The Corellation Between Service and Savings in the Supply Chain

December 20, 2017

Many retailers and manufacturers focus on transportation spend when looking for strategies to cut costs in the supply chain. Companies attempting to take advantage of transportation discounts by switching carriers or shipping less frequently and stockpiling products actually end up increasing inventory holdings.

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Swan Transportation Services

Since 1998 Swan Transportation Services has been meeting the challenge as a transportation management service by providing our clients with the very best in customer service. Swan is a full-service freight broker. Ultimately, we believe that communication is the key to a successful business partnership. Our transportation management services continue to be the most reliable source for meeting client needs on time and with great efficiency.

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Life Maps and Supply Planning Maps

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I met Janie at college. She was dating my roommate, Fred, who was a total knucklehead. Sound familiar? Our two children are now at college. Tuition runs a bit north of $100,000 annually. Both kids are stellar students and athletes, so I’m ‘okay’ with the spending the cash. Janie has a boutique on-line travel business, which is earning more than I do, as Janie reminds me whenever I complain about the kids' tuitions. I’ve recently accepted a role as Vice President of Operations with a very promising consumer packaged goods company in the Pacific Northwest.

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When expensive goods or materials go missing, it can cost your company a huge amount of money. There’s the cost of the goods themselves plus the cost of replacing them, the cost of delayed delivery, idled labor and more. The knock-on impact can be massive. Knowing where your shipments are and when they are going to reach their destination is critical information for logistics managers. In-transit shipment visibility gives organizations the ability to respond to supply chain disruption and reduce risks.

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Accelerate digitization to reinvent for the future

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Most transportation and logistics leaders face a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, many continue to experience the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine has added additional humanitarian and economic impacts that will further affect industry trends. On the other hand, the future and role of transportation and logistics companies remain uncertain.

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In architecting the ETERNUS DSP series the fundamental goal was to provide customers the ability to autonomously adapt and compose the infrastructure to precise application needs, via the unique ability to concurrently and seamlessly manage heterogeneous hardware and media, present or future, unlike any other storage system in the market. We enable customers the ability to “live” change the system in response to both failures, and more importantly, events that improve the applications that ETERNUS DSP series is supporting. Enterprise storage software must strike a balance between delivering availability, performance and scalability along with data agility and developer velocity. This white paper describes the choices, advantages and trade-offs we made in delivering the attributes of Enterprise Storage while revolutionizing the ability to scale, manage and change the system.

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Swan Transportation Services

Since 1998 Swan Transportation Services has been meeting the challenge as a transportation management service by providing our clients with the very best in customer service. Swan is a full-service freight broker. Ultimately, we believe that communication is the key to a successful business partnership. Our transportation management services continue to be the most reliable source for meeting client needs on time and with great efficiency.

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