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Supply Chain Transparency Increases with IoT Adoption

All Things Supply Chain

When it comes to overall visibility and transparency in the supply chain, there’s a perfect storm brewing.

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Buy a TMS Solution)

Supply Chain Collaborator

Selecting a TMS solution is a lot like having a baby. Particularly for those organizations that have not yet dipped their toes into the waters of logistics automation. Not only must one think about the near term needs of infancy, but also how things will change as the fledgling solution grows and matures. . Once only utilized by the largest organizations, cloud computing has brought TMS solutions to the masses with mid-sized and even small shippers able to source and implement solutions that a

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EazyStock on The Freight Project Podcast by Cerasis

EazyStock

EazyStock recently appeared on The Freight Project Podcast hosted by Marketing Manager Adam Robinson at Cerasis to address the most pressing challenges that inventory managers face. On this episode, EazyStock Marketing Specialist Margaret Bendis introduces what defines inventory management and what red flags to watch for in your inventory, how inventory management affects the entire supply chain, what digitization is doing for inventory management, and how inventory management supports omnichann

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Digital Orchestration of Your Supply Chain Requires “3-D” Orchestration

Supply Chain Action Blog

There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. The subject came up at a conference I attended where the theme was the supply chain of 2030. But, before we turn out the lights and lock the door to a fully automated, self-aware, supply chain “Ava Ex Machina” , let’s take a moment and put this idea into some perspective.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Loading the supplier dice in the procurement process

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. Introduction. 1. Eliminating or reducing competition. 2. Biased supplier selection. 3. Biased contract negotiation. 4. Low bid with knowledge that over or false payments can be extracted. 5. Does that capture the problem? Introduction. The expression of loading the dice refers to the extra weight on the inside of a loaded die that causes the opposite side of the weighted side to come up more often.

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Ava Ex Machina and the Retail Supply Chain

Supply Chain Action Blog

There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. The subject came up at a conference I attended where the theme was the supply chain of 2030. But, before we turn out the lights and lock the door to a fully automated, self-aware, supply chain “Ava Ex Machina” , let’s take a moment and put this idea into some perspective.

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The Potential for Proven Analytics and Planning Tools in Healthcare Delivery

Supply Chain Action Blog

I’ve spent time in a hospital. I was well cared for, but I didn’t like it, and I worried about the cost and how well I would be able to recover (pretty well, so far!) Also, my daughter is a doctor (obviously takes after her mom!), so healthcare is obviously an area of high interest for me. To say that managing a large, disaggregated system such as healthcare delivery with its multitude of individual parts, including patients, physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, rehabilitation services,