- 1. Deploy the Right Type of Supply Chain Control Tower
- (Supply)
- ... for the best solution to your problems: Transportation-focused Control Towers These Control Towers mainly offer insight into the inbound and outbound shipments, visibility into aspects such as deliveries, ...
- 2. Maneuver Around These Logistics Roadblocks
- (Logistics)
- ... in any organization. However, failure to understand your own policies and procedures concerning inbound freight and how needs can be solved can become a challenge. Most companies have inbound shipping ...
- 3. Get Your Supply Chain Ready for the Holidays
- (Retail)
- ... stores. As the number of e-commerce orders rises, there will be an increase in the type of services, including last-mile package deliveries and transportation and inbound shipment of items, among others. ...
- 4. Why Machine Learning is Right for Your Supply Chain Strategy
- (Technology)
- ... is the ability to recognize patterns - visual pattern recognition. Cameras trained on inbound operations and connected to machines like IBM’s Watson can learn what a normal undamaged item looks like and ...
- 5. AI is now a necessity
- (Technology)
- ... as a segment of SCM can look at inbound and outbound shipments and take over the manual allocation of stock, something that humans can do but can also get wrong. Self-driving transport is becoming a ...
- 6. Visibility in an Omnichannel World
- (News)
- In the age of the omnichannel consumer, the importance of inventory visibility can't be denied. This means visibility across the board: on the shelf in the DC and branch locations, inbound shipments, fulfillment, ...
- 7. Managing EDI Changes
- (EDI)
- ... these can be easily followed upon receipt of inbound transactions and the subsequent creation of outbound transactions. The relationship between retailers and suppliers can be especially confusing at ...
- 8. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- ... end. When those documents fail to process properly, one of two things happened: either the supplier neglected to effectuate the change to their inbound process in a timely manner or the retailer failed ...
- 9. What's Visibility Mean to You
- (Blogs)
- ... your contact center. Another supply chain participant, the DC manager, wants to know where everything is in the warehouse, when inbound trailers are due, what’s in them, what’s being delayed and why, ...
- 10. Is the New Retail Paradigm "BrickLine"
- (Retail)
- ... and distribution network are within a few miles of a great majority of US homes makes it easier for them to offer both pickup and delivery. An extensive analysis from Inbound Logistics "New Retail Strategies: ...
- 11. Tags Limit Visibility
- (Technology)
- ... found in 2013 only 2/3 of inbound goods carried barcodes. Moreover, the study projected that it won't be till 2018 that the percentage of inbound goods with barcodes attached will reach 83%. If it takes ...
- 12. Mandatory E-Invoicing Imminent In Chile
- (Management)
- ... Paper-DTE’s the company produced that month. Inbound Customers registered for outbound DTE must also be able to receive inbound reports. Contingency Paper-based DTE documents are allowed as a contingency ...
- 13. Electronic Invoicing Laws In Latin America Are Ever Evolving
- (Management)
- ... processes including accounts receivable, accounts payable, freight payables, shipping, inbound receiving, payroll and human resources. Another legislative change is that by December 2014, all companies ...
- 14. The Importance of Integration
- (Integration)
- ... need ASNs to set up receiving at their DC, RFID tags on inbound products, automated receipts to set up their AP system, integration between their ERP and WMS systems to facilitate order picking, POS data ...
- 15. The Supply Chain as US Congress
- (Logistics)
- ... of end-to-end activities -- from raw material to the delivery to the end customer." The report explains that it followed 11 inbound and 9 outbound activities that occur in a full delivery cycle, and concludes ...
- 16. Controlling Transportation Costs
- (News)
- Transportation costs are always a concern. Supply Chain managers are under even greater pressure now to reduce them.In a Supply Chain Digest article, Dr. Michael Watson has some ideas on what levers can ...
- 17. What's Wrong with Vendor
- (Supply)
- ... they must have some methodologies for checking their inbound orders. It would seem the suppliers could apply the same kinds of tests and safeguards on their outbound shipments and documents so as to avoid ...
- 18. The 3PL Decision
- (News)
- Kyle Gholston on the Inbound Logistics site gives us the benefit of his experience in selecting a new 3PL partner. What seems to be pretty straightforward isn't necessarily so.Read how to execute this big ...
- 19. Transportation Management Critical to Supply Chain Success
- (Logistics)
- ... is used to calculate the scheduled inbound shipments and build out a trailer. But taking it a step further is the Managed TMS model, which combines the benefits of Software as a Service (including ...
- 20. Automate to Reduce Your Supply Chain Costs
- (Blogs)
- ... put the onus on the supplier to provide an accurate ship date and to transmit updates when that date changes, you can likely get by with fewer expediters. Are errors on inbound transactions sucking ...
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