Imagine an efficient warehouse and retailer. The organization seamlessly fulfills orders. Carriers arrive on time, every time, and customers write the best reviews because the button for bad reviews is broken.
That might sound like a dream, it is possible to peer into the future of the supply chain and see what needs to happen to guarantee the customer is always right, the carriers arrive on time, recognize when it’s going to be time for replenishment before the shelves even look half-empty, and address the potential concerns of customers.
While this may seem like an ambitious undertaking for supply chain management, the concept is actually not new—transportation modeling. Modern freight transportation modeling takes the “what ifs” and finds out what might happen, what should happen, what can be achieved to avoid the problems, and what an organization must do to compete and reach their stated goals for the supply chain. Modeling is the supply chain’s other-worldly medium and demand-planning function, and shippers need to understand its val
Challenges of Managing Global Logistics
The challenges of managing global logistics are increasingly complex. Known and unknown disruptions will occur and modern companies are so interdependent that they feel a loss of autonomy. At any given time, the supply chain can be seen as a fragile entity that could be just shy of a collapse — whether total or partial., And, as organizations continually battle supply chain risk and disruption, shareholders remain vocal about lowering costs, increasing services, and doing more with less. As explained by Chad Crotty of Inbound Logistics:
Transportation Modeling Gives Shippers an Opportunity to Proactively Plan Shipping
Tips to Improve Transportation Modeling
- Get your supply chain partners on board with using the same systems as your company, focusing on easy-to-onboard systems.
- Avoid disparate data siloes by leveraging APIs to connect to a centralized, SaaS-TMS.
- Use robotic process automation to continuously self-optimize configurations and settings for your warehouse, loading dock, carrier pool, and more.
- Take back autonomy by leveraging carrier, vendor, and supplier portals (depending on your role in the supply chain) and managing your responsibilities.
- Access data across multiple devices, using a mobile-capable TMS, eliminating the concern over remote management.
- Look at everything at once, rating all modes, rating all lanes, rating all carriers, ratings’ comparisons to major freight rate indices, and more.
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