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SC Digital Masters — What's on the Horizon? An Inside Look into 2021

How will the unprecedented events of 2020 affect your transportation budget in 2021?

Combining trend analysis and industry expertise, our Supply Chain Masters roundtable provides multi-modal transportation rate predictions and guidance to support your strategy for the year ahead.

Rate forecasts for Parcel, Truckload, LTL, and International transportation

Predictions for the rest of the year and recommendations for 2021

Strategies for controlling costs in the current environment and beyond

Watch our exclusive look ahead that helps you enhance customer experience, streamline transportation operations, and master your supply chain.

Panelists:

Rick Brumett

Todd Benge

Chris Clever

Jacob Hawkins

Gene Smith

James Mathews

Transportation news, transportation trends, transportation rates, Truckload, Less Than Load, International Shipping, Parcel, freight costs, supply chain costs

SC Digital Masters — The Logistics Dilemma: Insource vs. Outsource

Logistics outsourcing can be a daunting task, especially as technology, consumer preferences and supply chain complexity are rapidly changing. 70% of executives agree that logistics outsourcing helps them meet strategic business objectives.

That leads many businesses to consider their options for transportation execution: insourcing vs. outsourcing.

Our Supply Chain Masters are here to help with an exclusive digital event that explores:

* 4 things companies must understand about themselves (and their potential logistics partners) to develop and execute a successful logistics outsourcing strategy

* 3 types of strategic outsourcing approaches used by today’s most experienced shippers

* 4 things any logistics partner should be delivering for you

* 3 things that will set your logistics provider apart

Watch today to learn why having a team of supply chain experts by your side can help you master your own supply chain.

Panelists:

Pat Allen

Lee Burrell

Logistics outsourcing, logistics, supply chain, supply chain management, transportation, transportation management, Truckload, transportation execution, freight management, freight audit, business process, continuous improvement

SME Roundtable — Parcel Rates Analysis Roundtable 2021

Parcel hippers are conditioned for a 4.9% general rate increase from FedEx and UPS every year, but the true impact on your transportation budget can be much greater.

Watch our Supply Chain Masters Series digital roundtable for our Parcel Experts’ insight on the changes coming from UPS, FedEx, U.S. Postal Service, and regional carriers.

They also discuss how often-overlooked changes will affect your e-commerce performance, transportation spend planning and customer service in 2021.

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to access actionable tips from Parcel experts who can help you master your shipping program in 2021.

Panelists:

Todd Benge

Charles Moore

Robyn Meyer

Bernie Reeb

Parcel Rate, E-commerce, Industry Trends, Parcel, UPS, FedEx, Rate Increase, Customer Service, Last Mile, 3PL, Transportation, Logistics, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence

SME Roundtable — Freight Brokerage and Carrier Capacity Planning for 2021

Truck tonnage is down in 2020, but rates are on the upswing, a result of capacity leaving the marketplace. How nimble is your supply chain management strategy for securing capacity to move your freight?

Join our panel of Capacity Planning Masters as they explore industry trends in the transportation market, examine the primary cost drivers in 2021, and offer insights to help you build a strategy that is flexible enough to serve your customers, solid enough to keep your committed carrier relationships, and diligent enough to protect your bottom line through disruptions.

Watch today to learn how a balanced logistics management strategy can help you mitigate risks to transportation cost control and supply chain continuity.

Panelists:

Clay Gentry

Drew Herpich

Chris Mendenhall

James Mathews

Capacity Planning, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Industry Trends, 3PL, Logistics, Logistics Management, Freight Brokerage, Distribution Management, Freight, TL, LTL, Truckload, Less Than Truckload, Rates

SC Digital Masters — Create a Freight Capacity Strategy that Fits Your Business: 5 Questions You Need to Ask

Regardless of the state of freight capacity planning, you still have to get orders to your customers.

How do you make sure you have a freight management strategy in place that enables you to not only optimize customer service, but flex to address evolving consumer demands and network disruptions?

Our Supply Chain Strategy Masters hear these transportation management challenges every day, and they’ve developed this exclusive digital event so you can build and execute a transportation strategy that will serve your customers, keep your committed carrier relationships strong, and protect your bottom line through disruptions.

Watch today to learn how asking the right logistics questions will protect your ability to keep your customers happy and your bottom line healthy in 2021.

