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Achieve Reduced Costs Through Automating Freight Payments | Part of the Seven Ways to Reduce Your Transportation Spend Series

Dial Corporation and 'best in class' companies are driving costs out of the transportation by automating the freight payment and audit process.

Listen to Ian Hobkirk, Senior Analyst for Aberdeen Group specializing in supply chain execution and process flow analysis and Rob Shafer, Manager, Carrier Alliances for Dial Corporation to learn:

• What are the best ways to track, reconcile and allocate unplanned assessorials?
• How 'Best in Class' companies are reducing the cost to process freight invoices and where are the savings?
• How Dial Corporation automated freight payment, what was involved and the benefits they achieved.

This Sterling Commerce webcast is the first in a series that will take you into deep discussions of the core issues surrounding transportation management.  Join us, along with leading analysts and Sterling Commerce customers, for all seven.

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Best Practices in Yard Management

Most companies enjoy reasonably efficient warehouse operations. In general, transport operations are well managed. Yet, there is a huge opportunity to improve overall supply chain performance at the interface between the two: The Yard. Often, yard operations are paper based, relying on walkie-talkie communications, and disconnected from warehouse/transport operations. The result: trailers are under-utilized, inventory gets spoiled, and jockeys waste time. Even worse, the lack of integration between yard, warehouse and transport systems reduces overall supply chain performance.

In this webcast, Simon Bragg of ARC Advisory Group will describe some best practices in yard management, and why you should consider an on-demand solution.

Learn how:

• Best practices in yard operations reduces your costs.
• Yard Management, when integrated with warehouse and transport systems, yields new supply chain efficiency and effectiveness gains.
  OnDemand is proven, gaining traction, and delivers superior ROI, when compared to traditional, on-premises deployments.

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Genco Connectivity and Visibility Across The Supply Chain Maximizes Customer Service

Today’s cost constrained environment challenges logistics service providers (LSP) to maintain the customer service level agreement (SLA) with higher costs pressuring every step of the logistics process.

Learn how one LSP, Genco, addresses supply chain challenges by “maximizing partner connectivity” and “enhancing global visibility” that improves their bottom line and results in:

• Improved multiple processes across the supply chain
• Ease of use to “on board” supply chain partners
• Higher levels of customer service

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