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How Can You Use TMS For Supply Chain Control? Compliance With Routing And Service Level Agreements (SLA)

The most difficult part of supply chain management is checking up on adherence to the supply chain plans.It does not matter how good your supply chain plans are, if you do not have a systemic built-in mechanism to conduct a post-event review on the plans. That is where the capability of TMS to check up on […]

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Using TMS For Supply Chain Control – Routing And Service Level Agreement (SLA) Compliance

The most difficult part of supply chain management is checking up on adherence to the supply chain plans.It does not matter how good your supply chain plans are, if you do not have a systemic built-in mechanism to conduct a post-event review on the plans. That is where the capability of TMS to check up on […]

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What Makes End-to-End Logistics or Multimodal Shipments A Big Deal?

Rarely does an international shipment use a single mode of transportation. It is common to combine multiple modes - such as road, rail, ship, road, etc. In the early days, if you worked for a shipping line all you worried was about the international shipping part of the shipment. That was the most difficult part […]

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Here is What You Can Do Today About the Supply Chain Spiraling Out of Control After The Suez Canal Fiasco, and the Pandemic, Part 2 – Consolidate or Aggregate Shipments To Get Better Rates and Save On Ancillary Charges?

There may be savings opportunities by consolidation of multiple shipments with same origin and destination into a single shipment.  On a broader scale multiple LCL shipments on the same lane could be aggregated into a single FCL/FTL shipment with a much lower rate.  Both opportunities only exist for alert shippers with accurate TMS and data.  For an interesting […]

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Here is What You Can Do Today About the Supply Chain Spiraling Out of Control After The Suez Canal Fiasco, and the Pandemic – Part 1

Expectations from Supply Chain personnel have never been higher, and the reality of global supply chains has never been direr in the past.  All the major fiascos such as the Suez canal bottleneck and pandemic effects have been widely and deeply covered by the TV stations and popular finance press.  Minor, routine supply chain fiascos within most […]

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Here is What You Can Do Today About the Supply Chain Spiraling Out of Control After The Suez Canal Fiasco, and the Pandemic

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Examples of Practical Considerations in Route Optimisation

Since times immemorable route optimisation has been taught as one of the starting tricks in operations research and associated subjects in supply chain management. All the theory and mathematics of the problem is summarised in this post. I will not repeat the material because the original does such a good job of describing it. I want […]

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Who is Who In The Supply Chain Training Zoo?

We often get this question for two reasons:1. People are trying to peg where our company's training offering is focused2. People are often overwhelmed by the marketing material of plethora of marketing companies trying to sell supply chain training. It is normal to feel the overwhelm due to the sheer number of options in supply chain […]

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What is The Best Training in Supply Chain Management?

Training has become the norm for a variety of reasons. But before we go into those, let me first state that on-the-job training is THE BEST way of training any professional in supply chain, provided the trainer is fully vested in the process, is a capable practitioner at the right level, and takes the pain […]

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How Did We Arrive At This Confusing State of Supply Chain Training?

Confusing state of SCM trainingIf you are confused about the training in SCM, you are not alone. Thousands of people around the world express frustration that some people run a SCM course entirely focused on logistics, while others run a SCM course almost entirely focused on procurement, or warehousing, or 3PL, or inventory.This is not […]

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