5 Mistakes to Avoid when Shipping Goods

Always on, connected, and informed, customers are demanding high-quality, individualized products delivered within increasingly shorter time frames. For businesses, meeting these market requirements call for better ways to synchronize the demand chain with the supply chain in real time.In this era of heightening customer expectations, logistics is leaving behind its supporting role to become a critical value differentiator. With retail and e-commerce becoming a business model in practically every industry, timely and accurate delivery is essential when creating the product experience.

In a recent article in CPO Strategy by lain Campbell-McKenna, he rightfully pointed out that remote working is not a new thing. The idea of working from home was “more of a concept along the lines of the four-day workweek and flex-hours, hence was promising but not necessarily practical on a large scale.” With COVID-19 it is a whole new ball game. We are all, as Campbell-McKenna put it “for now, and the foreseeable future together on our own.” How do we then move beyond our comfort zones to adopt new strategies, practices, and tools to deliver a higher level of expectation?

Logistics is experiencing rapid change, and we're developing tools to meet new challenges. In this session, we'll show you the latest enhancements to Oracle Transportation Management, share customer results, and demonstrate how technologies such as machine learning and digital assistants are driving supply chain efficiency and helping companies respond to disruption.

Understand how digitization allows for a more accurate and granular view of cargo status, and help determine levels of moisture protection Learn how proactive cargo protection can help minimize moisture damage by ensuring goods remain dry regardless of delays, rerouting, and lost or recovered cargoes Discover how a multinational processor of cocoa beans and manufacturer of high-quality chocolate pinpointed the root cause of their moisture damage: a case study that can be applied to all shipping regardless of the goods involved!.