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Inbound Shipment Management - the New Frontier

Autor: Friedman, Jay; Levy, Jerry. Información de publicación: Supply & Demand Chain Executive 10. 3e (Aug 2009): 12-15. Enlace de documentos de ProQuest Resumen: Eventually, though, you'll want to go to the "prepay and add" bucket. This is harder to measure because you don't get transportation invoices. But play "CSI detective" and find out what you're paying on a pershipment basis (random selection is fine to start). Many (dare we say most?) suppliers who ship "prepay and add" do not pass on their actual discounted carrier rate to their customers - they build in a markup and this becomes a profit center for them. Texto completo: Headnote The case for deploying a Web-based inbound transportation management system The last several years have witnessed a wide proliferation of transportation management systems (TMS) executed in various environments, such as on-site software licensing, ASP environments or, most recently, software-as-a-service (SaaS). Regardless of delivery model, the success of TMS in reducing transportation costs, simplifying administrative functions and enabling shippers to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) is well documented. However, while major efficiencies have been achieved on the outbound supply chain, inbound shipment management represents a huge opportunity...