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Don’t Get Hooked on Free TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

You know who gives valuable product away for free at the beginning of a relationship? Drug dealers and app developers working in basements and garages. “First one’s free kid” and then, once the hooks are in, the customer must pay to keep building on the early, easily captured gains. The “high” experienced capturing the low-hanging fruit of first-time process automation quickly gives way to the frustration of needing more to achieve the same baseline result.

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Bedrock of Business Transformation

The Network Effect

Certainly there are many aspects to successful business transformation, but in today’s fast-paced world, technology is key enabler of success. . The post Bedrock of Business Transformation appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Does Your Demand Planning Process Include a “Quantitative Sanity Range Evaluation”?

Supply Chain Action Blog

There is a process that should be part of both your demand planning and your sales and operations planning. The concept is simple – how do you find the critical few forecasts that require attention, so that planner brainpower is expended on making a difference and not hunting for a place to make a difference? I have heard this process called a “Forecast Reality Check” and a “Forecast Reasonability Check” Just to be difficult, I’ll call it a Quantitative Sanity

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UltraShipTMS Named to 100 Great Supply Chain Partners List

Supply Chain Collaborator

SupplyChainBrain’s Annual List of Leading Supply Chain Providers Includes UltraShipTMS Again. Fair Lawn, NJ – September 19, 2018 – UltraShipTMS continues to be recognized by major supply chain and logistics industry media for being an innovative leader in the development and delivery of leading transportation logistics technologies. Yet again, UltraShipTMS makes the SupplyChainBrain’s list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners in 2018 and will appear in the 2018 October issue of the well-known mag

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.