Panelists:

Melanie Burns

Pat Allen

Freight Capacity, Freight Strategy and Planning, Capacity Planning, Transportation, Logistics, Freight Management, Transportation Management, Carrier Sourcing, Carrier Management, Customer Service, Consumer Demand, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Strategy, 3PL

SME Roundtable — The BOPIS Revolution: What’s At Stake?

Why is an effective buy-online-pick-up-in-store strategy important to your organization’s ability to meet evolving e-commerce demands?

Members of our Supply Chain Masters Roundtable discuss evolutions in e-commerce logistics service that are enhancing customer experience and controlling costs.

What does a BOPIS Strategy mean to a retailer?

Why is a BOPIS strategy important to a supplier?

How are supply chain strategists transforming their approach to provide the necessary support?

Watch today and learn how we help clients respond to emerging consumer demands with flexible supply chain solutions.

Panelists:

Carl Fowler

John Richardson

Todd Benge

Sachin Verma

E-Commerce, Customer Experience, BOPIS, Buy Online Pickup In Store, Ecommerce, E-Commerce Logistics, 3PL, Transportation, Retail, Consumer Demand, Customer Service, Supply Chain Management, supply chain

SME Roundtable — The BOPIS Revolution: How to Make BOPIS E-Commerce Work For You

In part one, our Supply Chain Masters Roundtable discussed why an effective buy-online-pick-up-in-store strategy is important to your organization’s ability to meet evolving customer service demands.

In part two, they detail what’s necessary for BOPIS success.

What are the key elements of your BOPIS strategy?

What supply chain visibility do you need to have?

What are the tools you need to design an efficient BOPIS network?

Where can a supply chain partner step in to assist?

Watch today and learn how you can build a BOPIS strategy to deliver for you, your customers and your bottom line.

Panelists:

Carl Fowler

John Richardson

Charles Moore

Sachin Verma

E-Commerce, BOPIS, Buy Online Pickup In Store, Ecommerce, E-Commerce Logistics, 3PL, Transportation, Retail, Consumer Demand, Customer Service, Supply Chain Management, supply chain, customer experience

SC Digital Masters — How Can A Business Intelligence Platform Drive Collaboration and Customer Service?

Strategic, profitable decisions come from better supply chain visibility

Your supply chain is full of data, but all that data is useless if you can’t see and use it effectively. Leveraging data analytics is the key to protecting profitability and achieving your growth goals.

In this webinar, our Supply Chain Masters discuss how Insight Fusion® harnesses multi-modal transportation data and business intelligence in one place so you can pull the right levers to improve margin/profit, distribution alignment, vendor compliance, accessorial mitigation, and mode optimization.

SC Digital Masters — Supply Chain Visibility: Peeling Back the Layers

Basic solutions give you tactical supply chain visibility, but do you understand all the activities that drive cost and affect your customer service?

Our Supply Chain Masters explore the layers of supply chain visibility to show you solutions that can help you control cost and drive profitable enterprise performance.

Watch the webinar to learn how enhanced network visibility can support optimization opportunities, complete supply chain transparency and behavioral changes that reduce costs and improve service.

You will also learn how you can leverage improved supply chain visibility to address emerging problems, prepare disruption contingencies and pursue growth in a profitable way.

Panelists:

JR Bisher

Mark Iorillo

supply chain visibility, supply chain, visibility, transportation, logistics, transportation management, data analysis, transportation management systems, transportation technology, business intelligence, freight audit, parcel audit

SC Digital Masters — Supply Chain Visibility in Action: Putting the Parts Together

Transportation cost control depends on end-to-end network visibility, procurement process compliance and persistent, timely invoice error correction.

Learn how Standard Motor Products centralized control over its diverse supply chain to optimize transportation performance, improve customer service and save more than $4 million.

Watch this client case study today to see how we can help you improve supply chain control through network visibility, align transportation execution to your business strategy, drive compliance with real-time access to data and intelligence, and leverage information to support continuous improvement.

Panelists:

John Richardson

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Colin Tisch, Standard Motor Products

supply chain visibility, supply chain, visibility, freight audit, transportation, logistics, 3PL case study, transportation management, data analysis, transportation management systems, transportation technology, parcel audit