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How Much Control Does Pharma Have Over Its Changing Supply Chain?

Because of margin and market growth pressures, life sciences supply chains are more dynamic than ever before. In 2009, best practice companies will continue to put in place data analysis processes and "human knowledge" collection procedures to spot red flags and safety risks in their end-to-end supply chains.

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Safely Navigating Treacherous Economic Waters

The instability of the international container shipping sector, capacity withdrawal on some routes and "slow steaming" practices will expose exporters and importers to greater risks.

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Aligning Your Enterprise's Practices With Today's Cash Reality

Using a global inventory approach to "fire your inventory" may be much less disruptive than other cost-savings options your company may be considering.

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Moving Towards Integrated & Optimized GTM in 2009

The way companies manage global trade and supply chain networks is changing. Aberdeen's research shows that leading performers are moving towards an integrated view of global trade management, focusing on simultaneously optimizing physical, financial and information flows and networks in order to achieve competitive advantage.

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You Should Cut International Logistics Costs, No Doubt. But How?

Companies and their logistics service providers need to reduce their international transport and logistics costs. Despite the uncertainties of the current business environment, they can apply both old and new techniques.

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3PL Revenues Are Up Despite Recession

Despite an ongoing freight recession in 2008, third-party logistics service provider revenues grew an estimated 5.5 percent to $128.7bn.

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Customers Increase Focus on Cost Reduction in Face of Soft Economy

In these tough economic times with revenues likely coming up short of expectations, logistics service providers will increasingly be pressured to help lower costs for customers, but not just by squeezing existing rates. Customers need help with lowering network inventories and reducing the total cost to serve by executing demand-driven strategies, enhancing trading partner collaboration, and revisiting the network flows for optimal configuration.

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Extending the Supply Chain Through the Right Providers

Today's Best-in-Class logistics executives are looking to third-party logistics providers as a value-add extension of their organization that can help deliver value to the customer at lower costs.

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How Well Can Providers Weather The Economic Storm?

There are a lot of parallels between the logistics software industry and the logistics service provider industry. For example, both have undergone a lot of mergers and acquisitions over the past five years, and companies in both industries are looking to further penetrate the small and mid-sized market. And it's also true that the business models of software vendors and LSPs are converging. But an important distinction still remains between these two industries: one primarily sells "products" and the other primarily sells "services." When times get tough, companies tend to outsource more and spend less, which is why LSPs have historically performed better than software vendors during economic slowdowns. Does this mean that LSPs can breathe easy in 2009? Not exactly.

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Alliance Ensures Integrity in Logistics of Halal Products

Fluensee Issues AssetTrack 4.0 With Real-Time Asset Inventory Feature

Schenker Expands Temperature-Controlled Services With Envirotainer

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