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John Coffield

Sales/Marketing, ATS Logistics Services Inc

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Supply Chain and Logistics Professional. Experience in all modes of transportation, warehousing, inventory control, transportation management and systems, reverse logistics, heavy machinery expereience.

Nov. 15, 2010

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What can I do about rising transportation costs?

There are many items that can be addressed in your supply chain to hedge the rising prices. It depends on how many types of transportation services you use (FTL, LTL, Parcel, Ocean, Rail....etc. If you use one mode, savings can be somewhat limited, if you ... more

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Nov. 10, 2010

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What challenges should I expect in improving my SCM?

Sustainability and Strategic Outsourcing can provide the following Green improvments:
-Error reduction
-Transportation improvements-LTL and Truckload Optiminzation
-IT Optimization–reduce costs and provide significant environmental benefits.
Reducing Supply Chain Waste with Demand Driven Strategies
Billions of dollars of excess inventory are moved through the supply chain ... more

Nov. 9, 2010

John Coffield and 6 other people answered this question

Supply chain management application for midsized equipment manufacturing company?

I'm with ATS Logistics Services. We are the largest heavy equipment transporation company in North America. We ship CAT equipment to largest transformers. We have worked with many of the systems on the market. We don't sell systems, but we use them because we many ... more

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ERP

Manufacturing

Supply Chain Applications

Nov. 9, 2010

John Coffield and 9 other people answered this question

How do I simplify my supply chain?

A very simple cost saving measure, if you're not doing it already, is to ask your inbound vendors to change the terms of shipping product to you. The process is call pre-paid to collect. This would be FOB your suppliers dock in lieu of FOB ... more

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