pay for PPC advertising. In such cases, optimizing a website can be useful only when potential clients can find it in SERPs.

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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

Supply Chain Collaborator

Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. Here’s 3 ways a TMS platform including the latest supply chain management solutions are precisely what shippers need to accomplish this goal. The pace of cost increases is unsustainable.

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Volumes are booming this holiday season as F&B, CPG and Retail work to keep shelves full

FourKites

Despite these increases, we’ve seen a decline in dwell time of 43% both in the US and around the world. This decline indicates better planning and optimization, just as we saw around the spike in shipments on Amazon Prime Day. The Consumer Packaged Goods sector has seen 21% growth in tracked shipping volumes.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

TMS scheduling helps minimize dwell times and optimizes driver Hours of Service which makes a shipper a more attractive partner to busy carriers. The top performing organizations are already several years into their adoption of tech like AI, machine learning, predictive analytics/BI and overall supply chain digitization.

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How to Bend the Transportation Cost-Curve Downward

Supply Chain Collaborator

Better scheduling of pickup/deliver appointments and dock door availability improves on-time performance and reduces dwell time for carriers who have their pick of shippers to pull for. Respecting their time with robust scheduling makes carriers more inclined to accept your tenders.