Eliminating Waste in Healthcare Supply Chains

As pressure rises in the healthcare industry to reduce costs and improve quality, multiple methods have been proposed to address performance improvement. One of the first areas that should be looked at is the supply chain, in particular because it is the second largest cost driver for healthcare firms after labor.

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KDL

If you’re like most shippers, you continuously strive to move product in and to market more effectively than your competition. At KDL, we’re helping hundreds of companies do just that. We are the market leader in transportation services, technology, and supply chain logistics functions. We partner with shipper customers to provide improved supply chain operations, cost savings, and ultimately a significant and ongoing ROI.

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Improving the Last Mile With Secure, Unattended Asset-Transfer Solutions

whitePaper | April 6, 2020

With final-mile deliveries on the rise, it’s more critical than ever to efficiently and securely transfer assets between business partners. Despite improvements in route planning, dock scheduling, and transportation-management systems, the biggest problem remains — sometimes there’s simply no one available to receive the delivery.

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Sustainability and Compliance in Supply Chains: SCRM Best Practices from Clariant

whitePaper | January 28, 2020

Supply chain risk management has never been more important—especially in industries where regulations are everchanging and sustainability is top of mind. The ability to effectively identify, track and mitigate risk is now becoming a huge competitive advantage for the world’s leading brands. A sufficient level of insight was once nearly impossible for companies to achieve using traditional methods of managing supply chain risk, but as you’ll learn from the example of Clariant, organizations can now successfully integrate technology into the process to better map, assess and mitigate global threats.

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A Standardised Vessel Dataset

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

The Smart Maritime Network’s Standardised Vessel Dataset (SVD) for Noon Reports project aims to provide a free and open list of defined data formats for common vessel operational data points typically found in the daily Noon Report, with the goal of offering maritime stakeholders a central reference point for data mapping that can be applied by shipping companies, technology providers or any related third parties to improve the digital capabilities of the industry.

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Tomorrow’s Logistics 5 Trends Shaping the Future

whitePaper | June 14, 2022

The world is in constant flux and within all industries we feel the effects of relentless change. Little over a year ago no-one could have predicted a global pandemic would bring the entire world to an abrupt halt. And yet, companies have to make increasingly large bets in increasingly uncertain times

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Transportation & Logistics: The Way Forward

whitePaper | February 1, 2022

It’s probably too strong to say the logo on the side of the truck is now more important than the logo on the side of the box. But it’s certainly not overstating things to say that consumers demand fast, reliable, free (in many cases) shipping, with easily accessible updates. In one 2021 survey, 47% of consumers said they would consider abandoning a retailer after a single bad shipping experience.

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SAP Cloud Transport Management

whitePaper | August 11, 2022

SAP Cloud Transport Management service lets you manage software deliverables between accounts of different environments (such as Neo and Cloud Foundry), by transporting them across various runtimes. This includes application artifacts as well as their respective application-specific content. SAP Cloud Transport Management adds transparency to the audit trail of changes so that you get information about who performed which changes in your production environment, and when they did it. At the same time, SAP Cloud Transport Management enables a separation of concerns: For example, a developer of an application or of SAP Cloud content artifacts can trigger the transport of changes in a development subaccount, while the resulting import into the test, and production subaccount is handled by a central operations team

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KDL

If you’re like most shippers, you continuously strive to move product in and to market more effectively than your competition. At KDL, we’re helping hundreds of companies do just that. We are the market leader in transportation services, technology, and supply chain logistics functions. We partner with shipper customers to provide improved supply chain operations, cost savings, and ultimately a significant and ongoing ROI.

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