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Sustainable Distribution: EDI Messaging can Play a Vital Role!

Sustainable distribution has created opportunities and challenges for today’s logisticians: previous restrictions on collaboration and ways of working are up for discussion, new technologies that revolutionise visibility are entering the marketplace; but in a world where industry leaders want to … Continue reading

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Reverse Logistics Portal Hits the Spot for Manufacurers and 4PL’s…

Perceptant, the cloud computing integration, messaging and supply chain specialist, has developed a Reverse Logistics Portal to allow manufacturers and 4PLs to control returned and refused stock. The Reverse Logistics Executive Council (RLEC) estimates that Reverse Logistics costs account for … Continue reading

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Logistics Supply Chain Partnership Finally Marks the End of the Fax Machine

Labyrinth a leading provider of logistics and supply chain consulting and Perceptant, the cloud computing integration and messaging specialists sign significant partnership agreement which aims to finally rid the logistics industry of the fax machine Perceptant (www.perceptant.com), a pioneer of … Continue reading

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Reverse Logistics Fuel Discount Retailers…

Few companies until lately have paid much attention to reverse logistics—the management of merchandise returns (including repairs and final product disposition). These days, the financial benefits of reverse logistics are well known, and third-party specialists in the discipline abound. So … Continue reading

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Perceptant Unveil Supply Chain Management SaaS Cloud for Logistics, Manufacturing & FMCG Companies

“Perceptant iBAM brings FMCG, Manufacturers and their Logistic providers a complete supply chain management solution for the exchange and management of load plans, stock returns, in-cab proof of deliveries and consolidated load tracking”. Perceptant, the cloud computing based Supply Chain … Continue reading

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FCMG Companies Face Rising Supply Chain Pressures

Major retailers are under tremendous pressure to go green and reduce their carbon footprint. To achieve this, they first turned to initiatives close at hand, including the reduction of energy consumption at the store level, product packaging resizing and the … Continue reading

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Whirlpool’s four-year, $600m effort to retool its supply chain…

  One of our favorite pet topics is how people and processes play a key part of making any technological initiative work. A few months ago a nice illustration of how process tweaks helped improve the supply chain at Cricket Communications … Continue reading

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Global Recession Squeezes 3PLs

CEOs forecast lower revenue, prices, shorter supply chains in near term The global recession is putting unprecedented pressure on third-party logistics providers, according to an industry survey released Sept. 21 at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Annual Global … Continue reading

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