Procurement and Sourcing, Freight

The Realities of Freight Shipping: Tight Margins, Zero Room for Error

December 15, 2022

The Realities of Freight Shipping
While shippers book their freight shipments through multiple platforms, and often source insurance coverage through shipping partners, the Report reflects that the most popular booking method is to work directly with a transportation carrier. However, as a shipper’s revenue reaches upwards of $100M, the use of a Transportation Management System (TMS) increases.

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Imperial Logistics is a mainly African and European logistics provider of outsourced integrated value-add logistics, supply chain management and route-to-market solutions - customised to ensure the relevance and competitiveness of our clients.

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Digital Transformation: Why and How to Build a Digital Future

whitePaper | February 4, 2022

Digitalization is an evolving process that took roots several decades ago. The first business computers and data storage units emerged in the 1950s. In the 1960s, companies invested in databases and automated processes to make reservations and plan materials or to gain easier access to schedules/inventories, MRP was born in response to the Toyota Production Systems and Methods. In the 1970s, banking experienced its first digital advancement with the invention of ATMs, which ignited a major digitization trend across industry sectors banking, finance, retail, hospitality….

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Secure by Design: Lexmark Print Devices

whitePaper | October 15, 2022

Zero Trust is a proactive, integrated approach to security across all layers of the digital estate. It explicitly and continuously verifies every transaction, asserts least privilege, and relies on intelligence, advanced detection, and real-time response to threats. Zero Trust is imperative for business, technology, and security teams working to protect everything as it is, and as it could be. It is an ongoing journey for security professionals, but getting started begins with simple first steps, a continuing sense of urgency, and continuous iterative improvements.

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Managing Risk In An Uncertain World

whitePaper | January 27, 2023

Construction is risky business. But while construction businesses have always had to navigate a high level of risk, recent challenges have made matters worse. From a qualified worker shortage to supply chain issues to the rising costs of labor and materials to the physical demands of the job, each new construction project brings with it a new set of issues. This makes risk management a critical skill for every AEC business to have.

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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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Remote Support Security Whitepaper

whitePaper | October 21, 2022

BeyondTrust connects and protects people and technology with leading secure access solutions that strengthen security while increasing productivity. The BeyondTrust Appliance B Series gives support technicians secure remote control of computers, over the internet or on local networks. This specialized B Series Appliance provides exceptional performance, reliability, ease-of-use, and scalability through a solution that is optimized for remote support. With BeyondTrust, a support technician can see the supported screen and control the supported system remotely, as if physically present.

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SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNING Balancing Supply & Demand in Manufacturing

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

A tale as old as industrialization itself. The former driven by producers, the latter by consumers. Every business is subject to the supply and demand paradigm, but manufacturing organizations in particular, since they determine the supply side of the equation. When we talk about “demand,” we are talking about the quantity of a specific good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase during a given period of time. When we talk about “supply,” we are talking about the quantity of that specific good or service that is available to consumers.

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Imperial Logistics is a mainly African and European logistics provider of outsourced integrated value-add logistics, supply chain management and route-to-market solutions - customised to ensure the relevance and competitiveness of our clients.

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