Data2Logistics Infuses Both Information and Action for Freight Transportation Savings

Global freight bill processor, auditor and cost reduction advisor Data2Logistics announces coupled efforts to infuse up-to-date, marketplace-based information with cost-saving freight bill auditing actions. Combined, these services are combined to benefit both inbound and outbound shippers operating domestically and internationally with a multifaceted, ongoing approach to optimize freight transportation and related cost savings. Benefit from it…

Evolving Wholesale Distribution in the E-Commerce Era

Retail Technology Review: It seems then that savvy wholesale & distribution business leaders are already exploring multi-channel sales strategies in pursuit of growth. The challenge will be to do this in a way that evolves their business model, streamlines and automates their workflow and delivers profits alongside that growth. Whilst their retail counterparts have been leading the way in e-commerce and m-commerce, the WD industry is starting to wake up to their potential. With the potential boost from these channels worth up to £16 billion, it's urgent that the wholesale distribution industry evolves its approach.

Supply chain conservation a component; transportation savings via Data2Logistics.

IDC Study: Reducing Transportation and Logistics Costs Supply Chain’s Top Initiative...

Here’s more on the supply chain cost-cutting trend; in Data2Logistics’ wheelhouse…

Cutting Supply Chain Costs Is Top Priority

LogisticsManager.com - Supply chain managers regard pressure to reduce costs as the top trend over the next five years, according to a European logistics occupier survey by Jones Lang LaSalle. Cut-away the ‘Ship Smarter and Save’ way with Data2Logistics!

Carmakers Revisit Supply Chain Strategies after Costly Disruptions

A new management report from just-auto.com, written by Interchange Europe, considers how fragile the supply chains of international manufacturing firms have become and the strategic responses now being formulated in response.

The report adds that production losses related to the disasters in Japan and Thailand hit company profits, particularly those of the Japanese manufacturers, already struggling with a surge in the yen which has risen 15% against the dollar in the past three years.

Manufacturers in all categories are planning cost-saving rout options with Data2Logistics.

Ensuring Routing Guide Compliance – A Handy How-To for Freight Shipping Savings

As featured in Inbound Logistics magazine:

When vendors fail to comply with shippers' routing guide instructions, all parties involved experience frustration. To improve compliance, shippers must provide clear and concise instructions about how they want their freight to move. Here is advice on ensuring routing guide compliance from Harold B. Friedman, senior vice president of global corporate development at freight payment and auditing service provider Data2Logistics. See here to save…

Supply Chain Improvement Research for SMB Retailers

RSR Research‘s March 2012 study, Retail Supply Chain 2012: Globalization, Localization, and Cross-Channel, highlighted retailers’ main operational challenge to realigning their supply chains to meet the challenges created by consumers’ omni-channel shopping behaviors: that past sales are no longer enough to predict future demand. That concern, however, is largely driven by retailers with annual top line revenues of more than $500 million. Retailers whose top lines are less than $500 million (SMB retailers) are much more challenged by an internal issue: organizational friction between the merchants and supply chain operators. Given this friction, perhaps it is not surprising that “too much inventory” and “lost sales from out of stocks” are also top challenges for these retailers.

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