Procurement Insights

MARCH 23, 2025

The company likely has multiple facilities, a global supply chain, and sustainability priorities (e.g., million) Spend Estimate: ~$440 million (20% of indirect spend), for software, hardware, and telecom. million) Spend Estimate: ~$220 million (10% of indirect spend), for legal, marketing, and strategy consultants.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 11, 2016

What’s crucial to understand is that this realignment in retail sales strategy requires significant change and ongoing flexibility in its supply chain logistics processes and practices – the kind of changes and flexibility only achievable via robust solutions for highly responsive supply chain management like TMS applications.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This article will provide a comprehensive definition of lead time, discuss its importance in ecommerce, examine the components that make up lead time, highlight the negative impact of long lead times, and provide strategies to help shorten it. Lead time further influences a company’s ability to respond to market trends and fluctuations.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Food shippers understand this dynamic and spend considerable time and money on developing strategies to source, process and deliver quality ingredients in the most cost effective, quality-focused way possible. Sadly, many TMS solutions are strong in some areas but few are capable in all. The need for LTL planning.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 21, 2015

Would you be interested to learn about strategies for insulating your business from the effects of these capricious market conditions ? Looking at the traditional indicators, the business case for flexible logistics planning tools like TMS, optimizers and fleet management tools grows even more compelling. __.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Do you have a Freight Management Strategy or are you Spinning your Wheels? My undergraduate thesis in Industrial Engineering was on “Vehicle Routing Procedures, In Theory and in Application”, co-authored with fellow classmate Joel Koschitzky. Subscribe Here!

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Finale Inventory

JULY 22, 2024

We’ll also cover strategies to effectively manage logistics and tackle common challenges in the industry. By the end of this guide, you’ll have the knowledge and tools to optimize your logistics processes and elevate your ecommerce business. Logistics management is vital to the success of any ecommerce business.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 12, 2018

The answer to so many challenges in transportation logistics comes via technology solutions like Transportation Management Solutions (TMS) and associated tools like automated scheduling, route optimization, and freight payment software.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While this side-by-side strategy enabled data capture, they quickly discovered that the data lake worked well for long-running queries, but it was not fast enough to support the near-real time engagement necessary to maintain a competitive advantage. They stood up a file-based data lake alongside their analytical database.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In the tantalizing world of frozen treats, UnileverS ice cream supply chain is embarking on a journey filled with innovative solutions to conquer the final frontier: the last mile hurdles. With a focus on efficiency and sustainability, Unilever is setting the stage for a tasty revolution in the realm of ice cream delivery.

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