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Making good business decisions about transportation management outsourcing involves more than just selecting services, defining processes and negotiating pricing. To understand if managed transportation services are right for your firm, start by asking why your transportation function is not currently providing best practice service. With some reflection, and the context provided below, the answers may surprise you. If you do consider transportation management outsourcing, understand that the most important decision-making factor in selecting a provider is not services, systems, staffing or even a savings estimate; it is trust. Ultimately, a shipper has to know that the managed service provider is a business partner they want to be in a long-term relationship with. To read the rest of this article, please click here. |
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Many retailers focus on distribution from distribution center (DC) to store (outbound), as opposed to supplier to DC (inbound) – even though it can be proven that focusing on inbound flow can reduce a company's working capital by as much as 10-15 percent. In addition, retailers can experience reduced stock-outs, improved available to promise (ATP) for both retail and e-commerce, and decreased operating expenses. With that knowledge, the question remains: Why would a company continue to focus on outbound?
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