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Crack the Last-Mile Logistics Puzzle With the Latest in Technology

While numerous applications are available for optimizing a variety of logistics functions, the first- and last-mile segments are proving to be especially complex, generating significant costs for shippers and carriers.

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How to Prevent Procurement Fraud With Analytics

Unmonitored supply chains, underlying inventory assets, a host of third parties, and frequent transactions make the manufacturing and retail industries a sweet spot for procurement and inventory fraud schemes.

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Strategies for Building Knowledge in a Volatile World

There are strategies that leaders can employ to help themselves and their teams capitalize on the knowledge they need to tackle a world filled with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

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Inventory Optimization: How Can You Tell How Close to Optimal You Are?

Inventory optimization is a phrase much used and abused. The honest minority of supply chain professionals will admit that they don’t objectively know what "good" looks like.

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Strategies for SMBs Amid the Amazon Effect’s ‘Fast Shipping’ Craze

While retail giants like Amazon.com can often absorb the high cost of fast shipping, small and medium-sized businesses don’t necessarily have that luxury.

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The Missing Link: Procurement’s Critical Role in Maximizing Reverse Logistics Efficiency

When tech companies began offloading their reverse logistics businesses, industry giants with physical capabilities were waiting, eager to see if they could deploy those capabilities in-house.

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Choosing Warehouse Sorting Systems for the Future

Perhaps more than any other warehouse systems, sorters are also among the most time-tested and multi-faceted solutions in use today.

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2024 Predictions: A New Era of Strategic Supply Chain Design

The time for pandemic-era thinking is over. This will be the year of strategic supply chain design — but companies must be shrewd in their technology and vendor selection.

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Navigating Peak Seasons: E-commerce Fulfillment Best Practices

Throughout the year, there are certain times in which it's particularly important for consumers to have a flawless e-commerce experience.

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Supply Chains in the 5G Era: A Paradigm Shift in Connectivity

The combination of low latency, high bandwidth, massive device connectivity, reliability, and other factors makes 5G technology well-suited for various automation and virtual-enabled technologies across industries.

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How Industry 4.0 is Interwoven into Modern Warehouse Design

It's hard to predict what a warehouse will look like in ten years. But there are several key considerations that can help guide you toward a successful floor design

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Bridging the Decision Abyss

A call to action for supply chain and procurement leaders to demand better intelligence platforms.

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